All college students, GET THIS APP! YOU NEED IT!
I’m a graduate student and this app is literally saving my grade life. No other marking and note taking feature in other apps will compare to this one. All other apps are a disorganized mess; this app is very organized. Watch the training videos to get the max out of this. If you have an iPad Pro 12.9 inch…wow this is a master app to have while you’re taking notes in class. It is worth the investment. I’ll gladly invest for the year subscription with the amount of quality features this app has. Again if you’re a college student, do not be afraid to invest your fund with this app. Trust me, you will comprehend those tough classes better with this app.
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I hate it
It doesn’t even let me write anything down which makes it useless you can’t highlight either. DONT GET THIS APP UNLESS YOU ARE FINE TO PAY FOR A MEMBERSHIP.I recommend GoodNotes instead of this
So good, absolute Godsend for thesis marking
Kia ora from Aotearoa New ZealandThis makes marking theses so much easier - excerpt and comment, and then you have all your notes and excerpts for the write up. Brilliant.
Same for lit reviews.
Brilliant, and getting better all the time
Same for lit reviews.
Brilliant, and getting better all the time
Shameful Money Grab
I just purchased the pro version about 1-2 months ago and with this update they are asking for another $20 for the 2023 pro features such as more workspaces. Because I wanted to use stage manager, I also was using iPadOS 16 public beta. Up until about a week ago LiquidText didn’t even support Apple Pencil on iPadOS 16, leaving me without the ability to even use LiquidText in that time. These features should be complimentary. I should also have the ability to buy a pro version with a one time purchase for Mac and iPad with the ability to sync documents between using iCloud - a service i already pay for and is used in LiquidText. This is similar to how Things 3 works. It is a one time purchase for iOS, iPadOS, and MacOS with free feature updates with tasks sync between with no subscription cost. If significant updates then they release a completely new version (i.e., when they went from Things 2 to Things 3). LiquidText subscription is priced more than office365, but provides far fewer benefits. Basically $100/year to have the aforementioned sync (only 1 GB! (Office365 personal provides 1 TB for $70/annually) to iCloud and view on a Mac, which should be standard features available in a paid version. The free subscriptions of google drive and iCloud offer more (15 GB and 5 GB, respectively which also sync across all devices). Shameful
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Update on a Review and Apologies
Originally I wrote this…
„… many important features I bought in the pro version were taken away which would force me to subscribe to get them back and that is not cool at all. I do not have the money to subscribe to every app I like to use and I will never subscribe to an app that took away what I paid for.“
It still states I have the pro version but my confusion was with the cloud sync and continuous cloud sync which come with live. My pro features were not stolen from me and I do appreciate I was allowed to keep them because the subscription price is crazy for what I need it for, however if I was writing extreme research papers again, I would take the plunge because it is an awesome app for that. I have nothing bad to say about the app. It was novel when it first came out and hasn’t turned into abandonware like many have.
„… many important features I bought in the pro version were taken away which would force me to subscribe to get them back and that is not cool at all. I do not have the money to subscribe to every app I like to use and I will never subscribe to an app that took away what I paid for.“
It still states I have the pro version but my confusion was with the cloud sync and continuous cloud sync which come with live. My pro features were not stolen from me and I do appreciate I was allowed to keep them because the subscription price is crazy for what I need it for, however if I was writing extreme research papers again, I would take the plunge because it is an awesome app for that. I have nothing bad to say about the app. It was novel when it first came out and hasn’t turned into abandonware like many have.
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Response from developer
Dear Clurichaun, we're sorry for any confusion, but please know that we have NEVER removed any functionality from our Pro version. Quite the opposite, over the past year we've added new features to Pro, such as cross project and cross-app linking! If a feature you paid for seems to be unavailable, please contact our customer support at support@liquidtext.net
Amazing app
Liquid text is incredible for anyone reading large documents electronically who needs to be able to sort and reference the information in those documents.
I’ve been using it for a few days and it works really smoothly so far.
A few extra features would make it near perfect for my use as a lawyer, including the ability to bookmark sections of the workspace to find relevant notes quickly.
I’ve been using it for a few days and it works really smoothly so far.
A few extra features would make it near perfect for my use as a lawyer, including the ability to bookmark sections of the workspace to find relevant notes quickly.
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buy the app, then the online “Live-service and they’re not compatible
I find out they’re not compatible. If you have an older iMac or Mac computer, The new “LIVE” version is not compatible with older Macs. So you’ve spent $30 someodd bucks for the ‘LIVE’ version and can only use it on your iPad and THEN if you are like me… you ‘THINK’ you can delete the old version on your computer and download the latest version! Forget it! You’ve just lost the ability to have liquid text on your computer all together! Because there are no ‘downloads’ ANYWHERE to re-download the old version you’ve just erased! EVENTUALLY, I realized I had it on another ‘user account’ on my computer… so I was successful in copying it over. However it will not sync with the new ‘live version’ of LiquidText . (it doesn’t operate like the Evernote app does). So I paid for the ‘LIVE’ version, I paid for the PRO version (for the computer) and wind up with only the service on my iPad The $50 investment wasn’t worth it. (The prices I’ve quoted I haven’t checked to the dollar but I know they’re close)…
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incredible
Very rarely do I write a review for an app, this is definitely an exception.
I almost didn’t like this app, it took a few days to explore and I *HATED* the side by side text/workspace. Once I figured out that I could move the workspace to the bottom, (both horizontal vs. vertical) I started liking it more. Then I dove in and I’m in love. I like the fact that I can incorporate several documents, take notes, highlight and then export to a PDF and essentially have all I need for my research paper, etc.
The other thing is, I’m only using probably 5-10% of what this app is capable of doing. Once this school term is finished, I will delve deeper and learn more about it.
I almost didn’t like this app, it took a few days to explore and I *HATED* the side by side text/workspace. Once I figured out that I could move the workspace to the bottom, (both horizontal vs. vertical) I started liking it more. Then I dove in and I’m in love. I like the fact that I can incorporate several documents, take notes, highlight and then export to a PDF and essentially have all I need for my research paper, etc.
The other thing is, I’m only using probably 5-10% of what this app is capable of doing. Once this school term is finished, I will delve deeper and learn more about it.
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Unreliable-buggy
I like the app idea, but there is no Redo; undo is too risky and you may miss where and what you applied redo. The windows version is the worst, especially when you do some jobs with iPad and you think you can continue with windows. I paid $80 and I spent lots of my time, now I feel stressed I will lose it. If they update and fix them, I will put five stars.
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Little things missing that could make it truly great.
There are several things preventing me from loving the app.
1)The file selection pages refuse to remain sorted by date, I have to switch it back every time I leave a document.
2) It's really hard to draw connections between parts I've highlighted in individual large documents. The ink feature will go a certain distance and then refuse to go any further. I'd love to circle a line and then draw an arrow down several pages to link them so that when I tap on it the connection is highlighted.
3) Sometimes the OCR on documents, especially ones that are scanned pages, is really funky and won't let me highlight lines properly.
4) If there's a way to view all my highlighted excerpts as text, with the notes I've made on them, the way the Kindle app does, I've yet to find it.
5) Moving documents between folders is incredibly unintuitive. Why can't we drag and drop them?
These issues combined make this app a 3/5 for me. It's still one of the best document readers/highlighters that fits my needs, but it's missing things that could make it truly great.
1)The file selection pages refuse to remain sorted by date, I have to switch it back every time I leave a document.
2) It's really hard to draw connections between parts I've highlighted in individual large documents. The ink feature will go a certain distance and then refuse to go any further. I'd love to circle a line and then draw an arrow down several pages to link them so that when I tap on it the connection is highlighted.
3) Sometimes the OCR on documents, especially ones that are scanned pages, is really funky and won't let me highlight lines properly.
4) If there's a way to view all my highlighted excerpts as text, with the notes I've made on them, the way the Kindle app does, I've yet to find it.
5) Moving documents between folders is incredibly unintuitive. Why can't we drag and drop them?
These issues combined make this app a 3/5 for me. It's still one of the best document readers/highlighters that fits my needs, but it's missing things that could make it truly great.
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