App of the Week: GoodReader

GoodReader is a great reminder of the advantages digital text has over its analog equivalent.

The PDF reader app offers a range of ways to interact with PDF and TXT files, manuals, large books and magazines. It begins with a speedy PDF reading engine and extends to features like PDF annotations, access to servers to store data, and auto sync with remote servers.

Those PDF annotations can be made in the form of typewriter text boxes, sticky notes, lines, arrows and even freehand drawings, should the text so inspire you.

A recent upgrade added new tools like PDF page management, a PDF page slider that shows page previews and a collapsible tool area on the main screen. Most importantly, though, GoodReader added back its iCloud functionality that a previous update had removed.

GoodReader is available for iOS. 

Missed any of the previous Apps of the Week? View them here:

• Dashlane -- password management
• 30/30 -- task manager
• AroundMe -- local search
• Wolfram Alpha -- computational knowledge engine
• Intro -- digital business cards
• Surpriise -- giving platform
• CloudMagic -- email manager
• Sunrise Calendar -- calendar and scheduling
• Things -- task management suite
• Quip -- collaboration and productivity suite
• Bizzaboo --  event planning and networking 
• Doodle -- meeting scheduler 
• Due -- reminder alerts
• getAbstract -- subscription reading service
• Wunderlist -- list making and sharing
• SuperBeam -- document sharing
• Addapt -- address book updater 
• DocuSign -- electronic signatures
• CamScanner -- mobile scanning
• Car Locator -- travel and transport
• Zoom Cloud Meetings -- online meetings
• LectureNotes -- note-taking
• Indeed Job Search -- job listings
• Roambi Analytics -- data presentation and analysis
• LastPass -- password management/security
• Feedly --content aggregation
• WiFi Finder -- finding connection hotspots
• Accounting Balls -- accounting education
• CM Security Heartbleed Scanner -- anti-virus/security
• Fantastical 2 -- calendaring
• Workflowy -- list-making and note-taking
• Conojo Whiteboard -- whiteboard and collaboration tool
• Contactually -- contact management/CRM
• World Clock -- time and date info
• Dispatch -- e-mail management
• Pocket -- saving Internet content
• Gneo -- to-do lists
• SwiftKey Keyboard -- typing/keyboard app
• Clockwork Tomato -- organization/time-tracking app
• Google Keep -- note-taking app
• Dragon Dictation – dictation/transcription app
• Todoist – to-do lists/task organization app
• Secret! – encryption app
• WhatsApp Messenger -- smartphone messenger
• FolderSync – document and file storage
• Cloud Print -- printer access app
• Tempo Smart Calendar -- scheduling app
• Penultimate -- note taking/sharing app
• EchoSign -- eSignature app
• Jump Desktop -- remote desktop app 
• Tweetbot -- Twitter app 
• Boxer -- email app
• PrintCentral -- digital document printing app
• Save2PDF -- PDF creation app
• PDF Expert -- PDF editing and management app
• Scout GPS -- navigation app
• Timesheet -- time tracking app
• Cloud On -- MS Office app 
• Super Note -- note-taker and reminder app
• Air Display -- dual monitor app
• Stickyboard 2 -- iPad whiteboarding app
• Digits Calculator -- calculator app with editable calculations
• LogMeIn -- computer remote control app
• Chrometa 4.0 -- phone time and email capture app
• Scanner Pro -- scan-from-a-mobile-device app