iAnnotate 4 — PDFs & more

The app works very nicely for annotating pdf. However, when opening a pdf with fillable lines these lines do not appear for me. Making it useless for signing contracts etc.

When choosing webdav as storage you can't fill in username and password and then when the connection does not work. There's no error message so it's not easy to find out what is going on There is no way to review the storage connection settings which makes setting up a connection very difficult. I've tested now with a simple webdav server, which works: although you cannot copy folders to it. But the most used nextcloud server on the market today does not work, where iannotate 3 did work. For nextcloud to work with iannotate 4 locking should be a setting so you can turn it off.

Fijne app. Werk er al jaren mee. Het venstertje dat oppopt bij “sharen” blijft leeg. Jammer.

Erg fijne app in het gebruik. Meerder documenten zijn te openen, dus ideaal bij een vergadering. Ook de annotatie balken zijn zelf in te stellen.
Prima app om aantekeningen op tekeningen en rapporten te maken.
Probleem is soms het naar de volgende pagina gaan. Dan hapert het soms hardnekkig. Ook zijn bij het naar de volgende pagina gaan de bladzijde soms wit. Na wat heen en weer bladeren komt de tekst vaak wel weer.

I’ve been using iAnnotate for several years now. It’s solid, fast, intuitive and has so many valuable functions that turn literature review, research and study feel like a breeze.

Een jaar of 5 geleden heb ik iAnnotate al eens gekocht. Ik had gedacht de oude app nu nog te kunnen gebruiken, maar helaas is geen verbinding mogelijk met OneDrive (staat wel als optie). Daarom de nieuwe app gekocht. De oorspronkelijke app lijkt weinig gewijzigd, dus daarom de vraag waarom ik opnieuw deze app moet kopen zonder extra functionaliteiten. Dat voelt niet goed als trouwe klant.

I wrote an email to the developer 4 years ago, telling that once highlighted, we will not be able to copy the words under highlight. 5 years later, this issue still persists.
I bought this app only because it synchronizes faster than PDF Expert, and also, it allows customizing toolbox.
And also, please do not make a new app then charge your customers for a third time.

Love the app a lot, but.. I am starting to miss the possibility to annotate my e-pub ebooks the way I can annotate a PDF-file. Any chance of that being added in the future?

I have been using iAnnotate 3 intensively and am really very pleased with its usability and functionality.
In version 4 I dearly miss the option to download files, keep local copies to work with while I'm offline, that I use all the time with version 3. Without this option the app is not useful to me anymore; please bring it back and I'll gladly give you all 5 stars!
Update: I first wrote this review in 2016, but today (Oct 2017) the functionality for working offline that was so great in version 3 is still not brought back or equalled in this version 4. Amazing how version 4 is still no match in usability to version 3...
A hint to the developer team: stop adding fancy features, just focus on what your users really need, which is the version 3 functionality + the iOS 11 compatibility of version 4. That’s it. With that you’ll have a great app that will sell well.
This present version 4: waste of money for me. (Sorry, it has to be said after one year.)
Update 2: it is now november 2019 and the WebDav connectivity with OneDrive for Business is still not functional. Such a pity that you cannot get this to work, because I’d love to be able to use iAnnotate again...

I notice highlights are layered on top of text. That makes it impossible to look up words in the dictionary or online after they are highlighted.
Also, when I have a highlighted text, and then make notes in pencil above and below it, in 1 edit, a box is created that covers the highlight, making it impossible to select the highlight, without removing the pencil remarks first. However, when you then select a new highlighter, you CAN select the text.. so it is a matter of layering. Can be fixed!

I’m using the app to add notes in the powerpoints in college. Works like a charm with Apple Pencil.
Cloud integrations are running smoothly with Dropbox.
Thing that I miss I being able to add clickable hyperlinks to websites. Like YouTube videos and references for class lectures.

Webdav Connection problems since the new update. Server error 501. I tried to connect delete and ADD the connection. Nothing

Great app, stable, connects with all my cloud-services (Dropbox, OneDrive, GoogleDrive), simple navigation, easy to use.
I miss one feature: when annotating a PDF-file it automatically saves including annotations. This means I lose the original document without annotations. I would love to have a setting that disables auto-saving and forces to manually save editted/annotated documents.

I have been using iAnnotate 3 intensively and am really very pleased with its usability and functionality.
In version 4 I dearly miss the option to download files, keep local copies to work with while I'm offline, that I use all the time with version 3. Without this option the app is not useful to me anymore; please bring it back and I'll gladly give you all 5 stars!
Update: I first wrote this review in 2016, but today (Oct 2017) the functionality for working offline that was so great in version 3 is still not brought back or equalled in this version 4. Amazing how version 4 is still no match in usability to version 3...
A hint to the developer team: stop adding fancy features, just focus on what your users really need, which is the version 3 functionality + the iOS 11 compatibility of version 4. That’s it. With that you’ll have a great app that will sell well.
This present version 4: waste of money for me. (Sorry, it has to be said after one year.)

The new version 4 appears not to have webdav support and thus no longer usable with open standards. Pity. My money back please

The world has more and sometimes better choices than the few cloud storage options provided in v4. What happened to WebDAV support or smooth use via other Cloud storage apps? So v4 is a no go app compared with v3 on this. One may read this as a request!

I love iAnnotate 3, but this so-called update lacks many important features that made iAnnotate 3 so great. Downloading files for offline use is now much more awkward. I work a lot with duplicate tabs so I can work in different parts of the document (like the body text and the reference list). This functionality has been replaced by Make a Copy, but then you don't work in the same file. Terrible! Don't use this app, use iAnnotate 3 instead. This app was a waste of my money.

STAY AWAY FROM THIS APP
Useless. Doesn't support webdav/owncloud anymore.