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24 alternatives to A multi-touch document manipulation system
LiquidText revolutionizes reading, analyzing, and annotating documents, and saves you time. - "Most innovative iPad app of the year" Apple - "All you need for deep research" MacWorld
LiquidText is a document manipulation system designed for users who need to read, analyze, and annotate files efficiently. It allows direct manipulation of document content on iPad, enabling readers to extract… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. A multi-touch document manipulation system launched in 2012; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Reading and note taking better than paper!
2020 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Liquid Text 2.0▲157A better way to understand text - across multiple documents
2016 · liquidtext.net · its alternatives →
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LiquidText Ink▲136A fast, ink based way to review and analyze documents
2017 · liquidtext.net · its alternatives →
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Liquid Metal▲316Paper is a new design tool. We launched into open alpha today. Anyone can now sign up and use Paper. We started Paper about 1 year ago with the goal to bring more creativity back into design tools. It feels like the existing options are becoming increasingly corporate. To celebrate to launch, we published a new shader that lets anyone see their logo in Apple's new heat map animation style. There is no sign-up needed at heat.paper.design. We're always looking for feedback from anyone who uses Sketch, Figma, Photoshop, or Illustrator, about what they most need in their professional design…
2025 · app.paper.design · its alternatives →
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Cleartext▲307A text editor that allows only the 1,000 most common words
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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GUI analyzer for deep-diving into PDF files. Detect malicious payloads, understand object relationships, and extract key information for threat analysis. - seekbytes/IPA
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Text Workflow▲151Transform your text with easy to use rules
2024 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Summarize▲256Remember the books you read through organized notes 📚
2019 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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NotePlan 3▲264Native (Mac & iOS) note-taking based on local Markdown files
2020 · noteplan.co · its alternatives →
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Pretext▲142A powerful, clean Markdown & plain text editor for iOS 📝
2018 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Dimensional▲76Fly through your PDF and summarize, chat, & quiz
Nov 2025 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Hello HN community! I'm excited to introduce a project I've recently launched: Oration, an iOS app designed to convert PDFs into audiobooks. This idea was inspired by my experiences as an engineering student with ADHD, struggling to engage with dense academic papers. Relying on Text-to-Speech tools, despite their robotic quality, was a workaround for me and others with similar learning preferences or challenges, such as Dyslexia. Recognizing the limitations of existing tools—difficulty with complex formats, inability to skip over citations or footnotes, and inadequate handling of tables,…
2024 · oration.app · its alternatives →
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Search multiple documents insanely fast
2017 · pdfsearchapp.com · its alternatives →
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I'm launching something that started as a side project publicly today: ReadToMe, which is an iPhone app that turns paper books and other printed text into audio. Originally this was a Christmas present for my fiancée, who loves books but has an eye problem that makes it hard for her to read more than a few pages at a time. She mostly listens to audiobooks while following along with the paper book, but some books aren't available in audiobook or even e-book form, and all of the existing apps we tried were surprisingly bad at scanning paper books into audio — they make lots of mistakes,…
2024 · readtome-app.com · its alternatives →
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PaperShip for Mac, iPad and iPhone - Annotate, Manage, and Share your Papers with Mendeley and Zotero
2013 · papershipapp.com · its alternatives →
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Search multiple documents insanely fast
2017 · pdfsearchapp.com · its alternatives →
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Automator workflows for text manipulation in any OS X app - vmdanilov/TextFlow
2015 · github.com · its alternatives →
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