Clearview App Reviews

Ive tried a few free eReader apps, and theyre always terrible. Id prefer PDFs to those stupid apps. Not this one. This one is worth the $5 I paid. I immediately know how to use all of the features just by looking at it, it has beautiful Google Chrome-style tabs, it has an interface that gets out of your way, the full-screen reading mode is gorgeous, the sidebar shows the ToC (not individual pages). Its just great! Im gonna go read now.

I purchased this app so I could read books I purchased from the Apple Book Store. I was only able to open and read three books from my collection: 2 by Apple, and one other book, although all my books are in epub format. The remainder of my books would not open and would crash the Clearview application each time I attempted to open one of the books. Am very disappointed, as I was looking forward to reading my itunes library book collection on my new Mac Pro, but no such luck!

Very goog application. Stable, easy to use and supports all popular ebook formats.

Used to work great but after the update all it does is crash… plz fix!!!

I was looking mainly for an e-reader that didnt snoop on me, that included a sepia theme, and a single page pagination. This is a great reader that has all of these features. It is very flexible in both appearance and navigation and now the default settings can be customized.

Id been looking for a tabbed PDF reader, as having a large number of windows open in Preview was becoming a nuisance and interrupting my workflow. I also hated that there was no way to collect related documents - basically, I wanted a web browser (tabs and bookmarks) for PDFs. Pros * Cant emphasize it enough: tabbed PDF viewing is amazing * PDFs can be grouped into named reading lists * Supports bookmarking and annotation * Its extremely easy to browse your reading lists, bookmarks, and annotations * Fast and lightweight Cons/Missing features: * No saved state (not a deal breaker, since reading lists and the recent readings smart list make it easy to resume where you left off) * No way to export or sync reading lists between computers * Search feature needs work - some instances of the search pattern are omitted This app is exactly what I was looking for! As a graduate student with over a thousand PDFs on my computer, Clearview Reader really helps me 1) keep my documents organized, 2) keep track of papers I need to read in the near future, 3) find what I need quickly, and 4) switch between projects without hassle.

This is the best desktop eReader app Ive tried. I specifically like that it uses the chrome browser navigation pattern, and easily handles multiple books open at once.

Ideal for my purposes - just wanted an easy ebook reader that would coexist with my directory structure. I would like to see an easy way to edit the author & publisher info, as well as a little more customization in the size of the icons, lines of text in the preview, etc. Overall great piece of software. Plan on using it extensively.

The app works reasonably well as an ebook reader with a nice presentation of the text and support for many different formats. It doesnt work so well as a ebook library. Take, for example, the search input thats ever-present, even, for example, when youre looking at a folder full of books. You might expect search to be able to search for content within those books. No such luck. Typing anything in the search input puts the app into an unusable mode (it doesnt even search among book titles or other meta data), and you have to close and reopen the window. Perhaps that behavior would prompt you to check the apps help pages to find out just what in the world search is expected to do. Ah, but that would be folly as well, since selecting the apps help menu launches your web browser and takes you to a 404 page! There are lots of annoyances such as these throughout the app, a indication of poor software quality.

Amazing tabbed reading (really love it!). Capable of reading Epub in both page-based and scrolling-based modes like iBooks. Annotations and bookmarks!(Surprising!) Clean and not obtrusive. I would say that its almost perfect if I can read djvu books with it.

Fixed width fonts are half the size of other fonts. Please add a way to increase/decrease the size with a fixed width. When reading books, such as programming books, that include fixed width fonts you have to have the size of the proportional fonts on the page incredibly large to be able to read the fixed width fonts. I fell like I am reading a book for 6 year olds until I come to a fixed with font where I feel like I am 90 squinting to read. Adding the ability to seperately change the font of fixed width fonts would be great also, but not nearly as important. Thanks.

there can be no other reading software worst than this.it cant even properly open chm format files which is a popular reading format and so many times while reading its freezing,i dont know whats wrong with this software,it can be better if they update the present version correcting these features.as for now,i cant recommend this software to others for reading their books

I bought this thinking it could display a pdf ebook better than preview, but that is not the case, unfortunately.

I don’t write a lot of reviews, but after using ClearView to open several books, and documents, in various formats (Mobie, PDF, ePUB) I realized that the developer/seller deserved another positive review. So far I haven’t found anything to complain about, and ClearView handles PDF documents MUCH, MUCH, better than Adobe Acrobate, and other PDF readers I’ve used. So far I love this app, and I really hope the developer continues to provide updates. It’s well worth the price in my opinion.

This is an amazing, near-perfect app. I use it all the time for reading the ebooks I have downloaded. I only wish it would support cbr for comic books. Best couple bucks ever spent on a program 10/10, 5 stars. To the debs: YOURE BLOODY AWESOME!

I have used Preview and Acrobat extensively, along with Skim, PDFPen (and a lot of other PDF readers / annotators). Clearview is by far the most useful for many everyday tasks. Most notable for me are two features. First, Clearview is a tabbed viewer — the merits of this feature speak for themselves (surprisingly, Clearview is the only tabbed PDF reader as far as I know). Second, Clearview is much nicer than Preview at managing annotations. For instance, clearview does away with the foolish font Preview uses for notes. These are two features that stand out for me. In my view, this developer is doing very good work, and his product deserves the support of customers seeking a clean, user-friendly, PDF reader/annotator.

if you are working on chpaters in a book and the compter freezes and you need to reboot all you work is lost. it appears that the way it saves is when you close the application. prior to closingthe application the annotations and highlights are not saved………8 hours of studying are lost

Ok reader app, has the basics and clear interface. One grip is that very limited as far as deleting notes … book can be deleted but notes for that book will remain and cannot be deleted. No bulk note delete function. Have to reinstall program to clear notes. Annoying.

Ive had this reader installed since it came out, but just recently started using it to replace HyperPDF (which mysteriously disappeared). As a teacher, I need a pdf reader on an almost daily basis. This reader has handled everything Ive thrown at it, and then some. It provides for a super smooth reading experience. I also use it when displaying pdfs on my smartboard. The only reason Im not giving it five stars is that when printing pdfs, it prints the entire pdf with the exception of a small portion of a footer (if there is one). A little thing, but Hyper PDF printed everything, including the whole footer (yes, I did compare when I actually had Hyper PDF). Other than that, this is a great looking app and will be my primary reader for work and pleasure.

Pros: Seems like a nice app for organizing books, and its nice to have the option to read more than one type of content. Cons: With epubs, however, it fails to render simple aspects of the books own stylesheet (Im talking really simple, such as indented paragraphs). Cmon now, you can do better than this.