Sioyek VS qpdfview

Sioyek

Sioyek is a PDF viewer designed for reading research papers and technical books.

qpdfview

qpdfview is a Qt-based tabbed document viewer using the Poppler library for PDF rendering and CUPS...

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Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to Sioyek and qpdfview)

qpdfview

PDF Tools

55 55%

PDF Tools

45% 45

PDF Editor

52 52%

PDF Editor

48% 48

PDF Readers And Editors

0 0%

PDF Readers And Editors

100% 100

Productivity

100 100%

Productivity

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, Sioyek should be more popular than qpdfview. It has been mentiond 19 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

Sioyek mentions (19)

Sioyek is a PDF viewer with a focus on textbooks and research papers
The website says yes: https://sioyek.info/ Link should be to the website imho. - Source: Hacker News / 2 days ago
PDF Reader Recommendations
Not in the repository, but my wifey who reads a few thousand pdfs a year recommends sioyek it is made for researchers has hilighting, tts and a few dozen more features. Source: 10 months ago
Based on true events
If you suffer this fate, maybe take a look at: https://sioyek.info/. Source: about 1 year ago
No, this is not a joke. Now you cant even rotate the view in free version of Adobe Acrobat Reader.
If you just need a reader, give a shot to sioyek 😎. Source: about 1 year ago
Trying to setup LaTeX for either VSCode or Neovim and I'm in a bit of a predicament
The setup ended up being fully functional, with there being one small issue. The built-in pdf viewer is decent, but I find it lacking in customizability, so I decided to switch to sioyek (mind you I am on windows). Source: about 1 year ago

qpdfview mentions (3)

Qpdfview 0.5.0 Released
Previous stable qpdfview 0.4.18 released in 2019. Development of O.5.x brings support for compiling with any Qt version (Qt4, Qt5 & Qt6).[0,1] [0] https://launchpad.net/qpdfview/+announcement/28501 [1] https://launchpad.net/qpdfview/+announcement/30745. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago
Going from zathura to neovim
You didn't say what OS you're using, but on linux the best of the poppler-based PDF viewers are probably qpdfview (lighter weight) and okular (heavier but more features), both of which have good synctex support as well. Source: over 1 year ago
What are your favorite PDF viewers/editors
I've been happy with qpdfview as my PDF viewer for a couple of years now. I've customized it to have vi-like keybindings (j/k for instance) and it has others features like SyncTeX support and tabs that I want in a PDF viewer. The only thing lacking is support for playing media files, which comes in handy during presentations and such. I don't edit PDFs regularly, but when I do I just import it in Inkscape... Source: over 2 years ago