LiquidText - "PDF Editor with Superpowers" FastCompany
LiquidText revolutionizes reading, analyzing, and annotating documents, and saves you time. - "Most innovative iPad app of the year" Apple - "All you need for deep research" MacWorld
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LiquidText is an award-winning app for revolutionizing the way users read, annotate, analyze, and extract insights from complex PDFs and documents on iPad, Mac, Windows, and more.
🚀 Overview
LiquidText transforms cumbersome document review into a fluid, powerful experience, allowing users to pull out key excerpts, connect ideas across pages and files, and build visual maps of information—far surpassing traditional PDF readers or paper notes.
It solves the core problems of knowledge work: losing context when jumping between sections, scattered handwritten notes, and hours wasted reorganizing findings from dense reports, legal docs, or research papers. Users report saving up to 4 hours per week.
Built for researchers, lawyers, professors, students, and any professional deep-diving into documents. LiquidText, Inc. created it to deliver 'PDF Editor with Superpowers' (FastCompany), earning Apple's 'Most Innovative iPad App' and Editors' Choice from Apple/Microsoft.
🌚 Key Features
- Dynamic Workspace: Pull excerpts, highlights, and notes from PDFs, Word, PowerPoint into a central canvas; pinch to view source context or compare up to 3 docs side-by-side.
- Smart Connections: Link related ideas across pages/docs, create ink links/mind maps, bulk tag/highlight search results without losing context.
- Advanced Annotation: Highlight, draw/ink freely, add typed/handwritten notes, margin comments; full PDF editor (insert/delete/rearrange pages).
- Search & Organize: Visual keyword search across projects, OCR for scans (paid), group excerpts into hierarchies.
- Collaboration & Export: Realtime sharing/comments (Unlimited+), export to PDF/DOCX, cloud sync across devices. Optional: iPhone support, Zotero/Mendeley integration, realtime collab (recent v7+).
🚈 Tech Stack
- Platforms: Native apps for iPadOS (17.6+), macOS (13.5+), Windows 10+, iOS, Apple Vision Pro
- Sync: Cloud-based cross-platform backup & realtime sync
- Integrations: Dropbox, iCloud, email/Safari import, Zotero, Mendeley, OCR
- Auth: Account-based for sync/collaboration
- Hosting: Apple App Store, Microsoft Store
👥 Who Is This For?
This project is useful for:
- Researchers and academics who want to connect insights across multiple sources
- Legal professionals analyzing discovery, contracts, and case files
- Students building structured notes for coursework and theses
- Consultants/accountants handling reports and data-heavy docs
🖼️ Screenshots / Demo
- Live demo: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/liquidtext/id922765270
- Microsoft Store: https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9n9z9nsv47fl?hl=en-US&gl=US
- Videos: https://www.liquidtext.net/videos
- Website: https://www.liquidtext.net/
🔥 Project Status
- 🟨 Actively building
Last updated: 2026-03-24
🤔 FAQ
Is this project free?
Freemium (free download with core features; subscriptions: Live $9.99/mo or $95.99/yr, Unlimited $174.99/yr, student discounts $4.99/mo; Enterprise quoted). (Upgrades unlock ink, collab, full OCR, multi-doc, etc.)
Is the source code available?
No — proprietary native apps by LiquidText, Inc.
Can I contribute?
Share feedback via App Store/Microsoft Store reviews, support tickets on website, or feature requests to the team—they respond quickly per user reviews.
📩 Contact & Links
- Website: https://www.liquidtext.net
- GitHub: N/A
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/LiquidTextCorp
- Email: Via support form on website (privacy@liquidtext.net from policy)
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