# Drawboard PDF Annotate, Markup — user reviews > 285 indexed App Store user reviews of Drawboard PDF Annotate, Markup by Drawboard Pty Ltd, rated 4.80/5 from 1,870 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/drawboard-pdf-annotate-markup/id1086503728/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/drawboard-pdf-annotate-markup/id1086503728.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 1,621 · 4★ 179 · 3★ 32 · 2★ 16 · 1★ 22 ## What do users think of Drawboard PDF Annotate, Markup? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 🚀 Excellent PDF annotation tools - 👍 Convenient cross-platform sync - 🚀 Fast and responsive - 👍 Great for students and professionals - 🚀 Smooth writing experience with Apple Pencil **Cons** - 🐛 Occasional crashes and bugs - 🔒 Cloud storage limitations - 💰 Expensive subscription model - 🔍 Missing search and bookmark features - 🔧 Inconsistent functionality between platforms **Commonly reported bugs** - Annotations not syncing properly between devices - Unexpected loss of work and unsaved changes - Scrolling and page navigation issues - Compatibility problems with certain PDF files - Text input box disappearing after scrolling **Most requested features** - Add page flattening and form filling options - Improve eraser tool and precision - Implement a dark mode - Provide better organization and folder support - Add more customization options for tools and UI ## Newest reviews (14 of 285) ### 3/5 — アプリ名の修正希望 *2026-08-25* インストール後のアプリ名が「選択」というおかしな日本語になっています。Drawboardという英語表記のままで良いので、次回のアップデートで修正をお願いします。 ### 4/5 — Bug fix *2026-05-25, version 5.1.0* Also edit the sort button on the mobile app as the pc app, and allow to download the files from the cloud probably as the current is awful. ### 3/5 — App is not working after recent update *2026-04-12* Drawboard app got updated to latest version on my iPad and after that app stopped working. When I open the app it got freeze on blank page and nothing happens and after some time app get killed **Developer response:** Hi, we're really sorry to hear the latest update has caused this for you. This is not the experience we want for our users at all. Our team treats any crashing and freezing issues with the highest priority and we'd love to get this sorted out for you as soon as possible. Could you please reach out to our support team and share any relevant documents with us so we can investigate further? You can contact us at https://support.drawboard.com/hc/requests/new and we'll get on it right away. ### 4/5 — Well….. *2026-04-09, version 4.11.2* Good but it has a lot of things locked by payed mode ### 3/5 — 縦書きPDF非対応 *2026-03-20* 縦書きには対応してないようで、検索なども１文字でしか検索できない。縦の繋がりは認識してないようだ。 かなり理想的なアプリと思ったが、その点が致命的だった。 ### 3/5 — Overall, great *2026-02-17, version 4.9.0* However, it likes to sign me out fairly consistently. While not exactly breaking, it’s really annoying. Other than that, I do enjoy the Mac version of this. ### 3/5 — Good app but pricing too high *2026-01-31* A smooth app for PDF reading and annotations. But the premium pricing is too high. No lifetime plans. Need student friendly pricing for India. I'm studying in a govt. institution thus I don't have any student mail ID. So, I can't use student offer. It's better to reduce your plans according to the countries. (Ignore grammatical errors) ### 4/5 — Quick *2026-01-19, version 4.7.0* I have to markup multiple map PDFs everyday. Drawboard is definitely the most stable and quickest program I have found to do this so far. Very easy to use once you get used to it. There a few features I wish it had, like original text editing , Form Creation, etc. But very good overall for annotations and markups. ### 3/5 — Mac Version Needs Work *2025-12-05* I’ve used the Pro Plus edition of Drawboard now on two separate projects, involving marking-up a check set of Architectural drawings. I’ve used BlueBeam in the past but they no longer support Mac is I no longer support them. Drawboard feels very clunky to me. There is no marquee zoom tool (a fatal flaw) so you have to keep hitting the +/- buttons along with panning to move around a drawing. There also should be a single click to “fit page” like almost every other pdf editor I’ve used. The various tools are selected from microscopic icons that lack intuitive graphics to describe their function. Using call-out notes has also been problematic as the positioning of the notes and leader lines can change when you close and re-open the file, causing you to reformat your notes. The responsiveness of trying to drag an object to a different location is poor. I have yet to figure out how to drag a copy of graphics or notes. Copying and pasting a note from one page to another changes the position of the note instead of allowing you to paste “in-place”. These are all very basic features of any graphics editing program and the fact that they are missing indicates to me that Drawboard isn’t prioritizing improvements. **Developer response:** Thank you so much for taking the time to share your feedback - we really appreciate it. We’re sorry to hear you’ve been experiencing some issues, and we’d love the opportunity to understand them better and help resolve them. If you’re willing, please reach out to us at support@drawboard.com so our team can look into this with you directly. Your experience matters to us, and we’re here to help. ### 5/5 — Great for Students and Educators *2025-07-11, version 4.0.0* Annotating lecture slides and textbooks is super easy. Perfect for digital note-taking and study sessions. ### 5/5 — Great app! *2025-07-07* A must have for all university students. Makes viewing and annotating PDF’s a lot easier. ### 5/5 — Smooth & best *2025-06-16* It’s got everything I’d need for my daily PDF annotation for my med school. Checked out more than a dozen apps before settling here. I couldn’t zoom in too much while writing in other apps but I could here so, Drawboard is an easy winner. Very smooth too, bugs are corrected swiftly. Worth the price if you’re serious about quality annotation ### 5/5 — Incredibly useful PDF app *2025-06-13* Great PDF experience, perfect for note-taking. Used this every day throughout university to annotate lecture slides, do assignments, and for rough working and diagramming. Continuously getting better, the developers really care. ### 4/5 — 使いやすい *2025-06-13* AppleのファイルとGoogleドライブにあるPDFに書き込みができて、とても便利です！文字のサイズ調整も指一本でできて、好きなところにワンタッチで書き込めるのがいいです。ただ、有料にしないと固定できる機能が少ないところが不便だなぁと思います。そして、ペンやハイライター機能にまっすぐ弾ける機能があればいいなと思います。 ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Hangs on large files *2026-06-22, version 5.1.0* Quite good UI but it struggles handling large files ### 1/5 — Can’t email the file. *2026-06-22, version 5.1.0* Can’t email the file. ### 1/5 — Terrible interface *2026-01-17, version 4.7.0* I’m not sure I’ve ever canceled a trial subscription so fast. The icons are incredibly tiny and they don’t even have alt tags when you hover over them. You can’t tell what anything does until you click on it. The app won’t stay maximized and the pdfs open in a new window rather than tabs. Did I mention everything is incredibly tiny? Eat your carrots before using this one. ### 1/5 — 急に画面がチラつくようになった *2025-12-09* 気がついたらクラウドにアップロードしたファイルを開くと高頻度でチラつくようになった。 集中して作業ができず困っています。対応お願いいたします。 それ以外は文句のつけようがない最高のアプリです。 **Developer response:** Thank you for your feedback, and sorry to hear about the issue you are seeing. Could you please contact our support team (support@drawboard.com) directly with more information so that they can help troubleshoot this for you? ### 1/5 — Glitchy, not compatible with IPad at all. *2025-10-13, version 4.4.2* Not usable at all on iPad Pro. Gives you a notification every time you open the app or document that you need to upgrade, tools intermittently work while others don’t, hassle to do anything the app is made for and complete waste of time. Have given it 2 semesters now. ### 1/5 — NO GOOD - Think twice before getting this app *2025-09-04* I’ve had enough with this app and its development team. The engineering team clearly lacks an understanding of what makes a good, simple app. It crashes frequently, and most updates only rearrange features instead of actually improving the product. Core functions like page manipulation, handwritten recognition, and stable OneDrive syncing are still missing or broken. Customer support is slow to respond, if they respond at all. I’ve been patient, but nothing has improved. The issues remain unaddressed despite repeated complaints from users. Unless the developers take real action, I cannot recommend this app. Think twice before getting it. ### 1/5 — Serious typing issues in Korean mode – Please fix ASAP *2025-05-18* I’ve been a long-time user of Drawboard PDF and have really appreciated its features. However, recently, I’ve encountered major issues when using the text tool in Korean language mode. When typing in Korean, I need to press the space bar twice for a space to appear. Also, if I type a space too quickly, it gets replaced by a period (.). These issues make it extremely frustrating to input text properly. What’s worse is that this issue does not occur anywhere else on my Mac – only within the Drawboard PDF app. This suggests the problem is specific to this application and not a system-wide setting. At the moment, the typing experience is so broken that it’s almost impossible to use the app for any serious work involving Korean text. I really hope this bug can be addressed as soon as possible, as I still want to continue using Drawboard PDF, but in its current state, it’s practically unusable. Please look into this and release a fix soon. Thank you. ### 1/5 — Opened my wallet and I never even hit the button for the trial *2025-03-30, version 3.0.2* As I said my wallet was opened with their info before I even hit the button for the seven day trial so I never hit it. I used force quit on my wallet and deleted the app, I just hope the deletion got everything. If not I’ll be back. ### 1/5 — 한글이 안됩니다 *2025-03-30* 어느 순간부터 한글이 안됩니다 띄어쓰기가 되지 않아요 ### 1/5 — Unable to open file *2024-09-30, version 2.11.0* Unable to open file ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — A Solid, Precise App *2026-08-03* I cannot notice any pixellation in brush strokes when drawing or while zooming. And, I think Drawboard achieves this without using the native apple pencilkit, as I’m able to freely configure the brush size to any degree, and the default brush has a unique pen pressure weight response that I really quite like. I also really like that there’s a fullscreen view that hides the rest of the screen. I haven’t experienced any lagging while writing or scrolling, even on scanned pdfs with hundreds of pages. The only small issue I’ve noticed is that when initially zooming while pinching, there’s just a slight pause. But it’s a very minor thing and not noticeable most of the time. It also does heat up the bottom edge of my particular iPad a tad. But for how amazing it performs and looks, and how stable it is — and most of that for free… it’s absolutely amazing. Thank you devs. ### 5/5 — Amazing support. *2026-04-30* I was struggle ing with making an account so I reached out and there support team was great! They helped me solve the issues and get my account setup. ### 5/5 — Better than adobe *2026-03-12* I find both reading as well as editing options way better in Drawboard than adobe reader (comparing both in their free versions). This has become my primary reading and annotation app on ipad. ### 5/5 — I wonder how its not more popular! *2026-02-27* I love how drawboard manages my large heavily annotated medschool pdfs so seamlessly making my life 10x easier! There’s a <10s lag while you open the app but that’s it. It lets you zoom in all you want, annotate all you want and makes it such a smooth experience. Kudos to the developers! Thanks for Drawboard! ❤️ ### 5/5 — Been using it for 3 years *2026-01-19* Just a really easy to use PDF editor which has all the features i want to use for a good price ### 5/5 — Always Getting Worse *2025-12-09* I started using this app around 2022. It started off great. I don’t need a lot of features, and it still has the right amount. I open PDF sheet music to mark up for my students, and it does this job. Now let me get into how it has increasingly got worse… When I first got the app, it remembered I liked it snapped to the left of my screen. It also let me exit books without relaunching the window. This was soon changed in an update. It always goes center screen at an undesired resolution. I have to constantly put it back to where I went it, and resize it. Later they also had an update that kept the app crashing. I ended up briefly switching to a different app. I came back when another update fixed the crashing, but now it can’t remember my pages 50% of the time. Which is super frustrating when I have 50 students per week, working on books with hundreds of pages. Luckily I write down the pages for each student, but I still have to scroll to them. This app used to make my workflow better, but lately it hasn’t been holding up. I wouldn’t be upset if this is how it always was, but I’m not sure how they are continuously making the app worse. I wish I could go back and use the first version I had, it was perfect. Alas, I’m stuck with the newest lemon they’ve produced. ### 5/5 — The Best *2025-12-01* The best pp ever for teachers who are taking online classes with lots of features available for free.. using this for the past 2,3 years.. Thank you for making such a useful app ### 5/5 — Korean spacebar issue *2025-11-09* Hi, I really love this app. I’m from Korea, and every time I try to type in Korean, I need to enter space twice in order to actually make a blank space. This really bothers me and It is kinda important for any language. I hope you can solve this problem. Thank you very much ### 5/5 — AMAZING *2025-09-03, version 4.3.0* Best app ever! I love it more than any other app ### 5/5 — Replaces Pen and Paper Cọmpletely *2025-07-12, version 4.0.0* No more printing out pages to mark up. This app has made my workflow 100% paperless. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-09-11.*