LiquidText vs Human Hours
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
LiquidText
This app provides a dynamic workspace for reviewing and organizing information from documents and webpages. It allows users to extract key facts, connect ideas across different sources, and annotate content for research, writing, or study.
- Import documents and webpages
- Extract and organize excerpts
- Connect ideas with ink links
- Compare document sections
- Annotate PDFs, Word, and PowerPoint
- Search across all documents
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*** 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: (Features with * require a paid upgrade.) Import • Create a workspace and import all the documents and web pages you need • Compatible with PDF, Word, and PowerPoint document types • Import from Dropbox, iCloud Drive, Box, email, and more • Import content from webpage or send to LiquidText directly from Safari • 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 (typed or written) 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 - tap notes and excerpts to find original source Compare • Pinch a document 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 3 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 • Replace document with a newer version (and annotations are brought to new doc)* Search • Search for keywords across all your LiquidText documents • Find keywords in title or text of your documents* • Bulk highlight, tag, or link to your search results* 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 for those with the app. • 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
Human Hours
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Your phone was engineered to win your attention. Human Hours is a counterweight - a small app built around one belief: your hours are yours to spend. MINDFUL PAUSES Choose the app that eats your hours. When you open it, Human Hours steps in first with a calm, full-screen question. Close the app and keep the moment, or continue for a short, deliberate window. If you wrote your own reason for keeping the app around, Human Hours brings it back when it matters. A JOURNAL FOR THE MOMENTS YOU'D OTHERWISE MISS Why did you pick up your phone? A task, a reply, boredom, escape, or just habit - log it in one tap and let your own patterns come into focus. Awareness, not shame, is where change starts. FLOW FOR TIME YOU ALREADY CHOSE TO PROTECT Start a focused session in Human Hours or from Control Center, Siri, Shortcuts, timers, and saved habits. Flow blocking is available to everyone and can keep supported apps out of reach for the session. Pro lets you choose the apps that remain available. FRESH MIND FOR THE EDGES OF YOUR DAY Protect a morning window and an evening window with a recurring routine. The full routine is free. Pro adds a private allowlist and can link it to the apps you already allow during Deep Work. CIRCLES FOR COMMITMENTS YOU KEEP TOGETHER Create or join a Circle for Flow, Fresh Mind, or app discipline. Human Hours turns each person's completed days into a shared streak, while keeping Screen Time details and private reasons out of the circle. Circles use Apple's iCloud sharing, so there is no Human Hours account to create. SOMETHING SMALL THAT GROWS WHEN YOU DO A baby dinosaur hatches when you begin. It grows with your choices - every pause you sit with and every app you close instead of open. A WEEK, HANDED BACK TO YOU See Flow history and a weekly reflection that brings your pauses, step-aways, and journal entries together kindly, never as a report card. Pro also unlocks widgets for Year Progress, Daily Momentum, Screen Battle, Life Impact, and quick Journal entry. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Screen Time totals, selected apps and websites, Journal content, reasons, reflections, Story progress, and protection rules stay on your device. If you use Circles, only the circle identity, your chosen member identity, membership details, calendar boundary, and completion-day labels are shared through Apple's private and shared CloudKit databases. Human Hours has no analytics, ads, or Human Hours server. HUMAN HOURS PRO Free protects one app with unlimited standard Intent Checks and includes Flow blocking, Fresh Mind, and up to three Circles. Pro adds protection for multiple apps and websites, custom pause lengths, attempt caps, quick actions, private allowlists, unlimited Circles, weekly reflection, widgets, and 30 days of Journal history. Eligible new yearly subscribers can try Pro free for seven days; the monthly plan starts right away with no trial. Your hours are the only thing you truly spend. Human Hours helps more of them end up where you meant them to go. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
LiquidText and Human Hours are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. LiquidText sells 13 in-app purchases, starting at $5.49 per month and Human Hours sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
LiquidText ships an update every 2 weeks, Human Hours weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | LiquidText | Human Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (6.4K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 49.6% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 6.4K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 317 MB | 78 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | LiquidText, Inc. | Anand Sharma |
Bugs and requests
LiquidText
Reported bugs
5 issues- Frequent crashes and data loss issues
- Inconsistent behavior with Apple Pencil
- Text selection and highlighting problems
- Sync issues between iPad and Mac versions
- Unexpected changes to existing annotations
Requested features
5 requests- Dark mode option
- Improved palm rejection and writing experience
- Better export and sharing options
- Thumbnail/outline view for easier navigation
- Ability to rotate and resize text/image annotations
Human Hours
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
LiquidText
- LiquidText Live, Monthly, Stu7 Days trial$5.491 Month
- LiquidText Live, Monthly, StPr7 Days trial$5.491 Month
- LiquidText Unlimited, Mo, Stu7 Days trial$10.901 Month
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- LiquidText Live, Monthly7 Days trial$10.901 Month
- LiquidText Live, Monthly, Upg7 Days trial$10.901 Month
- LiquidText Unlimited, Yr, Stu7 Days trial$19.001 Month
- LiquidText Live, Yearly, Stu7 Days trial$54.901 Year
- LiquidText Live, Yearly7 Days trial$99.991 Year
- LiquidText Live, Yearly, Upg7 Days trial$99.991 Year
- LiquidText Unlimited, Yr7 Days trial$189.991 Year
- LT Pro - For Students$19.99
- LiquidText Pro$29.99
- LiquidText Pro II$89.99
Human Hours
- Human Hours Pro$2.991 Month
- Human Hours Pro7 Days trial$19.991 Year









