Our Rating: 8.2/10 Thumbs Up! [Screenshots]

Version Reviewed: 1.5.2
Developer: Readdle
Price as of Review: $4.99
Current iTunes Rating: 3.5/5
Size: 2.9MB

If you want to take your files to go with you on the iPhone, Readdledocs pretty much eliminates all other competition.  With a large assorted variety of ways to sync files Readdledocs can manipulate and organize files on any platform, and anywhere.  You’ll need an Internet connection to sync and even download files, but after that, your files will be on your iPhone’s harddrive wherever.  Need to back them up?  You can copy them to your computer just like you would with a normal folder (using the iPhone’s wi-fi disk feature) and even sync them to the 512MB storage space Readdle provides for free.

With Readdledoc’s abundance of settings, it’s sure to get the job done right.  The files can be stored with a complete file hierarchy and any format can be saved (though not every format can be read).  It can be used as a PDF reader and then email them to co-workers and friends.  Readdledocs uses the standard way to read things, panning and pinching to scroll around the file.   Unlike most apps, even when viewing a large file Readdledocs does not slow down, and even if it does crash, it’s saved for later!

Unfortunately this isn’t an all-in-one office app; it lacks the ability to edit and write to files.  Basically the concept of Readdledocs is to retrieve files from anywhere, anyway, and to read them wherever.  The execution of the concept was simply brilliant, the programmers over at Readdle are doing a fantastic job, really showing off the iPhone’s capabilities as a replacement to your Palm Handheld or Crackberry.  The user interface is smooth and stable.  Now we just have to wait for an update and hopefully they’ll add some new features – perhaps something with the 3.0 features?  Only time will tell.

Final Ratings:

Usefulness: 8/10 – Until the concept is expanded to a complete documents app, it’s only good for reading files.  Readdle will definitely do a great job on anything they expand the app to.

User Interface: 9/10  – I come across the odd glitch but the user interface is nearly as good as BeejiveIM

Price: 6/10 – Office apps are usually expensive, this one doesn’t break that paradigm, but it could…

Technology: 8.2/10  – Great so far but I can think of more features

Execution of Concept: 9.6/10 – Readdle’s developers are some of the best I’ve seen.  Bravo.

Overall Rating: 8.2/10

Further Improvements: (Note to the developer!)

• Background Running – How about an alert popup when a new file is ready to sync?
• File editing!!
• Basic image editing.
• Fix some glitches – mainly performance with network drives.
• Display settings for those reading an eBook or long documents.
• Monospaced formatting for shared code.

More screenshots here!

Other reviews on Readdledocs for the iPhone and iPod Touch:

• Readdledocs review on iPhone World
• Readdledocs review on The iPhone Blog
• Readdledocs review on Mac Life
• Readdledocs review on The iPhone App Blog

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