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Pros:

And to have them all on my iPad so that I don't have to deal with huge stacks of paper. I don't 'integrate with business processes' because I don't have business processes, whatever they may be.

Cons:

I don't like that in addition for having paid an upfront fee to purchase the product, now I need to pay a subscription fee to have access to all features.

LiquidText ratings

Average score

Ease of Use
4.4
Customer Service
4.3
Features
4.5
Value for Money
4.4

Likelihood to recommend

8.6/ 10

LiquidText has an overall rating of 4.6 out 5 stars based on 177 user reviews on Capterra.

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Nicolas
Nicolas
Student in Switzerland
Verified LinkedIn User
Education Management, 1,001–5,000 Employees
Used the Software for: 6-12 months
Reviewer Source

great for students and research

4.0 2 years ago

Pros:

it is very easy to mark and search thru documents for research. I used it mainly to organize and summarize sources for my thesis and it was great for that.

Cons:

The UI is not the prettiest and workflows are sometimes not as optimized as they could be

Manoj
Resident in India
Hospital & Health Care, 501–1,000 Employees
Used the Software for: 6-12 months
Reviewer Source

All in one

5.0 2 years ago

Comments: I am in a healthcare industry and due to vast amount of information in it, I need a app that summarise and present it in understandable way and liquid text is definitely good at it by doing so

Pros:

Mind maps, content sharing and document linking are my favourite features

Cons:

Note taking is not perfectly improved to smooth experience and I think it need to be developed

Verified Reviewer
Verified LinkedIn User
Law Practice, Self Employed
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

No need for paper - ever

3.0 2 years ago

Comments: Makes going "paper - free" easy.

Pros:

It allows document management to be undertaken in a totally paper free manner.

Cons:

There are functionality issues in syncing between windows and apple products

Khyati
HR Associate in India
Information Technology & Services, 5,001–10,000 Employees
Used the Software for: 6-12 months
Reviewer Source

Best PDF experience with moderate note taking experience

5.0 last year

Comments: I personally found this feature rich and it does almost every document related need complete.

Pros:

It’s extraordinary ability to edit the pdf file is really nice and handy. Combination of all document related features is good. Haven’t used this feature a lot but the pointing kinda thing that we can link a topic of a pdf to a comment is really nice though. Collaborative feature are good also and I found this app the most advance one in whole Apple ecosystem to be honest. So, you can definitely go for this.

Cons:

1. it is not available for android which is really a headache.2. It’s note taking experience is not as good as Goodnotes and team should focus on improving this.3. Price of its plans is really high and some of the goodies is only available on those only.4. Document storing experience can be a little enhanced.

Pavitar
Journalist in India
Newspapers, 501–1,000 Employees
Used the Software for: 1+ year
Reviewer Source

All rounder for Journalists!

5.0 last year

Comments: complete package for Journalism.

Pros:

Editing features are really good, highlighting the text, editing text, creating a doc and accessing multiple docs at a time are really useful for journalism and this serves the proper purpose with perfection. Also, it really works the best if you have an Apple ecosystem.

Cons:

A few more note taking features can be added. This is good for note taking but if we try to make some art, it doesn't have proper brushes. I know this is not made for this but still, it would be really nice if this had these.

Kartikey
Associate software engineer in India
Computer Networking, 501–1,000 Employees
Used the Software for: 1-5 months
Reviewer Source

Could be a little bit better, but still the best

5.0 2 years ago

Comments: I switched from a free Apple app called Freeform just because of lack of features and I really took a good decision.

Pros:

It's collaborative features are very useful and great. Also other tools like note taking, PDF sticky notes kinda things, editing pdf, mind maping are great features to consider. Used this for about 5 months and it has a tons of features that I like. Great support for documents. Even I can import pptx files and edit them which is a must feature to have.

Cons:

Few things that can be added and are must to have:1. Document folder on main screen, so that we can categorize the document based on their purpose.2. User interface could be a little more user friendly. For a beginner, its a little bit hard to learn things.3. It's not available for android devices. Like atleast this must be available for samsung tab so that they can also get included in collaborative projects.

Erika
HR Recruit Intern in India
Information Technology & Services, 501–1,000 Employees
Used the Software for: 6-12 months
Reviewer Source

LiquidText- Seamless like liquid

4.0 last year

Comments: Found worth the subscription plan and a tons of features.

Pros:

Notes taking experience is good and also works in an imported doc. So works well for editing some too. Also, includes powerful features for every aspect like pdf editing, making notes, book reading and managing multiple docs at a time.As of my experience, I found this app getting better and better and new features are constantly added. There's no bug yet that I faced. Very smooth and fluid experience 👍

Cons:

There are multiple plans available which is a bit confusing. They should give a free 7 or 15 days trial to try out all the features and then decided whether plan to choose from.

Matt
Owner in US
Law Practice, 2–10 Employees
Used the Software for: 6-12 months
Reviewer Source

Increases Efficiency with Lower Learning Curve

4.0 2 years ago

Comments: It helps me organize multiple sources of data so that I can more efficiently draft briefs, articles, and outlines. I wish that I had this software in college and law school.

Pros:

I appreciate that I can load non-HIPAA documents into the system and organize them by folders. As I'm reviewing the documents I can cut out the relevant portions. Once I've done that, drafting briefs, outlines, and summaries is much easier because the relevant content is organized and I'm not looking for random highlights in a myriad of PDFs.

Cons:

The product is fairly buggy. I've had it shut down on me, and fail to open certain PDFs. I use it on the iPad and the PC, the sometimes the iPad version won't open certain files. I also think it should be HIPAA-certified so that we can review medical records and other sensitive documents.

Sharin
Barrister in UK
Law Practice, 51–200 Employees
Used the Software for: 1+ year
Reviewer Source

The best app available on the market but still scope for improvement and refinement

4.0 2 years ago

Comments: Generally positive and the new features are encouraging.

Pros:

Ease of use and features. I rely on the pinch search, highlighting, text extract, quick links and option for multiple workspaces when prepping for hearings.

Cons:

1. To finally resolve an issue with LiquidText removing text in a PDF form - I have repeatedly raised this as a concern and it remains unresolved2. Move all of the toolbars into one consolidated toolbar at the top of the page. The floating toolbars get in the way of being able to work on documents and I cannot understand why they are separate. Also to amend the toolbar layout so that icons aren't in the middle of the screen, causing them to interfere with Apple's split screen on an iPad. 3. Add shortcuts for 3-4 commonly used colours to reduce need to keep re-opening highlight menu to switch between colours when highlighting4. Improve ability to jump to pages in page navigation. Commonly have pages as A22, A23 etc and when searching the search goes to any hit and not automatically to the most relevant5. When opening word documents the layout does not match what would be seen on screen on a desktop meaning page numbering falls out of sync and it makes it hard to navigate when collaborating with others6. When opening a number of documents at the same time this should open as a single new workspace and not as multiple workspaces7. It would be great if there was a feature to allow users to save and import as a standalone, new document a signed document. 8. The bundle updating function often crashes/does not work/does not recognise when the bookmarking in a bundle has been updated/ fails to load the bundle.

Vikash
Computer Science student in India
Computer Software, Self Employed
Used the Software for: 6-12 months
Reviewer Source

Great for collaboration and maping down what I have in my mind

5.0 2 years ago

Comments: I have notability and goodnotes and paid for them but still they were not able to fulfill my requirements but LiquidText did it well. I had recommended it to my friends and would say that you should definitely go for this.

Pros:

Best thing about the LiquidText is that I can link any topic in any pdf to a comment and whenever I click on that comment it locates me back to that portion of the pdf. Also the whiteboard helps me to store my all notes at one place.Collaborative features are also worth to mention as this make things a lot easier when it comes to working together with a team.

Cons:

Only issue I found was that I was unable to import my notability notes in LiquidText in note format. I had to first convert it into a pdf. This makes a little difficult to shift to LiquidText.

Yumi
Architect in United Arab Emirates
Architecture & Planning, 2–10 Employees
Used the Software for: 1+ year
Reviewer Source

Best for reviewing

4.0 3 years ago

Comments: Thank you for creating LiquidText! Ever since I started using LiquidText my studying & working jouney is more innovative. I love that you guys are putting a lot of effort in improving this app and that makes me want to continue using this app even more. Keep up!

Pros:

What I like about LiqidText is that it's very easy to write, organize, and review notes acorss the document. It's almost like studying with an actualy notebook & pen but much better because it's paper-less! Especially for intense studying or reviewing it is so helful. I am a professional who's always reviewing for different licensure exams and I need to take a lot of notes in a single document. Being able to take as much notes as possible without minding how much blank space I have in a page is a great feeling and it makes my reviewing more efficient & productive.

Cons:

I'm not very fond of the user interface. As a person who uses a lot of different apps (especially note-taking apps & PDF apps) in iOS, the user interface of LiquidText feels a bit out-dated. I would want it to be more modern and sophisticated so it's more motivating. Also the price is bit expensive to recommend to anyone. I have a lot of friends who are still students and they tend to purcahse cheaper apps even though LiquidText is great.

Jongbok
Associate Professor in US
Research, Self Employed
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Innovative and essential document reader for researchers

5.0 2 years ago

Pros:

For my area of research, I need to read multiple documents at once while making notes for my papers. Liking among documents, mind-mapping, free writing, adding texts, images, and my thoughts on the field, all these are what I needed. On top of that, now, with its cloud service, I can read them on any device. I highly recommend it. It made my research much easier and faster.

Cons:

I do not have anything I did not like about LiquidText.

Martin
attorney in Slovakia
Law Practice, 2–10 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Canvass for your ideas

5.0 2 years ago

Comments: I'm using LT on an iPad Pro and I think the UI can by clunky sometimes. For example, when I'm not using LT for a longer period of time, I need to re-learn how to import pdfs and work with them. Even though I'm not an IT expert, I think the UI/UIX could be improved.

Pros:

I can visualise and reference arguments and ideas extracted from different file formats

Cons:

As a customer how bought LT before a subscription was introduced, I'm not happy that some functionality is hidden behind a paywall. Also, LT could think beyond US market and include other langauges in its OCR functionality.

Brian
Research Assistant in US
Biotechnology, Self Employed
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Using LiquidText is my goto for annotating any kind of PDFs!

5.0 2 years ago

Pros:

I like how I can color-code my highlights and update which colors are accessible as shortcuts.

Cons:

I wish I could do more signatures like Adobe and how do I use the convert to PDF feature?

Manoj
Consultant in India
Hospital & Health Care, 1,001–5,000 Employees
Used the Software for: 6-12 months
Reviewer Source

Helps in connecting the scattered dots of your knowledge at one place

4.0 2 years ago

Comments: Overall experience is very nice by handling multiple documents which involves a interactive experience between them

Pros:

I like most the linking and connecting same tooic from two different docuemts in one projects.. helps a lot to jump and switch between two docs via linking with just a tap of finger..

Cons:

Everything is useful at some level.. Every feature is meant to be useful for different perspective.

Vikram
Scientist in India
Research, Self Employed
Used the Software for: 1+ year
Reviewer Source

Great tool needs working on synchronising

4.0 2 years ago

Comments: Greatly facilitated in reading and understanding complex new ideas in physics

Pros:

Great way to organise the ideas in the paper I am reading. Specially visually connecting the different ideas and concepts.

Cons:

Crashes almost always at starting both on my m1 iMac and on my MacBook 15 inch

Maneesh
Geospatial Researcher in India
Environmental Services, 51–200 Employees
Used the Software for: 6-12 months
Reviewer Source

Awesome app for Researchers for prepare article and books chapter

5.0 2 years ago

Comments: Over all my experience was very good and i am very confident with my researcher career using this App

Cons:

I want to integrate AI function(CHATGPT etc) in my subscription because I am a student , I have no money for purchase liquid text pro edition

Francis
Convener in Ghana
Religious Institutions, 11–50 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Great application

5.0 2 years ago

Comments: Over all its very useful

Pros:

Comments and are always linked to relevant pages and sections

Cons:

Does not have support for Ebooks or epub

Michel
Sales in France
Food & Beverages, Self Employed
Used the Software for: 1+ year
Reviewer Source

Happy user

5.0 2 years ago

Comments: Highly positive about liquid text

Pros:

Enables me to write comments, auto exerpts, summarize, take notes during meetings, in other words be more productive

Cons:

Selecting text can be uneasy or imprecise sometimes

Purushottam
Ceo in India
Architecture & Planning, 11–50 Employees
Used the Software for: 6-12 months
Reviewer Source

Best app for digital office management

5.0 2 years ago

Comments: Best digital office Data management app

Pros:

My all important files are here. This is my digital virtual office

Cons:

Nothing as such, since I’m still learning to use

Vikrant
Partner in India
Law Practice, 11–50 Employees
Used the Software for: 6-12 months
Reviewer Source

Good. But needs an Undo feature

4.0 2 years ago

Pros:

Linking of documents and extracting portions for notes. Inbuilt ocr is also good.

Cons:

The tutorial could have been more useful. And the lack of undo function is a problem. It also hangs occasionally

Bader
CEO in Kuwait
Management Consulting, 2–10 Employees
Used the Software for: 1-5 months
Reviewer Source

Pros and Cons

4.0 2 years ago

Pros:

Functionality.Productivity.Intuitive interface.

Cons:

Text editing needs more improvement.Speed up the use of AI.

Tan
Teacher in India
Writing & Editing, Self Employed
Used the Software for: 1-5 months
Reviewer Source

Sincerity is a rare find in the digital world.

5.0 3 years ago

Comments: Fan. Tastic.

Pros:

I feel like it sincerely wants me to use it increase my own capacity and efficiency and doesn't want to JUST make money off of me. Additional features are very welcome and I'm considering them because I see how useful they feel to me! But I truly appreciate knowing that I'm not in a scam for my data. I use this app to read extremely heavy spiritual texts, and the ethics of it are everything to me.

Cons:

The features i find missing are available if I'm willing to pay (which I'm very close to being!!) Keep up the great work.

Mark
Sales & Marketing in US
Photography, 2–10 Employees
Used the Software for: Free Trial
Reviewer Source

Great for presentations

5.0 2 years ago

Comments: good for presentations

Pros:

good for presenting lots of information charts and photos

Cons:

would like a phone number I can call for tech support if I need it

Joseph
Attorney in US
Law Practice, 11–50 Employees
Used the Software for: 1+ year
Reviewer Source

Document Review and Management Magic

5.0 3 years ago

Comments: Really, it's a dream come true. I didn't know I needed it until I found it. Now I can't work without it.

Pros:

I love that I can organize, reference, and review hundreds of documents at once. I can organize ideas and memoranda, matching the law to the facts, and with links that immediately take me to the source document. It's magic! I love the ability to access my work across multiple devices!

Cons:

I have been worried a couple times that I had lost work. I didn't lose any work, but I thought I had before learning how to re-sync and recreate the table.