“imposed on me. too many ads”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 362 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-04.
PDF Reader – Read & Manage
theblue llcPDF Reader is an Android home screen launcher with built-in PDF tools.
4.3 ★5,902 ratings
1M+Downloads
4+Age rating
—App size
FreeIn-app purchases
About this app
PDF Reader is an Android home screen launcher with built-in PDF tools. It gives you quick access to your apps, search, weather, news, and common PDF features directly from your home screen.
🗂️ PDF FEATURES & FILES
• Open and view PDF files • Scan documents into PDF • Merge PDF files • Split PDF files • Convert PDF pages to images
Available features may vary depending on your device and app version.
📱 YOUR EVERYDAY HOME
PDF Reader can also work as your Android home screen launcher.
• Access installed apps from your home screen • Use the built-in web search bar • Swipe to access available news and content • Quickly open weather and PDF tools • Customize your everyday home screen experience
⚙️ CHOOSE YOUR HOME APP
During setup, you can choose whether to set PDF Reader as your default Home app.…
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 1.3.1 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 1.3.1, updated 2026-08-12.
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 at least 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
65–79% 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.
Positive evidence 1
Things this app does right, published at the same strengths as the catch list.
Developer says data deletion can be requested
The developer's data-safety disclosure on the store states that users can request deletion of their data, or the app's own text offers a way to delete the account. This restates what the developer declares; it is not a test of whether deletion works. Apple publishes no equivalent disclosure, so on an Apple-only listing only the app's own text can support it.
What we saw: The developer's store data-safety disclosure states that data deletion can be requested; we have not seen a deletion control in the app's own text
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: Aggressive ad load
Advertising volume or placement that interrupts normal use: ads between every action, unskippable or forced full-screen ads.
What we saw: Aggressive ad load: raised by 26 distinct reviewers (7.2% of 362 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“It tells you the PDF APP is too old then tells you to update. This update trick repeats numerous times until you are getting pop-up ads and a suggestion to install a free virus cleaner. All of these updates start throwing up the pop-up…”
“All adds app sucks”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 1.3.1.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Business modelFree
Prices and terms as disclosed by the store listing.