PDF Expert Reviews: Is It Legit?

Customer Experience

Positive experience45.2% of reviews
Neutral7.5% of reviews
Negative experience47.3% of reviews

~ Based on 1,186 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say about PDF Expert

Is PDF Expert Safe?

PDF Expert: Editor & Reader appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for PDF Expert is 93/100.

This assessment is based on 216,527 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.7/5.

Safety Analysis

92.4% of ratings point to a safe experience
2.3% of ratings suggest some concerns
5.3% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 216,255 App Store ratings for PDF Expert.

Is PDF Expert Legit?

PDF Expert: Editor & Reader appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for PDF Expert is 100/100.

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

Top reviews

No opt out for AI

I don’t want the ‘AI Button’ front and centre. Features I use like underlining as buried whereas a feature I will never use take up valuable real estate. Please allow us to customise the menu.

It is a fraudulent, low-quality application—more like a thief.

It is a fraudulent, low-quality application—more like a thief.

New layout sucks

One thing that I hate about IOS apps is that you can’t revert back to a previous version if you hate the latest version roll out.

I’ve been using this app for years with the layout staying relatively the same and then I update and now I have to relearn everything, on the fly, with clock ticking for a project that is due today. Thank you Readdle for not warning me and for not being able to revert to the now “classic view”.
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Fraudulent Charges

Your company just charged me $15.17 for selecting your 7 day free trial, I Expect a refund for this. I emailed your support with supporting evidence of your unwanted charge. I’m hoping this helps anyone else from going through what I just did!! Do NOT download this app. Or select the free trial.

Worst updates

New updates made it unusable, slow, and buggy.

Just charge money to download the app

Why would you make an entirely useless app that repeatedly asks you to pay to do a basic editing task? Incredibly scummy

EDIT: I got a response from the developers saying that there are useable free features on this app. That is a bold faced LIE. In the app description they specifically say filling and signing a document is free, however I was unable to sign any documents due to the purchase screen repeatedly opening when I tried.
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Great App

I love PDF Expert, great app and lots of options to work with. The latest update is making the syncing process take too long for just a single pdf file, sometimes up to more than 5mins. Also the favorites folders and sync folders gets removed by itself from the left panel. If these glitches get fixed, it would be even better!!
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The previous app icon is 1000 times better

Who saw this new icon and approved it should be fired

Life’s easier

PDF Expert is by far the best storage and alteration tool for pdf files. Life would become a lot harder without this valuable and reasonably priced service. I’ve spent many years with PDF Expert so have a good experience to provide this review. Highly recommend…

Just charge money to download the app

Why would you make an entirely useless app that repeatedly asks you to pay to do a basic editing task? Incredibly scummy

It Still Works, Thankfully

I have used PDF Expert for a very, very long time. Paid for it because it was the best. As long as I can continue to annotate and edit PDF files I'm fine with it. Won't subscribe and the one time 139.99 for a "mobile" app is a tad north of unrealistic unless I only have a mobile device, then I guess I'd have to live with it - but that sounds unhealthy.
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Worst customer service ever!

I paid for this app. Found out I paid for a business account somehow. I believe I need a different account, but I tried to access a line of contact with customer service and they just ignore me. Either way I did pay for some kind of service and still have no access to the app.

For that reason, it is the worst app ever….
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No complaints here!

Using this app is now second nature to me. It’s not only useful for work but handy in every day life as well.

Won’t let me sign into my account

From my iPad it won’t let me sign into my account

Hijacked All of my Files

I am really angry that this ap was included for free on my IPhone and it has hijacked all of my documents and photos. I will never ever support Adobe again!!!!

Amazing free tier

I have been using the free tier for 6 years and even with the premium tier available I still never felt like I was short on features. This app has pretty much everything I can think of an more. If the paid tier wasn't quite as expensive, I would have brought it

Demasiado rápido

Muy eficiente

Noting is worth

Except reading every else you need to PAY

Pay, Pay Again

Every Readdle app becomes a bait & switch treadmill. iOS is such a joke operating system plagued by app developers who aren’t content to sell you software just once, since Apple constantly changes the APIs. Compressing a file is a basic feature. I’m not paying again for that and you should be ashamed.
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Pay required to edit

If you want to edit pdf you need to pay. Doesn’t seem to align with description.