Some nice features, some weirdness

Your specific needs will determine whether this app works for you. I use a PDF editor to add monthly bank statements to an existing document and bookmark them. In this app, there is no option to add pages; you can only merge existing documents. And then you can’t rearrange pages. And while it will dutifully display existing bookmarks in the sidebar (including nested, and showing page numbers), any bookmarks it creates go into a bookmark menu drop-down — along with every bookmark from every other document. It calls existing bookmarks “Table of Contents,” but offers no tool for adding to or modifying the table of contents. Hopefully that can be added.

So for me it doesn’t serve for my most often use.

I note that it’s got presentation options, a variety of markup tools, and a number of conversion options. The text conversion is noteworthy in that it preserves the look of the document with spaces. If you’ve ever tried to extract text from a PDF, you might find this alone worth it. It also has a well-done interface for converting to image formats, more convenient, in fact, than Acrobat. The HTML conversion crashed one document and did a surprisingly nice job with another.

You can save as a PDF bundle, whatever that means, add emojis, and it looks like it’s got a pretty comprehensive set of note-management features. You can draw ovals, boxes, and lines. Navigation is nice, with OPT- and CMD- scroll wheel being zoom and navigate up-down. There’s a “reading bar” which you can show…no idea what it’s supposed to do; there is no help documentation. You can split the screen so look at one portion of the document on the top and another on the bottom. That could be a pretty cool feature in some contexts.

Again, it all depends on what you need to do.

P Riehl about PDF Reader++