PDF Viewer : Read & Edit

What it does

PDF Viewer : Read & Edit opens PDF files and other common documents on an Android phone, including Word, PowerPoint and Excel files. It is aimed at people who need to read, find and organise documents locally rather than use a separate app for each format. You can zoom pages, search for text inside PDFs and search your device for documents by file name.

Reading and PDF tools

The app includes basic markup tools for PDF reading. You can highlight passages and add underlines when reviewing a document. It also provides tools to merge several PDFs into one file or split a PDF into separate parts. A password option is available for protecting PDF files, and files can be renamed within the app.

Creating PDFs from paper or images

You can use the phone’s camera to turn paper documents into PDFs, or select existing images from the device and convert them. This makes the app suitable for storing scans, notes and other page images as PDF files alongside documents you already have.

Usage and track record

To open files stored on the device, the app needs access to system files or shared storage. That access is central to its document-browsing function, so it is worth checking the permission request before using it with sensitive files. PDF Viewer : Read & Edit is published by Pearuell Studio under Productivity. It has a 4.5-star rating from 11,612 reviews and has been installed more than 1,000,000 times.