# Markup – Highlight & Annotate — user reviews > 386 indexed App Store user reviews of Markup by Kdan Mobile Software LTD, rated 4.34/5 from 421 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/markup-highlight-and-annotate/id936601959/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/markup-highlight-and-annotate/id936601959.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 294 · 4★ 63 · 3★ 12 · 2★ 16 · 1★ 36 ## What do users think of Markup? Overall sentiment: mixed **Pros** - 👍 Easy to use and annotate PDFs - 🚀 Convenient for studying and organizing documents - 💡 Helpful for college students and professionals - 👍 Great for highlighting and note-taking - 👍 Intuitive interface **Cons** - 🐛 Occasional crashes and lost progress - 🔒 Paywall for basic features - 💰 Expensive subscription model - 🔒 Difficult to access files without subscription - 🐛 Issues with saving annotations and markups **Commonly reported bugs** - Annotations not saving properly - Distortion of handwritten input - Frequent crashes and app instability - Incompatibility issues with certain PDF files **Most requested features** - More color options for highlighting and annotations - Improved file management and organization - Ability to add notes and comments to PDFs - Seamless sync across devices - Dark mode option ## Newest reviews (14 of 386) ### 4/5 — Great! Thank you - 5 stars! *2025-11-16, version 8.12.8* Wonderful app - thank you so much for making part of it free. Life saver and Godsend! ### 4/5 — Great but… *2025-08-18, version 8.12.8* I am very glad that I found this app. It’s perfect for annotating and highlighting text on PDFs, which has really benefited me. However, it is quite laggy at times. I also would like the option of having more pen / highlighter colours. Thank you. ### 3/5 — Highlights only, no notes *2025-04-24, version 8.12.8* Highlights are great, but I was surprised to see it was impossible to add notes to parts of the document. I’d literally upgrade just for that simple feature and yet, even the most expensive plan seems to lack basic reader functionality. ### 3/5 — Okay - aber mir fehlen essenzielle Features *2025-02-21, version 8.12.8* Gut finde ich, dass ich in PDFs Highlighten kann, bei denen Acrobat Reader das nicht zulässt (z.B. Artikel der regionalen Tageszeitung - warum auch immer). Schwach: warum gibts keinen Zurück-Pfeil o.ä., um eine Markierung schnell rückgängig zu machen. In der aktuellen Version werde ich die App nur für PDFs nutzen, bei denen Acrobat Reader streikt. ### 2/5 — Non funziona *2025-01-06, version 8.12.8* Una volta evidenziata la pagina, non viene salvata nell’app. Inutile ### 2/5 — App is crashing whenever I try to bookmark a page *2024-07-25, version 8.12.8* It is very troublesome, that the app is constantly crashed, whenever I try to bookmark a page, it takes about 4 times to reload a same page to bookmark it. ### 2/5 — Nicht schlecht aber hat mich aggressiv gemacht *2024-07-13, version 8.12.8* An sich funktioniert es gut, mir fehlen aber grundlegende Funktionen, wie zum Beispiel ein rückgängig-Funktion. Wenn man sich einmal vertippt hat kann man nichts tun, außer das Dokument zu löschen und neu anzufangen. Außerdem kann man seine eigenen Notizen nicht markieren. Mehr kann ich nicht sagen, weil ich die App gelöscht hab bevor ich aus Wut mein iPad aus dem Fenster schmeiße… :) ### 4/5 — A v. Good app *2024-04-30, version 8.12.8* I'm happy to use this app ### 5/5 — Great app *2024-04-11, version 8.12.8* Works great. Features with pro are more enhanced and often you are inclined to purchase one. ### 5/5 — Great Product *2024-04-07, version 8.12.8* Like it ### 4/5 — Very useful app if u learn how to use it *2024-03-02, version 8.12.8* Very useful app if u learn how to use it ### 5/5 — Ottima app *2024-02-22, version 8.12.8* A differenza di altre app più grafiche e poco pragmatiche qui su Markup c’è tutto quello che mi serve. Tra le funzioni che uso di più ci sono le note a scomparsa e la possibilità di allegare pagine web, sottolinearle e vedere dall’anteprima le parti salienti. Ottima app, peccato per il cloud che a volte quando si modificano i documenti da dispositivi diversi non aggiorna correttamente. Da migliorare anche la possibilità di lavorare su uno stesso pdf in team. ### 5/5 — 非常好 *2024-02-19, version 8.12.8* 真的很好用 ### 5/5 — Fantastic job. *2024-02-08, version 8.12.8* Love it. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Another Cash Grab *2025-09-14, version 8.12.8* It is absolutely ridiculous to make people pay for a “premium” that allows the user to do simple things that aren’t even aspects that require hard work. Premium to highlight more words? A joke and I deleted it immediately ### 1/5 — Kdan turned all his app into trash after adding in app purchases *2025-06-02, version 8.12.8* I have purchased creativity suite on my apple id but now kdan added another pay wall of pro version and turned all its apps into trash what a greediness this is simply byecott this kind of sellers and developers ### 1/5 — APP SI CHIUSE MENTRE LA USI E ELIMINA TUTTO IL LAVORO *2025-02-12, version 8.12.8* MENTRE LA USAVO DIVERSE VOLTE APP SI E’ CHIUSA E MI HA ELIMINATO TUTTO QUELLO CHE HO FATTO. NON CONSIGLIO QUESTA APPLICAZIONE ### 1/5 — Subscription Alert! *2024-11-18, version 8.12.8* I just want to annotate one document- not sign up for ANOTHER subscription! ### 1/5 — bắt trả tiền *2024-08-18, version 8.12.8* giới hạn 8 từ ### 1/5 — Va bien *2024-06-18, version 8.12.8* Comencé a probar y el primer detalle es que al adjuntar una imagen de una gráfica en un PDF la calidad es muy mala, se ve borrosa cuando en Good Notes que es mi app por default la calidad es buenísima, solo estoy probando la herramienta pero le veía potencial hasta que me di cuenta que no me permite guardar ningún cambio o anotación, solo perdí tiempo, me quedo con Good Notes. ### 1/5 — Décevant *2024-02-03, version 8.12.8* Nul. Le principe était bon pourtant. Il n’ y a pas la possibilité de revenir en arrière après avoir surligner un passage ### 1/5 — Free Version is useless *2024-01-20, version 8.12.8* Why even download it if you won’t get pro? Just don’t, the free version is useless. Wow I can open a webpage and highlight in either yellow or orange. Whoop dee doo. The free version purely exists to advertise their Pro Version which still probably isn’t that good and is costly. No thanks ### 1/5 — Pahamak mga putangina *2023-12-01, version 8.12.8* Wag nakayo mag ganyan pag dinownload kulan kulang ung text ### 1/5 — Worst app ever *2023-09-19, version 8.12.8* How do you even annotate?!?!?! ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — So good *2026-03-20, version 8.12.8* I really like it ### 5/5 — Great to see and read docs *2026-03-10, version 8.12.8* This is great to see and read docs, used several times regarding home sale. ### 5/5 — Bom *2026-02-15, version 8.12.8* Muito bom ### 5/5 — NASER *2026-01-20, version 8.12.8* NASER ### 5/5 — RECOMMENDED FOR STUDENTS *2025-04-22, version 8.12.8* this app is suitable for students especially law students for easy highlighting, annotating and note-taking. i love the feature where you can transfer full-text cases to markup easily. ### 5/5 — Muy buena *2025-04-19, version 8.12.8* Es muy difícil que para un iPad haya una app que te permita modificar un pdf y más si son muchas páginas ya que se acaba el espacio de la app. Recomendada 👍 ### 5/5 — Highlighting addict *2025-04-05, version 8.12.8* This app fits me. A highlighting addict. Keeps be at the active reading level. ### 5/5 — Uh *2025-02-14, version 8.12.8* He ### 5/5 — ดี *2024-12-18, version 8.12.8* ดี ### 5/5 — Markup u rock *2024-07-15, version 8.12.8* Thanx 4 the groovy services --- *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 2026-06-10.*