BookFolder User Reviews

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Simple but Perfect

This app is exactly what I needed to quickly and easily organise documents to view them easily as I require the ability to access multiple PDFs quickly. The app is incredibly easy to use, and the categorisation makes this such a useful app. The ability to directly import from Safari means building a library of PDFs is super quick. I’ll be recommending this to anyone who needs something similar. I love the customisation as well. Amazing job Molly!!
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If you have books/Pdf’s - you need this

I have spent hours searching the App Store , looking for a visual file/folder type of organizer for my way-too-many book collection. Just a general, all around storage-preferably that works with PDF format. Quite by accident, while looking for something else, I found this hidden jewel. I love it.
If you love books, have a lot of them, and prefer them in PDF format-and want a solid, simple, no glitches way to organize and store your books ( I have just over 200 in this app) then download this app! It does not have 40 functions, and there is a little how-to handbook; but you don’t need it. What it does do, is create folders to organize and store books or documents. A small list on the left “ nests” title separators and their folders, and on the right displays large folders, and nested inside are large books with the actual book cover as the icon. Or the first page of a document. You can change the cover, if you wish. There are no hidden prices for anything, it’s an actual free app! Never glitched on me, and has never crashed. This app should be an essential, if you have lots of pdf with no home
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Good, but has room for improvement

This app is mostly good, but there's one irritating bug where the zoom level resets whenever the page is turned. This won't bother you much if you're reading fiction, but if you're using it for anything you have to reference (I use it for Tabletop RPGs), the default zoom level gets the top and bottom of the document blocked off by the overlay, at least on an iPad Mini. I'll bump this up a star instantly once this bug is fixed.

Also, this app doesn't support vertical pages like Apple Books does for PDFs, and doesn't support multiple books open at once. I don't care much about the former, but the latter would be very useful for me and I'll bump my review up to five stars if multiple tabs are ever added. (Assuming the zoom bug is fixed too, of course.)
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Egad! Only lacking one thing I really wanted!

Hey developers! Add highlighting (and perhaps store a copy of the highlighted materials in a separate file) and I would gladly pay for this app! In every other way it is wonderfully simple and elegant! Thank you!

Book mark doesn’t even work.

The book mark doesn’t work!!

Tried them all

This is the best for sure. All the others want you to pay for a subscription. It works great!

IT CONVERTS PDFs INTO BOOK FORMATS!!!

Do you know how long it took for me to find a app that gives a bookmark to PDFs! This app is so simple to use and I really appreciate it. Also being able to make our own book covers to our favorite stories is something I did not expect to fall in love with and it’s become my favorite thing. REMEMBER- search any book title and add doctype:pdf to the end of it and you just got yourself a free book. Just loaded up on Stephen King.
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Best PDF Reader/Library in the App Store

I’ve looked and looked for a great solution for my RPG collection, and finally I’ve found it. As another put it, this is a criminally underrated program. I had to dig and dig on the App Store to find it and if you dear reader have arrived here from the same search, stop and download. I love that I can choose the cover if the pdf isn’t built to display the cover properly (looking at you Paizo). I love that this a lightweight program that stays out of the way, until I want to double tap to maximize a column view - and boom, it works. It’s so useful, I feel guilty getting it for free.
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Criminally Underrated!

So this is the first app that made me break down and write a review! I got this to have an easy way to read art books while drawing, and I didn’t need anything with a lot of bells and whistles — just wanted something simple, something that let me see the PDF’s as needed. The first big boon to the program is that it allows easy folder generation and sorting, with the typical hold and drag method. I can sort things by art book, tutorials, other, and it’s wonderful. PDF’s are turned from right-to-left, not up-and-down, and that makes the process so much nicer.

Ultimately, that’s all there is to it. It doesn’t make PDF, so there’s not all that bloat if that’s not something you need. You won’t find a better reader, and it’s absolutely free and has zero ads. How can it get better? I’m not sure it can.
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Excellent bookshelf

This was exactly was I was looking for. Allows to create and order folders as bookshelves, nest, categorize. Looks good too. Only downside, would love to have the reader work in top/bottom scrolling instead of side to side page flip.

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