The best PDF apps. Chosen by the community.
42 PDF apps, chosen by the community. Top of this view: Scanner App: PDF Scan — #65 overall. The overall rank spans all apps and changes with every vote. How the ranking works →
PDF is the format documents arrive in when they need to look the same everywhere — and the format that constantly requires something the built-in tools cannot do. People searching for the best PDF apps usually have one concrete job: sign, merge, shrink, fill in, annotate, convert.
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That job drives the choice. A pure reader has to start quickly and page through large files smoothly. For editing, what counts is whether the app touches the actual text or just lays an image over it, whether form fields survive, and whether a signature carries any legal weight or is merely a pasted picture. With text recognition, language support decides how useful it is. And the key question with free offerings: is the file uploaded to someone else's server to be processed? With contracts, invoices and medical records that is not a detail.
This list is compiled by hand — the stores have no PDF category. The order within it comes, as everywhere here, from community upvotes minus downvotes.
