Our Rating: 8.1/10

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Version Reviewed: 1.2.1
Developer: Readdle [iTunes Link]
Price as of Review: $4.99
Current iTunes Rating: 3.5/5
Size: 3.8MB

PDF Expert is a very professional PDF document reader though it mutli-functions as a small wireless harddrive, and other document readers.  Unlike other PDF reading or eBook applications such as Stanza [iTunes Link], PDF Experts allows for nearly full support on PDF’s.  This means that you can read a PDF and it will look almost exactly like it would on your computer, I mean, on a 3.5″ screen of course.  Although you can pan, pinch to zoom in and double tap to focus using the iPhone’s multi-touch capabilities.

The interface is extraordinarly simple, but very effective.  PDF Expert acts as a thumbdrive, you can place your PDF’s or other files on your iPhone via wi-fi or your free 512MB of storage on Readdle. When reading you can create bookmarks, search the document, read the entire table of contents, send the document to a friend and even rotate your device to landscape mode and read in a different orientation.  If you get interrupted and leave the app it will save your reading progress and open the next time.

There’s a few glitches in the app that can make for an annoying experience, a few noteworthy ones as follows:

• When double tapping to focus, it generally zooms too far and cuts off text.
• No menu in landscape mode.
• Crashing unexpectedly.

All in all PDF Expert is still an exceptional reading application, with the next update hopefully this business app will become a gem.  This one will be staying on my device.

Final Ratings:

Usefulness: 7.9/10 – Being able to read PDF’s and other documents without Internet access is a great concept.

User Interface: 8.3/10 – Pretty awesome, some glitches that knock this down some points.

Price: 7.1/10 – $4.99 is suitable.

Technology: 8.5/10 – Great job on online syncing and of course the Wi-Fi access.

Execution of Concept: 8.7/10 – Pretty good job on Readdle’s part.

Overall Rating: 8.1/10

Further Improvements:

• Fix noted glitches.
• Quick access to Table of Contents when scrolling through documents
• Ability to search titles and contents when scrolling through documents.
• Access to popular online office web apps such as Google Docs and Zoho

Screenshots of PDF Expert on the iPhone App Reviewer Flickr Page.

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