PDF Max Pro Reviews

by RadiologistMD

PDFMaxPro used to be the best in the market. I bought all the available versions: pro, premium, the one with the infinite sign. All of a sudden after an update my text to speech was deactivated. I tried to contact them multiple times via email and Facebook (the only available channels) with no reply at all. I had the lifetime access according to my past purchases, but it does not restore in-app purchases with my iCloud. What a disrespect! Currently I am using the usd 19,90 pdf reader pro, which I recommend for those who are in the same situation looking for an alternate app after this one passed away. Go back to what you guys used to be, please! This thing is going down.

by Junkenfunk

Every so Often they just remove your Purchase Tag and then want you to Pay again for access to what you have already PAID for... I would suggest you Buy some other App! The supposed best App creators for PDF Editing on iPhone are only after your Money! They don’t care about the Quality! They made mega money from us the Users but don’t make sure their Product stays working!

by Birmingham Lions

I used PDFMaxPro for two years and cannot recommend it. It works well at times but has frequent errors, locks up, and closes randomly. Two months ago it started locking up every time I opened it and is still useless to me. I reinstalled it with no improvement. Worst of all, I lost all of my important documents from the last two years!

by Kprops

I’m not a fan of the ‘ol bait and switch. Makes me suspicious of the vendors ethics.
I paid for PDFMaxPro a while ago, pro version and then upgraded to premium version. Then like many shady developers in what is often erroniously called an “upgrade” they removed that feature, and now want $2 a week for it. Call me old fashioned, but I beleieve upgrades shouldn’t result in removing functions. Just a general rule of thumb.

by Alex Usainpple

It crashes every time I try to open a PDF document. I also spent 5 hours reading and underlining a document and then PDFMaxPro crashed it and were unable to open it again! Really there are like 10 apps better than this, do not even think on pay for this useless app or even download it! I payed the price, don’t be like me

by Becky21_1

I used to love PDFMaxPro. I was collecting articles for my upcoming fellowship for past 2 years. But for life of me I could figure out where it was saving my documents and I wanted to move to cloud service so I could find easier but stupid app kept crashing. Updated it and all 2 years of work is lost.... also I paid for PDFMaxPro but now some of the applications now require a monthly fee. No thanks.

by Moogle111

The latest version loses things. It used to organize by folders first, then single files. Now they are all mixed together. I absolutely HATE the latest version. I wish I could go back to the previous version. I hate this version! I put something in, I even open it. I close pdf max, then open it again. What I just put there is gone.

by Johnt49

Between the confusing “upgrade” options and lack of response from the developer... it’s just not worth it. Read the other one- and two-star reviews - they are the more recent ones where people have noticed the decreasing functionality. There are certainly better options out there!

by Mmm-waffles

Used to be a decent app, but not any more. I liked the Pro version, initially, but they have failed to update it to work with the new version of Dropbox. Clicking the need Need Help gives a 404 page not found error. Trying to go to their website gives you nothing. So this appears to be a defunct company that is just trying to keep collecting money from app shoppers without continuing to keep their app up to date.

DO NOT BUY PDFMaxPro

by Supynuk

Loaded a PDF form. Filled it in. Emailed it to someone. Arrived as a blank form with none of my information in it. Assumed I picked the wrong option of what to send from their confusing selection of what to send (what is wrong with offering “blank form” or “as filled in”? “Annotations” is technically the correct word, but sounds impersonal, whereas what I just entered is very personal). Went back into app. PDF is now reset. *bad word*!

Why did I pay for an app that allows me to fill in PDF forms when it does not retain the information I put in?

by Turtlesan57

The free version of PDFMaxPro did what I wanted for a few years and then they took away the merge function. That’s really all I needed it for. They said I needed to upgrade to a subscription. But instead I saw a (one time) paid pro version. It looks and does the exact same thing as the free version. So wasted $5. I don’t want to pay a subscription for just a simple merge functionality. I would if I did more annotating on a regular basis, but not for just merge functionality. So much for “PDF Max”!

by Ynancy22

I’ve been used PDFMaxPro for years. But since one of the update, I can’t open the file from my google drive. Even if I open a file on my local storage, I add several notes successfully, and it suddenly crashed. Tried multiple times with same problem, even delete and re-install doesn’t solve it. Such a disappointment!!

by Tubastew

I paid about 10 bucks for the pro version a couple of years ago. I liked its ability to extract pages from a larger document into a single document consisting of the extracted pages. I recently upgraded to an iPad Pro. When I extracted 3 pages, they were not combined into one document, but remained 3 separate pages. It seems that now, more pro features, like merge PDF’s, are available for a $.99 PER WEEK subscription. I ain’t paying $52/year for something I already paid for.

by Sabinek

I tried premium so that I could use the smart flow function. It was supposed to break blocks of text into paragraphs. It worked fine for the text that was ALREADY in paragraphs. The rest — still one big block of text.

I went to what they laughingly call “support. “
Three basic tips. For the rest I need to go to Facebook. I am on Facebook, but this annoys me. For $40 a year, they can’t even come up with more than three FAQs?

I am not impressed. What good is a smart flow that isn’t, and support that lets you down?

by Tash Grant

I just upgraded to premium and now my app is crashing while attempting to merge documents. PDFMaxPro has been a life saver up until this point now, I am in a crunch and have to figure out a work around. I will not be keeping this upgrade. It’s hasn’t even been 20 mins yet. I’m disappointed!

by PinkiPea

Please add it where you can actually edit the text in the document instead of just editing the text that you make

by Christanus

It keeps loosing my data entries. I’ll type something up go back to look at again and all my information is gone.

by Phazor9

I’ve used this since 2013. This program worked ok but recently after upgrade to pro version, the data was lost on my phone and iCloud. I had this also organized on my iPad and all working. Then a month later all my iPad data was lost . It’s turned into a piece of junk. Don’t give this developer any of your money unless you want to give it away. In that case find an actual charity. Very disappointed.

by BareboneTruly

It does keep my PDFs organized and healthy, but a couple years back, an up-grade obliterated all my files. It's been very stable and good since then, so I'm happy to give it 4 stars.

by Qwsrs

PDFMaxPro is pretty decent as it allows you do plenty, however it freezes forcing the user to loose its data. It has happened twice and it has been a very frustrating problem. No quality updates have been made to the program in a very long time.