LiquidText does things that no other application does.Ink links are absolutely excellent and highly versatile. However, every time I leave this application, the workspace window crashes, and I have to restart the app. This instability is annoying, but does not cause me to lose work. Multi window support for iOS is rudimentary at best. I cannot open multiple windows of LiquidText while I’m working, which is just frustrating.Some features that are common across notetaking apps are missing from LiquidText for no reason. Good notes and all the others have OCR for handwritten text so that searches find your handwritten notes. This is missing.Other apps allow you to scale and rotate, handwritten objects to help you, organize yourself, as well as change colors of things. I use this to track what I understand and what I do not. LiquidText does not have this.In short, LiquidText is unique, but you will need to design a workflow that fits it before you are comfortable working with it. Additionally, expect some annoying bugs. I am not sure if I would purchase it at full price at this moment.The customer service department is decent though.

This is an absolutely FANTASTIC product. Truly ground breaking. I am a recently retired physician. When I was in practice this was the absolute BEST way to read journal articles. I could make important facts jump out and easier to remember. Now I am retired and doing volunteer free medical care. I still have to read the journals but just can’t justify the price tag. I have become disillusioned by how everything is a subscription these days. I am on a subscription free diet. The free version is great but not a whole lot better than what I can do with any note taking app. So I have largely abandoned what was once among my most used apps. For professionals out there, I can’t recommend this highly enough. For the rest of us. . . , back to “Preview” or Apple Notes.

I discovered LiquidText during my PhD work. I now recommend it to every class I teach and continue to use it in all of my researching and teaching projects. I cannot stress enough how much this wonderful app has changed my life as a scholar and teacher. As someone with ADHD, LiquidText has enabled me to be more flexible with my research and writing workflow while maintaining a manageable and wieldy network of knowledge. I am grateful for the sync capabilities and the integration with Zotero. I highly recommend LiquidText to anyone working in an academic or document-heavy field.

I use the multi-document for every text-heavy course session I have taken over the past year and a half. Best of all, the developer has addressed nearly every concern I have ever had. The PDF export is now extremely stable so I can preserve all my hard annotation work in a standard format which looks great in macOS Preview, even when it runs to thousands of pages for a class session. It merges web pages, PDF converted books, articles, slides and images into one memorable, skim-able, and searchable PDF package. Free hand annotations closed the gap between this and Notability’s PDF support.The two suggestions remain: one low hanging and one which might be the developer’s next app: The experience of the app isn’t the same when documents don’t have searchable text paths. Partner with or recommend an app to provide Optical Character Recognition — I now use a Docker-based Tesseract tool called OCRmyPDF to wipe out spotty OCR (from e.g. old JSTOR) and rescan from the command line but I’d love some form of recommendation or integration. Second, iOS “speak” can be great for reading hands free and taking notes but since LiquidText doesn’t use standard dialogs when you turn it on in Settings, the feature doesn’t appear. Further, to support its experience well, you need a start/pause/speed control like in GoodReader but its a bit annoying to export back and forth. I may try to use iOS 11 dual-app panel mode to highlight in the mean time.

There is nothing else that’s like this app on any of my other devices. There is no app to my knowledge that does what this app does for my reading habit. I’m a person who needs to organize my takeaway in real time as I read along. The app allows me to pull out the highlights (in the case of a pdf with recognized texts) or cutouts (image kind of pdf), place them on the side workspace, and move them as I see fit. The little arrow in front of every “takeaway” takes you to the original. You can even free-hand draw on the workspace - make arrows, connections, mind maps, concept maps, etc. This is tremendous!! Honestly, I’m still learning the capabilities of this app, but the said features already made me very happy. And unhappy, too - when I use the Kindle or other reading apps, which all seem too inadequate now. I find myself trying to convert all my books and import them into LiquidText. It’s hard to go back to the old reading style.Whenever I have a question, I just hit the button with a question mark in the app. Within hours (sometimes just minutes) someone answers my question. Now that’s really classy. How many other apps do that? I don’t care if it’s a robot or real person (which I believe it is - if it’s a robot, it’s a very good one!) I feel the company cares. That’s really really good.

I'm a user experience designer, and I spend a LOT of time reading research papers, technical documentation on the web, etc. I've got a very high bar for the usability and usefulness of apps. LiquidText sets a new standard for intuitiveness. It forgoes the typical contact sheet or page thumbnail approach for navigating large documents, instead allowing you to 'zoom out' the unimportant parts and 'zoom in' the content that matters to you. The ease of use in pulling excerpts of text, whilst linking back to the source is similarly exceptional. I've used eight other document readers over the past year for my research. None have come close to the usefulness and usability of LiquidText. Many have rasterized entire PDFs, making it impossible to select lines of text. Others mangle webpages on import, making them unrecognizable. Even Evernote, with it's lauded note-taking capabilities has relatively poor annotation: webpages import fine, but cannot be easily highlighted. PDFs open in a clunky reader that shoehorns in so many useless tools that it obscures the main functionality of an annotation tool: to extract valuable snippets from large documents.Liquid text has made the webpage and PDF annotation experience so convenient that I can genuinely say I finally enjoy reading research papers and technical documentation.

If my iPad could do nothing but run LiquidText, it would still be worth every penny. This app has been a game-changer for me. The annotating and reading stuff is all great, as per the other reviews, but there is one feature that rules them all:Academics and anyone else who reads a lot of journal articles in pdf format, imagine that you can turn your highlighted text from whatever your reading into text exportable to file collections that are readable/searchable/taggable with applications like Notational Velocity, 1Writer, Simplenote, etc., and via dropbox can be read and updated across platforms. This is a way to build an incredible knowledge base that is always with you and easily searchable and this is what's possible with LiquidText. I have completely externalized my research-brain with this system.I won't lie: there are some rough spots in this application (especially with respect to file management) and I hope active development continues to smooth them out. But even as is, this app turned my iPad from a media consumption toy into an essential productivity tool.

With so many pdf readers out there, it really is amazing how much this one surprised me. I am a medical student and I pour through texts and pdfs all the time. The search feature is instantaneous, sliding through pages is slick and effortless, and the Apple Pencil works seamlessly and intuitively with text. This app also works great with multitasking. I often have this app up on the left and notability or onenote on the right. I use a reference text for my studies in liquid text and it is insanely helpful to simply drag my Apple Pencil over a picture or figure from a text and simply paste it in notability. Also, the new update allows total freedom to choose whether to keep the work pane or not. I bring this up because this was a feature I thought would much improve the product. I emailed the dev team about it and they responded quickly and said that they had received some other similar comments. Well guess what, they actually listened to users' feedback and the latest version now has that feature. Really great team and really great product. 5 stars for sure.

I purchased LiquidText for all platforms when it was first released. It had many showstopper bugs, too many to count. It was fine as a PDF reader, but all projects were corrupted universally. Fighting with the interface was always counterproductive and deleterious to workflow. Old projects would not open or freeze after opening. If an annotation needed to be altered or deleted, then the whole project would become corrupted. These problems have persisted through its inception, and have only become worse since the developers adopted a subscription model to increase revenue. I would have fewer objections if the app worked (I use it on macOS, iPadOS and Windows, all with countless bugs). Be careful when you read the App Store reviews (Apple gets an up to 30% cut of all revenue). App Store reviews highlight what the app claims it can do, while ignoring bugs. If you value your time, productivity, sanity (and your pocket change), then avoid this app. It would be very useful if it worked. Unfortunately, it does not. App Store developers have PR folks who write responses to critical reviews like this, asking people to contact them directly. I have given them feedback directly. Nothing changed.

This app is great for all the reasons you’ll see in the other reviews, but it has a total show stopper for me and I suspect for others concerned with possibly losing data. I recently restored my iPad as new without restoring from a backup, a good practice now and then to get rid of all the software cruft that accumulates over years and can persist after restoring from backups. I assumed all my LiquidText work was synced/stored in iCloud and would repopulate in the app once I opened it and it had time to sync. Well, I didn’t realize that it’s not actually synced, it’s just stored in the iCloud backup which is just a meaningless blob of data unless you restore the whole iPad from it. Fortunately I didn’t have anything too important in LiquidText at the time so it was just an annoyance rather than a disaster. I highly recommend they switch to iCloud syncing, as Notability for example has had for a while now, versus just backing up with the iPad backup. Notability doesn’t have the same features I love in LiquidText, but I will switching to it for dealing with PDFs until iCloud syncing is enabled. Otherwise a great app.