Improvements
- #hashtags in annotation comments are now recognized as inline tags and displayed in your notes
- Bear export now supports highlight, underline and
strikethrough text markup
- DEVONthink To Go export now supports highlight and
strikethrough text markup
- Keep It export now supports highlight and
strikethrough text markup
Minor improvements
- The text wrapping setting now also applies for Markdown export with markup (bold, underlined, strikethrough..)
- Fixed a bug where the notes view would not sync scroll position for pages with different page label from index
- Citation links in Markdown documents now use Markdown syntax instead of HTML syntax
New features
- Lots of new tutorials! (Settings > Tutorials)
Other improvements
- Improved DOI-link recognition (incl. PNAS, The Lancet)
- Fixed a bug that broke navigating PDFs using internal links
- Tapping to stop a decelerating PDF scrollview no longer toggles show/hide bars
New design
- New app icon!
- Set alternative icons (requires Pro)
- Light theme for popovers (when not in dark mode)
- Cleaner looking selection states for color and annotation tool buttons
- New icons for a whole bunch of buttons
- Improved contrast for the info popup
- Updated launch screen image
New features
- Dictionary lookup right from the text selection popover
- Better language support for text/table recognition (added German, French, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, Simplified and Traditional Chinese)
- Export as WebArchive (requires Pro)
Other improvements
- Made keyboard commands list easier to read
- Changed previous/next page commands to match macOS (Alt-Up/Alt-Down)
- Info popup now displays correctly beneath the toolbar when the toolbar is visible
Minor improvements
- Citation lookup now handles citations with ‘&’-characters correctly
- Copying text from the PDF using the selection popover after selecting text in a text field caused a crash
- Non-smart copy button inside annotation popovers now copies the marked up text (similar to macOS)
Colorful new features
- A new lighter default color set for PDF markup
- Optional color sets to choose from: Pastel, Bright and Retro
- Notes now show annotation colors in the quote borders
- Notes can also reflect the text formatting of the annotation
- You can customize the color set for notes to be the same or different from the markup set
Other improvements
- iOS 14 fixes an issue with jumpy text selection in some PDFs with superscript text (e.g. for citations)
- Improved handling of switching between keyboard, Apple Pencil, mouse and touch
- Fixed an issue where a subset of PDFs would not correctly autosave annotations after the first save
- Improved positioning of popovers when showing a keyboard
- Text changes to comments are now saved when changing colors/types in the annotation popover
- Settings screens are now clearer and easier to navigate
- Reordered the colors in the popover and annotation bar
- Improved color sorting for color categories
- Lots of minor improvements to the annotating experience and working with multiple windows on iPad
Minor improvement
- Keyboard shortcuts for changing page using left/right arrows
Minor improvement
- The PDF and Notes no longer move when hiding the top and bottom bars (the content extends underneath)
Minor improvement
- Palm rejection added to the thumbnail scrubber in the bottom bar to prevent accidental page jumps while annotating
New feature
- Interact with the text and images in the notes pane and share via drag and drop (Requires Pro)
Minor improvement
- Improved compatibility with markup from other PDF readers (missing characters from text selections)
Minor improvement
- Improved accuracy for sorting annotations in both single and multi-column PDFs
Minor improvements
- Improved text selection: popover menu now shows immediately when selecting text
- Much improved export to DEVONthink: now uses Markdown for plain text and HTML for rich text + support for tags and titles
- Optimized images: Notes now optimize image files to improve speed and reduce the size of exported TextBundles and HTML files
- Added option to change the image quality in Settings -> Export Settings (Default is optimized, change to Original for highest quality)
- Fixed a bug where exporting files with ampersand characters to Bear, Keep It and DEVONthink could result in partial notes
- Fixed a bug where tapping an annotation while having an annotation tool selected in the annotation bar would result in the annotation being marked up
Minor improvements
- Selecting Highlight, Strikethrough or Underline from the annotation bar now lets you annotate with your finger without bringing up the popover
- Sharing Notes as a PDF is much improved with more options for locations and actions
- The “Note File Name”-setting now works as intended when sharing Notes as files
- Note annotations are now sorted correctly according to their position on a page (top to bottom)
- The page is no longer automatically zoomed out when changing the page if zoomed in
Minor improvement
- Fixed a bug where Smart Copy of tables with merged cells would give the wrong output
Minor improvements
- Improved keyboard shortcuts:
- Adds keyboard shortcuts for exporting to specific apps and formats directly (same keyboard shortcuts as macOS)
- Changed to Command+O for going back to the document browser (same as system apps)
- Improved descriptions for keyboard shortcuts
- Exporting plaintext files now uses .md instead of .txt for their file extension for improved compatibility with Markdown apps
Minor improvement
- Fixes an issue with review requests
New feature
- Adds support for annotating using pointing devices (mouse/trackpad)
Minor improvement
- Fixed App Store Review link in Settings