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What are the best PDF reader Apps?
I am compiling a list of the best apps of each category, so leave your opinion and a quick reason to help out the community.
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I have tried repligo and beamreader, they're pretty similar. What I would like is for an app to let me make a bookmark where I left off.
Repligo goes to where you left off when you open a doc, but you can't actively mark it. Repligo also overlaps the titles and size/date of files, making it tough to read. It also does not read image pdfs well, just a giant red X or black page.
Beamreader does not go to where you left off, and scrolling sucks in it (its like you need to pull a rubber band and snap it in 2 before it gets to the next page).
Btw, both cost money and are good.
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What are the best PDF reader Apps?
I am compiling a list of the best apps of each category, so leave your opinion and a quick reason to help out the community.
If the app costs $, be sure to say so!
I have tried repligo and beamreader, they're pretty similar. What I would like is for an app to let me make a bookmark where I left off. Repligo goes to where you left off, but you can't actively mark it. Repligo also overlaps the titles and size/date of files, making it tough to read.
Btw, both cost money and are good.
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Easily Ezpdf. I think it either costs $0.99 or $1.99.
Adobe reader is good but it does not have:
1) Bookmarking.
2) You can't look for pdfs, they are found automatically. (This can be good or bad depending on the users point of view).
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Easily Ezpdf. I think it either costs $0.99 or $1.99.
Adobe reader is good but it does not have:
1) Bookmarking.
2) You can't look for pdfs, they are found automatically. (This can be good or bad depending on the users point of view).
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+1 Ezpdf, 99cents.
Adobe is ok, lags to much for me. Ezpdf works way better.
I use Aldiko (paid app, or free lite version) and just import the PDF's into my bookshelf. Might be worth looking into.
i know this is an android space, just wandering though, if blackberry's got a free pdf reader too?
i guess ezPDF reader is pretty amazing
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is there some app like goodreader in iphone?
I currently use Repligo for all of my PDF editing needs, but it doesn't bookmark. I've read around that ezPDF can do this, but I really don't want to pay for another app that all I'll use it for is just bookmarking. I love Repligo, just wish it had this feature.
Is there a free app out there that can bookmark and edit bookmarks already in the PDF?
Thanks
I know you're looking for a free app but I heavily vouch for ezPDF. It's amazing. I use it in class to annotate whatever the professors say, do all and any drawings they do (then resize them down and accommodate them on places with blank space) and highlight every important text of the books, just like most people do on their $200+ books. I'd never, ever pencil a book that expensive, so it feels awesome doing it on a PDF.
It's totally worth it.
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I wanted to create a thread listing for applications which can make use of S-Pen. Please discuss/review the various apps which you have used and maybe other folks can benefit from this. This could assist people who are considering to get this Tablet.
There was a contest for S-Pen applications before Note10.1 was launched. That contest was meant for Note. But since both have same resolution, I think the apps should work normally also for Note10.1.
You can find all the applications developed during that contest here: http://galaxynotespenchallenge.com/submissions
I have heard good things about applications like Papyrus. Other guys may give us more details if they have used other applications.
Samsung have this new contest now with total prize money of $4 million. This sounds quite decent.
Details here: http://www.smartappchallenge.com/eng/main.do
Please share good apps that are dedicated for Note/S-Pen.
cheers!
EDIT: I am adding some of the recommended apps that you guys mentioned in the thread. Hopefully new adopters will find it useful to take full advantage of the S-Pen capabilities.
LectureNotes
Adobe Reader
Soonr Scribble
Autodesk SketchBook Pro
Autodesk SketchBook Mobile
ezPDF
Papyrus (Beta)
FreeNote or FreeNote+
Quill
LayerPaint
TVPaint (Beta)
RepliGo PDF Reader
Lecture notes... Lecture notes... Lecture notes.
The note 10.1 + lecture notes has replaced my paper notebook finally. I recommend exploring treats like custom pencils etc. It's an excellent app.
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I dón't know if it already exists but an application that I would find very interesting for the note family is an score writing one. I mean something like the windows program Sibelius that allows you to write a professional looking score and it has the possibility to export it as a midi file. I think that the S-pen would make the writing much more easy that it is in a PC. In fact the note could probably the most ideal way to actually write an score. And, you know, you could use the lemma "you need a note to properly write a note" .
BigStuart said:
Lecture notes... Lecture notes... Lecture notes.
The note 10.1 + lecture notes has replaced my paper notebook finally. I recommend exploring treats like custom pencils etc. It's an excellent app.
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Wow no kidding. What a great app. Much better than s notes imho
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Any chance for S Pen apps for eBooks?
Do Google Books, Nook, etc. lock their books so that only the corresponding "official" app can open the eBook? I'm wondering if there's any prospect of a third-party developer creating an app that allows us to mark up an eBook with the S Pen, or if we're at the mercy of those official eBook providers.
In theory Google Books offers eBooks in PDF format, but that seems to be a rare option, at least for books published recently.
Regular old everyday Adobe Reader works very well for annotating PDF files with the s-pen.
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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.soonrscribble&hl=en
Soonr might be worth trying out. Probably test it out once my kids get done with my tablet. lol.
According to the description: " It works with any type of file, on any mobile device or computer, across teams, across networks, and across the globe in real-time. Whether you’re working on spreadsheets, presentations, proposals, expense reports or just taking notes, Soonr Scribble on the Samsung Galaxy Note is the annotation solution you’ve been searching for."
Great post man. I just got my Note and I am interested in other S Pen apps as well.
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Try the stock "S Suggest" app. I have found a lot of cool S-Pen friendly apps there. :cyclops:
Did somebody tried evernote
And Autodesk sketchbook ?
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Did somebody tried evernote
And Autodesk sketchbook ?
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Autodesk Sketchbook, on the "Phone" Galaxy Note, works great for sketching. I imagine it will be even better on a 10 inch screen. As for Evernote, works just the way it does on all other phones/tablets.
I'd recommend ezPDF for pdf annotation. I had previously been using qPDF but I decided to try ezPDF and its much better. The only thing its that qPDF, unlike ez, allows you to flatten the whole page rather than individual elements, if that's something that maters to you. I emailed the ez dev and he said it would be implemented soon, but until then I still use qPDF just to flatten the whole page.
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mitchellvii said:
Regular old everyday Adobe Reader works very well for annotating PDF files with the s-pen.
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ezPDF works better.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...51bGwsMSwxLDEwMiwidWRrLmFuZHJvaWQucmVhZGVyIl0.
Tried them all, but this is my fav. :good:
Lecture Notes is imo the one with best development speed.
Did someone try Quill from Volker ?
It does Vektoring (different to Lecture Notes) and is very quick.
More S-pen apps http://www.sammobile.com/2012/08/23/galaxy-note-10-1-gets-more-s-pen-apps-from-samsung/
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More S-pen apps http://www.sammobile.com/2012/08/23/galaxy-note-10-1-gets-more-s-pen-apps-from-samsung/
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only for UK owners? The Samsung apps I have dint show any of those at all or for free.
Just released, wait.
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http://youtu.be/U-c4DI2Tr5Y <- This is Lecture Notes on the Note 10.1. It has a ton of settings and is fully compatible with the S Pen (pressure sensitivity and all). Unfortunately the button on the S Pen isn't customizable (I Would have liked it to be a shortcut for the eraser). It only works as a shortcut (click + drag down) to open the options menu in the upper right corner.
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Lecture Notes is imo the one with best development speed.
Did someone try Quill from Volker ?
It does Vektoring (different to Lecture Notes) and is very quick.
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I had a Thinkpad Tablet for the past year, just switched to the amazing GNote.
Quill is a great app. It was literally developed by Volker by asking daily feedback on the Thinkpad Tablet forum, and releasing lots of updates. He did an absolutely amazing job with it.
But, my favorite inking app is Freenote. The down side is that it is not intuitive to figure out all the features. But, if you like Microsoft OneNote, I think Freenote is the closest thing to it on Android at the moment. Freenote lets you switch between ink/paint/text on the same note; lets you pinch zoom on an object (picture/text/ink) to make it larger, then ink it and pinch zoom back out, and the new ink is smaller relative to the object; powerful use of tags to make "to dos" or calendar entries or web bookmarks, etc., across all your notes, then to see all these scattered to dos/calendar entries/etc. in one view by clicking on that tag.
The thing I most love about Freenote though is that it lets you use a writing area at the bottom of the screen, similar to the Windows Tablet Input Panel that you can dock at the bottom. So, I can tap my cursor anywhere on the page where I want the ink to go, then just write the words very large in the writing area at bottom, and Freenote inserts them in a straight line at the cursor point at an ink height you can adjust in the settings. I love this feature because I have bad handwriting, but if I write ridiculously large in the writing area, it comes out legibly, quickly!
JCHP
Did you try 7notes with mazec? It does the same thing as free note, but it is a keyboard you can use like that on any note app. I even used it with Color Note. If an app uses a keyboard, I'm pretty sure you can use this app/keyboard to do HWR with it.
Guys as a medicine student and a newcomer to galaxy note Im lookin for an app that allows me to write with the S pen on a PDF files.
Take notes on the PDFs durig the lecture and so on.
Can u suggest some please?
EzPDF Pro.
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IAnnote PDF works quite well, and with direct (tho oddly) Box support. I've found using DropBox with it works better.
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IAnnote PDF works quite well, and with direct (tho oddly) Box support. I've found using DropBox with it works better.
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I thought iAnnotate wasn't supported on Android? Or at least not updated for like a year and missing a bunch of features?
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Lecture Notes is one of the best I've come across so far. I'm a business student and everything is done via pdf. l exclusively bought a note 10.1 for that purpose and lecture notes has been fantastic.
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Lecture Notes is one of the best I've come across so far. I'm a business student and everything is done via pdf. l exclusively bought a note 10.1 for that purpose and lecture notes has been fantastic.
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Yea me too as a student i will only use this tablet for learning purposes. I wonder if i should flash some custom rom so i can tweak it only for writing and reading.
I wanted to try the trial version of LectureNotes, but i dont know how to import my PDF files there and take notes on them.
I bought the Repligo thou but one thing that annoys me is that when i write it detects also my fingers and cant disable them..
@kris234: LectureNotes cannot directly handle PDF, it needs a free helper app PDFView (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.acadoid.pdfview or http://www.amazon.com/Acadoid-Developer-PDFView/dp/B00CPR4L6K/) to convert the PDF file to its own format. Restart LectureNotes after installation, then there will be additional menu entries and the PDF import settings will be accessible.
I'm also a surgeon, and using EZPDF pro for more than a year. And it's more than perfect. You can easily write notes, add notes and photos. Underline and highlights. Can open Campbell Orthopedics in few swconds ( > 1GB, ~5000 pages )
Also you can save all your annotations and sync it with other devices.
Highly recommend this
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kude87 said:
I thought iAnnotate wasn't supported on Android? Or at least not updated for like a year and missing a bunch of features?
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I'm not sure which features are explicitly missing for you. For my needs, however, it seems to be working just fine. The last update was November 5 of this year (2013)
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.branchfire.iannotate
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I'm not sure which features are explicitly missing for you. For my needs, however, it seems to be working just fine. The last update was November 5 of this year (2013)
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.branchfire.iannotate
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Search before asking. Someone has likely already asked.
Spell your words completely, and use punctuation. It confuses people when you use "u" and "ur" and "dat", or when you wrongly use "there/their/they're/your/you're".
Be nice. Don't be rude, just move on to another post without leaving a comment. We are not 7 years old.
And PLEASE, do not ask for the "best" anything. We all have our preferences.
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Interesting. For so long it was December of 2012 as the latest update. I'll look at it again, thanks.
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FoxIt
I just noticed that a version of FoxIt is available.
I haven't had much chance to try it out though.
Lecture Notes and ezPDF are definetely the major apps for dealing with pdf.
Wenn I`m reading books or stuff like this where I just make some single notes on a page I use ezPDF. For a lot of lectures I need to write pages of notes in the pdf script, for this lecture notes is much more efficient.
Recently I tried PDFmax, which is rather new and buggy. Sometimes it crashes and thereby damages the file (ezPDF could still read it but PDFmax no more), but it is way much faster than ezPDF, on my device at least twice as fast!
IMHO Ezpdf is still the best. But it is slow as hell. I think even adobe reader has that facility. Am also a medicine postgraduate so it helps me a lot. For chm files though hyreader is the best till now.
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Well thanks guys, i have bought lecture notes , ezPDF, repli go, but all of them has their + and - ... For example Lecture notes takes time to Import a PDF file, and i cant see how can i highlight or how can i set up a highlighter.
On the other site ezPDF is good it loads faster, but the options there are reduced but i vote ezPDF
Thanks again!
@kris234: In LectureNotes, you can use one of the custom pencils as highlighter, choose your favorite color and line width and an intermediate opacity.
I would go further with LectureNotes and PDF editing/anotating. Once you import the PDF, you can set different layers to, for instance, highlight and anotate. They can be in separate layers. All what you want to do. Also, I like the ability of importing pictures, screenshots/screen areas from the brower or any other program into the PDF if necessary as a way to enrich the contents of the already imported pdf.
Needless to say, you can export the final product afterwards in PDF again.
Im in grad school too and use it for lots of stuff. EzPDF is nice as well, though I haven't tried adding content to the pdf. The highlight and anotation works flawlesly. On tip, dont forget to flatten all annotations before copying the PDF to the computer or send it to somebody else, the file will not be readable. Once all annotations/highlights are flattened then is ok.
Hope this helps
I've always had mixed results with pen input on anything other than s-note. Using repligo, I love the direct cloud storage support, but after a few lines of annotations, it starts to bog down a bit and pen input degrades. So I still use s-note, but importing and exporting and syncing to dropbox is a pita. I wish apps like lecture notes and ezpdf didn't make you get so many add on apps and just made one app. It gives me a cluttered and not fully developed feeling when I have to get extentions all the time.
Edit: my main use is also pdf annotating. Damn grad school.
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I also advise EzPDF Pro. It's the best one.
Hey guys.
I'm not sure if it's okay to discuss this in xda but I've recently downloaded my school textbooks through torrents because they're really expensive and being in college does not help me at all. I have them in .pdf format but I was wondering if there are other ways I can view them because I go to My Files and click the file from there then use Hancom viewer to read it. Are there other apps out there that can make this process easier? And lastly, I want to start exploring e-books so if there's an e-book viewer or something similar to that, I would definitely take a look at it.
For pdfs try Perfect Viewer with its PDF plugin. (both free on Google play). I use it for all my coursebooks and magazines. It has a bookshelf option, and an in-app file explorer.
For ebooks, I highly recommend Moon+ Reader. Aldiko and Mantabo reader are also options.
As much as piracy is illegal (do I feel like a hypocrite for saying that? God yes.) I think I can safely say every student does that. The companies ask for it, charging you 80 quid for a single 50 page book and then paying you 1 quid if you return it without even taking it out of the plastic...
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ShadowLea said:
For pdfs try Perfect Viewer with its PDF plugin. (both free on Google play). I use it for all my coursebooks and magazines. It has a bookshelf option, and an in-app file explorer.
For ebooks, I highly recommend Moon+ Reader. Aldiko and Mantabo reader are also options.
As much as piracy is illegal (do I feel like a hypocrite for saying that? God yes.) I think I can safely say every student does that. The companies ask for it, charging you 80 quid for a single 50 page book and then paying you 1 quid if you return it without even taking it out of the plastic...
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Agree, in this day and age electronic distribution at a discounted rate should be available either by timed subscription or full purchase.
+1 on Perfect Viewer, good app.
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ShadowLea said:
For ebooks, I highly recommend Moon+ Reader
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I completely agree. And Moon+ Reader Pro is 50% off right now. It gives you loads of extra features that I think are especially worth it for students....for example, the ability to highlight and annotate passages.
You will likely want this feature in your pdf app as well. I have not tried the recommended app; however, if it doesn't allow you to annotate, you can try EZpdf.
To be honest though, there is nothing better than Adobe Acrobat Pro for marking up textbooks and other pdf files. Buy the student edition (Tip: Many college math departments sell the student edition for less than half the price of the retail student edition...I paid $44). The only drawback is you have to use a computer...but it is so much easier to do that part on my Macbook, save the file as a readable pdf and then put the textbook in Dropbox to open on whatever device I happen to be using at the time.
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You will likely want this feature in your pdf app as well. I have not tried the recommended app; however, if it doesn't allow you to annotate, you can try EZpdf.
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Perfectviewer is what the name says, viewer only. It's actually a comic reader, so no annotations.
Though to be fair, this is a Note device. Just press and hold the pen button, draw a selection and save that. (or use the screen write feature).
Saves you a ton of time leafing through all the pages when you want to review it later. You just view them as single pictures in a gallery.
That's what I do, and I find myself not needing annotations at all. Bonus, you can email the selections as opposed to the entire book.
Near the exams I simply put most of the saved selections on a photoshop document and print that as my cheatsheet. Extremely time-saving once you get used to it.
(I stole that idea entirely off one of my mates who's a medical student. Saw his collection (well, library) of snippet texts and screenshots with writing(ahem, inelligeble scribbles) once and though '****, that's a good idea!).
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I use ezPDF for textbooks. If the content type matters, mainly science and math books, but I prefer to do a lot of highlighting and annotating right into the textbook. I prefer ezPDF over Moon reader. You will have to try them to see which works better for you.