The Finest PDF editor on iPadOS, by far!

One of the most useful apps a person can own in the 21st century, is a PDF editor and here’s the one we recommend above all others. 

Wether you are working on company documents, filling out banking forms or viewing your kids school report, its highly likely your doing it in PDF format. This is because PDF’s are hands down the most commonly received document format in the world, largely because they protect the original design, layout and composition and do so with very small file sizes. 

However this strength which makes PDF’s so popular, can also make them difficult to work with and so choosing a good PDF viewer and editing tool can save you a ton of time and frustration down the line. This is even more important if you are using it in businesses where productivity, time and professional features are crucial to getting the job done correctly and quickly, the first time. 

Work 

For most businesses including the one I work in, manipulating PDF’s is a near daily occurrence, so the PDF tool I needed had to be designed first for iPad Pro and be optimized for iPadOS’s latest features.

I think it is important to explain my workflow, so that you have some context for my requirements. I typically work in split screen with two apps side by side and a third app such as; iMessage, 1password, notes, Fantastical, Numbers, Files or my task manager in slide over for quick easy reference, so the PDF app I need has to work with all the latest iPadOS features and multi-tasking. 

I do allot of editing and manipulating of brochures and marketing material sent in PDF form from our oversea’s suppliers and these days with online brochures and PDF’s becoming more interactive and functional, I need something on a more professional Level for iPad Pro. 

This is where PDF Expert by Readdle comes in! I’m not going to bore you with all the PDF apps I’ve tried in the past and why they didn’t cut it, instead I’m going to tell you why I love PDF Expert. 

I have found PDF Expert makes my work much easier. Tasks that usually take up a lot of my time are faster and more intuitive to do. Things like editing brochures and marketing material for instance; adding our company’s address, contact information, removing pages, text and images, replacing clickable hyperlinks with ones that point to our own address, I find are all much faster and actually more enjoyable to do now with PDF Expert.

For those who may not know, Readdle (the company behind PDF Expert) has had a very long history with the App Store. They launched their first App on the very first day the App store went live in 2008. To date Readdle have over 100 million App Store installations world wide and are frequently rated top of their apps category on the App Store.

I am actually finding their file system “Documents” which is their competing app to Apples Files app, very tempting to move to! I leave that for  another review later on.

Another feature I am really enjoying recently is the Presentation Mode with Apple’s SharePlay. PDF expert have integrated this beautifully and it works seemly with SharePlay. This is so nice to use to use in business to explain changes on a document, website, presentation or anything really because you can simply annotate over the presentation using your Apple Pencil or cursor. This feature makes real time collaboration so intuitive and easy to initiate.

Personal life 

In my personal life my wife and I embrace a minimalist lifestyle, and one such area we are particularly proud of, is our paper presence or rather, lack thereof. With the exception of a few crucial documents like birth certificates, marriage certificates, qualifications etc, we are fully paperless! Being paperless gives you a surprisingly liberating feeling, in large part because it frees up so much space that would otherwise be occupied by all the stuff we need to manage our paperwork, such as; files, storage boxes, stationary, paper reams, ink cartridges, a printer, documents, etc. One forgets how much space all this takes up and how much clutter it creates. PDF Expert has enabled me to fully transition to a paperless lifestyle.

Recently I have been updating my life insurance, it’s of course important to do as a persons family expands and as more kids come into the picture. But goodness it is a lot of back and fourth, with a plethora of documents! PDF Editor coupled with the Apple Pencil makes this process much more enjoyable and manageable. 

This combination has helped to speed up other document intensive areas of my life, such as my kids school paperwork, from enrollment forms, contracts, indemnities, etc, its allot. 

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