LiquidText Alternative: LiquidText Pricing, LiquidText for Android and AI Across Your PDFs
LiquidText runs on iPad, Mac and Windows only. There is no Android app and no web version, and its AI assistant is still listed as a private beta. If you read on an Android tablet or a Chromebook, or you mostly want answers from a stack of PDFs rather than a workspace full of excerpts, MentalClone runs in any browser, reads PDF, Word, Excel, text and scanned pages, and answers only from the files you uploaded, from about $11 a month.
- ✓ Works on Android, Chromebook, Windows, Mac and iPad in a browser, nothing to install
- ✓ Ask one question across many documents instead of pulling excerpts by hand
- ✓ Each answer names the file it came from, and says so when your files are silent
LiquidText, Adobe and Humata details come from each vendor's own website.
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Why people look for a LiquidText alternative
LiquidText is one of the best tools ever made for reading a hard document closely, and most people who leave still say so. They leave for practical reasons. Work out which of these four is yours before comparing anything, because each one points to a different replacement.
You switched to an Android tablet
A Galaxy Tab or a work-issued Android device does not run LiquidText, and "is LiquidText available on Android" has been a recurring question for years. The official platforms are iPad, Mac and Windows. If your reading device is not one of those, the app is simply not an option on it.
The subscription added up
Pro is a one-time purchase, but it covers one platform. Moving projects between an iPad and a laptop, or sharing with a colleague, sits in the LIVE subscriptions, which are billed yearly. For people who used LiquidText a few times a month, that renewal is often the moment they price out other tools.
You need answers, not a workspace
Dragging excerpts, linking passages and building a canvas is brilliant for one contract or one paper. It is slow when the real question is "which of these forty files mentions the renewal date?" At that point you want to ask the whole stack and get the passage back, then read closely only where it matters.
The AI is not there yet
LiquidText has announced an AI suite that asks questions across a project, finds conflicts and builds chronologies, aimed at legal work. Its own site lists it as a private beta. If you need question answering across documents this quarter rather than when the beta opens, you are shopping for something that already ships it.
LiquidText pricing compared with the alternatives
LiquidText does not print dollar amounts on its pricing page: the figure appears at checkout and in the app, and third-party listings disagree with each other. So the table shows how each LiquidText plan is sold rather than a number we cannot verify. Other prices are US list prices from each vendor's own page.
| Tool | How it is priced | Runs on | Questions across many files | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LiquidText Basic and Pro | Basic is free. Pro is a one-time purchase for one platform, up to five devices on that platform. | iPad, Mac, Windows 10 or 11 | No. AI suite in private beta | Close reading and annotation of a few documents on one device type |
| LiquidText LIVE plans | Yearly subscriptions: LIVE with 1 GB of cloud storage, LIVE Unlimited, and LIVE Unlimited+ for more collaborators. One-week trial. | All three platforms, projects synced | No. AI suite in private beta | Working the same project across iPad and a computer, or with a colleague |
| Adobe Acrobat Studio | $24.99 a month for individuals, AI Assistant included. AI Assistant is also sold as an add-on to Acrobat Pro. | Windows, Mac, web, iOS, Android | Yes, over the files you open in Acrobat | Teams that already live in Acrobat for editing, signing and forms |
| Humata | Free for 60 pages a month. Expert $9.99 a month for 500 pages. Team $49 per user for 5,000 pages. | Web browser | Yes, priced by the page | A defined batch of PDFs with a predictable page count |
| MentalClone | 79 PLN a month (about $21) or 474 PLN a year (about $11 a month). Professional 199 PLN (about $54). | Any browser: Android, Chromebook, Windows, Mac, iPad | Yes, answers restricted to what you uploaded | A standing library of PDFs, Word and Excel files you question for months |
Where LiquidText still wins, and clearly: the workspace where you pull excerpts beside the page and link them, collapsing a long document to compare two distant passages, ink and Apple Pencil annotation, and the one-time Pro license you can keep using without a subscription. If your job is reading one deposition or one paper very carefully with a pencil in hand, LiquidText is hard to beat and you should keep it. MentalClone does not annotate. It answers.
Is LiquidText available on Android?
No. LiquidText is built for iPad, Mac and Windows, and there is no Android app or browser version. That rules it out on a Samsung Galaxy Tab, a Pixel tablet or a Chromebook. For an Android reader, the realistic choices fall into three groups.
A native Android annotator
Apps like Flexcil and Xodo give you pen annotation on an Android tablet and are the nearest thing to the LiquidText reading experience. They are built around one document at a time, so they solve the pencil problem, not the "which file says this" problem.
Acrobat on every device
Adobe runs everywhere and its AI Assistant can summarize and answer questions about open PDFs. It makes most sense if your firm already pays for Acrobat, because the AI comes on top of an editing and e-signature suite you may or may not use.
A browser tool that answers
Upload the documents once and ask questions from any browser, on the tablet at home and the laptop at the office. MentalClone keeps the files in one library, answers in plain English, names the source file and tells you when the answer is not in your documents.
How to move from LiquidText to MentalClone
You do not have to give up LiquidText to try this. Many people keep it for close reading and use a question tool for the finding part. Four steps, all reversible.
Collect the source files
Gather the original PDFs and Word files behind your LiquidText projects. If you want your highlights too, export an annotated PDF from LiquidText first, so the marked-up version travels with you.
Start with one matter
Pick one case, one client or one research question and upload only its documents. A focused set gives sharper answers and makes it quick to check whether the tool earns its place.
Ask what you would have searched
Upload PDF, DOC, DOCX, XLSX, TXT, CSV, RTF or photographed pages, up to 100 MB a file. Ask the question you would otherwise answer by scrolling and linking excerpts, then open the named file to confirm.
Read closely where it points
Use the answer to jump straight to the right document, then read that part carefully in whatever reader you like. Finding stops being the slow step, and annotation stays where it works best.
Who switches, and what they ask
Litigators and paralegals
Deposition transcripts, exhibits and correspondence for one matter. Typical question: "where does the witness first mention the inspection report?" The answer comes back with the transcript it was found in, so it can be verified before it goes into a brief.
Graduate students and researchers
A literature folder that outgrew the canvas. Typical question: "which of these studies used a sample over 1,000?" Being told your papers do not cover something is as useful as a quote, because it keeps an unsupported claim out of the draft.
Analysts and consultants
Contracts, filings and reports reviewed across devices. Typical question: "which of these agreements has a termination for convenience clause?" Asked from an Android tablet on the train or a Windows laptop at the client site.
If the tools you are weighing are the ones built only for chatting with a PDF, our ChatPDF alternative comparison covers that category. Mac users with a large local document archive often end up on our DEVONthink alternative page, and if you want the bigger picture, the AI second brain page explains how an answer-first library differs from a notes app.
Questions people ask before leaving LiquidText
What is the best LiquidText alternative?
It depends on what you used LiquidText for. For pen annotation on an Android tablet, Flexcil or Xodo. For a firm that already pays for Acrobat, Acrobat Studio with AI Assistant. If what you really need is answers from many PDFs at once, on any device, a document-first tool like MentalClone replaces the searching you did in LiquidText without the manual excerpting.
Is LiquidText available on Android?
No. LiquidText runs on iPad, Mac and Windows 10 or 11, and there is no Android app or web version. It will not install on a Samsung Galaxy Tab, a Pixel tablet or a Chromebook. On those devices you need either a native Android PDF annotator or a browser-based tool.
Is LiquidText free?
Partly. LiquidText Basic is free on iPad, Mac and Windows. Pro features are a one-time purchase for one platform, and syncing projects across devices or collaborating needs a LIVE subscription billed yearly, which comes with a one-week trial. Students can buy education pricing inside the app.
How much does LiquidText cost?
LiquidText shows its prices at checkout and in the app rather than on its public pricing page, and third-party listings disagree, so check the current figure when you buy. The structure is stable: a free Basic tier, a one-time Pro license per platform, and yearly LIVE, LIVE Unlimited and LIVE Unlimited+ subscriptions.
Does LiquidText have AI?
LiquidText has announced an AI suite that answers questions across a project, finds conflicting statements and builds chronologies, with an MCP server to connect tools like Claude and ChatGPT. Its legal site lists it as a private beta, so it is not part of the standard plans today.
Is LiquidText worth it?
For close reading on an iPad with a pencil, yes. Few apps handle comparing distant passages and building an argument from excerpts as well. It is harder to justify if you read on Android, work across many documents at once, or mostly need to find where something was said.
Where does LiquidText beat MentalClone?
In annotation, full stop. MentalClone has no highlighting, ink or excerpt workspace. It also reads text PDFs up to 120 pages and scanned PDFs up to 40 pages, and answers from the 50 most recently uploaded documents, quoting from up to four per answer. Very long single documents are LiquidText territory.
Which files can I upload?
PDF, DOC, DOCX, XLSX, TXT, CSV and RTF, plus photographed or scanned pages in JPG, PNG and similar formats, up to 100 MB per file. PowerPoint files are not read, so export decks to PDF before uploading.
Ask your documents a question from any device
Paste a page from a document you are working on into the box at the top and ask it something you would normally hunt for. If the answer holds up, upload the rest of the matter.
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