Acrobat Reader vs PDF Editor
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Acrobat Reader
This app is a powerful PDF tool for viewing, editing, annotating, and signing documents. It offers AI-powered features for summarizing and interacting with PDFs, along with robust conversion and security options. Collaborate on files and access your documents from anywhere.
- View, edit, and annotate PDFs
- Sign and fill PDF forms
- Convert files to and from PDF
- AI-powered document summarization
- Collaborate in PDF Spaces
- Compress and secure PDFs
- Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
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Major new updates: Collaborate and share your files in PDF Spaces, and turn your document summaries into podcast-style audio in Acrobat Studio. The world’s most trusted PDF reader, PDF editor, and PDF maker with more than 635 million installs. View, share, annotate, add comments, and sign documents - all in one app. You can store your files online and read documents anywhere. Get your 7-day free trial and try all the features of Acrobat Reader. Paid features: Adobe Acrobat AI Assistant • Work across multiple files in one place with PDF Spaces. Collaborate, store, and use AI Assistant across files • Use voice or text prompts with AI Assistant chatbot • Ask questions and get cited answers about details in your document, including charts, graphs, and tables with Figures Q&A • Easily share the responses you get • Try voice support to ask queries and have answers read aloud. • Use new Hands-free to keep the conversation flowing with voice only • Instantly generate summaries from your PDFs with Generative AI Summaries • Get content for emails, text, study notes, blogs, and more [Adobe Acrobat AI Assistant is a paid feature*, free for a limited time] Edit PDFs • With our PDF editor, edit text and images directly in your PDF (mobile only) • Fix typos or add paragraphs with the PDF editor • Easily add, delete, or rotate any image • Use this PDF signer and PDF viewer to get your docs just right Recognize text • Optical Character Recognition (OCR) turns scanned PDFs into searchable, editable text to use in other formats Merge & organize PDFs with PDF Converter • Split or combine multiple files into one PDF with PDF converter • Use the PDF editor to insert, delete, rotate, crop & reorder pages in your PDF file Create, convert & export PDFs • Easily convert to PDF from any file type including Microsoft, Google Docs, and images • Export and convert PDFs to Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, or various image files • Convert web pages to PDFs Compress & highly secure PDFs • Compress PDF files for easy saving and sharing • Password Protect PDF documents Have your PDF read aloud • Listen to your PDFs on the go, great for reading support • Choose free voices or upgrade for high-quality options Subscribe now to access all these features and use Acrobat across mobile and web platforms. Free-to-use features: PDF signer: Fill & Sign Adobe Fill & Sign is free & available in Acrobat Reader. A form filler and PDF signer that lets you fill, sign, and send Liquid mode in the optimal PDF viewer • Get the best PDF reading experience with this PDF viewer • Search, navigate & adjust font size or spacing to fit your screen Annotate PDFs • Add sticky notes, comments, and highlight text Store & manage files • Link online storage accounts like Microsoft OneDrive, Dropbox, or Google Drive • Star files to quickly open important documents Connect the PDF viewer and reader to Google Drive • A PDF creator that lets you edit, compress, and export Google Drive files with a subscription Work with scanned documents • Access scanned PDFs from Adobe Scan in Acrobat to fill, sign, and share The Acrobat Reader mobile app is designed to work with customers who have Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) enabled. *An Adobe Acrobat AI Assistant add-on plan is available to Acrobat Individual customers. iOS 16 or above required. Terms & Conditions: Your use of this application is governed by the Adobe General Terms of Use http://www.adobe.com/go/terms_linkfree_en and the Adobe Privacy Policy http://www.adobe.com/go/privacy_policy_linkfree_en Do not sell or share my personal information www.adobe.com/go/ca-rights-linkfree
PDF Editor
Transform paper documents into digital PDFs with this mobile scanner. Convert PDFs to audio, merge files, sign documents, and extract text using OCR. Enhance image quality and manage your scanned documents efficiently.
- PDF to Audio conversion
- Document scanning and OCR
- Merge and sign PDFs
- Image processing for quality
- Multipage scanning
- Text addition to PDFs
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PDF Editor app will maximise your document management efficiency a mobile scanner for your smartphone, to change paper into PDF, while saving both time and storage. This app supports image processing and can transform, rotate, sharpen your images, for best document quality, combined with Scanner PDF's top edge OCR engine. Not only a printer app, but fast and easy scanner. Advanced scanner features: - PDF to Audio convert - Protected PDF (Lock pdf) - Merge PDF File - Sign documents in a few taps - OCR (convert any scan into text) -Text add - Save your scans in black and white, grayscale or color - Highlight the key points of your scans. - Scan to high-quality PDF - Multipage scanning - scan as many pages as you need - Automatic shutter and border detection for any scannable object - Modify, delete pages - Image processing engine that allows you to change contrast, enhance, sharpen for the perfect document quality! Subscription Subscribe for Premium features Subscription automatically renews for the same price and duration period as the original “One Month” package unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's Account Settings after purchase N:B: We start a campaign “Green World”, Initially we target 1,00,000 tree plant in our country after this campaign we can plant on your country also. We will plant a real tree on behalf of you for your subscription. It's continue every month if subscription on. Please Help Us to make this world Green. Privacy Policy https://sites.google.com/view/ecodoc-privacypolicy/home Terms of Services https://sites.google.com/view/ecodoctermsofservices/home
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: PDF Editor at 100% against Acrobat Reader's 49%. PDF Editor also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.6) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 18.3). Acrobat Reader's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (654K vs 3). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Acrobat Reader sells 16 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and PDF Editor sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
PDF Editor holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Acrobat Reader has 654K ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 49% of Acrobat Reader's written reviews are positive against 100% of PDF Editor's.
Acrobat Reader ships an update every 9 days, PDF Editor every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and August 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Acrobat Reader | PDF Editor |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (654K ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 49.1% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 654K — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days — better | Every 4 weeks |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | #2 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.3 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 522 MB | 100 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Adobe Inc. | MD AZIZUR RAHMAN |
Customer experience
Acrobat Reader
PDF Editor
Bugs and requests
Acrobat Reader
Reported bugs
4 issues- Frequent crashes and freezes
- Inconsistent behavior when editing PDFs
- Inability to open or save certain file types
- Sync issues between mobile and desktop versions
Requested features
5 requests- Add erase tool for annotations
- Improve palm rejection for Apple Pencil
- Allow direct text editing in PDFs
- Provide better cloud integration and sync
- Offer more customization options
PDF Editor
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Acrobat Reader
- Acrobat Premium - Monthly$3.991 Month
- Adobe Acrobat Premium$4.991 Month
- AI Assistant for Acrobat$6.991 Month
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- Acrobat Premium$7.497 Days
- Acrobat Premium - Monthly$9.991 Month
- Acrobat Premium - Weekly$9.997 Days
- PDF Pack - Doc Creator$9.991 Month
- Premium - Edit & Create PDF$9.991 Month
- PDF Edit and Convert Monthly7 Days trial$12.991 Month
- Acrobat Premium - Monthly$12.991 Month
- Acrobat Premium - Monthly$14.991 Month
- Acrobat Reader Plus - Yearly$19.991 Year
- Adobe ExportPDF$23.991 Year
- Adobe Acrobat Pro$24.991 Month
- Acrobat Premium - Yearly7 Days trial$48.991 Year
- Acrobat Premium - Yearly7 Days trial2 variants$69.991 Year
PDF Editor
- Monthly$4.991 Month
- Yearly3 Days trial$39.991 Year
- Lifetime$39.99
- Lifetime Offer$69.99
Questions
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