Foxit PDF Editor Reviews

by Torah Taught

So I turned on my iPhone, looked for the blue Foxit icon. Saw a purple icon in its place. Clicked on it & now cannot read my Bible reading file. Guess I will have to go back to Adobe reader. Oh I get it that Foxit can mow the yard, clean up oil spills & dispose of nuclear waste, but all I want to do is read my personal Bible reading file I created in PDF format. If anybody can help me do that I would deeply appreciate it. I used to tell people who got a free download from my website, to load Foxit or Adobe Reader on their device first. Now, I am only recommending Adobe. Why? Because the file was to difficult to find, then open. It was sluggish. I always had to turn on the “continuous” scroll when I opened it. Then when I did the two finger enlarging on my iPhone, where I was disappeared, and I would end up in a totally different place. I would pay money to be able to get the Blue Icon version back. It was the best, better than Adobe for ease of operation. Now that has been taken away and Adobe is my favorite PDF reader, and the only PDF reader I will recommend. Please bring back the older version.

by DforDNA

You guys made a backward evolution disabling split screen feature. Now can’t read two books using different apps. I know foxit can open upto 5 books on tabs but transition requires at least 2 seconds of loading which sounds short yet so annoying. I am a medical student and i don't have 2 seconds to waste every single sentence i read and cross check it on the next. So please for the love of God, either fix the loading thing on transitions between tabs or revert the split screen. If the developers respond to this quickly i would love to give it 5 stars. Please consider it.

by Castlemaiden

I’ve been a long time user of foxit. I use it for my cross stitch patterns and WAS able to highlight on FoxitPDFEditor I’ve had for years while other stitchers complain about the crashing of ezpdf. A few days ago, foxit wouldn’t open. I had my files backed up, so I took a wait and see approach. I’ve finally gotten back in to discover that now the text/highlighting feature requires payment. What a bunch of BS. Other apps are far less expensive and have a search feature. I’ll be using one of them from now on since long time users now have to pay for the features we’ve used for ages. Thank you for no longer locking me out of my files. I do appreciate that I can view them now if nothing else.

by Kmthunder

Well, I loved FoxitPDFEditor until today. Now many free features require a subscription. Its $11 a year. I did not get advanced notice and now can’t use FoxitPDFEditor. I can understand some features being moved to a paid feature, but now I can’t even open a pdf from my email without subscribing to the annual fee. If they offered a one time price for FoxitPDFEditor I’d consider it. Now I do not know what value the free app has.

Also, to add insult to injury, I deleted the program to reinstall thinking there may have been a problem, and I lost all my documents in memory.

Foxit let me down. Very disappointed since I now have to recreate my files.

I just purchased GoodReader for $4.99. So far it does everything that my old Foxit PDF Reader FREE did and more. With GoodReader I can delete pages in a pdf that are not necessary. It has all the editing functions. It is a slight challenge to navigate but with so many features it still is intuitive. I’ve only had it a few hours but it seems better than paying an $11 annual fee.

by Leoscherrer

I love the PC Foxit reader. The iOS version, however, needs improvement on the cloud system. I added dropbox and synchronized it, but it didn’t work well and Foxit kept some files I had already deleted. And it took a long time uploading and downloading the files.
Then, I tried to edit my files stored on dropbox through the icloud option (as my files on dropbox was synchronized with the Apple Files app). However, after editing the pdf, it was saved on the Files app, but not on Dropbox itself.
So, to be useful with cloud storage, it needs improvement. Thanks!

by Professional In The Field

If the team is taking feedback: it'd be great if there were a quick way to delete all saved signatures. Also when you run a search, FoxitPDFEditor does not allow you to make selections from the search results- just sends you back to default page.

Once again reaching out to the tech team to prompt them to address signatures. I have over a hundred signatures saved to FoxitPDFEditor that take painstakingly long to load and to delete. Trying to get the signature pad open for a new signature takes several minutes because of the in-app delays with signatures. FoxitPDFEditor is overdue for an option 1.) not to have signatures saved at all and 2.) to delete all signatures at once. If this doesn’t get fixed soon you’re going to lose a user. I can’t be standing in front of clients asking them to sign my phone while they wait 5 mins for unnecessary signatures to load.

by Abcjme

FoxitPDFEditor is amazing in most ways, but it has 2 major bugs.
1) If TTS is running, then you turn the phone off, it'll skip pages. It'll read 2 pages in sequential order, then it'll skip to the last multiple of 10s 1st page. Ex. If there are 653 pages and you start at page 1, then: it'll read page 1, next it'll read page 2, next it'll read page 651, next it'll read page 652, lastly it'll read page 653. Yes, it skips all pages inbetween. Thus, you have to keep your phone on & waste it's battery to avoid this bug.
EDIT:
This bug has not been occurring anymore. Perhaps it only happens when the CPU or RAM is taxed? Idk, but this never happened with Goodreader. Btw, I used Goodreader for years.

2) Sometimes, for a page that's clearly written in english, it'll change the TTS speech to a different language. I don't know what triggers this.

EDIT:
3) This TTS sometimes cuts off lines of text at the top and/ or bottom. This TTS also sometimes cuts off words at the sides. This can occur even if there's a lot of blank space before the text. This never happened with Goodreader.

4) If a PDF has narrow line spacing, this TTS sometimes reads the same line twice and skips the following line. This never happened with Goodreader.

If FoxIt fixed these bugs, then I'd edit this review & change the rating to 5 stars.

by Aalexqqq

Thank u for bringing back all the important features that went missing after new update (ex highlighting areas and going to next page without any extra taps or steps) … but the new update is still a bit glitching specially with Google drive uploads, and highlighting area location start is way off, and you are not able to view top of Document when commenting tool bar is visible at the top … it covers top portion of the PDF file … running on latest iOS iPad Pro 2020 model. I will update my review after next version hopefully these features will be fixed.

by ÁstaK

update:

I’m using iPad Pro 10.5 MPDY2LL/A, ios13.1.3 and the pdf files are usually opened by clicking direct download links from journal website.

Foxit pdf reader has always been a solid app and its integrated text-to-speech function is totally a blessing. Although the TTS feature cannot use siri voices ( I do hope it can), it allows you to choose from other older voices (in system setting).
However, the reason for 4 stars is after the ios13 system update, I’m no longer able to open a pdf file in my browser (ie. safari) and then click one of the upper-right-corner buttons to “copy to Foxit pdf”. I have to route through other program and finally export the pdf file to Foxit. Hopefully it will be fixed in next update.

by Chico037

Over all a great APP I have dyslexia and I am working on my Masters right now it enables me to comprehend and retain what I am reading. The only thing I think would make it better is with the reading if a text was added to the top of the page showing what is being read. It can be difficult tracking it when it is just highlighted. If this was an option with the paid version I would definitely see that as worth while investment. I would highly recommend FoxitPDFEditor to others.

by Sommusic

FoxitPDFEditor is amazing for students, I have all of my books on here. This saves time and my back (Having Engineering courses most of the books are extremely heavy).

The highlighter function works flawlessly as well as the mark up and search functions built in. My only area of improvement would be to have the mark up function a little more “smooth” as it lags a little bit and is a little on the “blocky” side. This is my reason for the 4 stars. I do have the free version though.

All said and done this is highly recommended.

by Dairi19

Great app, it truly has many of the functions one could want without the need for an expensive upgrade.

My only complain is the "reflow mode" and the inability to highlight/open notes while on it. As an english learner, I'm usually highlighting and translating words on the books I read and it is very difficult to do that while on standard mode because of how small letters are. Reflow "reader mode" is amazing but it lacks the taking notes function. Very frustrating

by MfchrisB6

The free version of FoxitPDFEditor works great for organizing PDFs, the annotation options are simple/easy to find, and it doesn’t take much time to set up your scrolling/visualization preferences.

My only complaint is that the sensitivity for the Apple Pencil is quite poor. In order to hand-annotate a note, I have to write very slowly...and even then, FoxitPDFEditor sometimes fails to recognize my Pencil strokes. If you fix this, I’d say FoxitPDFEditor is perfect (and I’d be happy to buy the full subscription service).

by Helena878

I love FoxitPDFEditor: I stumbled across it by accident and it’s fulfilled all my expectations and then went above and beyond. I’m discovering new features all the time; FoxitPDFEditor is incredibly intuitive and convenient, beautiful and fast. It would be nice if we could use fingers to swipe pages when the comment mode is selected (and Apple Pencil is connected), but even like this, I’ve got no complaints!

by Rimartic

I am sort of a pro pdf user.
mostly fir books , editing or adding comments, highlighting, and many other functions and unfortunately even I’ve paid for almost a famous pdf app before (which isn’t half of FoxitPDFEditor even in free mode!)
The most interesting thing about FoxitPDFEditor and its pro developer functionality is paying attention to exact needs of users and making it better and better with every upgrade
Seems designers and programmers of foxit pdf exactas have the professional eye to see users “exact “general needs.
I juust want to say CONGRATULATION and im so glad fir using your app

For example; the last upgrade , beside better look and more interesting faces
, was wonderful and there are more useful tools for editing pages , pdf documents and giving a vast of capabilities to do whatever we want to do
And you know what’s the best part?!
That all these things are available for free and way more better in premium.

Honestly, this is what should be called ( HONORING THE USER)
Thx guys for paying respect to your users
And although unfortunately because of my country’s stupid government its so hard to buy account , so could be able to pay for premium version but still you made it possible for people like me in troubled countries
Thank you from deep of my heart
And god bless you all

by Slausbang

I use this tool to organize lead sheets for playing with my church. It’s great to be paperless and to have all of our lead sheets available should the pastor request a song spontaneously.

My only suggestion for improvement would be to allow more than 5 PDF documents to be open at once. During larger/longer services, like Christmas, we do far more than 5 songs.

by Brifinish

This pdf reader has been so amazing for my needs! Books and manuals keep their published format, I can take notes, highlight, copy, paste, send copies, and I haven’t even done deeper into all the other amazing features offered (like the audio reader and signatures, etc!) I can upload the same files to my kindle iPhone app and it never comes out the same as the published version! Love and highly recommend FoxitPDFEditor!

by EmilyApricot

Foxit is a very well designed experience for reading, with thumbnails, view options, and third party cloud access like Drop Box. In the basic version, the annotations are very useful for filling out PDF forms. The premium version is an impressive document editor for mobile and at a very reasonable price at $11/yr. I really only have praise for this company, who has kept high standards and updates at the forefront for the years I have been a user. The only thing that might change that is if they started charging a subscription for the great reading and annotation features in the basic version.

by Hdudushhs

Clean. Fast. Versatile. Fantastic. That only begins to cover how well polished and incredible FoxitPDFEditor it. It seamlessly integrates with google drive and the files app with a clear UI that makes it easy to navigate to the file you want to open. It recognizes files well, and gives you a vast array of tools to modify them. It has a reasonably priced pro version that isn’t shoved in your face, trying to get you to buy it. On top of that, it doesn’t limit the functionality of the free version in order to incentivize you to upgrade, it simply adds more features for those who need it, or want to support FoxitPDFEditor . And if that wasn’t good enough, it has no ads! Thanks for what you guys do, FoxitPDFEditor is great.

by DapperHaber

I recently spent days and days trying to figure out how to unlock PDFs so that I could have text to speech work. I’m dyslexic. It seems with Mac updates its made it harder and harder to get text to speech to work in all the other apps I was accustomed to. Nothing I was using was working or working well. Just when I thought I’d found something there would be a major glitch. So far I’m on pg 100 of a very densely intellectual book! That’s a big deal! I’ve found that I’d you highlight a whole line, then click speak, then speak from here it will go through and read and highlight as you go so if you look away it keeps you on track in the book. There are pauses at the page breaks that took a while for me to understand but this is by far the best text to speech pdf reader I've found... and that’s after several years and several app purchases.

by Reflow Reader

I like that FoxitPDFEditor reflows PDFs for free for easy mobile viewing but I don’t like that the zoom is restricted to such small text. I wear bifocals and it’s still too small to read properly. If they could allow even more zoom with reflow that’d be great. I know iPhone has a zoom window but this defeats the purpose of the reflow if I’m still having to move the zoom window back and forth to read so it’d be a superior update if they put more zoom. Also if PDFs were able to be highlighted and annotated in reflow mode that’d make me give FoxitPDFEditor 5 stars.

by Jo---van-----

I love the software and I’ve been using it for years. I’ve been using it mostly for signing RealEstate contract. However, I would expect for the program to evolve and become more user friendly.
So I have some suggestions for software to improve
-The commands are not intuitive.
-not all font is supported
-you can change font when you are typing however when you are filling up the fields you cannot. If the file is written in unknown font, there is no way to fill out fields without seeing a whole lot of boxes.
-editing existing text is extremely hard. You have boxes that are selecting paragraphs, however editing text in those boxes is close to impossible and frustrating on a phone.
- you cannot edit again flatten file
- files in recent folder are getting lost occasionally
-its hard to move signatures when signing a file, they get stuck to the page edges
-it would be nice to have options to create field in pdf files.
-it would be nice to be able to link the fields
Hopefully some future versions will see these improvements.