Cantook by Aldiko

gurthantur

Absolutely terrible. The original was fantastic and well polished. It was easy to use and very full featured. This new version feels rough and unfinished. Would go back to the old version in a heartbeat if I could. I definitely won't be recommending this app to anyone I know. In fact, I'll be recommending they stay far away.

Jerry Schwartz

The new version still needs important features. The thumbnails are, of necessity, hard to read, so it would be useful to have a list format to save space. Many downloaded PDFs, such as manuals, have meaningless file names; we need to be able to edit the metadata like we used to. Since I have both a phone and a tablet, I'd like to be able to keep my library on a cloud drive and share it between my devices.

Michael

The older version of this app was perfect. This one is unusable for anyone who likes black backgrounds. The app controls are black no matter what color background you choose, so if your background is black, you can't see the controls so you can't change brightness or anything else unless you want to guess where to tap (which I had to do every time I used the app). They also removed the nice gesture-based brightness changing mechanism, which was 90% of what I loved about the original app. Basically, they locked me out of the old, good app and forced me to use this one, which was apparently never tested on real humans. The old Aldiko app was my favorite reader for Android. This one is pointless, since it's no better than Kindle, or a thousand other reading apps. Also, when I "upgraded" to this new app, I lost all my old books and had to reload them. There was a "keep your library" button but it didn't work.

Ferret Godowndahole

Lacks the basic functionality of vertical scrolling. Otherwise this seems to check most of the boxes, with the edge swipe to change brightness, color themes (even a customizable option), full control over margins, line word, and even letter spacing, & a toggle to swap with the publishers original formatting. It also has a pleasant UI generally. It could use more view options for the main MyBooks library, but the default (and only) view isn't bad. But it's useless w/o scrolling. I can't use it.

A Google user

This new version of this app is terrible. Many basic functions no longer work correctly. (Like finding and opening pdf documents through the file browser) and just viewing the documents feels broken somehow. And it adds a ton of features i dont want or need. And the developers removed the Classic version that was great. I guess the search for a basic pdf/ebook reader that JUST WORKS is on AGAIN. ugh.

Paul Waterman

My phone automatically updated to this new version of the app. After telling it that NO, I did NOT want to login to Feedbooks or connect to a library, it informed me that I had to re-import all of my books. The import process is abysmally slow compared to the old version of the app -- ten minutes into the import process, the progress bar had moved only a single pixel. Another ten minutes later, I got a second pixel. Based on the other reviews that I'm already seeing, it looks like this new version is also missing key functionality that the old app had. Needless to say, I'm not going to bother waiting for the import to finish. When I submit this review, I'm going to force close and delete the app and load Aldiko Classic instead.

wendy brightman

The new update is quite awful -though it's difficult to give a rating when the app allows for set up then in the next sessions, it doesn't even open. To be truthful, I haven't been able to get past the set up stage as it immediately closes and I receive an error message. I appreciate the open source coding etc, yet this app is far from ready for regular usage. I was upset to see an automatic update which I thought was to fix bugs in the old version only to find it completely different.

A Google user

Good potential but not functional for me. I'm on Android 10 and the app said it was made for a previous version of the OS. I didn't think much of this because I have a lot of other apps that I've gotten warnings from and they all work. I'm still not sure that caused the issue, but as I used it, flipping pages took way to long (a second or longer) and it became unresponsive for almost a minute after jumping to a random page.

Caroline Hale

I used to love this app for reading epub files. The new update destroyed it. Now it's full of ads and my books were no longer accessible! I couldn't access dozens (maybe hundreds) of books, and without the app giving any warning or permission to update. On top of that, of course the transfer feature didn't work. Don't allow automatic updates if you can possibly avoid it!!

Oleg Pestovsky

New version is completely different on my phone and my tablet, both running Android 9. It's just fine on the phone, but it's completely unusable on the tablet - loading some pages can take 10 seconds, the menus are transparent for some reason, the font and background color settings just don't work (even though presets do.) And the app had difficulty importing 3 books on the tablet, which worked just fine on the phone.