“Too many ads, too much control over my apps, too much spam. Too much heavy advertising to sell upgrades and other related products, making navigation for the basic app too complicated. I felt like I was being manipulated into buying stuff…”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 496 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-04.
3.8 ★22,799 ratings
5M+Downloads
4+Age rating
—App size
Free · In-app purchasesIn-app purchases
About this app
PDF Reader is more than just a simple viewer. It’s a complete document productivity suite designed to make your workflow easier. Whether you're reviewing contracts, annotating lecture notes, scanning receipts, or generating AI summaries, the PDF Reader gives you the tools to do it all — quickly and efficiently.
🔧 Why Choose PDF Reader?
📚 Multi-Format Document Viewer Easily open and read PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and EPUB files — from business documents to e-books, all in one place.
✍️ Edit & Annotate Highlight, underline, add comments or handwritten notes. Sign documents with ease and make your PDFs fully editable.
📷 Scan to PDF Turn your phone into a pocket scanner. Capture receipts, forms, books, and IDs — instantly save them as clean, high-quality PDF files.…
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 4.10.9 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 4.11.0, updated 2026-09-29.
The app has been updated since this analysis. The findings on this page describe version 4.10.9, not the version now listed on the store.
Release notes for the newer versions, in the developer’s own words:
Version 4.11.0 · 2026-09-29
No release notes were provided for this version.
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
Under 65% 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: 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 24 distinct reviewers (4.8% of 496 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“it's almost like the creator of this app is more concerned with throwing ads in your face then creating a usable app. so many ad pop-ups it's not even usable!!”
“very difficult to use. full of adverts”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 4.11.0.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
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Google Play does not publish per-purchase prices.