Adobe Reader 11.6.4
Nice and clean
Reader displays your PDFs front and center, in landscape or portrait mode, with numerous options in the above menubar, all compressed into sub-menus to leave most of the UI available for displaying content. User tips are displayed from now and then. Night mode is broken (turns everything to black and white, including pictures).
PDF viewer
First and foremost, Adobe Reader is a PDF viewer. The viewing features don’t require a subscription and allow you to open PDF documents from email, the web, or any app that supports “Open In.” Unfortunately you can’t import PDFs from a cloud service of your choice, which is a huge downside. All you can do is sign in to Acrobat.com.
You can view PDF Portfolios, password-protected PDFs, annotations, and drawing markups, search text to find specific terms and phrases, select single page or continuous scroll modes to suit your reading habits, zoom in on text or images, use Brightness Lock to read long passages, and even use iOS VoiceOver Accessibility to navigate and read documents.
The app enables users to send any file from Reader by simply tapping it to create a link that can then be shared via email, the web, or social media.
Adobe Reader comes with iOS 8 optimization and support for the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus.
PDF creator
With a subscription you can export PDF files to Word or Excel using the Adobe ExportPDF online service, create PDF files using Adobe PDF Pack online services, store and access documents in the cloud with Acrobat.com, and more.
However, you don’t need to log into Acrobat or pay any money to annotate and comment PDFs, organize, print or share your documents.
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Bottom Line
Design / UI8
Reader looks nice and clean, but it could use a little more work when it comes to the sub-menus. Also, the night mode function is broken. It displays everything in black and white, including pictures that normally have color. |
Function8
For PDF viewing and basic editing, the free Adobe Reader is more than enough. |
Security7
It connects to the web and to cloud services, wants to send some of your information to Adobe’s servers to improve services. |
Battery8
Normal consumption levels. |
Price5
As good as Adobe Reader is in free mode, we can’t in good faith award it a high score here. The in-app purchases combined well exceed $100 / €100. It’s a PDF tool for Pete’s sake, not a video editor! |
Compatibility8
Requires iOS 7 as minimum, has iPad-ready version. |
Great for school projects, office work, planning, etc.
Specifications
- price:
- Free with IAP
- current version:
- 11.6.4
- reviewed version:
- 11.6.3
- developer:
- Adobe Systems Incorporated
- category:
- PRODUCTIVITY
- os version req.:
- 7.0
- age rating:
- 4+
- in-app purchases:
- Yes. Adobe PDF Pack Subscription $9.99, Adobe Export PDF Subscription $23.99, Adobe PDF Pack Subscription $89.99
- hits:
- 599