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LiquidText vs FormatPDF Comparison (2026)

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Overview

LiquidText brings all documents with your highlights, annotations, observations and notes into a unified workspace and allows you to make live connections among, between and within anything in the project by just drawing lines.

If you're looking for a secure, convenient way to modify your PDFs, you've found it. FormatPDF allows you to edit, compress, convert, draw on, and write on PDFs, plus 28 other ways to get your documents looking like you to need them.

  • Platforms supported
  • Web-based
  • iPhone app
  • Android app
  • Windows Phone app
  • Typical customers
  • Freelancers
  • Small businesses
  • Mid size businesses
  • Large enterprises
  • Customer support
  • Phone
  • Online
  • Knowledge base
  • Video tutorials
  • Platforms supported
  • Web-based
  • iPhone app
  • Android app
  • Windows Phone app
  • Typical customers
  • Freelancers
  • Small businesses
  • Mid size businesses
  • Large enterprises
  • Customer support
  • Phone
  • Online
  • Knowledge base
  • Video tutorials

Video & Screenshots

No videos yet

Pricing

Starting from

3.99

/user

Per month

  • Free trial available
  • Credit cardless trial
  • Free account
  • Subscription based

Starting from

4.9

Per month

  • Free trial available
  • Credit cardless trial
  • Free account
  • Subscription based

User reviews

4.6

177

5

4

3

2

1

113

60

4

0

0

  • Value for money
  • Ease of use
  • Features
  • Customer support
82%
would recommend this app

4.8

101

5

4

3

2

1

80

21

0

0

0

  • Value for money
  • Ease of use
  • Features
  • Customer support
92%
would recommend this app

Pros

“The interface is intuitive once users become familiar with the features.”
AR

Ansuman R.

Ecom Manager

“Also, includes powerful features for every aspect like pdf editing, making notes, book reading and managing multiple docs at a time.”
EJ

Erika J.

HR Recruit Intern

“ability ty create notes with links to multiple source documents+ drag and drop from source document to note with automatic link to source+ powerful navigation through highlights and annotations or searched text in source document”
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Jan C.

Software Developer

Pros

“It is honestly my first approach when facing any type of template structurization - I can modify, edit, customize to my liking any type of PDF that you can use from your phone as well as your computer.”
SB

Sarah B.

Tech Research Specialist

“Editing different Engineering working 2D drawings and the categorization of multiple Construction projects document is amazing and i have to list the file conversion features which are the most important tools on FormatPDF.”
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Jordan P.

Arquitecto

“I became a frequent user of FormatPDF tool when the pandemic strike and we were working from home, it saves me the headache of having a printer, saves me cost of printing papers, printer ink and also time.”
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George M.

Financial Advisor

Cons

“When scrolling the white space (workspace) If I happen to touch an image and scroll it moves the image to different location which is very annoying.”
MH

Mallu H.

MSc physics student

“Unfortunately, LiquidText jumped on the monthly subscription bandwagon and extended features are only available if you "subscribe". As I write, HBO Max, Disney, Netflix and other subscription based content providers are seeing users dropping their subscriptions in record rates. ”
UP

Ulises P.

President

“Sometimes lags a lot on my iPad 7th generation while taking notes or opening in Split View.”
IB

Ira B.

Senior Software Developer

Cons

“I faced a problem that was i converted a large Ms word file to pdf and when I inspected my pdf file I found that some of my content alignment was unwise and this lead me to problem.”
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Paras V.

MERN Stack Trainee

“Files can be edit difficult”
SS

Shanky S.

Mern stack developer

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  • Last review3 years ago

Key features

  • Total features100
  • @mentions
  • Access Controls/Permissions
  • Activity Tracking
  • Alerts/Notifications
  • Annotations
  • Approval Process Control
  • Approval Workflow
  • Archiving & Retention
  • Audit Trail
  • Brainstorming
  • Case Management
  • Collaboration Tools
  • Commenting/Notes
  • Communication Management
  • Compliance Management
  • Compliance Tracking
  • Configurable Workflow
  • Content Creation
  • Content Management
  • Content Scan
  • Convert to PDF
  • Customizable Reports
  • Dashboard
  • Data Import/Export
  • Data Security
  • Data Storage Management
  • Data Synchronization
  • Data Visualization
  • Database Creation
  • Delete Pages
  • Discussions/Forums
  • Document Automation
  • Document Capture
  • Document Check-In/Out
  • Document Classification
  • Document Generation
  • Document Management
  • Document Review
  • Document Storage
  • Drag & Drop
  • Encryption
  • File Conversion
  • File Management
  • File Recovery
  • File Sharing
  • File Transfer
  • Flowchart
  • For Legal Professionals
  • Forms Management
  • Full Text Search
  • Graphical Data Presentation
  • Handwriting Recognition
  • Idea Ranking
  • Ideation
  • Image Editing
  • Indexing
  • Innovation Management
  • Meeting Notes
  • Merge/Append Files
  • Metadata Extraction
  • Metadata Management
  • Mind Maps
  • Mobile Access
  • Multi-Device Support
  • Multiple Format Support
  • Notes Management
  • Offline Access
  • Optical Character Recognition
  • Organizational Charting
  • PDF Conversion
  • PDF Reader
  • Planning Tools
  • Presentation Tools
  • Productivity Tools
  • Real Time Editing
  • Real-Time Data
  • Real-Time Notifications
  • Real-Time Updates
  • Rearrange Pages
  • Reporting & Statistics
  • Reporting/Analytics
  • Rich Text Editor
  • Role-Based Permissions
  • Rotate Pages
  • SSL Security
  • Screen Sharing
  • Search/Filter
  • Secure Data Storage
  • Side-by-Side Comparison
  • Single Sign On
  • Strategic Planning
  • Synchronous Editing
  • Tagging
  • Task Tagging
  • Team Collaboration
  • Text Editing
  • Third-Party Integrations
  • User Management
  • Watermarking
  • Whiteboard
  • Workflow Management
  • Total features10
  • @mentions
  • Access Controls/Permissions
  • Activity Tracking
  • Alerts/Notifications
  • Annotations
  • Approval Process Control
  • Approval Workflow
  • Archiving & Retention
  • Audit Trail
  • Brainstorming
  • Case Management
  • Collaboration Tools
  • Commenting/Notes
  • Communication Management
  • Compliance Management
  • Compliance Tracking
  • Configurable Workflow
  • Content Creation
  • Content Management
  • Content Scan
  • Convert to PDF
  • Customizable Reports
  • Dashboard
  • Data Import/Export
  • Data Security
  • Data Storage Management
  • Data Synchronization
  • Data Visualization
  • Database Creation
  • Delete Pages
  • Discussions/Forums
  • Document Automation
  • Document Capture
  • Document Check-In/Out
  • Document Classification
  • Document Generation
  • Document Management
  • Document Review
  • Document Storage
  • Drag & Drop
  • Encryption
  • File Conversion
  • File Management
  • File Recovery
  • File Sharing
  • File Transfer
  • Flowchart
  • For Legal Professionals
  • Forms Management
  • Full Text Search
  • Graphical Data Presentation
  • Handwriting Recognition
  • Idea Ranking
  • Ideation
  • Image Editing
  • Indexing
  • Innovation Management
  • Meeting Notes
  • Merge/Append Files
  • Metadata Extraction
  • Metadata Management
  • Mind Maps
  • Mobile Access
  • Multi-Device Support
  • Multiple Format Support
  • Notes Management
  • Offline Access
  • Optical Character Recognition
  • Organizational Charting
  • PDF Conversion
  • PDF Reader
  • Planning Tools
  • Presentation Tools
  • Productivity Tools
  • Real Time Editing
  • Real-Time Data
  • Real-Time Notifications
  • Real-Time Updates
  • Rearrange Pages
  • Reporting & Statistics
  • Reporting/Analytics
  • Rich Text Editor
  • Role-Based Permissions
  • Rotate Pages
  • SSL Security
  • Screen Sharing
  • Search/Filter
  • Secure Data Storage
  • Side-by-Side Comparison
  • Single Sign On
  • Strategic Planning
  • Synchronous Editing
  • Tagging
  • Task Tagging
  • Team Collaboration
  • Text Editing
  • Third-Party Integrations
  • User Management
  • Watermarking
  • Whiteboard
  • Workflow Management

Integrations

  • Total integrations1
  • Microsoft Intune
  • Total integrationsN/A
  • Microsoft Intune