GoodReader PDF Editor & Viewer Reviews – Page 3
5/5 rating based on 464 reviews. Read all reviews for GoodReader PDF Editor & Viewer for iPhone.
GoodReader PDF Editor & Viewer is paid iOS app published by Good.iWare, Inc.
Untrustworthy upgrades
Autorowt8
What feels like decades ago, I purchased the pro version of GoodReader. Shortly thereafter, the “pro” details changed and my “pro” disappeared. I’d love to give this app 5 stars as it works as intended quite well. However, the upgrades and features available from one update to the next seem dubious. I spend several hundred dollars a year on apps, some are annual subscriptions. The ones I pay for have clearly defined levels of service and for the annual subscriptions, provide automatically updating references to vast amounts of information. e.g. ForeFlight.
Constant nag screens
clara[&+]love
The app itself is excellent, but the constant nag screens shilling for a pro pack subscription are infuriating and ruin the experience. A paid app should not be constantly popping up ads in the middle of your content, but if you’d be happy with that, by all means buy the app, so you you can enjoy the never ending ads.
Quick for browsing jump reading
yzcj105
I like GoodReader very much. There are a lot of pdf readers in the app store. They’re good in different aspects. GoodReader is very good for reading very long pdf books, in the case you need to jump back and force. The preview bar on the lower part of the screen will helps to scroll to the any page you want with thumbnails It’s not only previous page or next page, but also it will give you the sense that where the page is, you get the feedback. it’s like reading a real book. You can quickly browse the book from a very high level very quickly and also get visual thumbnails. And you can also change the view of books. So I use GR to read very serious math or other research books or papers. These books are different from novels, you’re not reading linearly, you need jump between references and links and citation of previous chapters. And GR can use FTP / wifi / dropbox / google drive to import / share files, which makes it seamlessly. I don’t use GR to read “linear” books. I use other apps to read novels, other app to take hand write notes. It’s easy for me to find alternatives for those books. But for academic and serious books, I use GR! Thank the developers.
I Don’t Write Reviews
fishgoesblub
Yet after using this since the very first iPad during the summer it launched, I felt like I owed it to these devs. Thanks for a wonderful product!
Latest update introduced more bugs
FailureToComp
I have been using GoodReader for a couple years and while the constant shilling for money was annoying it could be lived with. The latest update has some layers failing to render. This makes some documents unreadable as the background the text is supposed to against fails to be draining, making a dark colored text almost invisible.
I Don’t Buy Subscriptionware
eattheeggs
Years ago, I paid for Goodreader on my then iPhones 3 and 5. I liked the app very much for what it would do that I paid for it to do: allow me to copy onto my device, locally, content of web pages for later reference and for offline reading in remote locations common to my locale. I suffered through waves of “feature”-filled updates because the app still did what I needed. Now, though, the app comes with so many bells and whistles, its primary functionality is obscured. Beyond this, in order for me to prepare PDFs of documents I download, I am required to upgrade to “Pro,” a subscription service to the tune of $18 a year. (Great for revenue-generation, I reckon, but not for the user.) Preparing PDFs ought to be a core functionality. If specific features are to be charged for, then provide users with a fixed, one-time payment option for them to choose. I DON’T USE all the wonderful, wonderful features of the now bulky Goodreader. I still just want the app to efficiently capture page content in a readable format. I refuse to go along with the new trend toward subscriptionware. I won’t subscribe, and I am looking around for a better option than Goodreader. I cannot say I like Goodreader any more.