Foxit PDF Editor

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• Foxit AI Assistant - Yearly — $49.99/year ($4.16/mo)
• PDF Editor - Monthly — $6.99/month
• PDF Editor - Monthly — $39.99/year ($3.33/mo)
• PDF Editor - Monthly — $139.99/year ($11.66/mo)

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4.5 4759 ratings · App Store

1. 4/5required enhancements

   After extending my best regards, I would like to suggest a few enhancements for the app 1. The app should display page labels, not just the physicl pages numbers. 2. The outline list should present its levels more effectively, meaning that rather than expanding each level in a new open window to keep it virtical list expanded for all levels to be shown up all at once. A more sophisticated approach, similar to the functionality found in the PDF Expert app, would be beneficial. 3. For advanced outlines, one of the standout features of Foxit PDF Editor is the ability to search within outlines. I propose implementing a feature that allows users to trigger outlines' search bar to momentarily filled with any keyword. as soon as a line in outlines tapped which has this keyword embeded as a new kind of destination, that should serve as a destination for the outline search bar rather than page numbers. 4. app should keep search results showed up after taping any of it, rather than retyping in outlines's search bar the keyword again. 5. To ensure that The app save pages switched after switching it from right to left the same as it is expected after cropping; currently, cropped pages saved cropped. I believe these improvements would significantly enhance the app's functionality and overall user experience. Thank you for the excellent apps you offer on Apple platforms

   AmgadFahmy · 6 Aug 2026

2. 4/5Working again but had to fix it myself

   Updated review: FoxIt PDF Editor is the best and most affordable PDF viewing and editing software I’ve found for the iPad and I’ve been using it for 3-4 years. The free version is great for viewing, allowing you to have up to five PDFs open in tabs at the same time. For $11/yr you get editing features, too. With the update to version 12.0, the software reverted to the locked version and I was unable to reactivate it. The software contacted the Apple servers, recognized that I have an active subscription but then gave an “unknown error” message and the software stayed locked. This prevents me from editing or using complex PDF forms. I reached out to customer support, including screenshots of the problem on the iPad. After 9 days, I received a message about the Mac version of the software that made it seem like my messages wasn’t even read. After I posted a negative review here, I got a response within 12h. This tells me the company is focusing on sales over support. I fixed the problem myself by deleting the app, restarting my iPad and reinstalling it. This worked, but made me lose all my imported PDFs, which now have to be reimported. Bugs happen, but FoxIt needs to put more resources into customer support.

   Drober1 · 6 Aug 2026

3. 4/5Great app, needs minor tweaks.

   IMHO, the only things that prevents a 5-star rating of perfection pertains to highlighting & comments. If the text of a bullet list is copied when highlighting the format line breaks from a bullet list are ignored; whereas selecting the text and copying preserves all line breaks, which sometimes means there could only a few words per line from words in a textbook where te text is adjacent to a diagram. Also, while editing comments the hit box for “Ok” and “Done” NEEDS to be larger (no matter if that means a larger banner at the top of the comment box). We also need the ability to enter RGB codes for highlight colors (and save them as a preset) to ensure we match the same color as in the PC version…as of now I need choose a random orange color in the app, then on PC filter the comments to only show the various shades of orange, then edit the properties to select a presaved custom color. Lastly, when summarizing only comments we should have the option to consolidate multiple pages. As of now if I highlight one sentence on page 500 & one sentence on page 501, the “Summary” will create two pages for these. So for paramedic books, out of 2,100 pages (with ~350 pages remaining to read), the “Summary” is 650 pages and most pages only have 1-3 highlighted items. If a page has only 4 words highlighted, then the “Summary” will use an entire page! This mostly contradicts the definition of “Summary”…a more accurate description is “Exporting comments to PDF”, not a “Summary”. To have a “Summary” document that is actually useful, I would need to copy+paste everything in to MS Word, Google Docs, etc.

   ArmyMarine_SGT Peanut · 6 Aug 2026

4. 2/5iPad app crashes constantly

   This software works wonderfully on my Windows computer & Mac, however the paid iPad version is extremely frustrating. The handwriting function with Apple Pencil or just a finger seems to overload it and it crashes constantly. The other problems with handwriting, —once you’ve written several lines on a page, even if they are far apart, when you try to select one line, it always selects everything you’ve written since you chose that button. Handwriting to text is a problem as well, as every time you format text after conversion, the next time you have to do it again and I have yet to find a setting for default formatting. This also applies to typing—you have to format it every time. The full software versions of this alway revert to the last formatting you used. I’ve tried submitting reports for suggestions or problems within the app and it crashes when I do that as well. Using this as a student to try to write or even type on pdfs is useless. I am beyond frustrated and unless it gets fixed, I won’t be renewing this subscription.

   1736NayNay · 6 Aug 2026

5. 1/5Give me the BLUE FOXIT back

   So I turned on my iPhone, looked for the blue Foxit icon. Saw a purple icon in its place. Clicked on it & now cannot read my Bible reading file. Guess I will have to go back to Adobe reader. Oh I get it that Foxit can mow the yard, clean up oil spills & dispose of nuclear waste, but all I want to do is read my personal Bible reading file I created in PDF format. If anybody can help me do that I would deeply appreciate it. I used to tell people who got a free download from my website, to load Foxit or Adobe Reader on their device first. Now, I am only recommending Adobe. Why? Because the file was to difficult to find, then open. It was sluggish. I always had to turn on the “continuous” scroll when I opened it. Then when I did the two finger enlarging on my iPhone, where I was disappeared, and I would end up in a totally different place. I would pay money to be able to get the Blue Icon version back. It was the best, better than Adobe for ease of operation. Now that has been taken away and Adobe is my favorite PDF reader, and the only PDF reader I will recommend. Please bring back the older version.

   Torah Taught · 6 Aug 2026

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4.0 211665 ratings · Google Play

1. 5/5

   since 2017, still my favourite pdf reader!

   Giorgos · 29 Jul 2026

2. 1/5

   garbage

   Brandon Schadel · 29 Jul 2026

3. 5/5

   good

   Ankit Malik · 29 Jul 2026

4. 1/5

   A PDF reader should not ask for money in order to open documents, even XFA ones.

   Antonion't · 29 Jul 2026

5. 5/5

   Excellent! Best pdf viewer for inverting text to white on black background whilst leaving images and other coloured text their true colour; this is ideal for aviation use at night! Only gripe is that it's offline sync with a chosen Google drive folder is not reliable; if I add a new pdf to the folder I have to disconnect my google drive and reconnect it in order for it to fully sync the new files (despite it stating it is fully syncd). I'm sure they will fix this. Phone is Honor X9D. Luv it

   JPB · 29 Jul 2026

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