Gladys
| Category | Price | Seller | Device |
|---|---|---|---|
| Productivity | Free | Pavlos Tsochantaris | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
It works with any app that supports drag-and-drop, and helps keep you focused by letting you quickly set something aside, without having to consider where it needs to be dropped, or having to constantly switch between apps.
• Works with any app that supports drag-and-drop, but also provides an extension for apps that don't yet support it, as well as the ability to paste items to & from the clipboard.
• Quickly search for items inside the app or via Spotlight. Access your top items from the home screen / Today widget, your Apple Watch, and even iMessage.
• Annotate items with notes, custom titles, and tag items with labels that allow you to easily categorise, browse, and sort your collection.
• Take your collection with you on your iPhone, and keep it updated by turning on automatic iCloud syncing.
• Invite friends to keep items from your own collection in their own collections, and, if you give permission, even collaboratively annotate and edit them.
• Import/export/merge collection archives simply by dragging.
• Ideal for bookmarking between apps: For example you can quickly return to dropped email items by selecting 'Open' in their info view, quickly share links between different browsers, or use Siri shortcuts to copy often-used items to and from your clipboard.
• Experienced users can get details on dropped items and extract or modify specific data components (e.g. extract the URL of an image link, instead of the whole item, add a new image, or edit the title).
• Power users can use Gladys' Files extension to view/edit items in-place from other apps, as well as exporting all items in a ZIP file for sharing.
• Technical users can inspect binary data using the in-built hex viewer, download items pointed to by web links, and even archive web pages.
• Contains no analytics, ratings prompts, or noise.
Gladys is free for casual use (up to 10 simultaneous items). Power users with larger libraries can expand Gladys to hold unlimited items with a 99 cent in-app-purchase.
Reviews
So good
apples2oranges
This app feels like it should be part of the OS. It makes drag and drop on the iPad much more convenient and easy. Highly recommended.
Wow!
Konstantinos3000
This is amazingly powerful yet simple and easy to use. It is as practical as the (missing from iOS) desktop, but it has the potential to boost your potential by much more than the desktop. I personally see it as a potential repository for all my files: readily accessible to archive any kind of info and the info is easily retrievable by using labels. I can think of a couple of updates that could rally turn the app into a real productivity booster: - allow to search the annotations you do on the PDFs - support the pdf outlines - batch label files - allow Boolean search of labels (AND, OR)
An Essential Productivity App
reedrobertson
After less than a week of use, Gladys is already one of my *all-time favorite* iOS productivity apps. The app is deceptively simple; the potential use cases in the era of iOS drag-and-drop are immeasurable. On my iPad, the functionality of Gladys already “feels” like a “natural extension” of iOS multitasking. IMHO, Apple should acquire this app.
Too Complicated
Wdav
Unless you are a "blackbelt" techie this app will not be what you think. All I have been able to do is get binary code for anything I have tried to save. If you want to see a table of code then this may work for you. I wanted to see the item/text/photo/anything I saved... not just a selection of which binary code Gladys saved.
iCloud sync toggle not working
Smashable
App is great except the iCloud toggle doesn't work. Keeps saying device isn't logged in to iCloud when it clearly is.
Tough to evaluate
Chris Pike
Only holds 10 things at a time before in app purchase is required. I just went back to using Notes.
Fast & Easy
Codycowgirl
I love Gladys. This App makes saving pages, files, links and photos so easy. It’s especially useful for research (I’m a writer) - I just copy what I find to Gladys & add it to my author files later. There’s something wonderful about feeling like I’m on a roll, and Gladys does that for me. Love!
Amazing app and equally awesome support!
Ziggytrade
This app blows the several others I tried out of the water. And for $0.99 nonetheless! Yes, unlimited usage for 99 cents, most other apps with the ability to do what Gladys does costs far more and works far worse than Gladys. Better yet, I was having an issue restoring my purchase and Support got back to me within minutes with the commitment to work with me to get the problem fixed and a list of steps to troubleshoot with. And problem solved minutes after! Very rare to find a great app, for 99 cents, with great support, and still be low-key enough to not be a popular app in the App Store. I don’t write reviews on many apps (I’ve written like 2), but this one is warranted. Get Gladys!
Modified review
Mr Caution
ORIGINAL: Not sure what the use case is for an external shelf app that doesn’t provide enhanced accessibility to files. You can’t do anything “extra” with this app—old limitations still exist. EDIT: The developer’s response to my original concern is appropriate. I’m probably trying to place square pegs into round holes with my specific use case. Rather than rate the app one star because it doesn’t solve my needs, I am modifying the rating to the app’s current average score to avoid unfairly penalizing the developer.
