Name: Pages
Rating: 4.7 (425559 reviews)

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Pages

Apple

Released: 2010-04-01

Free 0%

Version 14.4

Free 0%

Version 14.4

Released: 2010-04-01

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Description

Pages is the most beautiful word processor you’ve ever seen on a mobile device. Start with an Apple-designed template to instantly create gorgeous reports, digital books, resumes, posters, and more. Or use a blank document and create your own design. Easily add images, movies, audio, tables, charts, and shapes. You can even draw and annotate using Apple Pencil on supported devices, or use your finger. Pages has been designed exclusively for iPad and iPhone.

Draw and annotate using Apple Pencil or your finger

• Easily add drawings with pen, pencil, crayon, and fill tools, then animate them and watch them come to life

• Use Smart Annotation to add comments and marks that stay anchored to their associated text

• Convert your handwritten words to typed text with Scribble and Apple Pencil

Collaborate with others at the same time

• With real-time collaboration, your whole team can work together on a document at the same time on Mac, iPad, iPhone, and even on a PC

• Share your document publicly or with specific people, see who’s currently in the document with you, and view other people’s cursors to follow their edits

• See a list of recent changes in collaborative documents, including when people join, comment, and make edits

• Available for documents stored in iCloud or in Box

Get started quickly

• Choose from over 90 Apple-designed templates to instantly create beautiful reports, digital books, resumes, cards, posters, and more

• Use Screen View on iPhone to automatically display text, images, and other elements in a continuous flow optimized to fit your screen so documents are even easier to read and edit

• Get quick access to shapes, media, tables, charts, and sharing options

• Import and edit Microsoft Word and text files

• Quickly open password-protected documents using Touch ID or Face ID on supported devices

Create beautiful documents

• Format your document with gorgeous styles, fonts, and textures

• Enhance your document with a library of over 700 editable shapes

• Easily add images, video, and audio

• Add an image gallery to view a collection of photos on the same page

• Create interactive EPUB books that can be shared with others or published to Apple Books for download or purchase

Advanced tools

• Use the table of contents view to easily navigate your document or book

• Add comments and join threaded conversations

• Turn on change tracking to mark up a document as you edit it

• Add bookmarks to easily link from one part of your document to another

• View pages side by side as you work

• Turn on facing pages to format your document as two-page spreads

• Create page templates to keep the design consistent across your page layout document

• Add linked text boxes so text easily flows from one place to another

• Create footnotes and endnotes and view character, word, and paragraph counts

• Add elegant mathematical equations using LaTeX or MathML notation

• Use presenter mode to easily read and auto scroll text while giving a speech

iCloud

• Turn on iCloud so your documents are automatically available on your Mac, iPad, iPhone, and from a Mac or PC browser at iCloud.com

• Pages automatically saves your documents as you make changes

Share a copy of your work

• Use AirDrop to send your document to anyone nearby

• Quickly and easily share a link to your work via Mail or Messages

• Export your document in EPUB, Microsoft Word, RTF, TXT, and PDF format

• Print wirelessly with AirPrint, including page range selection, number of copies, and two-sided printing

Some features may require Internet access; additional fees and terms may apply.

What's New in Version 14.4

• Screen View on iPad displays text, images, and other elements in a continuous flow optimized to fit your screen

• Make text edits using Writing Tools directly in your document (requires Apple Intelligence and iOS or iPadOS 18.4)

• Add additional pages into a word-processing document more easily

• Export documents into other formats using Shortcuts (requires iOS or iPadOS 18.4)

• Improved copy and paste with Freeform (requires iOS or iPadOS 18.4)

Seller

Name

Apple Inc.

URL

https://www.apple.com/apps/#pages

Information

Developer

Apple

Version

14.4

Size

479.6 MB

Game Center

VPP Device Licensing

Yes

Rating

Rated: 4+

Compatibility

iOS 17.0 or later

Devices

iPhone 5s, iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, iPhone 6s, iPhone 6s Plus, iPhone SE, iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plus, iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus, iPhone X, iPhone XR, iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro, iPhone 11 Pro Max, iPhone SE (2nd generation), iPhone 12, iPhone 12 Pro, iPhone 12 Pro Max, iPhone 12 mini, iPhone 13, iPhone 13 Pro, iPhone 13 Pro Max, iPhone 13 mini, iPhone SE (3rd generation), iPhone 14, iPhone 14 Plus, iPhone 14 Pro, iPhone 14 Pro Max, iPhone 15, iPhone 15 Plus, iPhone 15 Pro, iPhone 15 Pro Max, iPhone 16, iPhone 16 Plus, iPhone 16 Pro, iPhone 16 Pro Max, iPhone 16e, iPhone 17, iPhone 17Pro, iPhone 17ProMax, iPhone Air, iPad (5th Generation) Wi-Fi, iPad (5th Generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad (6th generation) Wi-Fi, iPad (6th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro, iPad Pro (Cellular), iPad Pro (9.7-inch), iPad Pro (9.7-inch) (Cellular), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (2nd generation), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (2nd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro (10.5-inch), iPad Pro (10.5-inch) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro (11-inch), iPad Pro (11-inch) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 12.9-inch (3rd generation), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (3rd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Air, iPad Air (Cellular), iPad Air 2, iPad Air 2 (Cellular), iPad Air (3rd generation), iPad Air (3rd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad mini Retina, iPad mini Retina (Cellular), iPad mini 3, iPad mini 3 (Cellular), iPad mini 4, iPad mini 4 (Cellular), iPad mini (5th Generation), iPad mini (5th Generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad (7th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 11-inch (2nd generation), iPad Pro 11-inch (2nd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 12.9-inch (4th generation), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (4th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Air (4th Generation) (Wi-Fi), iPad Air (4th Generation) (Wi-Fi + Cellular), iPad (8th generation) Wi-Fi, iPad (8th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 11-inch (3rd generation), iPad Pro 11-inch (3rd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 12.9-inch (5th Generation), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (5th Generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad (9th Generation), iPad (9th Generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad mini (6th Generation), iPad mini (6th Generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Air (5th generation), iPad Air (5th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 11-inch (4th generation), iPad Pro 11-inch (4th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 12.9-inch (6th generation), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (6th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad (10th generation), iPad (10th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Air 11-inch (M2) Wi-Fi, iPad Air 13-inch (M2) Wi-Fi, iPad Air 13-inch (M2) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 11-inch (M4) Wi-Fi, iPad Pro 11-inch (M4) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 13-inch (M4) Wi-Fi, iPad Pro 13-inch (M4) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad mini (A17 Pro) Wi-Fi, iPad mini (A17 Pro) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad (A16) Wi-Fi, iPad (A16) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Air 11-inch (M3) Wi-Fi, iPad Air 11-inch (M3) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Air 13-inch (M3) Wi-Fi, iPad Air 13-inch (M3) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPod touch (6th Generation), iPod touch (7th generation)

Languages

English, Arabic, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese

App Store: Customer Ratings

Ratings & Reviews

4.7 of 5 (425,559 Ratings)

2025-11-02

Absolutely Great

Wonderful app to use, it can be a bit confusing at first but it’s a very good note taking, story writing, drafting, etc… app to use.

2025-11-01

I hate pages

2025-11-01

Could use some improvements

I use this app to write my book and i think that you should be able to adjust the format and it would be convenient if there was a read aloud option. Otherwise it’s cool i guess

2025-11-01

AVAH67

I love how I get to highlight the words and I just love it bc I don’t have to buy a white board I can just use my phone THANK YOU!!! ( I love my notes!)

2025-11-01

Pages

No search option, no organizing option

2025-11-01

Poor sw

Apparently no one knows how to write code. Thx for making it easier to switch to Samsung

2025-10-03

Great app.

I've been using this app for a long time now on all my mobile devices and my desktops. I like how well it works. Surprising number of negative reviews claiming problems I've never encountered. The interface is different from word and takes a little adjustment. Setting up default choices is a simple as saving documents with the settings you want and opening them and then save as. Very simple approach. Like how it allows you to sort, group and organize your docs on mobile devices. I use this app and Microsoft word both and vastly prefer Pages. This app also creates folders in the same way you create them on the iPhone or iPad, not sure why people are saying it doesn't do that. Perhaps a look at some tutorials or doing a bit of reading would help. I've also open ended many Word docs and saved to that format as well.

Really love this app. Only 1 feature it really needs is the ability to have tabbed pages within a document or the ability to open at least 2 docs at a time.

2025-08-30

The iPad’s best Word Processor?

I’ve owned roughly 30 different word processing programs, since first getting a PC in 1984. Pages is strangely impressive on an iPad — more so than MS Word or either the online or Collabora versions of LibreOffice. Both are hobbled by being too incomplete or quirky unless running on either a Mac or Windows machine. Pages on the other hand feels very comfortable on iPad. This is true regardless of your physical setup; it’s comfortable for word processing when used either with its Magic Keyboard or a full-sized keyboard and mouse. In a pinch, it can also be used without a keyboard or mouse. I use it the first two ways. Not mentioned so far is Google Sheets. It also feels comfortable on an iPad — but has two problems; it isn’t secure from Google’s snooping and it has many fewer features than Pages. I’ve found that I can do about 90% of what I need to do with word processing with Pages. I have a Mac Mini to do the rest, although for that I have to sit at a real desk rather than on an easy chair or at the kitchen table. What pages needs the most is a macro language for writing or recording commands you might need frequently for particular documents. Its styles feature is very good, but not quite up to the standard of Word for Window or Mac. I recommend Pages.

2025-08-17

I love pages!

I honestly love pages because I come to pages and I just write down books. My ideas or anything that can go into words. I love writing down books so I have written 32 books on Pages. I am very proud of myself for that, but I love how pages can switch fonts so it doesn’t all have to be the same font which I am very fond of that. It’s just a place where I can come down and write. I don’t do anything complicated. I just press the font that I want and I can do it. I gave pages a five star because I really love the app and I love how they organized all the documents that you save. It’s just a wonderful app. If you don’t have pages, which is very hard to believe I would download it now because it’s one of my favorite apps to come down just jot down my ideas and create something you know. I was the app could be a little less frustrating about the font, though that’s my only complaint. Thank you so much pages for giving me an organized app! - PearlPastel 🐚

2025-08-16

Truly Remarkable

I've used this for years now. Been through some minor ups and downs as it's been developed, but I have to say that it's better than it's ever been. (Once I finally figured out I needed to turn the new "Screen View" off for every new document!) I actually went back to using Pages on a Mac for some time, but it's so fast and easy to touch the screen to select things... I couldn't stop touching the Mac. So it's a nice, large iPad Pro with the Apple keyboard case for my daily use now. And no regrets. Highly intuitive, this is capable of professional quality output with minimal learning curve and effort. I haven't even used templates much as my layouts are all so different. I regularly use multiple fonts, multiple colors or text and backgrounds, import photos, put references and notes under them, etc. I recommend you jump right in and design something crazy to try it. You're going to really like it.

2025-07-01

Apple Pages has only 2 flaws

Pages is an EXCELLENT resource for all my documents and artwork layout with 2 GLARING flaws which I had thought Apple would have corrected AGES ago:

First there is no option for typing in a circle/arch/or other text, word and letter shaping. This has been the only reason I continue to pay for and use MS Word and other applications for all these years.

Secondly, the commands for manipulating and using tables is not consistent with the Numbers. In particular up,down,left,right navigation within the table as well as line breaks within cells as my 2 biggest pet peeves because they slow work flow so much when switching between applications. Other differences are also annoying but these are the two which trip my fingers up the most. The same is true for switching between the iPad version and laptop. I wish, at least among Apple devices and other Apple software, the commands were consistent.

Other than these two - I ABSOLUTELY LOVE all the iWorks applications and have used them for everything from logo devices to book production to mural designs to meme creation to data driven research papers to YOU NAME IT! There is very little that can’t be done and hopefully developers will address these in the next update… right?!?!

2025-06-12

really good overall, a couple of bugs, a couple wishes!

I’m in high school and attempting to write a legit novel, which I’m really excited about. I love pages and I think it’s really helpful. I do wish, however, that there were some more editing options when it comes to layering photos for a cover? Like, for instance, if I wanted to add a photo for the cover of my book, the text isn’t able to lay on top of the photo? I would really love it if there was some form of software for this? Another suggestion is that maybe like how ChatGPT is able to be in other apps and you can use it without exiting (I’m not talking about split view, I’m talking about how chatgpt is able to be in apps like Messages as long as you allow it as kind of a plug-in) I would like the same for Word Hippo? I don’t know the dev’s standpoint on that app, but it would be nice to have that as an option so you could find better synonyms and adjectives? I just dont like switching between apps so much. And another thing, I have a bug that is really annoying. Sometimes the document will randomly scroll ALL THE WAY UP for absolutely no reason and then I’m forced to scroll all the way back down? Sorry for the rant, like i seriously apologize, but that’s my view. Love the app, love ALMOST everything about it, and thank you!!

2025-05-28

From grate great to best

My learning curve this is flatter than I’d like it to be. I keep chatting most of the Apple people that Apple‘s finest hour is it graphic interactive audio but even a pure language page can utilize symbols and motion to provide guidance step from step a lot of Apple stuff is all written like the arcade Gutenberg Bible Long lines of thousands of pages of pros packed with Apple by remember the medium is the message so there’s a lot that doesn’t make sense to me about pages and other wordprocessors. There’s so much reading in order to do writing that’s not necessary. What’s necessary as a word processor that has motion and sound and Reactions now then that’s an Apple product that is worth putting out so fine-tune pages the style of just listening, lots of parts and assuming that people know to start with what they want, but it’s hidden what’s given as a bunch of parts and that’s not the way humans think we start with what we want our end goal we start at the end that we’d like to see, and then we learned backward to where we are each step connecting to what we wantin fact logistically the instructional style in Apple is the opposite of that so it comes down to a choice do you really mean to serve your customers then you’ve got to establish rapport with them which is the match they’re thinking Matt Manor that’s what I have to say. How do I send

2024-12-17

Amazing App! Probably one of my most used apps, BUT

This app is amazing! It occasionally has some small glitches, but usually you can just kill the app or restart and it'll work perfectly again.

However, I just got a new Ipad and when my mom transferred the data from my old one, she also updated it to IOS18.2. Completely different app. Not nearly as easy to use, and I'm not sure if it's just the IPad software or if Pages has a HUGE glitch, but more than HALF of my recent documents are gone. I mean, they're still on my old IPad, but they didn't transfer to the new one. I tried air dropping them but I couldn't do it all at once so I had to choose only my most needed documents and send ONE BY ONE. This may not be a problem for somebody using it for work or school that won't need most old documents, but as a child who uses it to write books, make photo albums, play school workbooks for my little brother, etc. it is very annoying to not have old documents. This is a great app (I think), but either the update is very annoying, Pages has a huge glitch in the software, or my IPad has a huge glitch in the software.

Thankyou for reading this annoyingly long review.

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2024-11-20

Needs more features…

This app is good for what it is, but it definitely needs more features that distinguish it from other apps similar to it. It can be intuitive for the most part, until you realize that the “redo” button is hidden in the “undo” button. - It’s missing features like adding shadows and opacity slider for said shadows. - I also noticed I cannot seem to place images behind texts without having to place the image “in” the paper itself. I could live without shadows, but being able to add images behind texts and being able to freely move it without distorting it would be so helpful for maintaining an aesthetic. - Lastly, from what comes to mind, an accessibility option to have an AI or voice read aloud what’s been written would be a life saver and would definitely help the writer notice any errors, typos, and/or anything that doesn’t belong. // Overall, it’s a good app, but I think they should flesh it out by giving it love more often.

2024-11-10

I like Pages a lot

I like it just because you have emojis and it’s not like a computer because computers don’t really have emojis so I like it so nicely painted whoever paint whoever likes painted it it’s nice. I like to texture well I like it that it has drawing mode and it has different pages when you don’t have room for more writing and you can have fancy letters like when you tap on them really hard like these. Æ that’s a capital. æ that’s a lowercase I ran a five star because I really like it once again well I like it but you don’t have to add layers of painting. You can just paint over it and I like how you can expand a page if you don’t want to color everything so you can just shrink the page 📃 and that’s all that I wanna mention I mean it’s like a lot but not really and also I like that you can add new pages like you could have report cards and birthday cards. I really like making invites so thank you.🙏

2024-11-06

Using Pages on the iPad 10th Gen is a dream come true for me.

I have been using an iPad sense the first generation came out in 2010 and I loved it for all my writing. I gave up on the iPad because of the file management not being that good and I waited until the 4th generation to say good bye. Now that they fixed that issue and working with pages on the iPad 10th gen is so much better and smoother. It makes writing papers and blog posts so much easier and more fun. I have a paper that I have been using for my thoughts on a blog post or just to get my head on straight since I bought the iPad and I have around 30k words just typed out. The act of saving the document in real time is a life saver and the need to remember to save it is not as much as it was on the MacBook that I was working on. This app is the one app that I use on my laptop or iPad and I love the way that iCloud just works between the two with ease. I always have my document for my thoughts at my finger tips ready to run on my MacBook or my iPad and my iPhone all the time.

2024-09-21

Better than any other writing software I’ve used (and it’s FREE)

This might be my first time writing a 5 star review. Where was this all my life? Well, it apparently right in front of me. I always just thought it was like Google Docs but watered down, but nope. In fact, it has MORE features than it. As a creative writer, it has everything I need and more. I’ve waisted hundreds of dollars on Word, Scrivener, you name it. And this is free. I mean, I bought an iPad, and that cost money, but Pages came with it. And I just… didn’t know.

I don’t need any additional software for it to do what I need either (like Word with Adobe products) and it runs so smoothly, too. Not to mention the clean organization. I’m seeing some reviews saying things like it’s missing things like page numbers, but it’s not, they’re right there. You just need to look (like how I just needed to look at Pages…) I mean, this probably is missing some features from other writing programs, but it just seems to be the really niche things.

The way I found out this had so many features was from a Reddit comment, talking about what they used to write ergodic literature. They said it was Pages. I thought it was ridiculous, but only because I was ignorant.

Yeah, needless to say, I haven’t experienced any issues (yet?) and this has saved my life. You can legitimately create a quality novel in Pages.

2024-08-09

YES YES YESSSSSSS!!!!

If you are an aspiring author, get this app. If you need a poster to find your lost pet, get this app. If you moved and need to tell people your address get this app. Looking for a job? Planning a party? Selling something? Get. This. App. It has everything you need for all these purposes and more.

I am a tween, but I like to write books. So one day, I was looking through the App Store for an app to write books on my iPad. I didn’t know which one would be right for me. And that’s when I realized… I had one all along. Pages! So you may not even need to download the app! You will love this, trust me. Look for it on your phone or iPad, and if you don’t have it, get it! Do not wait! Get it!

Well, I’m off to write a story on Pages. 100/5 stars from me ⭐️ P.S. if you add illustrations to your books I draw my illustrations on procreate but procreate costs 20 bucks but I also use Gacha Life too. So, enjoy! I know you will! I’m not even going to tell you lol (lots of luck) because you won’t need it!

2024-08-03

Pretty good…but still—Glitches!

Pages is really good in general! I use it for story-writing and often essays, and it’s pretty useful. I like the format and the fonts and how you can choose your status for editing or viewing. BUT there sometimes are bugs and glitches in Pages. A few weeks ago, I was writing in my room. I clicked out of Pages to eat lunch, but when I came back, I couldn’t find my document anywhere. It just disappeared. Another time, my and my friend were writing a story on her iPad. When it was time to go, she shared it to my Pages account, so I would have the story too, and we could edit together. But when I went home and opened my Pages, I couldn’t find the shared document. And it kept loading and syncing with iCloud, but time passed and nothing happened. We tried several more times to share the story with me, but it didn’t work. In the end, we copy and pasted the story onto google docs and shared the story with me there—successfully.

2024-05-27

Good, but some really frustrating problems PLEASE READ

Pages is a really helpful app and it’s great way to be creative. It does have a few problems though. One of them is that it auto-positions things. Like, I want to move a text box to a very specific spot, but it moves it elsewhere because it wants everything to be in alignment. The opposite thing happens sometimes when I delete a drawing or a picture on a page where there’s a few other things. When I delete it, the whole page goes out of alignment. So weird! And very frustrating. I wish that there was some way to turn off the auto-alignment thing.

Another problem is that there’s no easy way to add a page when you are in a document that is not a template. You have to select a page, duplicate it, drag it to the place you want to go, and then delete everything on the page. I think you should add a tool to add a page on the blank template.

A similar thing happens when I try to delete one specific page. Sometimes, all the pages have connected text. So, when you want to delete one page, it might delete all of them. Then, I have to delete everything on the page one by one, and sometimes that thing where everything goes out of alignment happens.

It’s a good app, but it has some problems that stop it from reaching it’s full potential. Apple, please read my message and try to fix these issues.

2024-05-17

Anonymous Anomaly :)

This is the best writing platform I’ve probably ever used, and I absolutely LOVE it! You can change the fonts, document size, and so much more. Wether you like to write for fun, or for work, I completely recommend this app. As an aspiring writer myself, this is super useful. There is only one issue I have with the app at all, and that’s only occasionally. Just a few times over the many years I’ve used this app, all my data on it has strangely been lost. Luckily, the last time this happened, the things were returned to normal in a few days. I hope that this issue can be solved if it hasn't been already, and I am super grateful that my documents came back that last time! Despite this one problem I’ve occurred, I still completely recommend this, and if you are worried then you can save copies of your writings to another platform. I don’t often give things five stars, but I say this app has more than deserved it. I wish anyone all the luck in the world with their writings!

2024-05-11

Good…but some problems

I would give it a star, but there are some problems. First one is on. It literally just closed out on me second one when I was typing it it does this really weird thing where it like pauses and then goes back pauses and then goes back. it’s really weird and then when I said Thundermans, I said sundermans and I really don’t like that so if you could fix that, that would be a little bit better because I said the Thundermans, but thought I said that and it got me annoyed because then I had to go all the way back and then I had to delete it and it’s just annoying and I need a little things so I can go back to be able to buy to be able to delete it and it’s like just weird and if you could fix that that would be much better. I would’ve also gave it a five star review but it’s just not the best thing in the world. It’s like it’s kind of hard to type up and stuff but otherwise it’s pretty good. I’m gonna give it to star I wish I could give you a higher rate, but I can’t right now. I’m so sorry.

2024-05-10

Pages

Let’s start with I’m 78 and not particularly tech savvy. But I’ve done a lot of work on my IPAD with documents over the last 15+ years.

I’ve wondered for years why it’s so hard to open some documents on Pages and why when I get an external document I often can’t save it to Pages.

But the problem that bugs me most is the difficulty of gettin page numbers on a document. If you can save your work automatically is it too much to ask to have a default page number in system and a simple one or two click turn off or alteration of the style? I’ve given up numbering pages most times as a result; or printing and hand numbering the pages. Yesterday I wanted to export a document to a lawyer and thought I really needed page numbers. I spent an hour, first on the IPAD help page and then on my IPhone help page , first ringing the instructions and then attempting to follow them. In both cases the symbols in the instructions one needed to find and tap did not appear on my devices when I followed the instructions. I kept randomly looking for them in other places or trying to find a place to add pages just hitting various options on my screens. Nothing worked. To say this really irritated me would be a very polite understatement.

2024-05-08

Annotations with Pencil is hard

I love Pages in all other ways, except for:

1) when I use it to annotate documents in a freehand manner. This is my major use of iPad and pencil. I find that working with Microsoft Word is far easier. However, I really want to do it in Pages because Word isn’t very reliable about file safety. Meaning it’s easy to lose work with it. Getting Pages into annotation mode is too difficult. And when I put it in that mode, I can only use a highlighter. When I change from highlighter to pencil, the made switches back to drawing so that when tapping the pencil to the surface, it inserts a text box instead of drawing freehand on the document.

2) this version (2024) is really hard to work with. When I type and then want to backspace to fix a typo or add punctuation, the selector selects entire words and they get deleted. I find that this version destroys my document as I try to correct things. It’s horrible. I’m sorry but I’m being direct. I literally can’t believe that someone thought this was good functionality.

2024-02-16

Terrible end of sentence sequence

One of the last updates to the app has resulted in an almost unusable on-the-fly editing. If I backspace to enter a period at end of a word at end of sentence, it highlights the word and suggests an incorrect spelling of some other replacement. If I enter the period, or any other entry, it deletes the correct word I had there. If I simply enter the period instead of backspace to avoid this result, I end up with a space between my last word and the period at end of sentence. There’s a lot of corrective measures you have to do to fix this which slows productivity and messes with stream of consciousness typing. If you’re not paying attention and doing all the edit manipulations it makes in error for you, you’ll end up with sentences missing the words you thought you typed, including having words in it you never typed in first place as well as mispelled words that their algorithm selects for you. Note that the whole thing is triggered by the backspace for the period. It’s designed to remove the space between the period and last word after you insert the period— after you’ve added a space. But the problem is no one puts a space between the last word and period as they type. So virtually every sentence you type is unnaturally expecting you to add the period after you enter a space at the end of a word. Whoever created that sequence clearly doesn’t write in English language.

2023-10-30

Love w a little frustration

I do love this app. I’m able to be organized and for the most part figured things out.

I do wish that making a graph didn’t automatically change your document from phone-view document to what’s likely a 8 1/2” x 11” page layout. However, I kinda understand.

Currently, what I don’t understand, is why when coming out of the document you were last in before leaving the app you are brought back to the main Cloud folder. And when moving a document into another folder, it doesn’t bring you to the folder you are currently in, and instead takes you to the last time you moved folders. So, say I want to move a document deep in my crochet folder to another within it, but when I select it and press the folder button, I am brought to a folder in somewhere within my plant folders. I don’t get it. Perhaps no one anticipated someone having as many folders as I do, lol.

2023-10-12

13.2 for Ipad Freezing hourly in IOS 17.0.3

Regrettably Apple evidently has not found a test that mimics normal usage, such as opening the program and typing for few minutes. In this case as I am typing as it starts to suggest the next word (the word suggestion is halfway gray) the app completely freezes and none of the controls function. After I switch out of the program, and come back, the app is either still frozen, or has exited, and I have to reopen the document I was working on. Sometimes it has retained my typing but most of the time it has lost some of my work, and I have to re-create it.

Unfortunately this app is no longer viable for serious work given the fact they have not tested it. I have a very weak internet connection and the freeze may be getting trigggered when the app is trying to do some kind of fetch related to autocomplete word lookup. Though this does not seem likely because it is engineered for standalone use, there is no telling what will happen when the fetch function hits an elaborate TCP/IP stack, and whether it is set to handle timeouts and failures at every step of the way.

2023-09-13

Great!

I enjoy writing stories, and Pages is the place to do it! It has all the tools you need for not just stories, but resumes, flyers, informational articles, anything! There are different templates you can choose from, and you can write on your computer AND phone. I would like to suggest that you add more of a “fictional story” type template so that you can view it on the computer as if it were a book you were reading online! There are templates for novel writing, but, maybe I don’t know how to access it, but I wish you could view the story and maybe flip through the pages as if it were a book. And make it so if I wanna look back at chapters, I could just tap on it, without all that scrolling! (I initially used Google Docs, which had that ability, but I found Pages easier to use in general) But overall, amazing app, just wish there were a couple of changes. I know this app will be excellent for anyone who wants to write ANYTHING.

2023-09-06

Works ok could be better

I use this app for all my paperwork and it’s manageable but not as easy to work with as I would like. I really don’t use the advanced features because every time I try to the results are so unpredictable and out of my control I just end pushing undo until I get back to normal. But the main reason I gave this app three stars is because every time they updated it gets harder to use instead of easier to use they take functions that used to be in easy to find areas that you would expect to find them and put it in an area you would never think to look in, and sometimes even make the menu practically invisible. You can ‘share” files from this all you like, no one‘s going to be able to open them. If you want anyone to be able to open them, you’re going to have to “” export them , good luck finding that menu ! 🤣There is a teeny tiny little arrow next to the name of your file at the top left-hand corner you have to click that to get the option to ““ export the document in order to put it into a format that anyone is going to be able to open. You think that’s bad ? Try getting it to add rows to your spreadsheet !

2023-07-26

Convenient to have use my phone, but dictation is miserable

It is nice to be able to write something when I’m stuck somewhere waiting. That is the main value of having pages on my phone. I like not wasting time. I like that I can send a piece to my computer or wherever to edit it. Unfortunately, the dictation Siri provides is crap. There are so many corrections I have to make. I gave up making them on my phone. It is way too hard. I just repeat the sentence over and over until it’s mostly correct and save all the mishmash to delete later I guess I really should not have given the app three stars, but I think the dictation problem is not the app. I especially hate the way Siri creates contractions that are incorrect. Often the contractions completely invalidate my meaning or express the opposite of what I want to say. Also, there are several small words that Siri always screws up. I should have left this review as Siri heard it. Then you would have seen exactly what I am talking about. If you talk to text on an iPhone, you probably already know how bad it is.

2023-05-30

Need to FIX

I have been an iPad user since they were first released. In addition to my Macbook Pro, I use the Pages app on a daily basis. When the Pages app was updated to change the “export” and “email” function, my enjoyment of the pages app has unfortunately plummeted. Now, when using the Pages app, when I export a document (as a PDF), complete the body of the email and then send said email, it doesn’t always deliver. I am very familiar with the app, so I have been incredibly disappointed Very strange. In fact, just a few minutes ago, I did the same (while watching my “sent” folder) and said email did not deliver. The difficult thing is it doesn’t happen consistently, so to be safe when using the app, and exporting documents I write in the pages app, I now must copy the body of my exported emails, and resend (this can take 2 attempts, when the pages app w/email is not working in tandem with the export feature). Professionally, this has been challenging with my work. I have had to abandon the app, altogether. I am using Microsoft Word, regularly now. Thumbs down to all the recent updates to the pages app, that have now made it unreliable and inconsistent. As a life-long Apple customer, I have had to start the “break-up” process.

2023-05-20

AMAZING APP!

I began using Pages, when I was younger, as a way to send and write funny messages to my parents. Then I began writing, a story I started with Goldie the Goat. It wasn’t a complex story; set in Stokey Farms at a petting zoo. A young goat 🐐, Goldie, became interested in her neighborhood, and began enjoying the company of a different friend: Get Going, a black-and-white goat. Blueberry and Blackberry, Goldie’s sister and brother, had warned her about this goat, but she ignored them. Then, one day, after discovering a pig called Mo and a rabbit named Fluffy, Goldie quickly realized that Get Going’s friendship wasn’t as true as she’d expected. Later in the story, we find that Get Going is pregnant, but thanks to a scar from a terrifying attack of an emu, she’s too injured 🤕 to give birth. Luckily, (spoilers ahead!) all the buds dress Get Going’s wounds and help her with her son Get Up. It was a messy story, but I started doing Warriors, Bravelands, Wings of Fire,

2023-05-03

😊

I like your content and how organized this app is it’s just there’s some small minor errors in my opinion, which are just a small suggestion, which is when you capitalize a made up word in most writing apps, it acts as a title, which doesn’t add the red things underneath the word, but this app doesn’t have that which makes me a little bit sad because I want to be able to make a made up word like a name, without it, being underlined with red, which can get kind of annoying. And a error is whenever you try to change the size of a word or sentence maybe even the rest of the story or what you’re writing about it glitches and doesn’t let you change the size and less you do it like 1000 times so that’s just like a little error that I’m hoping you guys can fix it. I’m not asking for much here. I’m saying you guys app is a good app. I’m just hoping you guys can make some miners movements, you don’t have to that I just suggest it thank you for listening to my comment. Thank you. 🥲

2023-04-25

Fantastic Program

So I am not sure why pages gets so many bad reviews. This is a fantastic word processor program. It might not have all the “full desktop” features as Microsoft Office on PC has but the truth of the matter is few people need or would ever use all of the features Microsoft office has. Pages has worked near flawlessly. It is easy to find the features you need and navigate through the app. Very stable and looks good. This is all I use anymore for any kind of writing or longer notes that I have to write. I used to own a surface pro and used PC my whole life before coming to iPad and I can tell you I don’t miss Microsoft office at all. The only thing I wish pages had (and this would include Pages on Mac) is the ability to have both footnotes and endnotes on the same document. Being forced to select one or the other is annoying however in practical terms, writing papers in college only usually requires one or the other.

2023-04-24

AMAZING

Me and my friend has been writing a movie for two years and just a few months ago did I discover pages. We had been using Apple Notes, but it was becoming harder and harder to use especially as the movie progressed. One of my friends who has an iPhone 12 told me it took up way too much storage and it slowed the whole app down. I knew I had to do something or else the script wouldn’t last and the movie would have to be forgotten. I started looking and almost had my mind sent on using google docs or even Microsoft Word until I was scrolling three my phone and found an app wig a pen. I tapped on it, and it turned out that this app had everything I was looking for. The collaboration form was THE BEST. On other apps I’ve used when people can work together it always goes slow and people end up deleting each others work.

So I guess what I’m trying to say is that pages is an amazing app and I’m glad I stumbled across it. I love all the cool features!

2023-04-20

This is great for writing

I love pages and have literally created 100’s of documents. I write stories and this has been the only app that has worked. I would like to be able to change where the word count starts in my document as I put my background, and character info in the same file, but I’ve bee able to make it work. I was able to create a template and use it but it’s sort of annoying that you can’t get to it from a icloud.

Overall the ease of writing is great, it’s not a distracting format, it would be nice to have the ability to look at a specific page or notes on a side menu while I’m writing, but I’m able to navigate to my notes page with the table of contents. Putting a description on the file would be awesome too.

I’ve tried most of the writing software out there, scrivener, living writer, and a ton of others but I find this to be the easiest to keep everything in one place. I can open it on anything and not lose my work, look at past versions etc, share it, and read it on my kindle app. It doesn’t work that well with the accessibility function of voice over as it will stop after about three pages and then you have to scroll through to find your place and keep reading but most people don’t probably use that function. I find listening to my story helps me find errors.

I’ve been able to add pictures, drawings, and use my apple pencil to write in Pages. This is a powerful app that work well.

2023-04-20

Improvements to Pages

I like most features, and Pages generally works well. I use it mostly on my iPad.

Recently there has been a change to the “Find” function. The widget isn’t completely opaque, so it’s hard to read until I touch the widget. Also, in the past, repeating the keyboard shortcut (Command-F) would close the find function. That no longer works, forcing me to touch “Done” to close the find widget. The less Pages forces me to touch the screen, the better.

I used to be able to toggle the Command key to cause the text cursor to disappear (I assume taking me out of edit mode). After that the up/down arrows can scroll in either direction. That no longer works. Now I must touch the screen to get out of input/edit mode. If I forget to do this, scroll the text, then hit enter, Pages zips back to the location of the text cursor and I have to manually scroll to find my place in the text. And it would be nice to have a keyboard shortcut to page forward and back instead of scrolling.

2023-01-06

Overlooking options

Hi guys, I tend to use a USB keyboard when working on my ipad. I just realized that if I want to insert something as simple as a page break, I was never able to find it. Turns out that the options for this are attached to the virtual keyboard and it doesn’t show up when using a USB one. So I have to turn it off to pull the virtual keyboard, select the option and reconnect again, all for a a simple function that should be in the regular main menu.

I have been working with pages since it launched on the MAC and always appreciated the level of detail in formatting options and convenience and I must say it has become quite counter intuitive and reduced in the app. I use my ipad as my main device now and think that with the new processors and 15 years later we would see a radical improvement, but it’s disconcerting when the apps from that time are better and easier to use.

I wanted to send nothing but constructive feedback with the best intentions as I always thought apple was in the smart path of thoughtfulness rather than making everything trendy and minimal to a fault. Thanks

2022-12-28

Good start

I have been using Pages for a long time now, and I think that it is overall a fantastic app. However, there are some glitches that are not helpful and using the app extraordinarily difficult to start. The auto correction is too extreme whenever I would type simple words such as because or table, it would put a red line under it, saying that I spelled it wrong. I would check all of the words that I got wrong using a dictionary, and I still got the same result. I had to fix this by turning off the auto correction completely, which wasn’t what I wanted to do because it’s some cases I do want the auto correct, but not in cases where it is that extreme. Secondly, the templates are super Jenkee. I cannot get a single one of them to work like they are supposed to. I can’t find a way to change the background on any of the templates, so I just had to start with a blank book. not to mention the pages have a weird gibberish title, Erna sempter and it’s not helpful because what I need is just a blank line with spacing and a chapter 1 where I have to delete so much that I don’t have any room to actually write a novel. starting with a blank document is the only thing that works well and even that Jenkee. If you could, please change these this would be a very good app and it would be just like word. I would appreciate it if these changes were made thank you very much.

2022-12-26

Awesome App, but one thing bothers me!

I love using this app! I’ve used it to construct my other 3 poem books, and I must say navigating between options to figure out how to do what was a task but when I figured it out it was dope. I’ve created 3 masterpieces that I won’t be putting out until next year due to Pages. It’s the only app I feel I can use to freely construct my books the way that I wish. I just have one small problem.

I think you all could have a built-in book cover maker or even something we could draw or sketch a cover. I believe that y’all do and I just haven’t used it yet. I do have some ideas for a new book, and I plan on putting it together. I might try it out first but that is one thing it could use. The second is better don’t styles especially for book titles. A bit more diversity would be nice, and add a bit more of an eclectic feel to it. Other than that, I love this app! Thank you all so much for such a wonderful creation. I appreciate what all you’ve done with it thus far. It has been extremely motivating! ♥️✨

2022-10-27

No more grammar options?

I updated this app a couple days ago, and now it seems to be missing any suggestions for fixing misspelled words. For instance while re-working an old doc from years ago, I discovered a typo where it said “likeable” with an E and had a red line. So I clicked on it, and all the other options show up like Replace and Define, but no alternative spellings. I also backed up against it and still no options for spellings. This was happening on another doc/different word last night too. Very frustrating to get no spelling options now when trying to write. I fixed “likable” on my own, but there are other times when the grammar spellcheck comes in handy and I’m so disappointed that every time I update this app, I get more issues. To the developers: please, do not ask for more info or a video of the problem in operation; I’ve described it clearly and there’s no reason for you to ask. Never mind that once you developers get that information you disappear and are never heard from again.

2022-07-18

Track Changes Barely Useable

When using track changes, it creates a pop-up window asking to approve or reject a change. So if you are in the middle of typing a document and the text happens to move where the cursor is (magic keyboard) keyboard inputs are stopped and the pop up emerges. If you are trying to place your cursor to make an edit, pop up emerges and cancels keyboard input. This makes it exceedingly difficult to edit documents in collaborative projects as keyboard inputs randomly get turned off over pop ups asking you to accept or reject the changes you are currently making. The closest analogue I can think of is the old days of internet explorer where pop up ads would jump out at you while trying to type an email. It just creates an incredibly disruptive UI when the user is trying to focus on editing a document.

Please disable these pop ups - anyone using track changes can figure out a long-press solution. But people are much more likely to be working on documents with track changes than just reviewing them - the latter takes longer than the former. So please change your default use case scenario for this feature.

2022-03-20

Great App!

I love this app, especially because it allows me to write freely. I love to make books, even though I’m not even ten yet! It’s great that there is no age requirements, even though many people think that you need to be an adult to write books. The way that you can add photos, charts, tables, ornaments, and different text styles is amazing and easy! I love how it isn’t hard to publish books on this amazing app, because you can just tap a button, and it’s on Apple Books! People can have very organized text using pages, and that’s really helpful. Before I used pages, I had a bit of a hard time trying to do everything on notes. I didn’t have the proper tools or templates to write books, so I was never able to. I often tried to read my work, but ended up accidentally touching my keyboard and typing unwanted text. Soon I started using pages and noticed that it is easier to do many things on this app then on notes. This app makes writing easy, whatever age you are!

2021-04-18

5 Star App... Until Now

I bought a 12.9 inch iPad Pro (current gen) with the Magic Keyboard to write my novel on Pages. I have used Pages on my MacBook Pro for years. The iOS version of the app has gradually gotten to be almost as robust as the MacOS version, to the point that I purchased this iPad and Keyboard to be my exclusive form of writing while traveling.

However, the most recent update (Version 11.0) has made this app unusable. The input lag from both the Magic Keyboard, and the onscreen keyboard is so incredibly frustrating, that I felt compelled to write a review — as I can no longer write my book. It takes anywhere from a second to three seconds for the screen to catch up to the keystrokes I pressed. I have quit and restarted the app, the iPad, and am running the most recent versions of all software.

Very disappointed. Will revert to 5-stars / write a glowing review of the app once this bug is fixed.

2021-01-11

Literally amazing

I love the app, and I use it to write my books. I do have one idea, though. I think you could have a grammar assistant, similar to Grammarly, but free. When I write, sometimes I do get off track in my tenses (for example, I would write “I said” instead of “I say” but not notice it), and it would be sUpEr cool if Apple had a software IN Pages that helped you with that. For example, you could have different settings like “change tense” added to the “More” tab. What these settings would do is present a question asking what tense you’re writing in, you answer, then it reads your document and highlights all the errors in it, making suggestions for changes to make. You would also have the option to ignore or accept the change, since you could be in a flashback and need to be in the past tense, but the rest of your document is in present tense.

I think that this would be a great addition to the app and make it all the more worth using. Thank you so much for reading this!!

2020-04-02

Pages Works For Me

I use Pages constantly as my main word processor. I love the Newsletter templates. I alter them a lot but it gives me the basic lay out and nice color ideas. I find it very user friendly. I’m just doing basic documents and newsletters but Pages works great for me. The only trouble I’ve had is getting my cursor down to the next blank page at times. I figured out if I type a letter I can move that down and access the next page. It’s annoying but the other features: changing style, colors, using text boxes so it’s movable, columns, templates, types of type built in, adding pictures you can move around, wrapping text, etc. tons of features. It’s really excellent. I used to use Pagemaker for years and Word just never cut it for me. I find this little app can do everything I need and more. Adding; NEEDS A FORWARD DELETE BUTTON.

2020-02-29

New problems that are time suckers

I love Pages and use it for writing almost exclusively. In one of the recent updates there was a change to how you move the cursor, and it is beyond frustrating. I want the old version of the cursor landing where I touch. This new version makes it impossible to split to words if there was no space between when typing without spending time moving it around with the space bar. The space bar thing is cool but not at the expense of being able to touch the screen to move the cursor to a precise location. Then sometimes it chooses a word, sometimes it won’t. Sometimes I can it to pop up the menu with select and select all and sometimes I cannot. I use this on an iPad Pro and find myself frustrated on a daily if not hourly basis. This same thing applies to text messages and emails. I simply find it most frustrating in Pages because I use it so much. I would have given at least 4 stars and will amend if they this is fixed. Thank you!

2020-01-22

Buggy, iPad Pro 11”

I like the flexibility, the layout ability, and the templates. But, it is temperamental and buggy with simple word processing. I’m trying to use a book formatted document from a provided template. I pause here to say that it’s annoying to open a book template with an iPad in English mode, bearing an English title cover page, but with sample content totally in French...all of them. If I try to partially utilize the template’s formatting by altering the content slightly, the app erases it all and I have to totally retype it...negates the usefulness of the template. Tapping to place the cursor to modify text sporadically doesn’t work. When that happens, the only way to get the cursor placed correctly is to first tap into an entirely different place in the document and then place the cursor. The cursor placement method of holding the space bar and using it as a trackpad doesn’t work about 15% of the time with this app only. Text styles are annoyingly uneditable. Earth to app designers everywhere: While I appreciate your formatting suggestions, you need to recognize it is not your device, nor your document. Please do not impose your style on the rest of us by locking out alterations to a preformatted style. If, for instance, if I want sentence case instead of caps lock, that’s my call, not yours.

2019-01-30

Has Apple abandoned Pages?

I’ve been a loyal Apple fan since the Apple II days. I’ve almost exclusively used Apple software.

Pages has always been a bit of a clunker but I stayed with it. But recently it felt to be more of a struggle than it was worth. Even the old AppleWorks version was better than the current version. So I think this is it Apple. I’m gonna to have to ditch Pages for ..... Microsoft Word or some other word processing s/w.

In the same vein - Apple seems to have lost its sense of mission. Where is the killer instinct for really great products and services? Or are you content to tweak a little here and there and tell us we ought o excited about the new issues? Like your iPhone upgrades. There was just a little too much of a money grab that felt like we were being taken for granted. So nope. I ain’t gonna give you my money.

BTW is Maps still a thing with Apple? Or are you guys gonna dump that sometimes soon? Hate to say it but I just turn to Google maps without even thinking. That’s how irrelevant Apple Maps is to me. And millions of others.

2019-01-21

iPad Pro document organization weird

I LOVE PAGES. I USE IT DAILY. I ENJOY SMART ANNOTATION BETA. YIPPIE! But...

For some time now Pages on my iPad Pro does not organize my "recent" documents accurately according to date. Now Recents includes documents from 2018 and just 3 from 2019, only one of which I opened yesterday. Notice that I add to 3 (THREE) documents daily. I have figured out how to find these by going to Browse for one, but for the third document I have to go to Browse, select iCloud Drive, select Pages and select a particular folder and then am able to find the document.

Immediately after I close Pages, these two searched-for documents retreat into Browse again, so if I want to see these two documents I repeat the little Browse searches identically. Previously Recents actually included all recently used documents. Why? This problem occurred with my iPhone X for a few days, but an upgrade to iOS 12.1.2 fixed it. I have been not-so-patiently waiting for the correction to occur on IPad Pro on which I have upgraded to iOS 12.1.1. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE FIX THIS. I BEG YOU!

2018-12-26

Unforgivably bad typographic controls!

As a former graphic designer who used PageMaker, InDesign and even Pages professionally on the Mac for many years, I was shocked when I downloaded Pages to my iPad for the very first time and saw how simple-minded its typographic controls are. Line-spacing, to mention an obvious example, can only be adjusted in 0.25-line increments, which is practically useless to anyone who knows anything at all about typography. Even TextEdit, the simplest of all basic word processors, can adjust line-spacing by tenths.

Meanwhile, there are no tracking adjustments at all. Even Bean, another simple word processing app that offers better typographic adjustments than TextEdit, includes finely-calibrated tracking adjustments. These two features, tracking and line spacing, are absolutely basic essentials for any “desktop publishing” app worthy of the name. Pages for iPad gets a big “FAIL!” for these unforgivable omissions. It is nothing more than a basic word processor with a few fancy templates thrown in.

I won’t get into the extremely mediocre font selection, or the lack of another feature as basic as default document layout and font parameters that are automatically applied to all new basic documents. I could write a book about how anemic and inadequate Pages for iPad truly is, but I won’t.

2017-12-15

Can’t create new documents on the iPhone app version

I don’t use this app very often and in fact mainly use it to make memes every now and then, ergo, I can’t said much about how great the app is. HOWEVER, I will mention this one complaint that has stopped me from being able to use the app on my iPhone. The app never stops loading a new document when I select one, after pressing the plus sign. After deleting and reinstalling the Pages app several times, and even getting to a place where I had Wi-fi, it still didn’t allow me to create anything new. Also, it wouldn’t let me open a document up I originally made; I thought I could just open up an old and delete everything and rename it later, but the app couldn’t even open something that was old. Eventually I gave up and just downloaded the app to my iPad, and it worked fine. Although, I don’t take my iPad everywhere, of course, and would appreciate it if you fix this problem with the iPhone version. I have no idea myself on what’s going on, maybe the loading is taking forever. Hopefully you guys can figure it out. Thanks.

2017-07-26

ONE Problem and only ONE!!!

I absolutely LOVE pages, numbers and keynote. I have Office on my MacBook but prefer these over Office hands down. I have purchased so many of the template apps as well, that now I think I could open a business creating documents for others.

The problem is that the rest of the world does not use these Mac apps. Most of the time, I have to send my masterpieces that I spend hours on back to the office where everyone uses Office, so before I do, I have to send the document to myself so I can see what changes were made in Office and then make it look as close to what I originally created as possible. There should be better compatibility between the 2. Many have complained about the font shortage. That is definitely a true issue, but my biggest complaint is the compatibility. When I import docs from Office to iWork there are also issues (background color or font color changes in keynote, drop down menus change in numbers, etc.)

Please, please, please do something to improve this. I love playing with the templates and creating beautiful items that everyone thinks I'm a great graphical genius, but if the rest of the office can't see them, using/buying these apps is pointless.

2017-07-20

Utterly devoid of even a sliver of value

Each time Apple has issued a new release of Pages for iPad, it has gotten slower. So long as you stay strictly in a typing mode, without repositioning the input location or highlighting text, it works just fine. But if you need to make a change a sentence or two back, the wait for the application to respond to this is sometimes greater than fifteen seconds. I don't understand how people who are supposed to know something about software can do this kind of thing. Don't they even bother to try and use the thing they implemented? I just do not get it. I've checked the amount of free memory, I've closed all other apps, I've rebooted the iPad. The problem is in the app. When you reposition the insertion points, the software takes a hike, no doubt due to some bug, because there is no possible way that anything that it might ought to be doing should take that long. Apple does not test their software. Apple honestly does not know how to develop software. They don't understand the crucial role of requirements documents in the design process, and they do not make any more than a token effort to test it before releasing it.

2017-06-14

lag and keeps changing my formatting

Seriously problematic. I even reduced as many features as possible and it has a ton of latency on my iPad 4 (no that's not that old->fast enough to play vainglory no problem. no speed problems searching the internet).

I have 1 page documents that have 2 columns and the latency is atrocious. It's a 1 page list! how can this have more lag than a touchscreen moba?! I turned off every bonus feature i could find and it still lags when i click to edit or copy paste...oh and did i mention this new update is reformatting my layout? titles are now somehow in the same row as the text and even after i fix it by separating the two-->but wait! i open the document and they are on top of each other again. This is ridiculous. oh and i'd edit this, but why bother---clearly its totally cool now days to just put things out there without quality control.

and i may sound like that guy that's critical on everything--i'm not! I never give bad reviews! Seriously never---but this basic app has been giving me problems for months. i've posted on the ios boards, read every possible thing i could about the problem---nothing helps. I just want to cut and paste and click without waiting 3 seconds every-time i click to edit---and final i thought they fixed it! nope! 10x worse and with new and exciting formatting problems!

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The iPad’s best Word Processor?

I love pages!

Truly Remarkable

Apple Pages has only 2 flaws

really good overall, a couple of bugs, a couple wishes!

From grate great to best

Amazing App! Probably one of my most used apps, BUT

Needs more features…

I like Pages a lot