iAnnotate 4 — PDFs & more Reviews

Overall a great app but has bugs

Yankee ICUDoc

Overall, this is a great app that is a timesaver in signing and annotating documents. A previous bug with Auto-filing is now solved, but other bugs remain. First - why store the app settings and options in the main iOs settings area - most apps only save things like memory usage and notification info there, but they store all settings there - confusing at least, but clunky at best. Also - when it is looking at your cloud files on DropBox - and you go to sort by date - the sort does not work and it stays sorted by name - please fix this as well!! They replied to me that it happens with Box, but it happens with DropBox as well. Storage of documents and access to stored documents is very important and they should take a cue from PDF Expert’s handling of online storage, which is a LOT cleaner. I many times wish I could merge PDF expert’s file handling with iAnnotate’s much stronger annotation capabilities, or at least port some features over from one to the other!! Also, it remains a wish that you could save a particular size of a stock stamp as a customer stamp, there is one I use a lot but it’s too large and I have to re-size it each and every time I use it, it’s much larger than my other custom stamps. New Bug - when you save something such as “Today’s Date” - when you try to edit the stock size or font - iAnnotate crashes....

Used to be great

Every nickname is taken 56298

I have used and loved this app for three years. It has always had a few minor bugs like the “Clear” tools disabling but now it has stopped communicating with Google Classroom. I need to upload notes for my students daily to google classroom. I may have to find a different annotation app if I can’t get this one to do what I need.

Clunky and sloppy highlighting

lassalinas

I mainly need the ability to highlight PDFs and add notes. Too expensive for its mediocrity. I nearly gave it 2 stars. Notes do not allow for different text formats within the same note, e.g. you can’t make just one word bold or italic, it’s all or nothing. Highlighter tool is really sloppy. Huge streak that bleeds into rows above and below. App has difficulty distinguishing line by line, it wants to highlight while blocks sometimes. Would be nice to have a few color palette themes. While the concept of customizing the tool bar sounds nice there are some tools that just seem inherent to basic functionality that should be a little more baked in, instead of needing to add it to a tool bar for the rare occasion that I need it. I.e. maybe should just be able to use/open a tool directly from the toolbox. Ability to open multiple documents at once and bounce back and forth is very nice.

Great for pdf marking

theladyhamlet

I love that you can add audio to your notes! Works great with Apple Pencil

Ancient user interface

Please just fix this!

Ancient user interface. No new updates for over 3 months. Constantly having problem turning pages in “single page mode.”

Won’t save

Homert99

First I had the previous version called iAnnotate pdf so not happy that I had to pay again just for an update. Second, i bought the upgraded version for it only not to work by not saving anything. I have new iPad and added connection for Dropbox, google, iCloud and it won’t connect. Just states to check internet connection which is funny since I am trying to save to local files. Lacks a good menu too . Use liquid text way nicer and free version

Never a disappointment

Borischilikin

I have been using this app for a number of years now and it never disappoints. From filling in pdf forms and sending them where they need to go to being a pivotal part of turning a paper intensive flight department into paperless one. We use iAnnotate on our electronic flight bags to safeguard daily flight paper work we need quick access to in rider to meet regulatory requirements. We can also easily sign the paperwork or make “pen and ink” changes in the ever changing flight operations world! Thus is the only application I use that I don’t have a “wish list” of changes for.

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