“The best thing on this phone! — What’s better than having an app that can watch videos, play music, AND read books? How about adding a browser to it, to make it even easier to download them! This app is amazing in so many ways-it’s…”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 547 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-05.
4.8 ★627,941 ratings
—Downloads
17+Age rating
452 MBApp size
Free · In-app purchasesIn-app purchases
About this app
Documents by Readdle is your file manager, document viewer, PDF editor, and archive extractor for iPhone and iPad. Browse and organize your files, extract ZIP and RAR archives, edit and sign PDFs, and convert or compress anything — all from one app.
FILE MANAGER - Browse, organize, and manage local files and folders in one fast file browser, rename and color-tag them for quick access - Import files from your computer, download files directly from the web browser, or work with iCloud, Dropbox, Google Drive, and other cloud drives without downloading them
ZIP & RAR ARCHIVE EXTRACTOR - Unzip and extract ZIP and RAR archives directly on your iPhone or iPad - Create new ZIP archives to compress and share multiple files at once - Compress large files and folders to save storage space…
Preview
Real screenshots from the store listing.
Independent evidence report
Evidence and review signals
This is where the page changes from an app-store listing into an evidence report: findings, important reviews, pricing and a dated history.
Which version this describes
When we ran this analysis, and what the store lists now.
This analysis describes version 8.22.7 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-05 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 8.22.7, updated 2026-09-28.
What we measured
Each line is a measurement published as a measurement, never a verdict.
Each line is a measurement, published as a measurement. Where we have not looked, the line says so rather than reading as a zero.
Developer replies to reviews
Replies to fewer than 1 review in 20
Price in the store description
States no price and billing period
Cancelling, in the store description
Does not say how to cancel
Themes reported by reviewers
1 theme reported
Counted from the reviews we have read for this app. "No theme reported" means no theme reached our reporting threshold — it is not a finding that nothing is wrong with this app, and we do not say it is.
Five-star share of ratings
80–89% five-star
Arithmetic on the stores' own published rating counts. It says nothing about why the ratings fall where they do.
In the package we scanned
No package has been scanned for this app, so nothing is published about what it ships. That is an absence of evidence about the app, not a finding about it.
Graded bands · predicate set 1.4 · how these are measured
What the analysis found
App-specific findings, grouped by what each one rests on. How they are graded lives on its own page.
One source only — shown, not confirmed 1
A single kind of evidence. We publish these because withholding them would be the bigger distortion, and we do not treat any of them as a finding we stand behind.
Reported by users: Paywall blocks the basics
The core of the app — not extras — sits behind payment, or previously-free function moved behind a paywall.
What we saw: Paywall blocks the basics: raised by 7 distinct reviewers (1.3% of 547 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“DO NOT RECOMMEND — Past free feature Now behind paywall”
“Everything req $$$ — All features locked behind a paywall. Do not download”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 8.22.7.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Items shown6
Lowest$9.99
Highest$89.99
Documents Plus$9.99
Documents Plus$14.99
Documents VPN$12.49
Documents Plus$49.99
Documents Plus$59.99
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Documents VPN$89.99