GoodReader for iPad
By Good.iWare Ltd.
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Description
GoodReader® is the super-robust PDF reader for iPad - the #1 selling non-Apple app for iPad in USA in 2010! Mashable describes it as “a Swiss Army knife of awesome!” Reviews worldwide hail it as “essential,” “the best,” “magnificent” and “the killer app”. With GoodReader on your iPad, you can read virtually anything, anywhere: books, movies, maps, pictures. Use it once and you’ll be hooked. Soon you'll be wondering how you ever managed to use your iPad without GoodReader.
GoodReader has earned its accolades by the way it handles huge PDF and TXT files, manuals, large books, magazines, and renderings of 100 mb and more with great speed. The ability to mark-up PDFs opens up new doors to GoodReader users who can now use typewriter text boxes, sticky notes, lines, arrows, and freehand drawings on top of a PDF file.
Besides reading, you can also sync your files with remote servers:
• sync with iDisk, Dropbox, SugarSync and any WebDAV, AFP, FTP or SFTP server
• sync entire folders or individual files separately
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“GoodReader has a beautiful soul.” Mobilitysite
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GoodReader not only supports massive PDF and TXT files, but also handles the most popular file types:
• MS Office - .doc, .ppt., .xls
• iWork ’08/’09
• HTML and Safari webarchives
• High resolution images
• Even audio and video!
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“Ultimately, GoodReader is one of those apps that makes the iPad better. It’s a solid, reliable productivity app that will certainly enhance the user experience of anyone who wants to make the iPad part of their workflow.” 148apps
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ANNOTATE! Annotation is a feature long sought after by users who want to add their own mark-ups to PDFs, especially those collaborating as a team on shared documents. The types of annotations that can be created and edited in GoodReader include typewriter text boxes, popup comments ("sticky notes"), text highlights, freehand drawings, lines, arrows, rectangles, ovals, cloudy shapes, text underlines, strikeouts, text insertion marks.
MANAGE FILES! GoodReader lets you create folders, move, copy and rename your files; zip, email, unzip and unrar them; plus send your files to other apps.
TRANSFER FILES! Within moments of downloading GoodReader, you’ll be transferring files in a number of ways: directly from your computer over a USB cable or WiFi connection, from the Internet or from email attachments. It also easily integrates with iDisk, Google Docs, Dropbox, SugarSync, box.net and other WebDAV, AFP, FTP and SFTP servers.
SYNC YOUR FILES AND FOLDERS! The amazing Auto Sync feature will work with MobileMe iDisk, Dropbox, SugarSync, box.net, and any other WebDAV, AFP, FTP or SFTP server.
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“Possibly the greatest app of all time.” Damego
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PDF HYPERLINKS! The PDF hyperlink feature allows you to quickly jump back and forth within the document. Tapping a link quickly whisks you across a huge PDF book in an instant, and the “Go Back” button will take you back to the page you came from.
MORE VIEWING AREA! With no bars or buttons blocking the text, you’ll experience true full-screen reading. Do your document’s pictures split in halves across two pages? That’s not a problem with GoodReader – one of the only apps to offer a special double-page mode for viewing the entire spread! And if large page margins are annoying, get rid of them with GoodReader’s special PDF crop tool!
ZOOM! You can even use the 50x zoom, giving you a better view without distorting the image. Perfect for PDF maps and drawings.
TEXT SEARCH! If you know what you’re looking for, the Text Search feature helps you find your way to the exact info you want in any PDF or TXT file.
TONS OF OTHER FEATURES! We keep surprising our existing users with new features by constantly releasing free updates. We don't just do small fixes, we actually improve the app all the time!
LEARN MORE! www.goodreader.net
What's New in Version 3.14.2
The new iPad (iPad 3) compatibility fix - Retina display optimization.
(to those who sees a low-resolution app icon on an iPad 3 after updating: it's an iOS bug, reboot your iPad, and you'll see the high-resolution icon)
GoodReaderUSB has been updated to support the new Downloads folder:
www.goodreader.net/usb
Was new in v.3.14.0:
Enhancements for PDF Annotations:
• Freehand Drawing: Handwriting Zoom Window to draw tiny details while seeing an overview of an entire PDF page
• Freehand Drawing: adjustable Palm Rest
• buttons to change pages while drawing or highlighting
Was new in earlier versions:
• new freehand drawing engine
• PDF Page Lock
• swiping a PDF page to the right and to the left with three fingers can now be used as Go Back and Go Forward gestures
• AFP connections + AFP Auto Sync
• Back to reading button
• Unrar for RAR archives, including multi-volume archives
• public key authentication for SFTP connections
• Text Lookup for PDF files (Dictionary, Google, Wikipedia)
iPad Screenshots
Customer Reviews
A VERY "good reader" - but not perfect
I'm a lawyer and I have to review a lot of PDF documents and use them extensively in research. I've also used PDF Expert and several others, including iAnnotate, but I'll only compare PDF Expert because it's the only one in the same league. (E.g. iAnnotate doesn't support drawing shapes and it chokes on large PDF files, and Readdle doesn't support Retina yet.)
First the good, because this is a quality app:
-Great interface. You need just a short "flick" to scroll through pages. I like swiping through pages because it's more natural than tapping, but a lot of swiping can lead to repetitive motion injury. The minimal movement needed in this app helps prevent that. The horizontal lock feature is great too, because most PDFs have a margin that's wasteful on the iPad. Tabs are great. PDF Reader doesn't have that feature.
-Fastest rendering of any PDF app (and I've used a lot). It's a hair faster than PDF Expert (though not by much). It caches as many pages as it can, whereas other apps limit the cached pages to 2-3, if any.
However, there's a bug where if you control the brightness with the app, the scroll and zooming performance slows down. It probably has something to do with an "alpha layer."
-Syncs directly to Dropbox. In other apps, you have to "Open in..." and select Dropbox.
The bad:
-Drawing shapes is cumbersome. I like using rectangles to highlight areas of text. In most other apps, it's quicker than using the highlight tool and doesn't require as much precision. In Goodreader, you have to tap to place the rectangle, then drag out the corners and move it to where you want it. In PDF Expert, you just drag from the top right to bottom left corner and you're done. This negative is partially balanced by having a menu available in full screen mode.
-The performance bug above, where adjusting the brightness negatively affects performance.
If the developers fix the brightness bug I'll award this five stars. Worth the money.
PDF annotation is a joke.
I realize the functional advantages of annotating text in PDF files, but in real world, not all PDFs contain texts...
Goodreader should have noted explicitly that it DOES NOT allow annotation of scanned PDFs and drawing lines and boxes and such become tedious and painstaking after a few strokes. So much promise... that much disappointing.
I will be happy to take another look when this "feature" (or bug, or shortcoming, or just brain-freeze, IMHO) has been corrected by the developer.
Great reader
Is goodreader performance constrained by the CPU or gpu? It seems slow on the new retina version on the new iPad. I hope goodreader can optimize the performance to take advantage of the extra gpus.
- $4.99
- Category: Productivity
- Updated: Mar 22, 2012
- Version: 3.14.2
- Size: 15.8 MB
- Language: English
- Seller: Yuri Selukoff
- © Yuri Selukoff, 2010-2011. All rights reserved.
Requirements: Compatible with iPad.Requires iOS 4.0 or later.
