# PDF Reader Pro - Sign,Edit PDF — user reviews > 205 indexed App Store user reviews of PDF Reader Pro by PDF Technologies, Inc., rated 4.30/5 from 222 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/pdf-reader-pro-signedit-pdf/id883101890/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/pdf-reader-pro-signedit-pdf/id883101890.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 167 · 4★ 14 · 3★ 8 · 2★ 7 · 1★ 26 ## What do users think of PDF Reader Pro? Overall sentiment: neutral **Pros** - 👍 User-friendly - 🚀 Efficient file management - 💡 Useful annotation tools - 👍 Seamless cloud integration - 🚀 Fast performance **Cons** - 🐛 Crashes and stability issues - 🔒 Unreliable security features - 💡 Limited text editing capabilities - 🐛 Conversion issues (PDF to Word) - 💡 Missing merge/reorder PDF functions **Commonly reported bugs** - Corrupted PDF files after updates - Disappearing files and loss of organization - Compatibility issues with newer iOS versions - Unreliable PDF form filling - Unexpected app crashes **Most requested features** - Add undo/redo functionality - Improve OCR accuracy - Introduce password protection for PDFs - Allow custom folder colors - Enhance browser integration (history, new tabs) ## Newest reviews (11 of 205) ### 3/5 — Pas de lecteur pdf sur Apple Watch 🙇🏻‍♂️ *2025-08-07* Cette application est vraiment pratique mais elle n’est pas compatible pour lire un fichier pdf depuis une montre Apple Watch… 🙏🏻 **Developer response:** Thank you for using our application and sharing your valuable feedback! We highly value your experience. Your feedback is extremely important to us! If possible, please provide us with the specific file type and detailed steps to reproduce the problem. Please do not hesitate to contact us, support@pdfreaderpro.com. ### 3/5 — Subscription Free But… *2024-11-20* Tremendously grateful for this app because there are so few capable pdf editors that don’t require a subscription, but the editing experience is still on the poor side. Whether it’s a bug or not, I’m unable to select text by word, sentence, or paragraph either to edit or format. Additionally, text is difficult to select because the iOS space bar cursor does not work in this app for some reason. The cursor moves, but its location doesn’t update in the document. If these problems were fixed, I would definitely rate higher because there’s a lot to like here. ### 3/5 — Great app *2024-08-31* In reading mode，please add the translation function in the floating menu and allow man to freely select search engines. Please increase the adjustment sensitivity of the brush tool, so that the thickness of the lines drawn by the brush tool will be different with the different sense of gravity of the iPad pencil. PDF file cannot be splited according to outlines or bookmarks. ### 4/5 — Great app *2024-07-02* In reading mode，please add the translation function in the floating menu and allow man to freely select search engines. Please increase the adjustment sensitivity of the brush tool, so that the thickness of the lines drawn by the brush tool will be different with the different sense of gravity of the iPad pencil. ### 3/5 — Very limited Language Support *2024-06-27, version 2.0.3* One would expect that there are more Language options but not really. And it seems no path to upgrade add or change the Language options. Be careful before purchase. ### 3/5 — 为什么小组件会消失啊？？？ *2024-03-14* 第一次遇到软件小组件会消失，重新添加过了不到一天时间就又消失了，真是长见识了。 **Developer response:** Hello, What is your device type and OS version? Do all your PDF documents have similar problems? Please send us your PDF file, we will ask engineers to perform technical tests. PDF Reader Pro offers free trials and special education discounts. Please refer here https://www.pdfreaderpro.com/help . If you need any help, please contact support@pdfreaderpro.com , Thanks again ### 2/5 — Не возможно создать подпись *2024-02-11* на iPad 12,9, при любой попытке создать подпись, приложение просто вылетает. Все остальные функции работаю хорошо **Developer response:** Hello, What is your device type and OS version? Do all your PDF documents have similar problems? Please send us your PDF file, we will ask engineers to perform technical tests. PDF Reader Pro offers free trials and special education discounts. Please refer here https://www.pdfreaderpro.com/help . If you need any help, please contact support@pdfreaderpro.com , Thanks again ### 2/5 — 买了正式版发现不能裁剪页面 *2023-11-03, version 2.0.1* 裁剪模式根本没法手动调！我根本不明白怎么会存在无法保存裁剪状态的PDF阅读器！ ### 3/5 — Unable to share pages with procreate. *2023-05-13, version 1.9.13* App provides option to share pages with procreate but does nothing. Same happens when trying to save an individual page to Files. ### 5/5 — Great on Mac *2022-10-25, version 1.9.11* I use this app primarily on my Mac and it has saved me countless hours of time because of its ease of use. I decided to also buy it on my iPhone… thanks devs! ### 4/5 — Pas trop mal *2022-08-02* À REVOIR TOTALEMENT dans le cas d’une correspondance : une page = une image - ne sais pas, extraire les images déjà compressées (en .jpg, par exemple) sans tout convertir uniquement en .png (ce qui est quand même intéressant pour les images différemment encodées en .ppm ou .bmp ) - ne sait pas, convertir un lot d’images en un document dont chaque page reprend la taille réelle de l’image. Et surtout, sans ajouter une bordure artificielle (sauf recommendation explicite d’un format spécifique pour le document .pdf, qui peut varier selon les régions !!) - en bref, abandonner le terme « conversion » d’images puisque la distinction entre conversion, expansion (nombre dpi; qui ne change pas la qualité intrinsèque de l’image sans extrapolation particulièrement bien choisie), compression (plus ou moins destructrice), n’est plus un gage de qualité dans le rapport qualité/poids, en choisissant plutôt de privilégier l’optimisation pour un meilleur rapport qualité/poids de l’image. **Developer response:** Hello, what is your device type and iOS version? It would be more helpful if you could provide a demo screenshot or video of the error message, we need more information. PDF Reader Pro for Mac offers free trials and special education discounts. Please refer here https://www.pdfreaderpro.com/help . If you need any help, please contact support@pdfreaderpro.com , Thanks again. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Probleme mit der Dateiqualität nach OCR-Verarbeitung in PDF Reader Pro *2025-04-27* Nachdem ich die App PDF Reader Pro genutzt habe, um eine PDF-Datei mittels OCR zu verarbeiten, hat die Texterkennung zwar funktioniert, jedoch ist die Datei anschließend nicht mehr klar und teilweise verschwunden. Warum das passiert ist, weiß ich nicht. Ich hoffe sehr, dass dieses Problem behoben wird, da die Qualität der Datei nach der OCR-Verarbeitung deutlich schlechter ist als im Original. Das erschwert das Lesen erheblich und verursacht sogar Augenschmerzen. Vielen Dank fürs Zuschauen! ### 1/5 — Version 4.9.0 corrupts your files *2025-04-25, version 3.0.0* This Adobe Acrobat alternative has never been that easy to use for form fills, but the latest upgrade to version 4.9.0 has prompted me to drop the program and move to something else. First, it would not recognize my license key for the older version of the program that I purchased, even though Customer Support said the key code (which was requested on first log-in) was not necessary to validate my install of the new version. Second, this version completely corrupted a multi-page fillable form after I completed it. What I saw on the screen was not what the program printed or saved to the file. Many pages were lost and others were duplicated to the point that my work could not be recovered. I had to dump the file and start over in another application to complete my work. Not worth the time or trouble. ### 1/5 — Terrible product, terrible customer service *2025-01-26, version 3.0.0* Purchased a lifetime licence for this product in 2022, but with changes/updates to the product, I no longer have access to full product features, and customer support have not been of any assistance in restoring my past purchase. AVOID THIS PRODUCT! ### 1/5 — What happened to my files? UPDATE *2025-01-05* I’ve been using PDF PRO for years but after the update to IOS 18, my files have disappeared. Years worth of documents are GONE!!! Unbelievable!!! I thought maybe I needed to just update the app so like an idiot I paid for the new app…but no joy-still no files. This is a disaster. UPDATE: I was able to recover my files via my cloud but what a mess—none of the organization folders were maintained so everything is a jumbled up mess. Although there is some functionality with the app itself, it has lost all of its document sorting functions. So unless you are REALLY good at remembering all of your document names, look elsewhere or you will never find anything ever again. ### 1/5 — Convert CTD *2024-12-16, version 3.0.0* I have reposted the issue almost a month ago and no reaction from dev team. The issue appeared after the latest update, which implemented the new subscription mode. The issue is: the app is crashing when trying to use the Convert feature. ### 1/5 — Katastrophe *2024-09-09* Sorry, aber das ist rausgeschmissenes Geld. Warum? -> die Bearbeitung ist extrem fummelig -> nachträgliches Ändern nahezu unmöglich. Um Textfelder zu markieren, muss man ewig versuchen, die richtige Stelle zu treffen -> es gibt kein Auswahlwerkzeug, um Elemente zu markieren (der klassische Pfeil in jedem anderen Programm) -> das finale Dokument sieht in einem anderen Reader völlig anders aus. 22€ zu Fenster rausgeschmissen…Klasse! ### 1/5 — Fishy Access Requirement: You must grant access to your drives vs just editing .pdf's *2024-06-24* Instead of just opening files (drag & Drop) to edit an existing file, you must grant the application access to your drives and/or store you files on their drives. Unessary and fishy requirement. I just paid/downloaded the application and will be requresting a refund/finding a different application. Waste of time! ### 1/5 — Mistake: updated from version 1.9.10 to 2.0.2 *2024-05-21, version 2.0.2* Now highlighting is messed up, it wants to highlight page number and vertical texts from books. Highlighting now jumps to highlight the entire page instead of a few texts. Please bring back the old version, I couldn’t downgrade. ### 1/5 — PDF转Office就是一个摆设 *2024-02-08* 千万不要购买这个功能，一点用都没有，购买之后也是只能转换前几页，转换出的质量也是一言难尽，此条评论留在这里仅供大家参考，希望有人看到不再上当 **Developer response:** Hello, What is your device type and OS version? Do all your PDF documents have similar problems? Please send us your PDF file, we will ask engineers to perform technical tests. PDF Reader Pro offers free trials and special education discounts. Please refer here https://www.pdfreaderpro.com/help . If you need any help, please contact support@pdfreaderpro.com , Thanks again ### 1/5 — Can’t export doc using korean *2022-06-15, version 1.9.10* edited pdf using korean character. and then export to doc which disappears korean character. only English character appears in doc. plz fix it. have a good day ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — 👍🏿 *2025-03-16, version 3.0.0* Nice app ### 5/5 — Muito bom! *2024-05-07* Realmente um app de edição de PDF, e de compra única. Permite alterar caixas de texto e imagens já contidas em um arquivo, e não apenas adicionar tais elementos e fazer anotações. Até o momento supriu todas as minhas necessidades. Parabéns aos desenvolvedores, e que estes possam ser reconhecidos e manter o app por muito mais tempo. ### 5/5 — top *2024-03-14* sehr gute app ohne abo kram. Ich bin damit sehr zufrieden. **Developer response:** Hello, PDF Reader Pro for Mac offers free trials and special education discounts. Please refer here https://www.pdfreaderpro.com/help . if you like, we recommend that you try our free screen recording software - Filmage Screen . http://www.pdfreaderpro.com/product . If you need any help, please contact support@pdfreaderpro.com , Thanks again. ### 5/5 — 终于等到PDF文本编辑了 *2023-10-31* 感谢作者推出了PDF文本编辑功能，这样软件的可用性就大大提升了。阅读+标注+文本编辑与修改，一个软件满足所有需求，真的太棒了，因此第一时间就购买了。但还有一个问题，软件内有一个关于PDF转换的内购，其价格显示为一次性付款，但却标注此付款方式是订阅制度，这样就产生了矛盾。PDF转换的内购到底是订阅付费，还是一次性买断？希望开发者能够给个回复。 **Developer response:** Hello, PDF转换的内购是一次性买断. PDF Reader Pro for Mac offers free trials and special education discounts. Please refer here https://www.pdfreaderpro.com/help . if you like, we recommend that you try our free screen recording software - Filmage Screen . http://www.pdfreaderpro.com/product . If you need any help, please contact support@pdfreaderpro.com , Thanks again. ### 5/5 — Perfect for my needs. *2023-08-08, version 1.9.13* The works great for my intended purposes and without headaches. ### 5/5 — Nutze ich gerne. *2023-06-25* Ich habe mir die Provision gekauft. Ich nutze die App sowohl als privat als auch beruflich. Danke **Developer response:** Hello, PDF Reader Pro for Mac offers free trials and special education discounts. Please refer here https://www.pdfreaderpro.com/help . if you like, we recommend that you try our free screen recording software - Filmage Screen . http://www.pdfreaderpro.com/product . If you need any help, please contact support@pdfreaderpro.com , Thanks again. ### 5/5 — Direct editing *2023-03-28, version 1.9.13* Thank you for the great app. That would be really good if we could get options for directly editing text like word files. ### 5/5 — Endlich *2023-03-23* Ich war lange auf der Suche nach einer durchdachten PDF-Software mit einem solchen Funktionsumfang. Der Preis ist absolut angemessen. Die Mac-Software kann ich auch nur wärmstens empfehlen. Weiter so. **Developer response:** Hello, PDF Reader Pro for Mac offers free trials and special education discounts. Please refer here https://www.pdfreaderpro.com/help . if you like, we recommend that you try our free screen recording software - Filmage Screen . http://www.pdfreaderpro.com/product . If you need any help, please contact support@pdfreaderpro.com , Thanks again. ### 5/5 — 非常棒的PDF编辑器 *2022-12-08* 体验了它的早期版本和最新版本，进步非常大，功能越来越完善，体验非常好。随意画的笔迹很流畅、平滑，比某wp…的笔迹要平滑。 **Developer response:** Hello, PDF Reader Pro for Mac offers free trials and special education discounts. Please refer here https://www.pdfreaderpro.com/help . if you like, we recommend that you try our free screen recording software - Filmage Screen . http://www.pdfreaderpro.com/product . If you need any help, please contact support@pdfreaderpro.com , Thanks again. ### 5/5 — Spot on *2022-11-17, version 1.9.12* Perfect mobile pdf reader and editor --- *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 2026-08-30.*