Anybuffer 4+

Great app except …

This is a great app. But has a short coming that needs to be addressed ASAP when you store files like PDF, it does not show a graphic representation of the file in the iOS app. The Mac app will show graphic representations of almost every file but not the iOS app. Same thing happens with URLs when you send a PDF file to the app on the iOS version it’s shows you an icon with the logo of the app, but it is not enough to identify the document. This is a major shortcoming, because if you sent a lot of documents or PDF to the app, you will end up with icons that you have to open one by one in order to know what they have in them. I hope the developer fixes this soon.

A Must Have App, but crashes a LOT

Anybuffer is the answer to creating a universal import and export object clipboard for use with the IOS "Share" mechanism for making file and data pipes between applications. It is the first I've seen that actually works reliably with nearly any format, for any app, and any sharing extension. It preserves the original object data and metadata, though you can get slightly different results depending on how certain apps may share differently using different extensions. (For example, whether a file thumbnail gets created in Anybuffer seems to depend on how it imports that file.) Hopefully the developers really need to fix how it crashes so much for so many reasons. It is still a must have app for IOS if you share data between different apps it need to save PDFs for printing later, but unless the people at Anybuffer clean up their act some other companies going to eat their lunch.

Developer Response ,

Thank you for the feedback.

Can you please contact me at info@ameba.co? I’m currently in the middle of redesign both of item sharing and preview, and I would like to incorporate your feedback.

Brilliant!

I spent the last several hours going through each of the clipboard managers that are on the App Store. They were all half-baked feature-wise and buggy. I was ready to give up until I came across AnyBuffer. What a pleasant surprise. It does what it claims and does it very well. I paid for the Pro upgrade only a few minutes after I started using it. You can tell that the developer paid a lot of attention to it. Kudos!

(Feature request: is it possible to define the contents of Smart Folders based on the extension of a file? Currently the only options are the default types. For example, it will be great if I can put all of my markdown files in their own smart folder: currently they mixed with plain (non-markdown) text files.)