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  • App Crash When It Downloads From Google Drive And Index

    The app is excellent overall, but I hope one annoying issue can be fixed. When I connect my Google Drive to the app, it downloads all of my PDFs and other documents and indexes them locally. I have a lot of files, and when it downloads and indexes them simultaneously, the app crashes constantly. It's really inconvenient having to reopen the app again and again. I hope this issue can be fixed soon. Thanks!
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  • Excellent!

    I hope the developers keep adding features because the app is amazing. I use it to search for PDF documents, such as books, and is very accurate. Specially I like the search across books series where I can just type a few words of an event or character I barely remember (from some books ago in a series) and will search and find the paragraphs with the key words typed.
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    Developer Response

    Thank you for your kind review 🙏
  • Needs keyboard support

    Cmd + F for search (with Esc to cancel search), shortcuts for navigating through document / to other documents, etc.
  • Useful tool but buggy

    It’s like a personal google for your documents. I used it for school and now I use it at work. I point it at office documents and textbooks PDFs, and it gives me the results I need in one place.

    Unfortunately the app is faulty. Indexing will sometimes not pick up files after repeated troubleshooting attempts. Worse, pdf viewing is buggy and you will lose your view when scrolling to the next page.
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  • Many problems NOT worth $20

    Ranks or NOT in proper order.
    Crashes often.
    Pdf export has many pages of blurred text
    No relevant data in help to solve the problems.
  • Doesn’t search my records

    I have several items and it doesn’t keep the index and the indexing is incomplete resulting in poor search results!

    Developer Response

    I am very sorry for the bad experience you had. If you can contact me through support page, we can check the problems together. I will do my best to solve them including fixing problems with a new release as soon as possible. Best Regards.
  • Fair

    The app itself is pretty good, just not very flexible in sorting and such.

    I sent a message to their help contact and heard not one thing from them.

    All-in-all, the experience with this firm and their app is middling.
  • A Superb App for Research enthusiasts without equal

    I ran into problems with the app initially, as the issues were with my not knowing how to operate it correctly. The Excellent help from support team saved the day. I am now on a supersonic research speed. This app is the only one which could index search results with actual AI and index them and automatically rank them. The search results come super fast and handy. I would love to see an additional functionality of Boolean search as in devonthink. That would massacre the competition, if any. I wish developers good luck for future enhancements.
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  • Mediocre at best. Unusable at worst

    This app is mediocre at best and completely unusable for serious search and research. I’ve emailed them about a specific feature that advertised and said to make searching more precise and they STILL haven’t responded. This app does have potential but currently it’s unusable for serious multi-word searches. The programmer didn’t respond to my emails good luck getting feedback.
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    Developer Response

    Hi, I am really sorry for the bad experience you had. I always try to reply emails coming from support pages within days. Please accept my apology if I missed yours. Can you send it again referencing this review? I will try to do my best to help you. Best Regards.
  • Good app with a lot of crashes

    While you are trying to search in a book or any document that has the same word multiple times after scrolling to the next one, the app will crash. Also, if the home back hides by press screen will you read, it will be hard to bring it back again.

    Developer Response

    Hi h5legy, Sorry for the bad experience you had. Can you give me more detail about the crashes you are facing through our support page (like iOS version, crash video etc)? I will try to do my best to solve them. We can find the problem together and I can prepare a fix as soon as possible. For the home back button I think you are referring navigation bar. It hides when you scroll up and it should reappear when you scroll down. It is default behavior of scroll views. Best Regards.

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