iAnnotate 4 — PDFs & more Reviews – Page 22
5/5 rating based on 228 reviews. Read all reviews for iAnnotate 4 — PDFs & more for iPhone.
iAnnotate 4 — PDFs & more is paid iOS app published by Branchfire, Inc.
Ruined app, still waiting on promised fix
Active Customer
Like the commenter above, I have used iAnnotate for many years. It is a critical tool for my everyday work. But unless the promised fix to automatically save files locally on the device comes soon, I will be switching to an app that includes that feature. The responder from Branchfire commented on the previous commenter’s post on November 20th. It is December 19th and still no fix in an update. When is the fix coming? I cannot deal with my documents disappearing, particularly when I’m not finished editing them or when I need to go back to them. There was NO ADVANCE NOTICE via email or a notification on the app. Documents just suddenly started disappearing and cannot be found. I have lost HOURS of editing work. This must be fixed. If it isn’t, I will not only not use this app anymore but will never use another Branchfire product. It is terribly inconsiderate to make a major change in your product with no warning. Very poor decision that should be changed immediately.
Highly responsive customer service
Coolinarow
I have used this as well as previous versions of iAnnotate and have reached out to customer service several times. I have always received prompt and helpful responses. I had an excellent response just today, about a problem that affected my daily use of iAnnotate for scholarly writing. The solution was very easy, but I could not see what was going wrong and could not find a way to document it from my iPad. Customer service figured it out for me, and I fixed the problem in about 3 minutes. Wonderful!
WARNING: Do not upgrade to v4!!!
BigAl1776
WebDAV support has been removed. REVIEWER'S RESPONSE TO DEVELOPER: How do I use WebDAV? You really aren't asking me to explain to your support staff how an incredibly popular and supported Internet protocol which was developed in 1996 and supported in your last 3 major releases is being used, are you? That's just silly and a waste of your customer and staff's time.
Great for Students
Alpacas Number Seventeen
I love this app. I use it every day in class to take notes on the power points and outlines that my professors post ahead of time. I love that I can make notes, add text, photos, or write and I know that there is much more this app can do. Sometimes I have a little trouble saving the annotated documents back to my google drive, but I have not lost any documents and I’ve always figured out how to get them to save eventually. My friends often ask me to share my notes because I can add “sticky notes” directly to the slides, next to the parts that relate to my notes and their computers cannot do that.
Problematic and buggy
ST Megadeath
I am a big fan of iAnnotate and have used previous version for years. It is always reliable. I just updated to the latest version. I then spent many hours commenting on a paper over a few week period. This morning I started up the app to forward it to my collaborator, and the paper was gone. The lesson I learned is that in the current version, make sure each file is saved on the local disk. If you do that, the auto-save will protect you. If not, you may find the tab of the paper you have been marking up gone after your iPAD goes to sleep, with out a copy on the disk. In every other respect, iAnnotate4 is an improvement and my go to app for commenting on manuscripts.
I love this!
Liza042810
I love to edit and with the Apple Pencil, it makes editing so much easier. Even with pdf’s of scripts. Well worth the money!
Lost everything - where is this autobackup they claim?
TavernMage
Where is this auto-backup feature? We had dozens of files. One day they are all gone. No clear clues as to where. No one else uses our device and the device didn’t reset.
New version is buggy
Mjbnyc
I used to love iAnnotate. New version is a big step backwards. Documents are blurry don’t load, and I can’t select specific edits to delete any more. I don’t see any improvement, just things that used to work don’t any more. If you have an older version DONT UPGRADE. NB I would have given the old version four or five stars.
Fix the Bugs!
MasySyma
The app has always been cranky since I cannot allow individual folders to sync with Dropbox (you do not get access to entire Dropbox; you do not need it), but the latest update has made importing files a nightmare. Conversions from Word to PDF cause the system to stall and often just stop. Imports go to the local files rather than individual folders, so everything has to be moved again, and the app continues to lack a basic spell check feature. I use this app to grade essays, so I spend hours and hours in it per week, and today, downloading a mere 11 papers was a frustrating experience. Please fix the app, or I will begin shopping for an app that is more useful and more responsive.