![]() Launching it, I see the usual "We've updated our app for the iOS 15" and such, thinking that good, seems it is still actively developed and maintained! Next, I see. So, all excited about what appears to be the central app of this whole Readdle experience I was already knees deep into, I download the said app. You still need PDF Expert on your device, but you can do all your tasks in one app. >Now you can do everything PDF Expert does in Documents. From now, consider PDF Expert as an add-on for Documents. ![]() But once Documents detects that PDF Expert is installed on your device, it will instantly integrate it with all its functionality. You can download it from the AppStore and use both apps separately. That’s the point when you need PDF Expert. Documents is simply not supposed to do that. You can open and share PDF files in Documents, however you'll soon find that it lacks some annotating/editing/signing features. This especially caught my attention, confirming that it might be THE app I'm looking for: That actually sounded like a pretty neat and novel idea, if it works. "Professinal PDF Editor (1 Year) $49.99"."Huh?!" - Don't Readdle already have their flagship pdf editing software priced the same? Confused, I turn to google, ending up on THIS blog post on their website, selling me the idea of the whole "ecosystem" and "the hub to connect all their apps". Seeing that it offers in-app purchases, I press the dreaded button on its page to look at the ways yet another app would drain my wallet. And it seems to have 50k ratings with glaring reviews by both users and major tech media resources, with an average of 4.8 stars? "Great!" - I thought, may it be THE file and document management app for me, better than apple's Files.app? And being from the same developer, it certainly has the tightest integration with their other software, right? I remembered being advertised an app from the same developer of the other two, called "Documents", which promised being a great file manager, a download-and-view anything app, and overall a "must have for every iPad" app. So, finally the whole point of this post. For someone who's used to organizing their documents in a scanner app it was a big letdown Especially the lack of drag-n-drop and import of pdf files. Just to be disappointed with Scanner Pro's lack of proper file management. I hated that there's yet another app with a subscription I have to keep track of, but considering I got a deal on PDF Expert, it works well enough, and is still cheaper than adobe sub, I ran with it. Both unfortunately lack the ability to scale the scan on the pdf page, which is unfortunate, but there is a workaround, so whatever Adobe one had some features Readdle's didn't, but Scanner Pro won me over with their native photo editing addon and distortion correction. Considering I already pay for PDF Expert, I went with the latter. After trying out many different apps, it was a tie between Adobe scan and Scanner Pro by Readdle. Then the scanner app I used for many years went sideways and became worse with every update, including ditching iPad support completely, so I was looking for a new one. And I'm still quite satisfied with it, ignoring some minor issues and missing features I wish were there Although the subscription price seemed kinda steep for what it is, I think I got a deal on it for $25 a year which works to this day, which is pretty good for such a powerful app overall I think. So I was using the PDF Expert app by Readdle for more than a year now, cause it fulfilled my pdf needs for the most part. And part of that was finding a way to deal with pdf files comfortably Also this post might be kinda long, but you can jump straight to the point in the paragraph titled " THE ISSUE", and I'll put a Tl dr in the endįor quite a long time I was teaching myself to use my iPad Pro as a main "computer", and got far enough to not feel like I need an actual laptop for my trips which usually take a few weeks. I didn't really know where to make a post about it, so the iPad subreddit seemed like the most obvious choice, considering that people here are trying to make iPad as useful as it can be as a standalone device, for which apps are a pretty huge part of. ![]()
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