# PDF Reader – PDFelement — user reviews > 1,582 indexed App Store user reviews of PDF Reader by Wondershare Technology (Hunan) Co.,Ltd., rated 4.30/5 from 3,923 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/pdf-reader-pdfelement/id1150215996/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/pdf-reader-pdfelement/id1150215996.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 2,990 · 4★ 271 · 3★ 124 · 2★ 77 · 1★ 461 ## What do users think of PDF Reader? Overall sentiment: neutral **Pros** - 👍 Easy to use - 🚀 Efficient PDF editing - 💡 Useful annotation tools - 🚀 Convenient for students/professionals - 👍 Great value for free app **Cons** - 🐛 Crashes and glitches - 🔒 Privacy concerns with account requirement - 👎 Unintuitive user interface - 🐛 Unreliable saving/syncing - 👎 Limited functionality compared to paid version **Commonly reported bugs** - Text boxes appearing randomly - Inability to select/edit text in some PDFs - Scrolling issues and page loading delays - Incompatibility with certain PDF formats **Most requested features** - Ability to edit text formatting (font, size, color) - Support for multiple open documents - Improved Apple Pencil integration - Bookmark/favorite feature for frequently used PDFs - Expanded cloud storage integration (OneDrive, Google Drive, etc.) ## Newest reviews (10 of 1,582) ### 2/5 — No aparece la opción de buscar texto *2025-11-08, version 6.0.6* Me gustas mucho, pero no somos compatibles. ### 3/5 — Печать при вставки, искажается . *2025-04-10* После обновления Печать при вставки в документ искажается, почините. ### 2/5 — Falta usabilidade nas anotações *2025-02-25* Legal pra ler. Complicado para fazer um simples comentário em texto ### 4/5 — Muy buena *2024-11-13, version 6.0.6* Me sorprendió más rápida que muchas ### 3/5 — ただのリーダなのに *2024-10-22, version 6.0.6* ページ送りが非常に遅い。ローカルのファイルでもクラウドのファイルを読んでるかのようだ。 ### 3/5 — Should be a search option *2024-09-19, version 6.0.6* Search option is missing 🤔 ### 3/5 — Menu aplikasi minim *2024-09-17, version 6.0.6* Dimana ya menu pencarian, apa dihp sy yg g muncul? ### 2/5 — Annoying bug in app *2024-08-15, version 6.0.6* The biggest problem with this app is after quitting a pdf document midway the app doesn’t remember the last viewed page and I need to manually scroll and find it. This is extremely frustrating. Can someone fix this? ### 2/5 — You can’t search text *2024-08-06, version 6.0.6* You can’t search text ### 1/5 — Download pdf function missing. *2024-07-27, version 6.0.6* There’s nothing in the app that lets you add a pdf from a url. So downloading means you have to use an apple computer to download the PDF and then transfer it over via iCloud. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — No sirve *2026-04-08, version 6.0.6* Quiero visualizar un documento en una aplicación y no se puede ### 1/5 — Ruim *2025-10-17* Ja perdi dois documentos nesse app porque do nada o arquivo é danificado! Ia até comprar o app pq é bem intuitivo mas depois disso NÃO VOU COMPRAR! Horrível ### 1/5 — Full of spam and ads, useless *2025-07-02, version 6.0.6* This is just a scam app that gives you a terrible experience intentionally hoping you will get desperate and pay them. All this app does is constantly ask you for money and permissions they have no business asking for. Can’t even make a pdf or combine or anything. It’s just a scam money beggar app without any actual useful features ### 1/5 — Fraud *2025-05-28, version 6.0.6* Paid for a subscription but they won’t give me access at all ### 1/5 — Pésima aplicación no la compren *2025-05-13, version 6.0.6* En las firmas aparece pésimo, no sirve para nada no pierdan su dinero ### 1/5 — Total Scam/Fraudulent Clams *2025-03-22, version 6.0.6* Other than viewing a PDF, it is basically an advert for the company's PDFElement software which is NOT free. Everything promised in the write-up for this app is false because trying to do anything other than opening the file opens up a pop-up to download and install PDFElement, which is a paid subscription service. This is after having created the login as indicated, and after accepting a privacy agreement which allows the company to sell your personal data. “Free trials” don’t count because they aren't truly free when you have to sign up for the subscription, its just a short delay in the billing cycle. I'm pretty sure this is a violation of Apple’s App Store TOS agreement to say the app can do these functions for free then once downloaded push a paid software instead. At the very least a label of “in-app purchases” needs to be applied. ### 1/5 — Useless pdf reader *2025-01-22, version 6.0.6* Cannot rotate or re-orient pdf pages. No help provided. Third rate app. ### 1/5 — Data Mine Field *2025-01-03, version 6.0.6* I’m tired of software developers offering something free and then when you look into their "too good to be true" offering, you see why it's free. In this case, read their privacy policy and you'll see a) how complicated they deliberately make it (so you don't read it) and b) just how much data that belongs to you they want to handle, process and share. Deeply tiresome. The only Wonder about the Share is how much of YOUR data they share with unscrupulous spammers. ### 1/5 — Hay bị đơ tự tắt app nhảy về màn hình home *2024-08-15, version 6.0.6* Hay bị đơ tự tắt app nhảy về màn hình home ### 1/5 — Horrível *2024-07-29* Eu já possui esse app no Samsung e era ótimo, agora baixei no IPhone e é horrível não salva nada. Gostaria de entende o porque ? ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — The best *2026-08-07, version 6.0.6* Best ### 5/5 — Excelente *2026-06-11* Excelente ### 5/5 — Prático e eficiente *2026-05-01* Muito bom. ### 5/5 — Excellent! *2026-04-17, version 6.0.6* Works beautifully. I used Adobe for years- I didn’t mind paying for it until they started charging a fortune for it. PDFelement works as well if not better. Sincere thanks to the providers! ### 5/5 — ok but not perfect *2026-03-14, version 6.0.6* Before I use this app I was always open pdf on my laptop because phone apps for pdf was really bad, like text too small or the format is broken. This one is much more better for reading on phone, the pages look normal and I can do some markup when I need. But sometimes when I go back to the app after using other apps it goes back to the home screen and I loose where I was.. a bit anoying. Still it works fine for what I need mostly, my old way with laptop was more trouble so yeah ### 5/5 — ok but not perfect *2026-03-13, version 6.0.6* Before I use other app for reading pdf on the phone and it was always too small to read, I have to zoom all the time and lose my place. This one is much more better because the text fits on screen without doing that. I like it for that reason. But sometimes when I go back to the app after using other things on my phone, it goes back to the beginning and I have to find my page again.. is a bit annoying. Also some buttons are very small and hard to press, I miss them sometimes. Overall is fine for what I need, I read my work documets on the train mostly so it helps enough. ### 5/5 — ok but not perfect *2026-03-11, version 6.0.6* Before I use my laptop always for reading PDF for work, was very annoying to carry it everywhere. So I try this on my phone and honestly it is much more comfortable, I can read the documents on the bus or waiting in line at the supermarket. The reading part is nice, the text fit to screen pretty good so I dont need to scroll left and right like I had to do with other apps before. But one thing that bother me a little, when I go back to the app after using other apps, sometimes it go back to the home screen and I loose my place in the document. Is not a big deal but when you are in a long report it is kind of anoying to find where you was. Also some buttons are a bit small for my fingers haha. Overall it does what I need, maybe not the best for everthing but for reading on the go it works fine enough. ### 5/5 — Works on my iPad *2025-10-30, version 6.0.6* Need full page view (aka Presentation Mode) of PDF to share in meetings. This works on my iPad. ### 5/5 — Soooo good app *2024-08-16, version 5.1.12* The best ### 5/5 — Me gusto *2024-07-24, version 5.1.13* Muy buena app. --- *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 2026-08-31.*