PDFs have been the most used documents for sharing documents in the office and at home for years and even the advent of smartphones and tablets has not changed this trend. Compared to the computer, however, we may find ourselves in difficulty when we try to edit and compile PDFs on the screen of tablets and smartphones, since the lack of a mouse could make it difficult to select the right fields in which to sign or edit. To avoid all these problems we will show you in this guide the best apps to edit and compile PDF from Android and iOS, so you can act in complete autonomy without having to turn on a computer every time to make changes. For the guide we will recommend only free apps, so you can edit PDFs without spending a penny.
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To modify or put a signature on PDF documents, we will have to use one of the following free apps, so that you can achieve this by simply moving your finger on the screen of your smartphone or tablet.
Adobe Acrobat Reader
As with the computer program, the Adobe Acrobat Reader app is definitely the best solution for managing and editing PDFs from a smartphone or tablet. With it we can make any type of modification, insert a signature by drawing, by photograph or by digital signature and also apply ticks on questionnaires or corporate documents. Excellent integration with the Adobe cloud, so that we can bring PDF documents and related changes to any device in our possession.
We can download this app for free from here -> Adobe Acrobat Reader for Android and Adobe Acrobat Reader for iOS.
Foxit Mobile PDF
If we are looking for a real alternative to Adobe, we recommend trying the Foxit Mobile PDF app now, which has many interesting features such as editing text fields, the ability to load a signature in different ways, a special function to combine multiple PDF together is an efficient converter, so that we can convert any other document in our possession to and from PDF, with a lot of changes already applied.
We can download this app for free from here -> Foxit Mobile PDF for Android and Foxit Mobile PDF for iOS.
Xodo PDF Editor
After trying the two apps mentioned above, the only other app that deserves to be tried on your smartphones and tablets is definitely Xodo PDF Editor .
This app contains many of the features seen in the other apps, including changing the text fields and signature fields, the ability to merge multiple PDFs together and generate previews of all the sheets, so as to be able to better organize each page to create a new PDF according to our needs.
We can download this app for free from here -> Xodo PDF Editor for Android and Xodo PDF Editor for iOS.
Other Apps to edit PDF on Android
After seeing the apps available on both operating systems for mobile, we decided to collect the apps available exclusively for Android in a dedicated list.Again we have given preference to the apps available for free, so that we can edit and compile PDFs without problems.
- Pdf Text Editor
- WPS Office
- PDF Reader
- MaxiEdit PDF Editor
- PDF Reader - Scan, Edit & Share
- PDFfiller
Let's try one of the apps in the list as valid alternatives to the apps already reported, since all (with different interfaces and different file opening speeds) allow you to edit the text fields and apply the signature in the appropriate field, it's up to us choose the one that best suits our needs.
Other Apps to edit PDF on iOS
Even for iPhone and iPad owners, there are many alternative apps available to edit and compile PDFs, even if getting the free ones is much more difficult (since iOS is designed to be used in business too, where surely the money for apps are not missing).Below we will report a list of free apps or offers with free trial for all iOS devices still supported by Apple.
- PDFelement
- PDF Viewer Pro by PSPDFKit
- LiquidText
We recommend trying these apps only if those recommended at the beginning of the guide have not satisfied you or have not convinced you from a graphic point of view, so you can try alternatives to the most famous and well-known products.
Conclusions
Now we know all the apps that we can use on a smartphone or tablet to edit and compile PDFs without necessarily having to go through a computer.Are we looking for a way to compile PDFs from a PC without having to print the sheet and scan it again ?
In a dedicated guide we have shown you how to use the various programs to directly edit and print the ready-made PDFs; the guide is available here -> How to fill out PDF forms without printing them .
Instead of editing PDFs, do we want to convert them into documents for Word, so we can apply many more changes than the Adobe format?
In this case, we recommend reading our guide How to edit PDF files and convert them into documents, in which we will be able to find the best tools to convert the PDFs in our possession to various formats.
We have edit-protected PDFs in our hands but want to find a way to apply the changes anyway ?
Assuming that those who apply the block could have their good reasons (for example, want to protect their work with copyright or prevent it from being copied by other users), reading our dedicated guide we will be able to unlock a password-protected PDF file, so you can open, edit, read and print it without any limitation.
