PDF viewer – PDF Viewer - Annotation Expert Review

PDF Viewer is a no-cost, ad-free app which allows you to view and annotate PDF documents. Published by PSPDFKit, this is an iPhone and iPad app ideal for business and educational uses. Of important note is that it supports Apple Pencil use, which pushes the annotations to a higher level than many other PDF apps I’ve used. Simply import a PDF to the app and click on the editing icon to reveal a toolbar for highlighting, writing, inserting images and basic drawing tools. Signing a document or filling out a PDF form has never been easier. Once you’re finished, exporting options allow you to airdrop the edited PDF to the device or to any Cloud storage. The toolbar is user-friendly and icons, though unlabeled, are relatively self-explanatory. The app does not use any audio or video media, but it does give you the option to voice-text in a comment box rather than type (however, this is the talk-to-text icon offered by Apple’s keyboard and not by the app itself). This app would be an excellent part of a student’s learning portfolio. Here, a student could upload any print media as a PDF (docs, spreadsheets, presentations, images, snapshots, etc) and take notes on it to personalize the recording of the learning experience. In addition, PDF Viewer provide background templates allowing you to create a PDF to annotate, such as lines or graph paper. Then, students could very easily share these PDFs back and forth with the teacher or one another. One obvious limitation is the lack of real-time collaborative use. The documents are static and copies are created when exported. Also the fact that the app is not available for Android means that its use could be limited to Apple-friendly classrooms only; a teacher could not expect students equitably being able to use this at home. The more I review this, the more I uncover about the capabilities!
Review by achiafulio on PDF Viewer - Annotation Expert.