“Permanent license stopped working — Paid for the permanent license but it stopped working and keeps asking me to purchase again”
Public review signal · 500 reviews scanned · scope limited to review patterns.
4.6 ★7,567 ratings
—Downloads
9+Age rating
206 MBApp size
FreeIn-app purchases
About this app
PDFelement is optimized for the latest Liquid Glass experience, with a more refined interface, clearer navigation, and smoother interactions for your PDF workflow.
AI PDF Editor, PDF Reader, PDF Scanner, PDF Converter, PDF Signer. One app for work, study, and everyday life.
Customize Your Toolbar Arrange your PDF tools the way you work. Reorder, show, or hide toolbar items to keep your favorite actions within easy reach and create a cleaner, faster, and more efficient workspace.…
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.
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
Says how to cancel
Themes reported by reviewers
No 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.
Constant upsell pressure6 reviews · user report
Misleading advertising6 reviews · user report
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“Scam!!! — I paid the monthly fee twice and still kept asking for me to pay in order to access / edit a doc. It just keeps asking you to download another app or program and asks for another payment each time.”
“Deceptive & Dishonest Company - lousey software — I bought a so-called "one-time" purchase. But, at every move to open the software, perform or try to perform something, or save my work, I was harassed with a constantly recurring request…”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version V6.1.18.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Business modelFree
Prices and terms as disclosed by the store listing.