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| GoodReader |
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Current versions:
2.8.4 for iPad
2.8.5 for iPhone / iPod touch
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| Platforms: iPhone, iPod touch and iPad (GoodReader for iPhone and GoodReader for iPad are two different applications) |
| iOS version: 3.0 or newer |
| Price: $0.99 (in U.S. App Store, will vary in different countries) |
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| GoodReader for iPad is the very first non-Apple app that was ranked TOP PAID IPAD APP #1 in USA during iPad launch days. Later it was also ranked #1 in many other countries. |
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REVIEWERS QUOTES |
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| "Superb PDF file viewer offers wonderful reading experience", 4.5 out of 5 mice - Macworld.com, Jeff Merron, Dec.2009 (GoodReader for iPhone v.2.4) |
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| "iPad file viewer works as easily as iPhone version, with a few extra tricks", 4.5 out of 5 mice - Macworld.com, Jeff Merron, May 2010 (GoodReader for iPad v.2.7.7) |
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BEST APP STORE CHART RANKINGS |
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OVERALL on iPad: #1 in USA, Canada, France, Japan, Germany, Spain, #2 in UK
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PRODUCTIVITY on iPhone: #1 in USA, Canada, Japan, UK, Germany, France
OVERALL on iPhone: #1 in Japan, Spain, #2 in Italy, #6 in France, #7 in Germany, #8 in Canada
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APPLICATION DESCRIPTION |
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| Congratulations! You've found the one and only Good Reader app for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad! If you need to read huge PDF, or TXT files, you've come to the right place. Faithful users of GoodReader have reported flawless performance with files over 1 gig in size; but that's only one of the many features that makes GoodReader the best app of its kind. |
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| Within moments of downloading GoodReader, you'll be transferring files directly from your computer over a USB cable (iPads only for now), a Wi-Fi connection, from the Internet or from email attachments. It also easily integrates with MobileMe iDisk, box.net, MyDisk.se and other popular WebDAV servers, and also with non-WebDAV services like Google Docs and Dropbox. |
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| With the PDF Reflow feature, reading your documents on a small iPhone screen is a pleasure because it extracts pure text from PDF files and automatically wraps words. This amazing feature fits all of the text to your screen perfectly. That means you never have to scroll left and right to read the text. For a better idea of how on-the-fly reflow works, sneak a peek at the Reflow screenshot at the top of the page. |
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| With no bars or buttons blocking the text, you have true full screen reading. The PDF hyperlink feature allows you to quickly jump back and forth within the document. Tapping a link will whisk you across a huge PDF book in an instant, and the "Go Back" button takes you back to the page you came from. If you already know what you're looking for, the Text Search feature helps you find your way to the exact info you want in any PDF or TXT file. You can even use the 50x zoom, which gives you a better view, without distorting the image. That makes it perfect for viewing PDF maps or drawings. |
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| GoodReader supports massive PDF and TXT files, but it can also handle all of the most popular file types. Have a look for yourself: |
- MS Office - .doc, .ppt, .xls and more
- iWork'08/'09
- HTML and Safari webarchives
- High resolution images
- It even does audio and video!
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| With GoodReader on your iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad, you can read virtually anything, anywhere. Books, movies, maps, pictures; GoodReader puts it all in a single app, right in your pocket. From the very first time you use it, GoodReader is sure to be the most used app you will ever buy. |
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| Stay tuned, because we're always developing something new for GoodReader. |
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KNOWN LIMITATIONS |
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| GoodReader heavily relies on iOS capabilities. Information about known iOS limitations that affect viewing files can be found here. |
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UPDATES HISTORY: |
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| v.2.8.4 |
- redesigned Manage Files control panel
- simplified Copy File and Move File operations - now done in one step
- simplified process of uploading files and folders to servers - now done in one step
- Open In... button is now duplicated on Preview control panel
- fixed the issue when subtitles in video files were ignored
- other minor improvements and bug fixes
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| v.2.8 |
- horizontal page turning for PDF files (old style vertical page turning is still available in settings)
- pre-caching of PDF pages for better page turning feel
- support for VGA out adapter
- configurable double-page layout for PDF files (single pages, double pages, double pages with front cover)
- crop margins for PDF files. Don't let those annoying page margins occupy precious screen space! You can set different crops for odd and even pages.
- rotate entire PDF file (useful for incorrectly rotated scans)
- other minor improvements
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| Double page layout, crop margins and file rotation modes are memorized on per file basis. |
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| v.2.7.4 |
- added support for inter-app Document Interchange: other apps (including stock Mail app) can open their files in GoodReader; GoodReader can open its files in other apps that support Document Interchange
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| v.2.8.5 |
- simplified Copy File and Move File operations - now done in one step
- simplified process of uploading files and folders to servers - now done in one step
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| v.2.8.2 |
- iOS 4 and iPhone 4 compatibility fix
- USB file transfer
- crop margins for PDF files. Don't let those annoying page margins occupy precious screen space! You can set different crops for odd and even pages. Crop margins are memorized on per file basis.
- added support for inter-app Document Interchange: other apps (including stock Mail app) can open their files in GoodReader; GoodReader can open its files in other apps that support Document Interchange (iOS 4)
- horizontal/vertical swiping of PDF pages (switch in Settings)
- pre-caching of PDF pages for better page turning feel (needs to be enabled in Settings)
- support for compatible video out adapters (iOS 4)
- importing of recorded videos from Photo Roll (iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4)
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| v.2.7 (feature set is similar to v.1.0 of iPad version of the app) |
- server-style access to Dropbox with the ability to download and upload files
- fixed the issue with some images from Photo Album being shown distorted and rotated
- minor improvements and bug fixes
- starting from this update we stop supporting iPhone OS 2.x, because the usage of features specific to iPhone OS 3.x became substantial.
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| v.2.6 |
- Text Edit - edit small and medium TXT files
- Page Slider for PDF files - whisk across big files with a single gesture
- importing/exporting pictures from device Photo Album
- added Encoding option to FTP servers, now FTP servers with non-ASCII file names can be accessed
- support for .ai files saved with PDF Compatible option
- fixed the issue with incorrect downloading of spreadsheets from Google Docs and MobileMe iDisk
- various bug fixes for e-mail attachments downloading
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| v.2.5.1 |
- bug fix - now protected files can't be zipped or emailed without knowing the password
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| v.2.5 |
- direct access to E-Mail servers via IMAP or POP3 protocol. Pre-configured popular mail servers.
- server-style access to Google Docs with support for latest Google's feature of downloading unmodified files of any type
- access to FTP servers. Only plain FTP is currently supported, no security additions. FTPS and SFTP protocols are NOT supported.
- unread files are now shown in blue color
- files and folders can now be visually marked with a star
- Find Files by file name, most recently read, most recently added, starred
- protect individual files and folders with password
- text encoding is individually memorized now for each TXT file
- if system clipboard contains a text, you can create a TXT file with this text for further reading in GoodReader (useful for comfortable offline reading of pure text copied from some other app - Safari, for example)
- PDF Portfolio support (some limitations apply)
- integration with Appigo Todo app
- many improvements regarding PDF Reflow text extraction
- many minor improvements and bug fixes
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| v.2.4 |
- Zip / Unzip features added to Actions menu
- changing pictures by swipe gesture
- box.net added to pre-configured servers
- added support for .pps and .ppsx files
- many minor improvements and bug fixes
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| v.2.3 |
| Major update: |
- PDF Reflow (Extract Pure Text) - a feature that sets a new standard for mobile PDF reading. Extract pure text from PDF on-the-fly and read it without left/right scrolling and with the font name and size of your choice. No need for desktop computer to pre-convert your PDFs, reflowing is done in GoodReader on-the-fly, and you can easily switch back and forth between the original graphical page and the extracted text.
- considerable improvements of Find for .PDF files feature
- PDF page turning by swipe gesture
- access to MobileMe iDisk, FilesAnywhere.com, MyDisk.se and other WebDAV servers on the Web
- access to local WebDAV servers via WiFi - connect directly to any other file management and sharing application on another iPhone using WebDAV protocol
- E-mail files from GoodReader (iPhone OS 3.0 required)
- PDF Links - now you can tap links in PDF files to quickly jump to a page, to open another document, or even to visit linked web-site
- PDF - Go Back button is introduced. If you accidentally jumped to a wrong page or tapped a wrong link or bookmark, just go back to the previous page with a button click.
- TXT autoscroll feature with the speed adjustable on-the-fly (iPhone OS 3.0 highly recommended for this feature)
- PDF and TXT files - customizable day/night mode
- PDF page - copy text from entire page to clipboard (done from Reflow mode, iPhone OS 3.0 required)
- greatly increased the speed of uploading files via WiFi using web-browsers
- support for RTF files
- TXT files - new settings to customize TXT viewing process to your own preferences
- PDF and picture files - quickly tap with two fingers to zoom out
- audio files - auto-continue, repeat, shuffle, memorizing of previous position in a song (these new features work with iPhone OS 2.2 or later)
- easy integration with other apps (todo apps like Todo or OmniFocus, notebook apps, etc.) - select a file in Actions mode, use Link command to copy a special URL to clipboard (iPhone OS 3.0 required) and then paste this URL link to another application that supports URL links. When you will tap this link in that other app, GoodReader will be automatically launched and the file being linked will be opened.
- new buttons that make browsing for files to download much easier
- HTML viewing - if you have links to local files in your HTMLs, they will be opened using GoodReader's dedicated viewers
- PDF Bookmarks button now moved to a magnifying glass pop-up action menu due to limited space
- now you can clear all history records for Find strings and web-browser addresses
- PDF Bookmarks (Outlines, Table Of Contents, etc.) window now remembers where you've been in bookmarks hierarchy and opens the same Bookmarks page
- phone numbers and other link types can now be detected in MS Office files
- many new convenient options in Settings
- many other improvements
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| v.2.2 |
| Major update: |
- fully iPhone OS 3.0 compatible now
- faster PDF page switching
- Find Text for PDF files feature. Find, Find Next and Find Previous (backward search) buttons. Last 20 search strings are memorized.
- now there's a 50x zoom limit for PDF files, instead of the old 2.5x
- greatly improved stability of PDF-viewing engine, now it's even more crash-safe than before, PDF pages of really huge sizes can now be opened safely
- File Management features - create folders, rename, copy and move files and folders while being offline
- Web Download feature - enter a file's URL, or browse the Web for it using a simple built-in browser
- iWork'08 files can now be opened without zipping them (files must be saved with Include Preview option)
- iWork'09 files support (only with iPhone OS 3.0, files must be saved with Include Preview option)
- tap in the middle of the navigation bar while browsing folders to see the stack of all enclosing folders and to quickly jump to those folders
- font adopts to show long file names
- tapping on the floating badge with a PDF page number works as GoTo PDF Page
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| v.2.1 |
- Introducing TXT Find feature. Find, Find Next and Find Previous (backward search) buttons. Last 20 search strings are memorized.
- optional password check at GoodReader's start-up
- option to turn PDF's "turn page" popup buttons on/off
- option to disable device auto-lock while reading
- graphic files of even bigger dimensions can now be opened
- fixed a bug causing PDF screen freeze under certain rare conditions
- fixed a bug preventing certain HTML pages from opening
- other important bug fixes
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| v.2.0 |
- brand new PDF rendering engine. Many large PDF files that caused crashes before can now be easily opened. Much less screen-freezing during scrolling and zooming. Much faster opening times on large files. Much more pleasant user experience when viewing PDF files. PDF Caching switch is no longer needed.
- maximum PDF zoom ratio is much higher now
- introducing Bookmarks feature for PDF and TXT files, PDF bookmarks both user-created and extracted from PDF file
- brand new "Tap Zones" technique for pleasant reading of wide text paragraphs in PDF files
- uploading files to GoodReader can now be done via web-browsers
- Horizontal Scroll Lock state is now remembered for each file separately
- WebDAV Server confirmation dialog can now be turned off
- manual interface rotations can now be done 2 or 3 ways (selectable option in Application Settings)
- certain bug fixes
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| v.1.1 |
- option to turn autorotation on/off
- option to turn restoring screen orientation at startup on/off
- option to turn reopening last viewed file at startup on/off
- fixed a bug causing occasional application crashes when viewing very large graphical PDF pages (scanned
pages, for example)
- fixed a bug causing incorrect display of very large picture files
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