Updated April 2018: Removed iCloud Drive from the list because it's no longer available as of iOS 11 and added PDF Expert because it's great. What your favorite apps for managing documents on your iPad? Be sure to tell us in the comments. Soon you'll be wondering how you ever managed to work without it. It's your one-stop shop for all your document needs when you're on the go with your iOS device. Transfer media files and documents File manager apps: FileApp, GoodReader.
You can download LiquidText for free, while there is a $9.99 to unlock LiquidText Pro, which includes access to the app's ink features that support the Apple Pencil. GoodReader is a perfect combination of document-reading and file-managing capabilities. Shareit is a free file transfer app for iOS, Android, Windows phone. Have two documents with interesting overlap? You can make connections between both of them, so all of your research and are easily accessible in just a couple of taps. Tap the line to jump to that bit of text. Instead, buy our latest app simply called 'GoodReader. Don't buy this version, it's only here so the existing customers would have a way of downloading a lost binary. As you read a document, drag a section of interesting text out to the workspace beside it, or write your own notes, connecting it to a bit of text with a line. This is an outdated version of GoodReader. This app was built for research, offering unique tools to help you make connections, both within and between documents. While it does offer a central location for your PDF documents, including those pulled from services like Dropbox, the real power of LiquidText is in its markup capabilities. LiquidText is the kind of app that I wish I had access to back when I was in school. You can get PDF Expert on the App Store for $9.99, while another $9.99 for the in-app purchase will unlock the professional-level PDF editor, which lets you completely edit the content of PDFs like text, images, and links. In addition to local files, you can also link cloud services like Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, Box, and Dropbox to PDF Expert, and everything can be kept in sync between your devices with iCloud. There's even a built-in media player, which allows you to play audio and video files that you have stored.
But while it's primary focus is that type of file, you can use PDF Expert to manage and view several file types, including Google documents and photos. While I mostly use Files these days as a central location for all of my.files, PDF Expert is my go-to for working with PDFs in almost any capacity. So, it turns out those features were not as useful for me.PDF Expert is a long-serving app in my personal rotation for a very good reason: it's great at what it does, and what it does is quite a bit. Again, this is my own brain and probably some good old user error, but I much prefer to export important pieces of information and then manipulate it or group it within a spreadsheet outside the document. And I couldn’t get the pinching to work the way I wanted it to. I found the workspace and navigating back to the originating text to be super disorienting. All of this is really cool in theory, but in actuality I struggled with it a bit. In addition, LiquidText allows you to pinch your document together so that all of your highlights and comments are visible and the other text is pinched out. This allows you to engage with the information in a more tactile way, sorting and grouping similar thoughts and information. Clicking on this arrow gets you back to the originating place in the text.
into the workspace and group them there logically or join them.
It has something called a workspace, which you can expand by dragging this partition. This app was created by students at Georgia Tech, so is developed specifically for hard-core research. Liquidtext cool features - I was really excited about some of the innovative Liquidtext functionality.