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PDF Reader & Editor: Xodo
Apryse Software Inc. · 472,732 ratings · ★ 4.2
4.2
★★★★★
472,732 ratings
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Top complaints - extracted from 21 negative reviews
Recurring phrases mined from 1-2★ reviews. The bigger the percentage, the more users have the same problem. Fix the top 2-3 in your version and you have product-market fit on day one.
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"free"
8 negative reviews mention this · 38% of all complaints
★★★★★ "As a free version, not usable anymore. PDF editing is now locked behind a pay wall. I found my comment from 2017 again. This means, they had been offered good and fair service for several years, until now. Went down the hill, unfortunately." - Johnny N.
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"subscription"
4 negative reviews mention this · 19% of all complaints
★★★★★ "BUDDY! WHAT THE HECK IS HAPPENING? I JUST HAD A PREMIUM SUBSCRIPTION AND THIS THING STOPS TIME TO TIME AMID WORK.😡😡😡. THOUGHT IT COULD BE THE BEST PDF EDITOR APP. FIX THE CRASHING ISSUE OF I'M GONNA CANCEL MY SUBSCRIPTION." - Hey Jo,
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"file"
4 negative reviews mention this · 19% of all complaints
★★★★★ "A recent update requires payment for any useful features. this was a great app to edit files, but now you cannot access the files externally" - George Garman
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"version"
3 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★★ "As a free version, not usable anymore. PDF editing is now locked behind a pay wall. I found my comment from 2017 again. This means, they had been offered good and fair service for several years, until now. Went down the hill, unfortunately." - Johnny N.
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"years"
3 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★★ "As a free version, not usable anymore. PDF editing is now locked behind a pay wall. I found my comment from 2017 again. This means, they had been offered good and fair service for several years, until now. Went down the hill, unfortunately." - Johnny N.
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"share"
3 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Can't even share a file opened with this in the free version, so they are selling a feature all phones have out of the box :D" - David Cypher
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"without"
3 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★★ "There should be a 3 day free trial without signing up for a subscription you have to cancel. I dont know if this will do what I need it to because the attempt I made to test the pages were out of order and it immediately locked me out of a …" - Pigeon
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BUDDY! WHAT THE HECK IS HAPPENING? I JUST HAD A PREMIUM SUBSCRIPTION AND THIS THING STOPS TIME TO TIME AMID WORK.😡😡😡. THOUGHT IT COULD BE THE BEST PDF EDITOR APP. FIX THE CRASHING ISSUE OF I'M GONNA CANCEL MY SUBSCRIPTION.
As a free version, not usable anymore. PDF editing is now locked behind a pay wall. I found my comment from 2017 again. This means, they had been offered good and fair service for several years, until now. Went down the hill, unfortunately.
worst app ever
absurdly expensive... did not even test as the price is an insult.
worssssssst appppppppp ever developed lost all the annotation data which have been doing over the last 1 week gets stuck while working
I have used this app for many years, and nowadays it's not the same anymore. For every little thing now it demands you to pay for it. It used to be good, now it's time to look for a better competition and I'm sure there are plenty out there
A recent update requires payment for any useful features. this was a great app to edit files, but now you cannot access the files externally
Can't even share a file opened with this in the free version, so they are selling a feature all phones have out of the box :D
intrusive ads
Good app for me
Tell us it costs money BEFORE we download.
not an free app
This used to be the best all around PDF app. They destroyed it because of greed. It was a free app that could do anything and now they demand a ridiculously overpriced subscription! They don't allow you to pay it once and have it forever. That's the definition of greed. Meanwhile open source BentoPDF provides everything for free. What a shame... Xodo was destroyed because of greed...
Everything good that used to be free before are now paywalled, like annotation, addition of images, etc
It’s hard to rate a free app, but not being able to share a simple document-one that wasn’t even created or edited in the app-without a watermark feels a step too far. Especially when many other apps offer this for free. I have other options on my phone, but I don’t like having to switch to another viewer just to share a document without a watermark.
not good
There should be a 3 day free trial without signing up for a subscription you have to cancel. I dont know if this will do what I need it to because the attempt I made to test the pages were out of order and it immediately locked me out of a second attemp.
Used to be good but now it's useless and asks for a paid version even to share a file.
Used to be useful and five stars, but now it requires premium subs even for a basic saving a file action.
Why are timestamps only Euro style?? Why not have MM/DD/YYYY as an option? or slashes at all, which was interestingly not an option. And you can't shrink the date below like a 20px font
Used for years but now useless and uninstalled This used to be a great free app with some paid extra features (fair), but they have moved more and more features behind the paywall it is unusable now. Xodo used to be my default PDF viewer so whenever I opened a PDF menu, event ticket, etc they opened in Xodo, except now I can't even save the PDF file to my phone without paying a subscription! (or sticking a watermark on my ticket). Please listen to users feedback, you are losing loyal users.
Sentiment summary
79%
Positive (4-5★)
3%
Neutral (3★)
18%
Negative (1-2★)