Highlights is nice, but it only does highlights and does not support annotating with Apple Pencil. Foxit was probably the closest feature-wise and is much cheaper. I’ve been through a number of other apps on the iPad but wasn’t happy with any of them. I can’t deny part of the reason now was my intent to support Readdle as such, especially given the current circumstances, as they have always been quick to reply to support emails and I also get a lot out of Spark, in which I basically live day in day out, and which is free. As PDF Expert is central to my workflow I have decided to subscribe now even though it’s definitely not cheap. Readdle has always been fair in not forcing users to upgrade, or upgrade to a subscription - you always got to keep what you paid for previously. So due to Apple’s store requirements, developers who distribute via App store are fairly restricted in what they can do in terms of pricing. There’s no good way to offer update pricing. Developers can only charge fully for new apps or provide subscriptions. Part of the problem is the Mac/iOS stores themselves. But after 1 year I can always go back to the “old” features which I love. I might subscribe for one year and see how much extra value it provides. But the price for educators (who already have PDF Expert from the past) will be $20 for the first year, $40 for ongoing years. I imagine they’ll add more features in the future.Įducational pricing for upgrading the new features are not in place yet: I think it comes out this week or next. The only features that I can see that are new to v3 (and thus need an upgrade) are scanning/OCR and exporting. If you subscribe all is unlocked on all versions for you: Mac, iPad, and iPhone. But there’s no need to do this and the old features work as before. If you want to use a new feature beyond v2 then you are prompted to unlock the additional features. No nagging involved for me (except maybe the first time). Upgrading to 3 is free for version 2 users. Annotations, specifically document signing could be better, but aside from that, this is worth trying out.And others: There’s a lot of posts here in relatively little time and I have not read all of them (about 70% of them only) so I may be repeating info. The UI is nicely designed, using it is fast and fluid, and there are plenty of handy features available. If you're a Mac user looking for a good PDF program to use, PDF Expert for Mac is a great option to consider. Fast and feature-rich PDF reader and editor Some things to take into consideration before using this program is that it lacks support for Optical character recognition (OCR) and while the trackpad signature tracking and recognition work, they could be a lot better. Lastly, PDF Expert can integrate with various third-party apps and services for sharing and collaborations in addition to its cross-platform compatibility across Mac and iOS devices. What's more, management features, such as merging files or adding page numbering are available to you. You can also make annotations, such as filling out forms or signing contracts with your e-signature. Edit document elements such as text, images, links, or even reduce their file sizes. PDF Expert is a reader app, but it can also be used to modify PDFs with various tools. Scrolling or jumping to pages is equally impressive and is smooth as butter. The program is also rather speedy as it's able to open thousand-page files within a few seconds. It has three themes available to help with your reading: Day, Sepia, and Night. When you first launch PDF Expert for Mac, the reader's clean and minimalist user interface design is immediately apparent.
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