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About LiquidText
LiquidText is built for close reading and document review. You highlight and annotate PDFs, then pull out excerpts and notes into a workspace where you can see how passages connect. This is meant to replace margin notes, sticky notes and piles of paper.
It is aimed at people who analyse long documents, such as lawyers, researchers, academics, engineers and medical staff. It started on the iPad and is also offered through the Apple App Store and the Microsoft Store.
Strengths
- Excerpts and notes can be arranged and linked on a workspace
- Suited to reviewing long documents
- Available on iPad and Windows
Limitations
- Pricing is not clearly stated on the homepage
- Its workflow takes some learning compared with a plain PDF reader
Details
- Pricing
- FreemiumFree to install from the app stores; the homepage does not list the prices of paid features.
- License
- Proprietary
- Platforms
- Windows, macOS, iOS
- How it runs
- Downloadable app
- Best suited for
- Lawyers, researchers and students who analyse long PDFs
- Categories
- PDF tools, Note-taking
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Facts checked against the developer's own pages and store listings, 1 sources on file.
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Highlights
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Highlights exports PDF annotations to Markdown and notes apps with DOI lookup for papers, but runs only on Apple platforms and needs a subscription for advanced features.
Flexcil
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Noteshelf
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Noteshelf is a handwriting notebook for Apple devices with PDF highlights, sticky notes and audio recording, rather than an excerpt workspace.
Xournal++
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Xournal++ is free GPL-2.0 software for pen annotation of PDFs on Windows, macOS and Linux, drawing on top of pages without an excerpt workspace.
Sioyek
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Sioyek is a free, open-source reader for papers with overlays for figures and references, but has weaker annotation and no excerpt workspace.
Skim
macOS PDF reader and annotator built for reading papers.
Skim is a free, open-source macOS reader with annotation and snapshot tools for academic papers, lacking a flexible excerpt workspace.
ReadCube Papers
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ReadCube Papers combines PDF annotation with reference management and AI answers linked to sources, as a paid web service.
LiquidText as an alternative
Listings that name LiquidText as an alternative.
Drawboard PDF
A pen-friendly PDF markup app with live-synced annotations across desktop, mobile and web.
LiquidText on Windows, macOS and iOS arranges excerpts and notes from PDFs on a linked workspace, suited to long document review rather than drawings.
Similar software
Related functionality, not necessarily a direct replacement.
Mendeley
A reference manager from Elsevier for collecting, annotating and citing research papers.
ChatPDF
An AI tool that summarizes PDFs and answers questions about them, with citations to the source.
Humata
An AI tool for asking questions about your documents, with cited answers and summaries.
Explainpaper
A web tool that explains highlighted passages of uploaded research papers in plain language.
