# CharisPDF — Free, local PDF editor

> Free, local PDF editor (iPhone/iPad app by Cheng Guan Teo.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/charispdf/id6803359246 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Cheng Guan Teo](https://appshunter.io/developer/6803359428)
- Category: Productivity, Utilities
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 17.0 · 2 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-08-24
- Data updated: 2026-10-04
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/charispdf/id6803359246/reviews.md

## What is CharisPDF?

CharisPDF is a free, local PDF editor for iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Add your marks to any PDF — text, shapes, signatures, highlights — without an account, without ads, and without touching the original page content.

No sign-up. No subscription. No watermark. Your files never leave your device.

WHAT YOU CAN DO
• Open, read, search, and print any PDF
• Add text, shapes, and signatures — move, restyle, resize, or rotate them anytime
• Highlight, underline, strike through, and add notes
• Organize pages: reorder, rotate, insert, delete, duplicate, extract
• Undo and redo, all the way back
• Save straight to Files or Finder
• Full dark mode support, works completely offline

WHY IT'S DIFFERENT
Most free PDF tools try to rewrite the original text on the page — and often break the layout doing it. CharisPDF doesn't touch the original content. Everything you add sits on top as its own object, so it stays clean, selectable, and reversible.

YOUR PRIVACY, BUILT IN
The developer has no access to your files. Nothing is uploaded, tracked, or sold. You accept a short privacy statement once, and that's the entire "account" CharisPDF ever asks for.

Charis is Greek for grace — the idea behind this app: put your mark on the document you have, and leave the rest alone.


## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.3.2 — 2026-09-19

Minor bug fixes and improvements

### 1.3.1 — 2026-09-16

Added themes and wall papers

### 1.3.0 — 2026-09-02

Highlight, strikethrough, and underline text right on the page — real markup over your existing text, never a rewrite of it. Each has its own color; tap the color dot below the button to change it. Applying the same markup again over marked text removes it.

Tapping elsewhere now properly clears a text selection.

### 1.2.2 — 2026-08-29

Extracted pages are a real copy, so edits on the new page don’t change the original.

New files save to On My iPhone or On My iPad. The title updates once you name them.

Search shows the page and a snippet, or No matches. Deleting a page asks first. You can’t delete the last page.

VoiceOver now labels page thumbnails and the signature pad.

### 1.2.1 — 2026-08-28

Report a bug or request a feature from About. That opens a form in Safari. CharisPDF still does not send your documents.

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