Acrobat Reader: PDF Editor

What Acrobat Reader covers on a phone

Acrobat Reader: PDF Editor is Adobe's PDF app for Android. It opens and reads PDFs, and it adds editing, conversion, signing and an AI assistant on top. The free parts cover reading, marking up and signing. The paid parts cover changing documents and asking questions about them.

The listing points at a few everyday uses: reading on the go, filling and signing forms, and getting through long documents. It also says the app can store files online and open them from other places, so a document does not have to live only on the phone.

Most of the features below are either free or sit behind a paid plan. The listing marks which is which, and the sections say so where it applies.

Reading PDFs on a small screen

Liquid mode reflows a document to suit the screen. You can search inside a file, move around it, and change the font size or line spacing so the text fits how you read.

Starred files stay at the top for quick access, which helps if you keep returning to the same contract, manual or reference sheet.

The listing presents the viewer as free to use. Reading and navigation do not depend on the paid plan.

Filling, signing and marking up PDFs

Adobe Fill & Sign is free inside Acrobat Reader. It works as a form filler and PDF signer, so you can complete a form, sign it and send it on from the same screen.

For review work, you can add sticky notes, comments and highlighted text. Scanned paperwork scanned with Adobe Scan can be opened in Acrobat to fill, sign and share.

The listing describes these tools as free. They are the parts of the app that do not need the paid plan.

Editing text, images and pages

The PDF editor changes text and images in place, which covers typo fixes and added paragraphs. You can add, delete or rotate any image. The listing notes that direct editing works on mobile only.

Page-level changes sit in the same editor. You can insert, delete, rotate, crop and reorder pages in a PDF file.

Merging and splitting are handled by the PDF converter tools. You can combine several files into one PDF or split one file into several.

The listing presents editing as a paid feature, so it is part of the Acrobat subscription. Its OCR tool, which turns a scanned PDF into searchable and editable text for use in other formats, is listed under the same heading.

Turning files into PDFs and back again

The converter takes Microsoft files, Google Docs and images and turns them into PDFs. It can also convert a web page to a PDF.

In the other direction, you can export PDFs to Word, Excel, PowerPoint or several image formats. Files can be compressed to make saving and sending easier, and a PDF can be password protected.

The listing marks conversion and export as paid features, alongside editing.

Storing files and having PDFs read aloud

You can link online storage accounts, including Microsoft OneDrive, Dropbox and Google Drive, so files from those accounts open in the app. Editing, compressing and exporting Google Drive files is listed as a paid feature.

Read aloud uses free voices by default. The listing says you can upgrade for higher-quality voices. It also says PDFs can be read through Android Auto for hands-free listening while driving, and it presents this as new.

Read aloud is listed as useful for reading support, so it is worth knowing if you listen to documents rather than read them.

AI Assistant and PDF Spaces (paid)

The AI Assistant answers questions about a document, with citations, including answers about charts, graphs and tables. You can ask by voice or by text, have answers read aloud, and generate summaries. It can also draft content for emails, notes and blogs from a file.

PDF Spaces groups several files in one place, so the assistant can work across them. The listing says collaboration and sharing are part of PDF Spaces.

The listing marks the AI Assistant as a paid feature, currently free for a limited time. It also describes a separate AI Assistant add-on plan for Acrobat Individual customers, and a 7-day free trial that gives access to the full feature set.