Acrobat Reader: PDF Editor

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Description of App

Adobe Acrobat Reader is the free PDF reader for opening, reading, filling in, signing and commenting on PDFs on your iPhone or iPad. It’s the world’s most trusted PDF reader, PDF editor and PDF maker, with more than 635 million installs and an App Store Editors’ Choice award.
You also don’t need a subscription to read, fill in or sign PDFs.
Need to do more? With Acrobat Premium, you can create PDFs from photos and files, edit text, convert PDFs to Word, Excel or PowerPoint, combine PDFs into one file and reorder pages.
Free in Acrobat Reader:
PDF viewer and PDF signer
• Open and read any PDF, and use Liquid Mode to fit the text to your screen
• Highlight text and add comments and sticky notes to your PDF
• Fill in PDF forms and sign them with your finger using Fill & Sign
• Share PDFs straight from the app
• Open files and PDFs from your iPhone, email, Google Drive, OneDrive or Dropbox
• Store and manage files, and star important docs for quick access
• Open scans from the free Adobe Scan app to fill in, sign and share
• Listen to PDFs read aloud with free voices
With Acrobat Premium:
PDF editor and PDF converter
Start with a 7-day free trial.
• Create a PDF from photos, Microsoft Office files, Google Docs or web pages
• Edit text and images, fix typos and add paragraphs
• Convert PDFs to Word, Excel, PowerPoint or image files, keeping fonts and formatting
• Merge or combine PDFs into one file, like a resume and cover letter for a job application
• Make a PDF smaller so it fits an email or upload limit
• Insert, reorder, rotate, delete, extract or crop pages, or split a PDF into several files
• Turn scanned docs into searchable, editable text with OCR
• Password-protect PDFs
• Edit, compress and export files and PDFs from Google Drive
• Listen with higher-quality read-aloud voices
Who Acrobat Reader is made for:
• Students: merge notes into one file, highlight and comment on PDFs, listen to notes, and chat with AI Assistant
• Mobile pros: open contracts and forms from email, fill and sign them, and send them back
• Small businesses: create PDF invoices, sign contracts, convert PDFs to Word files, create PDF Spaces for projects
• iPhone and iPad users: open PDFs from Files, Mail or your browser, set Acrobat Reader as your default PDF app, and go beyond viewing with comments and more
• Get PDFs read aloud through Apple CarPlay for hands-free listening on the road
Adobe Acrobat AI Assistant:
Paid feature*, free for a limited time.
• 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 and have answers read aloud
• Ask questions and get cited answers about info in your PDF docs, including charts, graphs and tables
• Use Hands-free to keep the conversation flowing with voice only
• Instantly generate summaries from your PDFs
• Get content for emails, text, study notes, blogs and more
What’s new in Acrobat Reader:
Collaborate and share your files in PDF Spaces, and turn your document summaries into podcast-style audio in Acrobat Studio.
Frequently asked questions:
Is Acrobat Reader free?
Yes. You can open, read, fill in and sign PDFs for free.
Do I need an Adobe account?
No. You can read PDFs without one. Sign in with a free Adobe account to store files in Adobe Document Cloud storage, access them across devices and use more tools.
Can I turn off AI features?
Yes. AI Assistant features are optional, and you can turn them off in Preferences.
The Acrobat Reader mobile app is designed to work with EMM enabled.
*An Adobe Acrobat AI Assistant add-on plan is available to Acrobat Individual customers. iOS 18.316 or above required.
Terms & Conditions: Your use of this application is governed by the Adobe General
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Version

25.05.00

Free or Paid

Free

Device(s) App Was Tested On

iPhone

iOS Version

18.5

Accessibility Comments

This app is quite accessible, although it does have some issues when it comes to the advanced features.

VoiceOver Performance

VoiceOver reads all page elements.

Button Labeling

All buttons are clearly labeled.

Usability

There are some minor accessibility issues with this app, but they are easy to deal with.

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Comments

By Esther on Thursday, February 7, 2013 - 01:08

The latest version of Adobe Reader (10.4.4, released December 19, 2012, running under iOS 6.1) does not read any PDF document content or page elements with VoiceOver. You can navigate the app's controls, but none of the actual PDFs are readable within the app, including their Getting Started document. The only way I found to read PDF content was by double tapping an "mp share iOS md m dk" button, which let me open the document in iBooks and read it there, or email it. This seems to be a regression from the previous report of not being able to "read fluently" with VoiceOver.
Version 10.5.0 was released to the App Store yesterday with VoiceOver improvements mentioned in the release notes: "What's New in Version 10.5.0 • VoiceOver integration for Accessibility • Sync last position via Acrobat.com • Go To Page • Smart Zoom • Night Mode • Screen Brightness Lock • Undo in Freehand Annotation tool • Performance improvements on newer devices. • FormsCentral PDF Validation • Various Bug fixes and improvements in Form handling" If anyone has tried this new version, please report back on your findings!

By Dom on Saturday, March 9, 2013 - 22:55

So, I just tried Adobe Reader for iPhone, for the first time, and it looks ceompletely accessible with VO! I remember people were saying how they couldn't read the getting started doc, I can, and navigation looks very easy.

By AnonyMouse on Sunday, March 10, 2013 - 01:15

Member of the AppleVis Editorial Team
First, I must commend the developers in charge of the new Adobe Reader for the IOS. They have done a toal 180 on this app. Going from being totally inaccessible to mostly accessible is awesome! Most of the app itslef appears to be very easy to use. I was able to load up a few of my Microsoft Books that I use for work. I was able to go through the entire book with ease. I love the fact there is two options to read through the PDF. One if using the Ticker of which page you are on and allowing you to flick up and down to the page you want. I really love the three fingers swiping to the left and right that also move the pages. The Tools are a bit confusing but with some practice where to find them. It can be used. Some of the areas doesn't quite work right with the typical flicking left and right. There was a section at one time that I could only get out of the page was doing a touch to find the certain buttons and this mode would not work with the flick to the right nor left. However, it was very accessible if you like to navigate around the page with your fingers. Something to note when you want to change pages with the three fingers swipe to the left or right. You will hear the ding sound as to us is typical that means there is nothing to do. In fact it does change the page. It pauses for about a second and then start to read the page to you. So it does work just wasn't expecting the ding and if they could remove this to advoid confusion. As in a typical PDF it will read the entire page. So I wasn't able to read by words, lines, and such. It is the entire page or nothing There are tools that you can add comments and highlight the PDF. I hadn't taken the time to really try this out fully but does appear to be fully accessible. You can Copy and change the View on the PDF as well. I am just very impressed by the work they have done. So job well done to Adobe! We can't wait to see any future updates for it and making it even more accessible! I know the Team would love to hear in what others have found with this app and if any part that you have found not to be accessible? What is your thought on their changes?

By Dom on Sunday, March 10, 2013 - 03:52

In reply to by AnonyMouse

Mouse, can you load .epub books into Adobe Reader? Or just PDFS. I, myself, noticed the same accessibility issues you were encountering, as well. But for the most part, I'd say its about 80-90% accessible!
"What's New in Version 10.6 • Enhanced integration with Acrobat.com • Option to flatten when Sharing files • View Notes attached to text markup • Updated iPhone UI • Delete and Rename files on Acrobat.com • Bug fixes and Security updates"

By Michael Hansen on Monday, May 19, 2014 - 22:33

Member of the AppleVis Editorial Team

Adobe Reader version 11.3.0 is now available:

"What's New in Version 11.3.0

Bug Fixes"