
LiquidText 17+
Annotate & review documents
LiquidText, Inc.
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
*** Named “Most Innovative iPad App of the Year” by Apple App Store ***
LiquidText offers a fast, natural way to review, gather, and organize information across all your documents and webpages—then apply the results to writing reports, meeting prep, or simply studying. Pull out key facts and connect them together, squeeze a document to compare sections, draw a line to connect ideas in different documents, comment on multiple pages at once, build upon your thoughts, and much more.
► WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING:
* "If you want to experience the power of going beyond paper, you can download LiquidText" – Cult of Mac
* One of Macworld’s Top 24 Apps for iPad Pro
* One of Time Magazine's Ten Best apps for iPad Pro *
* "There's a better way to organize your research, and the app is it." – iMore, Serenity Caldwell
* “All you need for deep research projects.” – Macworld, Jackie Dove
* "The world changed with...LiquidText" – Law360, Paul Kiesel
* "LiquidText may just be *the* app for reviewing and annotating PDFs using Apple's tablet and stylus." – CIO Magazine, James Martin
* “One of the most powerful, original iPad apps I've tried in years” – Federico Viticci, MacStories.net
► LIQUIDTEXT’S COMPLETE FEATURE SET INCLUDES:
(Note that to put multiple documents in one project, inking, search across documents, OCR, ref manager integrations, or to use sync and backup, a subscription to our premium service is required. You can also get some of these features with a one-time purchase instead.)
Import
• Create a workspace and import all the documents (PDF, Word, PowerPoint) and web pages you need
• Import content from webpage.
• Instant OCR to select text in scanned documents; do a full document-OCR to search as well!
• Import documents & metadata directly from reference managers (supports Zotero and Mendeley)
Interact
• Pull excerpts from all the documents in your project into the Workspace area
• Add your own notes to the Workspace area
• Freely draw on your notes, or on the workspace itself
• Organize excerpts and notes into groups
• Connect anything - draw live “ink links” that span pages, documents, notes, and more
• Create mind-maps by drawing “ink links” connecting your excerpts/notes to one another
• Get context - click notes and excerpts to find original source
• Scrollbar shows where highlights, comments, excerpts, and search results are located
Compare
• Pinch on your trackpad to compare different distant pages side by side
• Collapse text to see annotated parts side-by-side
• Collapse text to view search results(s) side-by-side
• Import unlimited number of documents into a project, view up to 5 at once
Annotate
• Freely draw or highlight on your document, notes, or the workspace itself
• Add margin notes/comments to text, images, notes, and excerpts
• Comment on two or more selections simultaneously
Search
• Search for keywords across all your LiquidText documents
• Search from LiquidText home screen, or from Spotlight
• Find keywords in title or text of your documents
Realtime Collaboration
• Invite colleagues into your shared projects and work together in near realtime*
• Leave comments and notifications for your collaborators*
• Privacy controls: set whether each workspace & document in your project is shared or private*
Easy Export
• Export your project as a PDF (includes your Workspace and documents)
• Export your project as a Word file (converts your notes/excerpts into a linear document)
• Send a full LiquidText file
• Send files by email or to Dropbox, iCloud Drive, Zotero, and more*
Sync & Backup*
• Real-time, cross-platform sync
• Continuous cloud backup
• Multi-device display:
• Use your desktop or tablet as additional display for your other device
• Use your tablet for freehand inking while viewing and keyboarding on your desktop
See our terms of use at https://www.liquidtext.net/terms-of-use
Learn more at LiquidText.net | Better Than Paper
What’s New
Version 7.0.9
COLLABORATE IN REALTIME WITH COLLEAGUES!
- Invite colleagues into your shared LiquidText projects!
- Work together in near realtime
- Advanced text handling lets multiple users even type in the same textbox without causing a conflict
- Indicators to see where other users are editing/annotating
- Each workspace in a project can be set to shared or private
- Make comments and notifications for your collaborators
- Basic collaboration: add up to one collaborator per project, included at no extra cost in our Live and Unlimited subscriptions.
- Full collaboration: collaborate with a nearly unlimited number of colleagues, and set the visibility of each workspace, with our new Unlimited+ subscription.
- This version also fixes a bug that can affect text input in certain complex text layout (CTL) scripts.
Ratings and Reviews
Editors’ Notes
This app offers the flexibility you’ve always wished for when taking notes on longer documents. Quickly drag excerpts to a separate workspace, make comments, compare distant sections and more. You’ll forget how you ever read without it.
Nearly perfect
This app is wonderful and I use it all the time. It would be perfect if there were two adjustments. Firstly, if when taking things (text for example) onto the workspace, and it is connected to the document, it stayed in the same place instead of constantly moving as you scroll through a document. It follows you rather than staying in the place you took it from. I have never really understood why it does this, since it would be far more helpful if it stayed where it was taken from. This does mean I never use the workspace because this is a pain. Secondly, if the highlighter, like the pen, stayed in the colour and size you last used it. It always reverts back to yellow and the same size, whereas the pen stays the same colour and size from the last time it was used. If these were fixed it would be perfect!
From great innovation into a disappointment
I have used this app since its early days with great enthusiasm. I have even convinced many of my colleagues at the university to start using it. HOWEVER, with time passing by the app seems to be lagging fat behind, resistant to change and ignoring the feedback of its users. To take two examples which I have emailed and participated in the beta testing crying to the developper to include and each time they promise it is coming soon but a year passed with no change. First is the ability to save files on cloud and to use them across different devices. It is a pretty simple thing and when you dont have it makes your life a mess. You have to keep copying files across devices and you run a high risk of losing your notes if something went wrong with your iPad. Second is the ability to copy text from a liquid file and paste into Word without having to manually remove line breaks each time you copy. The absence of this feature makes note taking very cumbersome and time inefficient. What is troubling me is that these features are quite simple and available to other PDF readers. I have been waiting for years but it does not seem the developer of Liquid text care. With sincere regret, I decided to migrate to another app and will manually move my documents one by one . I will also have to apologize to all colleagues I convinced to use this app.
App Privacy
The developer, LiquidText, Inc., indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- Purchases
- Contact Info
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
- Other Data
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- User Content
- Diagnostics
Privacy practices may vary based on, for example, the features you use or your age. Learn More
Information
- Provider
- LiquidText, Inc.
- Size
- 228.4 MB
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
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- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 16.6 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 13.5 or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 17+ Unrestricted Web Access
- Copyright
- © 2025 LiquidText, Inc.
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- LiquidText Live, Monthly £8.99
- LiquidText Live, Monthly, Stu £4.49
- LiquidText Live, Yearly £83.99
- LiquidText Live, Monthly, Upg £8.99
- LiquidText Unlimited, Yr £174.99
- LiquidText Live, Monthly, StPr £4.49
- LiquidText Live, Yearly, Stu £41.99
- LiquidText Live, Yearly, Upg £81.99
- LiquidText Unlimited, Yr, Stu £17.99
- LiquidText Unlimited, Mo, Stu £9.99