PDF, TXT, MS Office, iWork, HTML, pictures, music & audio-books, videos. Soon you'll be wondering how you ever managed to work without it. It's your one-stop shop for all your document needs on your iOS device. GoodReader is a perfect combination of document-reading and file-managing capabilities. We're proud to say that after 13 years and counting, we've been delivering wonderful updates with extraordinary new features. In the modern app business, it's not easy to stay relevant that long. This encryption works independently of the standard device encryption that is unlocked with the device passcode.įirst released in 2009, GoodReader® is truly a veteran of the App Store.

GoodReader can encrypt all your files and folders with Military-Grade AES-256 Encryption. The Apple Pencil sensitivity is a little on the sensitive side and there are numerous extra taps to delete, undo, or change an Apple Pencil annotation. GoodReader has strong Apple Pencil support, with some of the best handwriting features of any app tested here.

GoodReader relies heavily on glyphs and icons (like PDFpen) for actionable buttons and it’s oftentimes difficult to decipher exactly what each button can do. GoodReader has a great set of tools for annotating and marking up PDFs and many of the app’s onboarding popup windows provide a good overview on how to use the app’s unique design. It cannot read e-books, but for every other file type it is invaluable.

GoodReader is an app that, as its name implies, is a reader, a file manager, plain text editor, and a PDF annotator.

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