PDFera: PDF Reader & Editor

Read, annotate, scan and convert PDFs on your phone with PDFera. Merge files, compress PDFs, sign documents and make scanned pages searchable — no sign-up needed, and PDFera never uploads your documents.

*/ Read and annotate

• Open PDFs, including password-protected files.

• Search text, follow links, use the table of contents and named bookmarks.

• Highlight, underline, strike through and add notes; undo any change.

• Read in normal, sepia or night mode, go full screen, keep the screen awake or lock rotation.

• Print documents and open PDFs shared from other apps.

*/ Organize and compress

• Merge PDFs, or split by page range, every N pages or one file per page.

• Reorder pages by dragging thumbnails; rotate, delete, extract, insert and crop pages, with undo and redo.

• Compress PDFs with a size estimate first. Free has light and balanced levels; Pro adds strong, black-and-white for scans and a target size in KB or MB.

• PDFera edits pages, annotations and signatures; the text already printed on a page is kept as it is.

*/ Scan, recognize and convert

• Scan paper with your camera, adjust the detected page corners, apply filters and combine pages into one PDF.

• Turn photos into a PDF, or save PDF pages as JPG or PNG images, one by one or in a ZIP.

• Recognize text on your device to make scanned PDFs searchable and copyable — more than 70 languages, 17 built in and the rest downloaded in the app when you need them.

• Convert PDF to a Word file with editable text (page images optional), or to Excel with one sheet per page. Scanned pages need text recognition first to give editable text.

*/ Sign and protect

• Draw, type or import your signature; choose the ink colour and line weight, then drag, resize and rotate it on the page. Keep up to 5 signatures.

• Lock a PDF with strong password encryption and choose whether it can be printed or copied. Remove a password when you know the current one.

*/ Your documents stay private

PDF processing happens on your device; PDFera never uploads your documents and every feature works without signing in (a Google sign-in is asked only to redeem a Pro activation code). Every change to a PDF is saved as a new copy next to the original. Exports carry no watermark, even on Free. Name each file when you save it, search your library and browse the versions of a document. Compression never gives you a bigger file.

*/ Free and Pro

Free: unlimited reading, search, printing, reading modes, annotations, scanning and signing. Merge, split, light/balanced compression, saving organized pages, image/PDF conversion and PDF to Word/Excel share 1 free use per day; watch 1 short optional video for 1 more (up to 2 a day). Set a password 3 times a day; removing a password is unlimited. Text recognition covers page 1 of each document. Free includes ads.

Pro: unlimited daily use of every tool, text recognition on all pages, strong, black-and-white and target-size compression, unlimited password protection, no ads and no videos to watch. Choose a monthly or yearly subscription that renews automatically, or a one-time lifetime purchase. No free trial.

*/ PDFera speaks 17 languages and comes in light, dark and system appearance.