We're constantly working on improving GoodReader. Here you will find a list of new features in GoodReader's updates.
We introduce a concept of "paid add-ons" for the full version of GoodReader - extra features, not critical for app's main functionality, which could be purchased in app, for an extra charge. We believe that this approach is very fair to those who don't need extra features, and therefore don't have to pay for things they don't need.
Because App Store In App Purchase engine doesn't provide a refund routine, we encourage you to try all our paid add-ons for free in GoodReader Lite app, and then use those features to unlock the power of full version of GoodReader.
new in version 2.5.1
new in version 2.5
- direct access to E-Mail servers via IMAP or POP3 protocol (paid add-on). Pre-configured popular mail servers.
- server-style access to Google Docs (paid add-on) with support for latest Google's feature of downloading unmodified files of any type
- access to FTP servers (paid add-on). Only plain FTP is currently supported, no security additions. FTPS and SFTP protocols are NOT supported.
- unread files are now shown in blue color
- files and folders can now be visually marked with a star
- Find Files by file name, most recently read, most recently added, starred
- protect individual files and folders with password
- text encoding is individually memorized now for each TXT file
- if system clipboard contains a text, you can create a TXT file with this text for further reading in GoodReader (useful for comfortable offline reading of pure text copied from some other app - Safari, for example)
- PDF Portfolio support (some limitations apply)
- integration with Appigo Todo app
- many improvements regarding PDF Reflow text extraction
- many minor improvements and bug fixes
new in version 2.4 (feature set is equal to GoodReader Lite 1.0)
- Zip / Unzip features added to Actions menu
- changing pictures by swipe gesture
- box.net added to pre-configured servers
- added support for .pps and .ppsx files
- many other minor improvements and bug fixes
new in version 2.3
- PDF Reflow (Extract Pure Text) - a feature that sets a new standard for mobile PDF reading. Extract pure text from PDF on-the-fly and read it without left/right scrolling and with the font name and size of your choice. No need for desktop computer to pre-convert your PDFs, reflowing is done in GoodReader on-the-fly, and you can easily switch back and forth between the original graphical page and the extracted text.
- considerable improvements of Find for .PDF files feature
- PDF page turning by swipe gesture
- access to MobileMe iDisk, FilesAnywhere.com, MyDisk.se and other WebDAV servers on the Web
- access to local WebDAV servers via WiFi - connect directly to any other file management and sharing application on another iPhone using WebDAV protocol
- E-mail files from GoodReader (iPhone OS 3.0 required)
- PDF Links - now you can tap links in PDF files to quickly jump to a page, to open another document, or even to visit linked web-site
- PDF - Go Back button is introduced. If you accidentally jumped to a wrong page or tapped a wrong link or bookmark, just go back to the previous page with a button click.
- TXT autoscroll feature with the speed adjustable on-the-fly (iPhone OS 3.0 highly recommended for this feature)
- PDF and TXT files - customizable day/night mode
- PDF page - copy text from entire page to clipboard (done from Reflow mode, iPhone OS 3.0 required)
- greatly increased the speed of uploading files via WiFi using web-browsers
- support for RTF files
- TXT files - new settings to customize TXT viewing process to your own preferences
- PDF and picture files - quickly tap with two fingers to zoom out
- audio files - auto-continue, repeat, shuffle, memorizing of previous position in a song (these new features work with iPhone OS 2.2 or later)
- easy integration with other apps (todo apps like Todo or OmniFocus, notebook apps, etc.) - select a file in Actions mode, use Link command to copy a special URL to clipboard (iPhone OS 3.0 required) and then paste this URL link to another application that supports URL links. When you will tap this link in that other app, GoodReader will be automatically launched and the file being linked will be opened.
- new buttons that make browsing for files to download much easier
- HTML viewing - if you have links to local files in your HTMLs, they will be opened using GoodReader's dedicated viewers
- PDF Bookmarks button now moved to a magnifying glass pop-up action menu due to limited space
- now you can clear all history records for Find strings and web-browser addresses
- PDF Bookmarks (Outlines, Table Of Contents, etc.) window now remembers where you've been in bookmarks hierarchy and opens the same Bookmarks page
- phone numbers and other link types can now be detected in MS Office files
- many new convenient options in Settings
- many other improvements
new in version 2.2
- fixed iPhone OS 3.0 compatibility issues
- faster PDF page switching
- now there's a 50x zoom limit for PDF files, instead of the old 2.5x
- greatly improved stability of PDF-viewing engine, now it's even more crash-safe than before, PDF pages of really huge sizes can now be opened safely
- Introducing Find Text for .PDF files feature. Find, Find Next and Find Previous (backward search) buttons. Last 20 search strings are remembered.
- Introducing File Management features - create folders, rename, copy and move files and folders while being offline (previously all this could be done only by connecting your iPhone as a network folder to your computer via WiFi)
- Introducing Web Download feature - now you're not limited to transferring files via WiFi only. Now you can download files from Internet either by entering a file's URL, or by browsing the Web using a simple built-in browser.
- added URL schemes ghttp:// and ghttps:// for storing files and web-pages directly from Safari (see How-Tos section for details)
- iWork'08 files can now be opened without zipping them (file must be saved with Include Preview option)
- iWork'09 files support (only with iPhone OS 3.0, files must be saved with Include Preview option)
- now you're asked to choose a viewing engine for unrecognized file formats, which solves an issue with Mac OS allowing to have, for example, PDF file without .pdf file extension, which leads to GoodReader's inability to automatically pick the right viewing engine for such file
- now you can tap in the middle of the navigation bar (right below the clock) while browsing folders, to see the stack of all enclosing folders and to quickly jump to those folders
- font that shows file names while browsing folders now adopts to let you see long file names
- tapping on the floating badge with a PDF page number works as GoTo PDF Page
- fixed a bug preventing embedded PDF Bookmarks from appearing for a certain kind of PDF-files
- other minor bug fixes
new in version 2.1
- Introducing Find Text for .TXT files feature. Find, Find Next and Find Previous (backward search) buttons. Last 20 search strings are remembered.
- optional password check at GoodReader's start-up
- option to turn PDF's turn page popup buttons on/off
- option to disable device auto-lock while reading
- graphic files of even bigger dimensions can now be opened
- fixed a bug causing PDF screen freeze under certain rare conditions
- fixed a bug preventing certain HTML pages from opening
- other important bug fixes
new in version 2.0
- Brand new PDF viewing engine. Viewing is much more crash-safe now. Even bigger PDF files than before can now be opened. Much less screen-freezing
during scrolling. Much faster opening times on large files. Many files that were causing application crashes in previous versions can be opened
safely now. Many thanks to our customers who sent us their problematic files for testing.
- Zoom ratio for PDFs can be much higher in this version. Previous maximum was 1.5x, now it's 2.5x, which is more than enough for even
the smallest text.
- Introducing Tap Zones for PDF viewing. In addition to our innovative Horizontal Scroll Lock feature, we introduce
7 tap zones of the screen. Different tap zones invoke different scrolling moves. With a single tap you can scroll to the right several times to read
very long line of text, and when the end of page is reached, the same tap rewinds you back to the left margin of the page, so you can continue to read
the next line. And when you've read all lines that fit vertically on the screen, tapping another tap zone in addition to rewinding to the left of
the page, also pages one screen down. So you can read some lengthy text without ever moving your fingers to drag a page, just using single taps. See
Viewing PDF-files section for details.
- Introducing Bookmarks feature for PDF and TXT files. You can use two types of bookmarks for PDF files - your own bookmarks and the ones extracted
from PDF file.
- Now you can upload files and create directories directly from your web-browser. If your files are not too big and there's not too many
of them, you can do all your transfers inside your favourite web-browser, without ever needing to configure anything. However, if your files are large,
or there are too many of them, so you'd prefer to copy the entire folder, or you want to do some renaming / deleting, we encourage you to use the old
way - by connecting your iPhone / iPod touch as a network folder.
- Horizontal Scroll Lock state is now remembered for each file separately.
- WiFi-transfer confirmation dialog is now turned off by default (you can turn it back on in Settings).
- option to manually rotate screen 3 ways instead of 2 ways can be turned on/off
- PDF Caching switch in Settings is no longer needed
- fixed a bug causing menu to completely disappear after certain scrolling sequence
- fixed a bug causing slide show to crash if certain files opening time was too long
- minor bug fixes
new in version 1.1
- option to turn autorotation on/off
- option to turn restoring screen orientation at startup on/off
- option to turn reopening last viewed file at startup on/off
- fixed a bug causing occasional application crashes when viewing very large graphical PDF pages (scanned pages, for example)
- fixed a bug causing incorrect display of very large picture files