LiquidText

4.6 (167)
Multi-touch document manipulation system

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4.6 /5
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Value for Money
4.4/5
Features
4.5/5
Ease of Use
4.4/5
Customer Support
4.4/5

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Feroz
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  • Industry: Legal Services
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Great software for legal professionals.

Reviewed on 16/08/2022

Extremely satisfied.

Extremely satisfied.

Pros

Great for court arguments. Its helps to jump from one to another link in seconds. Better than sifting papers.

Cons

So far no cons at all. It is a great software to use.

Matt
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  • Industry: Law Practice
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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  • Value for Money
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  • Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10

Increases Efficiency with Lower Learning Curve

Reviewed on 22/08/2023

It helps me organize multiple sources of data so that I can more efficiently draft briefs,...

It helps me organize multiple sources of data so that I can more efficiently draft briefs, articles, and outlines. I wish that I had this software in college and law school.

Pros

I appreciate that I can load non-HIPAA documents into the system and organize them by folders. As I'm reviewing the documents I can cut out the relevant portions. Once I've done that, drafting briefs, outlines, and summaries is much easier because the relevant content is organized and I'm not looking for random highlights in a myriad of PDFs.

Cons

The product is fairly buggy. I've had it shut down on me, and fail to open certain PDFs. I use it on the iPad and the PC, the sometimes the iPad version won't open certain files. I also think it should be HIPAA-certified so that we can review medical records and other sensitive documents.

Robert
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  • Industry: Medical Devices
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 0.0 /10

Flurry of excitement to be followed by annoyance then frustration.

Reviewed on 04/08/2022

Frustration and disappointment.

Frustration and disappointment.

Pros

Gesture based linking, search for words, and compressed view of annotations.

Cons

File management UI within app and to other apps is terrible.

Michael
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  • Industry: Research
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Value for Money
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

My review

Reviewed on 22/08/2023

I would use it even more if note taking for meetings were better implemented. I also would enjoy a...

I would use it even more if note taking for meetings were better implemented. I also would enjoy a second brain (like roam research) function.

Pros

Auto-excert and the possibility to build schemas.

Cons

Document management and the intuitivity of the product.

Aishee
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  • Industry: Hospital & Health Care
  • Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Feature rich but can be optimized more for small screen devices

Reviewed on 18/09/2023

Probably the best available app for pdf and documents.

Probably the best available app for pdf and documents.

Pros

It packs all the features required for PDF management. We can edit, collaborate, make notes, mind maps and commenting are regular used features and serves their purpose well. Helps a lot by supporting almost all document types and all of the documents can be stored at one place. Totally satiesfied with this purchase.

Cons

On my iPad mini, this app can be more optimized in the terms of layout. Altough all features are great but buttons are a little bit small.

Brian
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  • Industry: Biotechnology
  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Using LiquidText is my goto for annotating any kind of PDFs!

Reviewed on 22/08/2023

Pros

I like how I can color-code my highlights and update which colors are accessible as shortcuts.

Cons

I wish I could do more signatures like Adobe and how do I use the convert to PDF feature?

Shobhit
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  • Industry: Law Practice
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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  • Value for Money
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Liquid text easees the carrying bulky case files easy.

Reviewed on 04/09/2023

quite smooth and easy-to-use features. However, a slight improvement in excerpted notes is...

quite smooth and easy-to-use features. However, a slight improvement in excerpted notes is required(option to pin it).

Pros

carrying hard copies of cases is a tedious work, however, Liquidtext makes it easy to manage bulky case files.

Cons

Pricing of Liquidtext is quite expensive for young lawyers.

Prashant
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  • Industry: Law Practice
  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Great Product with a few kinks in its armour

Reviewed on 28/08/2023

Pros

I like the page linking and the note linking feature of the product the most. It is a very innovative feature

Cons

Ease of use and syncing into other devices could be improved upon. Further mouse support for laptop use is really essential.

Sarah
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  • Industry: Higher Education
  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used Weekly for 2+ years
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  • Value for Money
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  • Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10

Mostly love

Reviewed on 04/08/2022

I used it for writing my MSc thesis and it was great for being able to pull out text which I put in...

I used it for writing my MSc thesis and it was great for being able to pull out text which I put in categories- but importantly be able to find it again.

Pros

I love the fact that I can store multiple documents in one file and search within the whole set in one go - it really helps in synthesis of large amounts of text.

Cons

sometimes liquid text will shut down mid process. Also LT is much better to use on my iPad rather than my MacBook or iMac. Sometimes the search bar gets hidden on the Mac.

Martin
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  • Industry: Law Practice
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Monthly for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Canvass for your ideas

Reviewed on 24/08/2023

I'm using LT on an iPad Pro and I think the UI can by clunky sometimes. For example, when I'm not...

I'm using LT on an iPad Pro and I think the UI can by clunky sometimes. For example, when I'm not using LT for a longer period of time, I need to re-learn how to import pdfs and work with them. Even though I'm not an IT expert, I think the UI/UIX could be improved.

Pros

I can visualise and reference arguments and ideas extracted from different file formats

Cons

As a customer how bought LT before a subscription was introduced, I'm not happy that some functionality is hidden behind a paywall. Also, LT could think beyond US market and include other langauges in its OCR functionality.

Francisco
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  • Industry: Research
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
  • Used Weekly for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

A critical tool for research work

Reviewed on 19/08/2022

Fantastic and it is a very nice invention

Fantastic and it is a very nice invention

Pros

The way you can select and extract opinions and ideas, connect them to give coherence to your argument, and the easiest way to see all of them almost at the same time pinching the text. I very useful tool is also to have the chance to select text even in pdf files that are "protected"

Cons

I have not found any back draw in liquid text software. Maybe sometimes it is difficult to synchronize my space but could be an internal problem.

Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
  • Used Weekly for 2+ years
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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Best app to lead us to new insights.

Reviewed on 05/08/2022

Pros

Multiple documents can be connected. This gives me a new insights.

Cons

All documents are downloaded even if the terminal don’t have enough space.

Ulises
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  • Industry: Management Consulting
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 2+ years
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  • Value for Money
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  • Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10

After using LiquidText for various years...

Reviewed on 16/08/2022

Pros

Great app to process documents, extract ideas and construct content maps. LiquidText is superb when it comes to combining original content with notes and organizing information in user-generated maps. I haven't seen anything similar. Kudos to the design team.

Cons

Unfortunately, LiquidText jumped on the monthly subscription bandwagon and extended features are only available if you "subscribe". As I write, HBO Max, Disney, Netflix and other subscription based content providers are seeing users dropping their subscriptions in record rates. Users simply can't keep up with incremental players with pay-per-view business models. They will eventually pick and chose the vital few. I see this coming to software as well. The tide of SaaS apps will become unmanageable and we will migrate to the vital few. From the company's perspective recurring income is seductive, until you realize that it has it's limits.

If LiquidText has any intent of growing into a serious long-term player in the software field, I would highly recommend they reassess their business model. I would gladly pay more for additional features if I'm offered an option that doesn't tie me to a subscription for life. The App AGENDA has an interesting business model where you make a purchase and any upgrades developed during the next year are available for download. And if you don't decide to buy the upgrade subscription for the following year, you have a fully functional app without the shackles of a pay-per-month model.

Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Law Practice
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 1+ year
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  • Value for Money
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

love love love it

Reviewed on 12/08/2022

It has solved my need to print a hard copy of new laws or cases so that I can highlight the...

It has solved my need to print a hard copy of new laws or cases so that I can highlight the relevant items and annotate the material.

Pros

Since I move around a lot for meetings, and am rarely at the office, I rely on soft copies of documents for my research. I used to put them in Evernote, since each document would be a page. However, it gets tedious sorting through the documents one by one. Here the documents are lined up. Also I get to preserve my highlights on the soft copy. Ever since the pandemic, my underbar employee has been working from home. Sometimes, even I work from home. I just have them email me the soft copies of the documents needed. I don't need to print.

Cons

The more functions it has, the harder it is to remember what to press or how to reset it so that I can access certain things.

Maurice
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  • Industry: Civil Engineering
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Love this Organic PDF Document reviewer and organizational tool

Reviewed on 04/08/2022

Pros

The organic manner I can review pdf. Documents. I go through 5-6 large PDF documents per day and this is the closest to “pen and paper” in terms of organic commenting

Cons

Wish there was an easy way to transfer across iOS/MacOS/Windows

Zvi
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  • Industry: Higher Education
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Greatest PDF app

Reviewed on 05/08/2022

I love it.

I love it.

Pros

The synchronizing. The management. and the ease of use.

Cons

OCR needs to have more languages. Adobe has Hebrew.

Alternatives Considered

PDFelement

Reasons for Choosing LiquidText

Ease of USE, prine.

Reasons for Switching to LiquidText

I cannot explain. I just love it.
Damaris
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  • Industry: Biotechnology
  • Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Easy and perfect!

Reviewed on 17/08/2022

I love that I can use different colors with the pen, I can write using the keyboard, make additions...

I love that I can use different colors with the pen, I can write using the keyboard, make additions to my documents using my iPad, and see my edits on the computer.

Pros

I find it great to edit a document on my iPad and see my edits on the computer, so I can continue working on the computer and then return to the iPad again; it's perfect! I love that I can use different colors with the pen and write using the keyboard!

Cons

I think it's perfect as is; however, I would like to open two pdfs at the same time and be able to edit and write on them at the same time.

Mukund
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  • Industry: E-Learning
  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Liquid Text and Fluid Note Taking

Reviewed on 07/08/2022

Wonderful. I just love to use it.

Wonderful. I just love to use it.

Pros

The ease with which it allows me to engage with the text: it helps me pinpoint the important, the useful, and underline the impressive lines distinctly.

Cons

Sometimes it freezes in my ipad and at times even after using the erasure i am unable to erase the line I had drawn. It remains there to disturb my reading.

Andrew
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  • Industry: Higher Education
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
  • Used Weekly for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 0.0 /10

Will be sorry to see the end

Reviewed on 11/08/2022

Pros

While there are limitations to scale of projects, I have found it very useful to be able to gather documents and then remix them by means of excerpting and the various annotation tools. I don't know of any serious competitor for this.

Cons

I don't like the recent subscription model and I'm not interested in paying for yet another tranche of cloud storage. It disturbs me that all feature innovation is now tied to the subscription. I'm going to continue to use the original version as long as I can, but I assume that my time is limited. This is why I no longer recommend Liquid Text to others, even though I used to evangelize for it.

Elizabeth
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  • Industry: Dairy
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 2+ years
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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Make the app for Mobile Phone (Androi)

Reviewed on 22/08/2023

I really like it and I think it is very useful for me

I really like it and I think it is very useful for me

Pros

I love being able to work on the document I need from different devices. Because of my job and professional orientation I have to read a lot and it is very useful to have access to all the tools to work, take notes and link ideas.

Cons

I can't use it on my phone too.... Pleace make the app for Phones!

Nick
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  • Industry: Law Practice
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Exactly What I Needed

Reviewed on 05/08/2022

It's like it was designed specifically for responding to USPTO patent office actions.

It's like it was designed specifically for responding to USPTO patent office actions.

Pros

Makes it easy to link together information spread across multiple documents. Processes that used to require me to print out multiple patents and other documents can now be accomplished entirely on-device, and done faster.

Cons

I wish the desktop client didn't feel so much like an iOS app. The user interactions are sometimes jarring, very different from pretty much every other desktop app. However, that is a small price to pay for having the desktop app at all.

Catherine
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  • Industry: Law Practice
  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used Weekly for 1+ year
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  • Ease of Use
  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Excellent reading experience

Reviewed on 19/08/2022

I use LiquidText for reading long legal documents, marking what’s important, making connections to...

I use LiquidText for reading long legal documents, marking what’s important, making connections to other documents and making a collection of references to keep with them.

Pros

I like to use Liquid Text to read and mark up documents. It is great for working with a pencil and finger at the same time, to scroll and write without thinking about it. It’s easy and intuitive to link information between documents and collate excerpts in the workspace. I find the index to each project flexible too.

Cons

I don’t have a great deal of confidence in the search function, it’s never obvious to me whether it has worked and returned no results or simply hasn’t worked for some reason.

Victor
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  • Industry: Medical Practice
  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Great software

Reviewed on 10/04/2023

Pros

Use it a lot for studying and making mental maps mixing several documents, both in ipad and pc

Cons

The plus version with cloud services and auto update on several devices it's costly and may not be enterely worth it

Zhenjiao
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  • Industry: Food & Beverages
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10

It is a great apps, but need further modifications.

Reviewed on 31/03/2023

it is a great experience, but i use to lost my data one time. now, I am very cautious when I use...

it is a great experience, but i use to lost my data one time. now, I am very cautious when I use it, but as a user, that problem should be processed by the developers.

Pros

process multiple documents, highly accessible and user-friendly. i can easily extract the information I need, integrate them together and relatively easy to check their source.

Cons

the operation sometimes is not fluent. when search a word in a project, when delete a document.i feel the app functions are really great now , the rest is to optimize the GUI and make it more fluent as macOS

Manuel
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  • Industry: Health, Wellness & Fitness
  • Company size: 201–500 Employees
  • Used Monthly for 2+ years
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  • Value for Money
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  • Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10

tools also generate thought

Reviewed on 04/08/2022

Pros

at least I don't know of a tool that does what Liquid Text can do. The panorama or the Insights that this program can give you has no comparison. And the best thing is that he does everything in a plastic, liquid, intuitive way that makes it seem like something complex and that can give you another perspective of things just as a gesture of thought.

Cons

Perhaps the most complicated thing about this application is that its paid version is needed to unlock all the power, this could be an access barrier for students and researchers to prove how powerful this application is. On the other hand, a point that can be improved is the synchronization and storage of Documents through different platforms such as iOS and macOS.