Name: Foxit PDF Editor
Rating: 4.34 (4839 reviews)

A Google user

6 years ago

Good working app, but sometimes it freezes if i keep turning the page. Also, if I want to read something saved to my cloud a few times it takes very long. The biggest issue with that is if I have "Restore Previous Session" selected, I have to wait for the cloud book to finish loading because I can't cancel out of it even when i reset the app. If i come back after resetting, it goes back to loading the cloud book for ages. can't even change the settings till the book loads.

J

2 years ago

Foxit has a lot of impressive functionality, but it is almost impossible to use it on a phone interface. Basic things like scrolling though pages are frustrating since you will touch the poorly placed page tab, which will take you 100 pages ahead. If you touch the text, you will open other unwanted interfaces that need to be closed before you continue. To do anything precise, you end up having to zoom so far into the text that you can't see the page or grab the text off the screen.

Gor

2 years ago

Used to have good dark mode years ago, now if you change background color the pictures also get disrupted and so the mode is almost useless! The search function is good as it displays a list of the results. I like the zoom function too. I didn't find a way to remove the large annoying toolbar, it disappears not fast enough when reading and the document doesn't go fully full screen as there is a black bar instead of wrapping around the camera cutout, and also black bars top and bottom.

Nerd Of Games

3 years ago

I would give it 5 stars, but the app has a delay in touch interfacing. There were a couple of pdfs that I urgently needed to edit, and it worked fine for the first one. Then, I tried to edit the second one, and it was slow to respond when tapping on a line or area to input text. Also, once the text was entered and saved, it did not save anything on the document. It just saved it as a blank filled out document. Needs another update!

A Google user

6 years ago

The reflow feature is genius, and this review will focus on that one feature. I was looking for a reader that would restructure and reformat pdf's to be readable on a phone, and this does that well. It moves blocks of text and images into a continuous stream that's easy to read. It renders pretty slowly when it's doing this, and there are definitely some ugly artifacts, but those negatives don't disrupt the reading experience.

Chukwudi Ebelle “Augustus” Ozonsi

2 years ago

This was hands down the best PDF viewer on Android. This recent update forced me to give a review which i rarely do. So many issues. Slow to load, slow to render annotations, random crashes, auto rotate doesn't work, inefficient table of contents bookmarks. This is my biggest issue actually. Is there a way to view nested bookmarks instead of opening a new page for each section. +1 star if u fix that, +1 more for everything else.

M Deck

4 years ago

Latest change (I can't bring myself to call it an update) has ruined the app -- if it opens a file at all, it takes fully minutes. I don't want a PDF editor on my phone; I just want a lightweight, unbloated PDF reader. PLEASE bring that back. Recent-ish versions of both your Windows and Android apps are gonna drive me back to Adobe, which makes me really sad, as I used to recommend your products regularly, and now they don't do what I counted them for.

A Google user

6 years ago

Bloated app that is one of the biggest users of internal storage on my phone, perhaps due to all the premium features I can't use and don't want or maybe due to bad coding. UI is nice, but even basic tasks like highlighting don't work, with it being difficult to highlight precisely. Also still using old Android APIs so permissions can't be managed properly. I recommend Xodo instead.

Thomas Gallagher

3 years ago

October Edit: Well, I'm an idiot. Since I need pdf editing, file conversion, etc on mobile, and use the desktop version, I subscribed despite all the bugs the last several months. Out of memory errors (168kb file), search, the app crashes, edit, it crashes, etc. They haven't fixed anything. Would switch to Acrobat but too costly on mobile, but it works, so may be worth it to switch. If I do, that's it for Foxit, mobile and desktop, too many bugs, no effective response to make their products work. June: Just tried the June 2 update, and no dice. A file that I've opened, searched, copied text from, etc. numerous times before on my phone just sits there with an out of memory error message. Opened it in Acrobat and then in the phone's pdf app and both had no trouble with it. Foxit said they're going to be responsive to their users comments, so hoping they can get this back to the lean, stable app that this used to be.

David Hawn

4 years ago

Foxit Reader was great. Foxit PDF is supposed to be an update and foxit Reader isn't available anymore, which is unfortunate. Foxit PDF editor is unstable, difficult to use, and clunky. I frequently have to force close the app and restart it because it gets stuck in a non-responsive state. Definitely going to look for other options for a PDF reader.

A Google user

6 years ago

Used it as the primary, fast PDF reader on my phone up to version 5.5.1.0825. Tried the majority of other pdf readers up to that point, thought FoxIt was the best. Then, tried to open a foreign language, huge pdf, and it was too slow scrolling page to page. At that point, tried the major pdf readers again, found Xodo to be superior for complex, foreign language pdfs and faster update of the screen scrolling page to page. Using the two over the past couple of months, more power in Xodo, especially cropping, deleting, flattening textbook length documents. For complex users, Xodo. For simple pdf users, FoxIt.

Señor Snout

4 years ago

Foxit PDF Reader was fine, and used to be my favorite mobile pdf app. But now, it operates horribly. It's slow, clunky, the UI is is garish and obnoxious, opening the pdf takes way longer than before and sometimes you have to close and open it again for it to display properly, and tapping on the pdf while it's open to hide the toolbars often is fiddly and doesn't work, and when it does, it's slow and stuttery. Don't use this version of Foxit. Save yourself the headache and find one that works.

Chris Larson

3 years ago

The old app was a powerful and stable PDF reader which I used frequently for accessing service and parts manuals working in the field. Great time saver instead of digging out a PC to look up something briefly. This new PDF editor replaces the old reader and is quite unusable. It hogs the phone's resources. Very slow to load. Just too much bloat for the job. A shame since other PDF readers out there do not work as well as that old app did. But apparently gone forever now.

TheN H813

2 years ago

Pretty much the PDF reader on Android that has almost all the same features as the Desktop version, with everything from viewing, annotations and editing to creating new files. Foxit has NEVER hit me with a endless stream of ads like so many 'free' apps do. Even better, is it works GREAT with local files without giving errors or constantly asking you to upload them like Google Drive always does. It just does what it says on the box. Hands down the best. I used Foxit since the Windows XP days.

Larry Fritz

2 years ago

I have been using Foxit Reader for Windows for many years and have been very happy with it. But every time I try to open a PDF file in the Android app I get an error stating the file might be corrupted, even though the same file always opens fine in the default app for Google Drive, and after several months of this I'm done and unistalling the app.

Lexi

4 years ago

I've never written a review regarding any app before but I feel very strongly about this. Foxit Reader was the best mobile PDF reader I have ever used by a wide margin. That being said recently they updated it and it changed into Foxit "Editor" adding edit functionality to the app and I must saw it's awful. It broke the reader side of things, it's incredibly slow and it crashes very often. It constantly asks for SD card permissions that it already has and crashes when I attempt to authorize it.

Penny B (acid1181)

3 years ago

This app was wonderful. I have been using it for year. I updated it recently and now the dark color does not work on the reflow and other colors are off when you use the reflow. The reflow is also jumpe. When you try to scroll it freezes before it loads. It used to be seamless. I used to love the app but due to the changes I going to have to fine a new one or install the old version.

A Google user

2 years ago

This app has improved a lot and is now very easy to use. Foxit PDF Editor allows you to zoom through a document and highlight text, add comments, and draw lines, which are the sort of quick additions I would be willing to make on my phone. For anything more complicated, I'll use my laptop, thank you. Foxit PDF Editor does have a few advanced features which require a subscription, but you still get a lot in a simple and reliable app for free.

dave c

1 year ago

I would agree with Lexi (6/13/23) that previous Foxit readers were great. I had downloaded this onto a new tablet so I could use it with a scrolling ap for music performances like I did on my old tablet. This version of foxit requires you to select a menu which opens a page to select the page you want to view. Uhmmm, my fingers are just a little busy. Why did this change?

Vincent Mo

1 year ago

"Auto save" doesn't work reliably for files in Google Drive, so I have lost countless highlights in my pdfs. What's completely incomprehensible is that when you switch apps away from Foxit, it shows a warning saying that you should save your changes. If auto save is turned on, shouldn't you just... AUTO SAVE it for me?? To rub salt on the wound, turning on auto save removes the save button so you actually CAN'T save manually.