“Bait and switch — Download the app, fill out your form, get asked to pay an egregious subscription for some buggy software that can't even fill out checkboxes correctly. Don't waste your time.”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 504 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-04.
4.5 ★8,951 ratings
—Downloads
4+Age rating
187 MBApp size
FreeIn-app purchases
About this app
pdfFiller is a powerful mobile app that transforms your iOS device into a fully equipped office. With an extensive set of features, you can edit, eSign, and manage an unlimited number of PDF documents from anywhere. Try pdfFiller to see how it can revolutionize the way you work.
“pdfFiller does more than just bring a few new editing tricks to PDFs. Actually, this PDF app can add extra depth to the way we interact with these popular files.” — CultOfMac.com
“The app is easy to use, lets you organize files into folders, and connects to Dropbox, Google Drive, Box, and OneDrive.” — MakeUseOf.com
EDIT PDF DOCUMENTS • Easily edit any PDF contract, invoice, or tax form on your mobile device • Highlight content, erase, or blackout sensitive information in the documents • Use various annotation tools to add text, images, dates, check marks, and more…
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 6.36.1 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 6.36.1, updated 2026-03-18.
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
3 or more themes 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 5
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: Reports that the ads misrepresent the app
Reviewers repeatedly report that the app is not what its advertising showed. We never see the ad creative itself, so nothing we collect can corroborate or refute this — it is published as an attributed user report: what reviewers say, and how many of them said it.
What we saw: Misleading advertising: raised by 11 distinct reviewers (2.2% of 504 reviews scanned)
Reported by users: Hard to cancel
Cancelling the subscription is blocked, hidden, multi-step, or simply does not take effect.
What we saw: Hard to cancel: raised by 13 distinct reviewers (2.6% of 504 reviews scanned)
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 6 distinct reviewers (1.2% of 504 reviews scanned)
Reported by users: Reports of unexpected charges
A large number of reviewers report being charged when they did not expect it — including being charged after cancelling during a free trial, or when a trial turned into a paid plan without warning. We cannot see anyone's billing, so this is published as an attributed user report: what reviewers say, and how many of them said it.
What we saw: Surprise charges: raised by 30 distinct reviewers (6.0% of 504 reviews scanned)
Reported by users: Trial converts to a charge
The free trial demands a payment method up front and/or rolls into a paid subscription with no usable warning.
What we saw: Trial converts to a charge: raised by 18 distinct reviewers (3.6% of 504 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“False advertising — I signed up for a $10 a month fee to use the pdf filler app and they charged me for a full year at $128.39. I have refuted these fees with PDF and Apple and been denied my funds for refund. This is unacceptable!”
“No editing, just adding — You can’t edit documents, you can only add text. If you want to actually edit your preexisting pdf, get adobe. 1 star for false advertising and crappy user interface”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 6.36.1.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Business modelFree
Prices and terms as disclosed by the store listing.