GoodReader App Gets Major Update With Completely New Design, Many Improvements

The GoodReader app has been updated to v5 for its 10th anniversary with a completely new design and many improvements.

It's not easy to outperform ourselves after 10 years of delivering wonderful updates with extraordinary new features, but we did it! Again! Already top in its class, and everybody's favorite go-to tool, GoodReader just got significantly better.

What's New In This Version:
● completely new UI design: everything is better, faster, easier to find, more intuitive, with a modern new look
● completely redesigned PDF viewer: much smoother scrolling, zooming, and page turning
● PDF: continuous "pageless" scrolling mode
● Split Screen (iPad only) to view two files or two different parts of the same file, side-by-side*
● military-grade AES-256 encryption for files & folders*
● add password protection (with strong AES-256 encryption) to PDF files*
● upgrade weak encryption of old PDF files to AES-256*
● create password-protected AES-256 encrypted ZIP archives*
● Secure Photocopy, to completely eliminate all traces of invisible, hidden, or redacted information in a PDF file*
● secure options for individual PDF pages: email, extract, or export as a separate password-protected file, as a secure photocopy, or both*
● secure option to e-mail or export any file or folder as a password-protected ZIP*
● easier closing of and switching between files: just swipe the left or right edge of the screen
● access to OneDrive for Business
● Switch Drives for SharePoint / OneDrive for Business / Office 365*
● improved Apple Pencil support: start annotating immediately after touching the screen, use Apple Pencil 2's double-tap to switch tools
● Trash for deleted files & folders
● new Box.com API, now supporting 2-step authentication
● support for Apple's "Open in Place": depending on the app sending a file to GoodReader, GoodReader may open the source file residing in that app rather than copying the file to GoodReader
● "Convert to PDF" for pictures or TXT files, plus improved support for built-in iOS conversion for HTML, iWork, and MS Office files*
● completely redesigned video player with new controls: chapters, frame-by-frame forwarding/rewinding, jumping by 30 seconds, saving a screenshot* as a separate file
● completely redesigned graphics viewer: much smoother scrolling, zooming, and page turning; easier handling of multiple image tasks like emailing, printing, or PDF conversion
● support for multi-page TIFF: view page-by-page, extract* individual pages
● better support for animated GIF: view frame-by-frame, extract individual frames*, play the real-time animation
● completely new WiFi-transfer: much easier transfer of files via a web browser on a computer, with drag-and-drop
● new file list mode: large icons, in addition to existing list and small icon modes
● file list: multi-column list mode
● file-list: auto-scrolling for extra-long file names that don't fit the screen
● better drag-n-drop for files and folders: now with the option of copying or moving
● completely new PDF Reflow: now with continuous "pageless" scrolling, with embedded preview thumbnails for each page
● file list preview thumbnails now support more file types: TXT, HTML, iWork, MS Office
● better PDF Annotations Summary: choose what types of annotations and what type of information to include in the summary*
● TXT: pre-composed color schemes for Day and Night reading modes
● new menu auto-hide options: hide all bars automatically, leave the status bar on, don't auto-hide bars
● countless improvements to every aspect of the app, amounting to a much more efficient and enjoyable experience
(*) - a part of Pro Pack, requires an in-app purchase

You can purchase GoodReader from the App Store for $5.99.

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