User Ratings

★★★★★
★★★★
★★★
★★
86
11
3
0
5
ease 1 of 5 2 of 5 3 of 5 4 of 5 5 of 5 4 / 5
features 1 of 5 2 of 5 3 of 5 4 of 5 5 of 5 4 / 5
design 1 of 5 2 of 5 3 of 5 4 of 5 5 of 5 4 / 5
support 1 of 5 2 of 5 3 of 5 4 of 5 5 of 5 4 / 5

Rate This Project
Login To Rate This Project

User Reviews

  • Very useful and delicate app!
  • Excellent PDF reader, really well done and with sound scripting support (which is much appreciated), thank you!
  • Irritated by Adobe Reader and unable to afford the full Adober suite anymore, I saw Skim recommended for academics like me who have to review lots of PDFs. Great for that purpose! No complaints...praise to the coders!
  • Great
  • I LOVE Skim, but version 1.6.9 has a bug: it places an annoying black rectangle over the part of page containing an error, which remains there after correcting and after quitting Skim. So I re-installed 1.6.8 and all is well! Thank you for your (usually faultless) work! Much appreciated.
  • Thank you for the app, it's better !! BUT, please, make that the space does not flip through the pages, or so that it can be customized. Any hot keys can be changed and customized on mac, but not the spacebar ...
  • Best PDF reader ever -- and a dark / sepia mode coming soon!
  • Full marks, I've used skim for a while. One of those essential things.
  • I switched to Skim after Adobe Acrobat reader stopped supporting synctex with LyX. This is an amazing application with awesome features. Keep up the good work!
  • Genuinely the best PDF reader I have used to date. Hassle free and and smooth as butter. this is so much better than Adobe acrobat and is now my default PDF reader. fantastic annotation functionality, looks sleek and is lightweight. I made an account to write this
  • Skim is a superior alternative to all pdf readers in the mac. Favorite feature: split display, allowing one to simultaneously look into two parts of the same document.
  • The name "Skim" truly suites its design and features. This is the best PDF reading tool for OSX. I use it for reading and marking technical papers that I need to keep open in many tabs. The session bookmark is really useful. If I close the app by accident no open tab is lost.
  • This project is really good for working with digital role-playing material. Just the ability for bookmarks to open closed documents is worth its use.
  • Great Mac app for viewing PDFs. I have used Skim daily as a developer working with PDF files for many years and also found it useful in graduate school where I must have read hundreds of PDF documents. Never had a single issue! This is an essential tool installed on all my Macs.
  • Mac OS inbuilt preview mistook text selection as pdf editing and saved the pdf files as backup sometimes. When trying to select some text in a large pdf, it gets stuck sometimes. I needed a simple, lightweight viewer. I've been using Skim for a while. It turned out to be great for my requirements. Snapshot is a great feature. Regarding notes, they are NOT SAVED with the cmd+s. It should be exported by selecting the embedding notes option in the export pdf menu. Then it can be opened with any other pdf viewer and the notes are retained. My only feature request would be to add reverse order search on clicking shift+enter on the search field.
  • Have you ever spent hours working on filling out forms only to have all your work deleted? With SkimPDF you can get this done easily and entirely free of charge! That's right. Your fillable fields are NOT SAVED... and it doesn't even tell you that! It just kindly lets you delete all your hard work without a peep. The program is very easy to use and has some handy features, but when you're doing something terribly important, it will let you down.
  • By far the best, most capable and quickest PDF viewer/annotator for macOS there is. Has tons of power-user and academic features, and a perfect support.
  • It's a must have software for studying and working. Since I discovered it my activities has been much more productivity. The options to export the notes and highlights are, for me, ones of the greatest tools. By the way, the developer is open to feedbacks and a fast-responser. I definitely recommend it.
  • Great
  • I am using Skim with Sublime, and LaTeXTools. Very nice tool!
  • Absolutely invaluable for students. It has made my studying much more efficient.
  • Just so good. Fixes all my major gripes with inbuilt Preview.
  • A wonderful example of what the open-source community can do and one of my favorite Mac apps
  • Reliable pdf reader and editor.
  • This application is an excellent tool for students, and any other professionals and non-professionals who needs to annotate their pdfs. It provides full sets of tools for storing your ideas while reading them. This is the best alternative to the default pdf viewer. Highly recommended!
Show next 25 reviews >