Compress PDF User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience35.3% of reviews
Neutral5.9% of reviews
Negative experience58.8% of reviews

~ Based on 51 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is Compress PDF Safe?

Compress PDF - Make PDF Smaller has mixed safety signals based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Compress PDF is 68/100.

This assessment is based on 443 user ratings, with an App Store average of 3.4/5.

Safety Analysis

61.4% of ratings point to a safe experience
9.0% of ratings suggest some concerns
29.6% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 443 App Store ratings for Compress PDF.

Is Compress PDF Legit?

Compress PDF - Make PDF Smaller is no longer available in the App Store. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Compress PDF is 35/100.

Based on 35 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Score capped because this app is no longer listed.

Top reviews

Waited for 1hr 45 min…nothing

This app is a waste of time. It said it would take 60-90 min to compress my file (! Unless I paid for the paid version) So I waited over 1hr 45 min before giving up and using a different app.

Useless app

Please watch out. This appears is be fake. I uploaded one document and after hours nothing happened, it does not show any status. I don’t know if it’s is even doing something or just keeping my document.

Doesn't work

Tried to use it, but it doesn't work and google apparently isn't supported

Works as advertised. No issues.

Simple and easy to use. No problems.

Helpful

Did a good job compressing. Free option does take an hour but it warns you regarding the time it will take and does give you upgrade option to compress within minutes.

Google cannot sign you in

I don’t know what that means either, except the app won’t work.

Rubbing

Doesn’t work
When you copy file to ap from
Phone

That’s Funny...

I thot this app just didn’t flat out work, till I read a review about down load time, funny. The developer should have clarified this. 4.99 might be reasonable, but this turn off sent me to PDF compress that has ads, but compresses on the spot. Delete.

Waste of time!

This app is trash i waited more than 60 minutes for my file to compress and nothing happened after waiting for over an hour for zero results. I do not recommend

Worked for me

I was able to compress 4.7MB PDF to 431KB and uploaded to the website. It was time consuming and took 60-90 minutes, but it worth it.

Quality

It compressed alright but the quality is not all that good and it takes too much time to compressed if you’re using basic plan.

Worst app ever

I downloaded the payed version app to convert a PDF version of my CV and it is been lagging on compressing for three days. I have sent four emails to customer support but no answer. So my money has gone to waste!

Compress Documents too much

Glitchy app. That did not update my payment I had to refresh app 5 times for it t recognize payment. The one reason I needed the app was to compress a 55 page document which it did eventually but the words were so blurry it could not be used. I wish i could get my money back on this one.

Didn’t work

Tried compressing a 1 page file and it simply never finished

Garbage

Paid for the premium after saying I wouldn’t have to wait. It’s been 2 hours for one document and I still haven’t been able to open it. Now when I open the app it automatically crashes it time. What a waste for $10.

Can I please get a refund?

It shrinks the file too small that makes my legal documents unreadable. I didn’t think it was going to shrink it down that much to make it unreadable.

Blackmail - Ransomware

Use this app and you’ll be presented with a message telling you that your pdf will take 60-90 minutes, but if you agree to pay ($9.99) it’ll happen straight away. This is ransomware. They don’t tell you this in the app description, which they should. The proposition that it saves me CPU time is dishonest: if it used my CPU I wouldn’t need their server time.
In the description, devs claim compression won’t degrade quality: yet it does. Images are frequently so compressed they become jaggies. Frustrating lack of control.
Better still, Apple should provide image compression options in its “print to pdf” function so that we don’t create massive pdf’s that need this app.
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Great

Great worth buying

Wow! Looks good

I did the slow compression and the file looks really good. I’d recommend it!

Did not work for local file

Followed instructions for how to compress a file saved locally on the phone, the app reacted by doing nothing