LiquidText vs Many Hands Task Organizer
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
Many Hands Task Organizer
Easily coordinate tasks and volunteers for any group project. Create tasks, break them into action items, and share a single link for people to sign up. No account or app download is needed for volunteers.
- Create tasks with action items
- Shareable task links
- Volunteer sign-up without accounts
- Real-time progress tracking
- AI-generated cover images (Pro)
- Event details integration
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Many hands make light work. Many Hands Task Organizer turns that saying into action: create a task, break it into action items, share one link, and let volunteers sign up for what they can do. No account or app required for them. Perfect for families, friend groups, congregations, teams, clubs, and communities coordinating a potluck, a move, an event, a service project, or any shared to-do list. HOW IT WORKS 1. Create a task and add the action items that need doing. 2. Share your unique link with anyone. 3. Volunteers pick what they will help with. Just a name, no signup. FOR ORGANIZERS - Break tasks into clear action items and edit them anytime - Give any task a cover image, upload your own or generate one with AI (Pro) - Add event details volunteers can see: a note, date, time, and location - Share one link instead of chasing people through group texts - See who signed up for what, in real time - Track progress with a live completion bar - Add volunteers manually for anyone who signed up offline - Manage everything from a clean dashboard on iPhone or the web FOR VOLUNTEERS - No account, no password, no download. Just tap the link. - See the full task and choose what to help with - See who else is pitching in ONE ACCOUNT, EVERYWHERE Your account, tasks, and Pro status are shared between the iOS app and manyhands.app. PRICING Free to start with one active task. A one-time Pro upgrade unlocks unlimited tasks, with no subscription. Many Hands Task Organizer is provided by Diving Moose Studios LLC.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Many Hands Task Organizer at every 2 days against LiquidText's every 2 weeks. Many Hands Task Organizer also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.6). LiquidText's advantage is ratings volume (6.4K vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.
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 Many Hands Task Organizer sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Many Hands Task Organizer holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: LiquidText has 6.4K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
LiquidText ships an update every 2 weeks, Many Hands Task Organizer every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | LiquidText | Many Hands Task Organizer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (6.4K ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 49.6% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 6.4K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 317 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | LiquidText, Inc. | Dennis Laube |
Customer experience
LiquidText
Many Hands Task Organizer
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
Many Hands Task Organizer
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
Many Hands Task Organizer
- Many Hands Pro$14.99
Questions
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