New features

• Automatically fetch metadata for scientific articles from arXiv - the open-access archive with more than 2 million preprints and postprints.

Improvements

• Fixes an issue with fetching metadata for DOI-links with extended prefixes

New features

• Export PDFs without including your annotations (e.g. to share the original document with a colleague or friend)

New features

• Text translation right from the selection popover: just select text and tap the globe icon to try it!

The feature requires iOS/iPadOS 15 and works with the system supported languages: Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin - China mainland), Chinese (Mandarin - Taiwan), English (US), English (UK), French (France), German (Germany), Italian (Italy), Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Spanish (Spain).

New features

• New Table of Contents view for navigating books and other large PDFs.

Improvements

• Placeholder image and text shown when notes are empty
• Keyboard navigation using arrow keys on iOS 15 works again
• Trying to open search while search is open in compact layouts no longer crashes

Improvements

• Attempting to open corrupt PDF files no longer crashes the app, but shows an alert

Improvements

• Optimized interface for the new iPad Mini (2021)
• Better support for larger text sizes

New features

• Support for saving links to PDFs in Highlights from a Quick Note on iPadOS 15

New features

• New keyboard shortcuts menu on iPadOS 15
• Flexible half height sheets for search and document settings on iOS 15
• Input text for annotation comments and other text fields via camera using Live Text on iOS/iPadOS 15

Improvements

• Fixes a bug where the notes view could turn blank after the app was in the background for a prolonged time

Improvements

• Improved keyboard shortcuts with more verbose titles for accessibility purposes.

New features

• A new color palette: Light! Light is a semi-transparent color palette for those of you who wanted something even more subtle than Pastel for your annotations and notes.

Improvements

• Faster and more precise categorization of annotations into color categories (e.g. when sorting by colors)
• Fixed a bug where exporting as Markdown files included unecessary HTML-elements when the note format included colors in the border and/or text

Improvements

• Improved keyboard shortcuts with better organization, state dependent descriptions and a more consistent user experience with macOS including a new keyboard shortcut for Smart Copy (Option-Command-C).

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