Disappointing – iAnnotate 4 — PDFs & more Review

I rely on this app to mark up text heavy PDFs using my Apple Pencil, and I feel compelled to describe my disappointing experience. First, the “active” annotation box is not intuitive. It’s difficult to go back to an annotation that you’ve already made to revise it further. It takes too many steps to do that. And it’s annoying how easy annotation boxes can be inadvertently moved around. Second, the app picks up errant marks from my hand resting on the screen when I mark up a PDF. I tried the wrist protection feature but it does not work well. Third, sometimes pages on the PDF appear blank when I scroll through. So I have to close the app and reopen it for them to appear. Fourth, once the app kept crashing in the middle of me trying to mark up a PDF. When I reopened the file, I received an alert indicating “Crash Detected: It appears that the app was improperly shut down and forced to restart” (which makes no sense) and the last few changes I had made were not saved. Finally, and this is the WORST part — on occasion, when I am working in a PDF, all of a sudden all of my annotations disappear, all at once. After I frantically scroll through the PDF, they all reappear again. But one time, they never reappeared. I closed the app and reopened it and they were just gone. NOT ACCEPTABLE.
Review by Marcel1202016 on iAnnotate 4 — PDFs & more.