Today we are increasingly in a hurry, so often the need will arise to have to open our PDF documents on the smartphone, without waiting to have to go back to the computer. There are currently many apps available to read PDFs on Android and iPhone, which choosing the best for your needs (the lightest, fastest or most complete) could prove to be a difficult choice. Just to meet the needs of all smartphone users at work or when we are simply away from home and receive the email with the PDF that we were waiting for, in this guide we will show you the best apps to read, open and make PDFs on Android and on iPhone that we can install for free. Our advice is to try them all, so as to find the one that best suits our needs with PDF files and documents in general.
Best Apps to read PDF on Android and iPhone
We have collected below all the best apps that we can use on an Android smartphone or an iPhone to be able to read PDFs for free (without having to pay anything).Adobe Acrobat Reader
Adobe Acrobat Reader remains for many the default choice to open PDF files, since it works well and faithfully replicates the functions that we can also find on the PC program.
With this app we can open any document and edit it where necessary, adding signatures, underlines and new notes. If we have an Adobe account, we can synchronize the PDFs saved in the cloud and decide to keep the most important documents on it, so as not to lose them once back in the office or in front of the home PC.
We can download Adobe Acrobat Reader for free for Android and for iPhone.
Foxit Reader
Foxit Reader is the name of one of the most effective and best alternatives to Adobe acrobat reader on PC which also has an Android version, which is ideal for opening long PDFs as well as ebooks.
This free app supports bookmarks, advanced PDF file management, a library to sort them by name or size, cloud storage and other very useful functions to edit and convert PDFs, so you can easily edit them without having to use Adobe Acrobat Reader for a fee.
Foxit Reader can be downloaded for free for Android and for iPhone.
Xodo PDF reader
Xodo PDF reader is an app with many functions inside it, to the point that it can easily replace the Adobe app in the management of all PDFs.
Xodo PDF Reader also allows you to sign PDFs and fill out forms, which also supports saving to Google Drive and Dropbox cloud storage, all for free and with a modern and convenient graphic interface.
We can download this handy app for free for both Android and iPhone devices.
WPS Office
Among the office suites that we can use to read and edit all types of documents (including PDFs), WPS Office certainly stands out.
By installing this app we can then manage Word, Excel, PowerPoint and PDF documents as if we were in front of the PC, making changes and conversions as needed. It is currently one of the best solutions we can adopt to be able to read PDFs on smartphones.
The free office suite can be installed for free for Android and iPhone.
OfficeSuite
Still on the subject of mobile office suites, we recommend OfficeSuite, which offers an advanced system to read and edit PDFs from the screens of our portable devices.
Once installed, simply open the app, indicate the PDF to be opened and use one of the many functions dedicated to managing this file format (underline, add signature). Among its features, the integrated conversion system certainly stands out, which allows you to switch from Word to PDF (and vice versa) at any time, so that you can make deeper changes to any document.
This suite can be downloaded free for Android and iPhone.
Other apps to read PDFs on smartphones
The ones we mentioned a while ago are without a doubt the best apps we can use to read and (in many cases) edit PDFs on Android and iPhone. If the apps shown have not convinced you, we can try one of the following apps which, even if less known, lend themselves well to the purpose.- Google PDF Reader is a little-known app, which Google has released to offer a PDF reader that is separate from Google Drive. As an app it is very simple and easy to use, free, with a search function, the text selection tool and printing support.
- AnDoc PDF Reader is an app that not only works well for opening PDFs, but is also very small and light. It is an ideal application for those who need something very small to read PDF files occasionally downloaded from the Internet. The free version has some advertisements.
- DocuSign is an application designed specifically for business use, which works not only to open documents, but also to compile them, sign them and then send them. That part of the app is completely free and without limitations, then you can pay a premium subscription for additional business features. In this regard, I also refer to the article on how to sign PDFs and documents on PC, Android, tablet, iPad and iPhone .
- MuPDF is a simple, very light and basic app, which can be an excellent PDF Reader for those who are not looking for particular functions. It supports PDF encryption, hyperlinks, annotations, search and has the ability to view PDFs in high quality.
- Radaee PDF Reader is a light and fast app to upload PDFs, therefore ideal for those who have little space on the phone memory. The application, completely free, has basic functions, including zooming, searching and selecting text.
Conclusions
In this guide we have shown you all the best apps that we can install on our smartphone to be able to correctly manage PDF documents, both if we have an Android phone and if we have a modern iPhone.If we want to convert paper documents into comfortable PDFs to share or save on the phone, we can use one of the apps mentioned in our guide to the Document Scanners App to PDF for Android and iPhone .
We need to print a PDF from our Android smartphone but we don't know how to do it? We can use the suggestions proposed in our guide on How to print from Android on any printer .
