Pages Reviews

by Chicken_the_God

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!

by Omalansky

As a former graphic designer who used PageMaker, InDesign and even this app professionally on the Mac for many years, I was shocked when I downloaded this app 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. this app 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 this app for iPad truly is, but I won’t.

by Kaiser Soze Is My Nickname But They Say Someone Else Is Using It.

Each time Apple has issued a new release of this app 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 Pages . 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.

by Sue From P'ton

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

For some time now this app 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 this app and select a particular folder and then am able to find the document.

Immediately after I close this app, 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!

by Icosace1022

I don’t use Pages very often and in fact mainly use it to make memes every now and then, ergo, I can’t said much about how great Pages is. HOWEVER, I will mention this one complaint that has stopped me from being able to use Pages on my iPhone. Pages never stops loading a new document when I select one, after pressing the plus sign. After deleting and reinstalling the this app 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 Pages couldn’t even open something that was old. Eventually I gave up and just downloaded Pages 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.

by Grinandbaritone

I love this app 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 this app because I use it so much. I would have given at least 4 stars and will amend if they this is fixed. Thank you!

by Reviewer057

The following needs to be improved before this app for iPhone will earn 5 stars from me:

Inability for me to either modify Basic Templates or allowing me to create my own templates. Because of this, I am forced to tediously redo template parameters for every single document I create. The ability to do this is available in MSN Word for iPhone.
Since the issuance of iOS13 and its revisions to on-screen cursor operations, I am constantly frustrated by the following: 1) the inability to easily position the cursor within a word or between two improperly conjoined words, and particularly within words highlighted by the program as mis-spelled and 2) the difficulty in selecting a group of words because I am unable to move my finger away from blocking the view of my selection while I’m making it. These problems don’t exist for me in either Notes or most other iPhone apps where I find the new cursor operations a real improvement over the old.

by Totality5

3 stars (on mobile) because if you want to quickly turn images into a pdf, this works fine, but if you want to do anything else or anything slightly fancy on mobile (like delete a page) it’s kind of useless.

Tried forcing myself to use Pages again and it is still kind of useless. I am using this on an iPhone X. After arbitrarily adding an extra page to the end of the document, it now refuses to delete the page. It is frustrating that Pages actually fails to do simple tasks like delete a page. For whatever reason it will not let me select just one page to delete and tries to delete all the this app. Yes I’m using thumbnail mode. I generally only use Pages to make a quick pdf with several images, but Pages ’s inability to do a simple task like delete a page drives me insane. You would think something as simple and rudimentary as deleting a page would not have any issues.

by Snikpoh9402

I absolutely LOVE this app, 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.

by Eccl1213

this app is fantastic. It has all the basic tools that you need more most cases. I did my doctoral work off of this app as well as plenty of other things. Absolutely no issues with it. Is it as fully features as Microsoft Word? No. But most people don’t need all the features that Microsoft Word offers. And this is coming from someone who used to own multiple pc laptops and a Surface pro who used Microsoft Word all the time. Just keep adding features Apple!

The only thing I wish it did better was accessibility to footnotes and endnotes. Currently, I have to turn on keyboard shortcuts (that annoying bar at the bottom of the screen). I don’t like to have the shortcut bar across the bottom of my screen while working. I want as much screen real estate to write as I can get with my iPad. It would be nice if this option was accessible in the paintbrush icon or the 3 dots.

by Agent Green Fox

Alright, there are a tremendous amount of complaints about this application. Keep that feedback coming in so developers can remedy such flaws you may stumble upon. Although, what most people fail to appreciate is the simplicity the developers have created in this application. They have created a way to construct beautiful documents with minimal experience needed by the end user. By that, I applaud you! I would also like to point out the extremely helpful “this app Help” guide within the application settings. Finding a solution in the “this app Help” section are easy to sift through the categorized sections, providing simple instructions, and are written in simple language that anyone can understand.

Nothing is perfect, though this application is a huge step forward than Microsoft Word when comparing simple user interface and functionality.

Thank you developers!

by Skye2blu

I use this app 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 this app 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.

by WolfGirl07_YT

So, I don’t understand why people are so mad about lag. Most of the time, it has to do with their iPad being old, and I can confirm that since I use to have this app on an older iPad and it did lag, but it was the iPad not Pages . I have an iPad that is from 2018, and Pages works perfectly fine for me. I also really enjoy the fact that in this app, you can pretty much make a book/essay/something else with multiple people! When I do that, I FaceTime my friend and at the same time we discuss what we want to add and take away from the thing we are writing. So, in all, this app is amazing and the only way that it could not be good is because the iPad/phone the person is using is an older version. So for someone else that is going to get this app, if your device is old, or more then 4 years old I would get a newer device.

by Marc11vvchn Czsdg

I’m a junior in college and I use this app for every document I need to create. I can say I use Pages more than most and I’m pretty experienced with it. I love how integrated Pages is with all of your devices. Anything I start on my MacBook easily appears on my iPad and iPhone. I mainly write up documents on the Mac and then use my phone to send my document to my professor. I love this feature and many more which is why I can’t stand using Microsoft Word if I had too. The only thing that is left to be desired is a more easier export of documents on the MacBook. I find that it’s easier to export and send documents on my phone that it is on the MacBook. You can still do it on the MacBook but it’s more cumbersome and a little more time consuming. Overall great app highly recommend you give it a try.

by Dreamn.jane

Although I haven’t yet used this app’ complex templates, it has worked very well for documents of more basic to moderate levels of difficulty such as lists, outlines, handouts, posters, and letters. Notwithstanding, in creating these documents, I have made use of a number of the more creative features.

I sometimes add the pre-made shapes that can be altered in a variety of interesting ways. I add rather sophisticated drawings to personal letters just for fun or to illustrate something I’m writing about. The wrap-around feature works very well when using these and other features available within Pages . When creating posters I can take advantage of the many font choices, colors, sizes, and layout features to make them as lively and fun, or sophisticated and sedate, as desired.

I find this app to be fairly intuitive but am able to quickly access user guidelines when needed for further instructions when needed. I sometimes, but not often, run into problems; these, however are usually corrected without much difficulty once I become more acquainted with a particular feature I’m using.

All in all, I am very pleased to have discovered this app and look forward to discovering other ways in which I will be able to use its other document types and features in future.

by Krazykat719

Just a couple complaints! The number one being that while I love that this app has a very easy-on-the-eyes layout that’s pretty easy to follow, it’s not student friendly AT ALL! I hate having to use Word to get my college assignments formatted correctly because this app doesn’t allow room for things like MLA8 format or even APA or Chicago style. I would use it so much more if I could format my essays properly, but I can’t on this app. My second qualm is with creating a document on my phone. Why does it change all the fonts and sizes and color only when I’m on my phone? I don’t ask for it to be bigger and I want all my texts to be the same size, but this app on my phone automatically changes it to something completely different that I can’t change. Now I have to type something on Google docs instead of this app on my phone.

by Unhappy Poop

Hi! I’m Meredith! I just ❤️ Pages so much! Writing stories is so much fun! You can write just about ANYTHING! You can even be inspired by new ideas! Writers have new thoughts everyday! I have about 116 stories on this app and it’s amazing. I usually don’t always get the chance to edit them, because when you’re writing that many stories it’s not easy multitasking. I require everybody who enjoys writing or wants a chance to write something juicy. You can make stories that have to do with dreams, drama comedy or just about anything! You can use gorgeous fonts and gorgeous colors to make your stories detailed! I love Pages! I surely would recommend it to anybody who loves to write as much as me! But I love that when you stop writing it still saves your work and it shows where you left off. You can even delete your notes and make new ones!!! Thank you this app for making my writing career better each day!

by Warlord65546765

I love Pages, 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 this app, and that’s really helpful. Before I used this app, 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 this app and noticed that it is easier to do many things on Pages then on notes. Pages makes writing easy, whatever age you are!

by Itsjohnny!

I love Pages , 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 this app 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 Pages and make it all the more worth using. Thank you so much for reading this!!

by Doubletap2008

I don't get it. Some people seem to hate Pages so much, and it is really getting on my nerves. A lot of them are comparing it to more advanced apps on the computer. OF COURSE those are going to be better. But really? Why is everybody complaining so much? My experience on this app has been great. If you have an iPad or iPhone and are an aspiring author, then this app is a great app to create stories and even future books. You can also use it to write things for school, though yes, it is not the most professional app. It has some flaws but overall is exactly what it says it is: an app to write and store documents on. Whether those documents are fiction stories, or your own biography, it will be useful. It also has templates for flyers and brochures. Yes, it is not perfect. But it is free and should not be receiving all the horrible reviews. It is several steps above Notes, if any of you have Pages .

Maybe some people have had different experiences then me. Pages has had barely any glitches, and the ones it had were easily fixed by closing Pages .

To this app developers:
THANK you!!! I love Pages, since I hope to be a writer someday. I would die without it. I store all of my ideas and stories on here, and I even use it to print out reports for school.

by Madman Man K?

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!

by Lensmithjr

I use this app on my iPad to record research notes and write short reviews. For some reason, this app will not consistently save my work. There is no save button so that I can make sure a document actively saves when I exit the program. Recently, I lost 2 important documents when I was almost finished with them. My wife came to pick me up, so I closed my iPad. When I opened everything back up a few seconds later I was greeted with a message that document was deleted. I searched and the lastest autosave only has the first 2 lines of the first paragraph of the document!! I have been noticing this problem over the last few weeks as I have been using Pages more than usual.

To be clear, I did not close this app and I did not exit the document. I blanked the screen, walked to the car, and went back into my iPad...poof! this app had backed out of my document and deleted it. Why?! Why would it just dump the data when it had trouble saving to iCloud or whatever caused the problem? Completely unreliable!! Looking for a more professional solution.

by Redtail47

I’ve been using Apple products for about 12 years now, and I have to say that this app for IPad is one of the worst Apps I’ve used. It has always had weird temporary problems, but also lots of very consistent ones too. For example if I’m typing fast and hit 2 Keys almost at the same time it highlights a chunk of my paragraph and with my next keystroke deletes it. This isn’t just this app, it happens whenever I use the onscreen keyboard and I’m typing fast...someone should’ve fixed that. Then for a long time I could not get it to bold italics or underline...it would just highlight an empty spot, and I’d try over and over. Sometimes eventually it’d work, other times I’d just have to do it on my laptop. That went on for years. About 6 months ago it finally stopped happening. Now Pages just freezes from time to time for no reason and won’t unfreeze, sometimes for days...I can’t do anything and shutting off and turning back on IPad doesn’t help. Also now there’s a problem with the backspace button that doesn’t occur anywhere but this app. I’ll hit the back space and nothing will happen, so I’ll hit again and nothing, then suddenly it’ll erase two spaces. It doesn’t seem like a big issue, but it is when you’re working fast. Sometimes I’ll even start typing again and it’ll erase what I’ve typed. Just very frustrating.

by Ashlyn Starsong

So, I’ve been using this app for three years. I’ve made great things in those three years. I’ve successfully made things for my Science Convention and so forth.
It only started today that I’ve been having problems with this application. It could be a problem with my device, which could be undeniable. However, it is still a possible component in my adversity.
The actual problems I have are: a) I can access different templates but not actually see it.
I know it is only one problem, but it is a big impact on my life because I really like Pages, it’s just, the bug needs to be fixed somehow so I can do all of the things on this very reliable application. That is why I gave it such a low rating, loving it so much, because I know it can be better. Again, I love Pages, however, I do not regret the 3/5 star rating decision. Thusly, I will give it a higher rating if something changes.

by AnAppleOrAGrape

this app is a really cool app and all, but I am getting super frustrated with recurring problems in Pages . For example, I have a page of photos. Just photos with 3 or 4 lines of text. But over time, the photos will move around, scrunch together, without me even touching them. When I try to move them back to their original places, they'll just snap right back to being clumped in the center. And sometimes a line of text will appear right in the middle of the page. I am unable to move it back without deleting ALL the photos, no matter where they are.
One time I added a drawing onto a page of text. The drawing will also move around for no reason at all. I did not alter the text, edit the drawing or do anything. It is SO annoying. this app will also freeze at very annoying times (mostly when I press "Documents") and will only work if I restart the iPad 2-3 times.

by DenaSings

I have used this app since its inception. I’ve used it on desktops, laptops, pads and phones. Each update makes Pages better. Many of the complaints listed here are easily solved by watching videos or fixes made in updates. Some of the solutions are not apparent. However, spending a bit of time trouble shooting works.

It’s nice to be able to create all the documents for my three business— from letterheads to invoices to signs to booklets to labels. To be able to access them across all my devices and send them to anyone by pdf or word document is amazing.

The only issue I have is with printing booklets because my color laser printer is old and does not interface well. In previous versions of Pages , it was easy to invert an entire page. But believe me, all the other benefits of this program outweighs that small issue. I just need to get a new laser printer with the money I’ve saved on graphic design. Enjoy.

by Prettyshadowgirl64

I began to use Pages as a writing tool when google docs malfunctioned. I saw that it was already downloaded on my phone, so I kept it and began to write my books in it. I can’t believe how amazing it is! You can write books, letters, school reports, and even resumes! I’m in the middle of writing a book called The Masked Four, and I’m still working on the title. I could jot anything down in Pages on a blank page, and I haven’t experienced any glitches. This writing app is a must-have, and it helps your spelling and it’s always Pages I come to when I want to write my books. I hope to print and publish these books someday in the future, and it would mean the world to me if the developers supported that. My author name is Heather Soukie, and I’m looking forward to writing more books! Thank you! Five stars all the way!