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PDF Viewer by Nutrient
PSPDFKit GmbH · 9,101 ratings · ★ 4.6
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Top complaints - extracted from 36 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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"been"
7 negative reviews mention this · 19% of all complaints
★★★★★ "App performance. It’s a good app and I’ve been using it for a long time, but after updating the last version, editing on the pdf becomes slower and the app still glitches and closes the file. I hope this issue being fixed soon." - Flora341
2
"fixed"
6 negative reviews mention this · 17% of all complaints
★★★★★ "App performance. It’s a good app and I’ve been using it for a long time, but after updating the last version, editing on the pdf becomes slower and the app still glitches and closes the file. I hope this issue being fixed soon." - Flora341
3
"pdfs"
5 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★★ "OMG! You deleted all my PDFs!!!!. Oh! My! God! You monkeys DELETED ALL MY PDFs! You’re stupid Data/Documents file had grown to 3/4 GBs (Apples scam causing big memory devices to be sold for more $$$ so I deleted it and reloaded it. You idiots deleted the folder with all the…" - Eriptron
4
"hours"
5 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★★ "OMG! You deleted all my PDFs!!!!. Oh! My! God! You monkeys DELETED ALL MY PDFs! You’re stupid Data/Documents file had grown to 3/4 GBs (Apples scam causing big memory devices to be sold for more $$$ so I deleted it and reloaded it. You idiots deleted the folder with all the…" - Eriptron
5
"update"
5 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Nope. Welp, I wasn’t able to easily figure out how to fill out a pdf. This should pop up when you put your finger on a text box. I should have to decipher a bunch of symbols to make me be able to do that. I detest PDFs with all my heart and wish…" - luckyrucksack
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"work"
5 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Completely broken. Using iOS 26.2 on iPad. App didn’t work at all. Unable to switch tabs at times. Incredibly slow to update. Can’t even open any pdf’s." - nasduck27
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"files"
4 negative reviews mention this · 11% of all complaints
★★★★★ "OMG! You deleted all my PDFs!!!!. Oh! My! God! You monkeys DELETED ALL MY PDFs! You’re stupid Data/Documents file had grown to 3/4 GBs (Apples scam causing big memory devices to be sold for more $$$ so I deleted it and reloaded it. You idiots deleted the folder with all the…" - Eriptron
8
"hope"
4 negative reviews mention this · 11% of all complaints
★★★★★ "App performance. It’s a good app and I’ve been using it for a long time, but after updating the last version, editing on the pdf becomes slower and the app still glitches and closes the file. I hope this issue being fixed soon." - Flora341
9
"viewer"
4 negative reviews mention this · 11% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Broken on iPadOS 26. This has been my favorite PDF viewer for a while. Unfortunately after upgrading to the latest version of iPadOS it no longer even opens. It immediately crashes. I’ve tried uninstalling clearing my data and reinstalling. I even wiped my whol…" - Tytytyty3
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"page"
4 negative reviews mention this · 11% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Choppy scrolling, high memory usage, zoom in/out issues. 1) The app seems to use a lot of memory. A simple 40 page PDF was using 1.2 GB of memory. 2) Scrolling large PDFs has been very choppy. When I open the exact same PDFs in Apple Preview, the scrolling becomes very smooth 3) You can’t zoom in…" - lightstreem
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"until"
4 negative reviews mention this · 11% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Failing Again. I love this app when it is working, but consistently within a few days of an iOS update, it starts to fail miserably & is a huge waste of time. It freezes, fails to save work, crashes, won’t open files, doesn’t access updated files in OneDr…" - something good
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OMG! You deleted all my PDFs!!!!
Oh! My! God! You monkeys DELETED ALL MY PDFs! You’re stupid Data/Documents file had grown to 3/4 GBs (Apples scam causing big memory devices to be sold for more $$$ so I deleted it and reloaded it. You idiots deleted the folder with all the PDF files. Hours and hours of Internet research WASTED by you idiots! Not even intelligent enough to ASK first stupid!
Nope
Welp, I wasn’t able to easily figure out how to fill out a pdf. This should pop up when you put your finger on a text box. I should have to decipher a bunch of symbols to make me be able to do that. I detest PDFs with all my heart and wish that somebody would make a replacement. It is pathetic we have to deal with this ghetto technology in 2026 A.D.
And I will never pay to rent a tool like this. It should be a one time payment. If there is a major update, sure, I’ll pay for that. But the idea that you get paid forever for something like this? No way.
And I will never pay to rent a tool like this. It should be a one time payment. If there is a major update, sure, I’ll pay for that. But the idea that you get paid forever for something like this? No way.
App Not being fixed
Signature options only show up in white now and updates won’t sync to OneDrive at all
The worst
This is without a doubt the worst pdf editor I have EVER seen. It is totally worthless. Thanks for vetting worthless apps, Apple!
Completely broken
Using iOS 26.2 on iPad. App didn’t work at all. Unable to switch tabs at times. Incredibly slow to update. Can’t even open any pdf’s.
Buggy with Google Drive
Constantly freezes when I try to open up GD, and my main GD folder just appears blank…effectively making the app useless for me
Buggy
When this app works, it works well. But regularly crashing and having to delete to re download has left a sour taste in my mouth. Feedback to the team has been ignored which leaves with no choice but to find an application for pdfs with less stress.
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Automatic scrolling is terrible
I read books using pdfs, downloaded this since I read at night with roommates that hate light, sure it offers dark mode, but when scrolling I want it to flow and not automatically go the full next page. Very annoying will be deleting, not worth it…
Failing Again
I love this app when it is working, but consistently within a few days of an iOS update, it starts to fail miserably & is a huge waste of time. It freezes, fails to save work, crashes, won’t open files, doesn’t access updated files in OneDrive & more. It is really frustrating as I rely heavily on this to complete my work.
Previous review: Please update ASAP for compatibility with iOS 18.1.1 - it has been really slow & crashing before & after most recent iOS update.
After my previous review, I believe there was an update that took care of most glitches. Last week & this it is not performing as expected.
Previous review: I’ve been happily using this app daily for work for the past 18 months. There are a few things I don’t love, but generally it has saved me a ton of time & made my work easier, until the recent updates.
In the past few weeks it has completely tanked. I can barely use it anymore. Keeps freezing, lagging, quitting on me without saving changes. Every action has a delay & generally it is making work much harder, taking 2-3 times longer to do simple things.
I’ll be looking for something else to use & cancelling my subscription. If they’re able to fix the bugs, I’ll consider testing it again in the future, but the performance is currently unacceptable.
Previous review: Please update ASAP for compatibility with iOS 18.1.1 - it has been really slow & crashing before & after most recent iOS update.
After my previous review, I believe there was an update that took care of most glitches. Last week & this it is not performing as expected.
Previous review: I’ve been happily using this app daily for work for the past 18 months. There are a few things I don’t love, but generally it has saved me a ton of time & made my work easier, until the recent updates.
In the past few weeks it has completely tanked. I can barely use it anymore. Keeps freezing, lagging, quitting on me without saving changes. Every action has a delay & generally it is making work much harder, taking 2-3 times longer to do simple things.
I’ll be looking for something else to use & cancelling my subscription. If they’re able to fix the bugs, I’ll consider testing it again in the future, but the performance is currently unacceptable.
PDF flashing repeatly
Most files that I open get stuck in a cycle of flashing on the screen.
天才
在非编辑模式下，还能拖动图片，这是哪个天才想出来的？
Still no orientation lock?!
Useless! Still no rotation lock-in mid 2024?! A well-deserved one star for your continued obstreperousness! Cheers!
Used to like it, but...
I came here out of rage because this app just discarded all my notes and annotations made on a pdf, wasting several hours of my work.
Big fat zero
Can’t use can’t delete it!
slow ISE Posture.
ISE Posture took mins on a M3 MacBookPro. Why take so long?
Crash
Just crash and everything things you do it in hours will disappear 😢 And they make a lots of updates but they don’t fix it ……
Useless
Useless unless incompletely missed something. Doesn’t view squat except folders.
Crashed
PDF viewer used to work fantastically. However, the app crashed today and deleted two hours worth of progress, which I am very upset about. I hope this issue gets fixed soon. I will have to redo my work tomorrow. I will refrain from using PDF viewer for the time being out of paranoia and fear.
Does not work
It hangs my mac. Then I need to force quit.
Crashes Drive Me Insane
Would have been a good app if it didn’t crash and delete hours worth of progress on multiple occasions. Demotivating.
App performance
It’s a good app and I’ve been using it for a long time, but after updating the last version, editing on the pdf becomes slower and the app still glitches and closes the file. I hope this issue being fixed soon.
App flashes and glitchy
If it was fixed i would like this app. Its hard to use because everything strobes and flashes.
Broken on iPadOS 26
This has been my favorite PDF viewer for a while. Unfortunately after upgrading to the latest version of iPadOS it no longer even opens. It immediately crashes. I’ve tried uninstalling clearing my data and reinstalling. I even wiped my whole iPad with no luck because I genuinely think it’s the best pdf app when it worked. I really hope the devs can fix this!
lost all my highlights
ive been using pdf viewer for a long time and has so far met all my needs. however, there is some bug recently that keeps deleting any highlighting marks; all my annotations keep getting deleted and makes it hard to really do anything, so it might be time to retire this app as my pdf viewing program.
Choppy scrolling, high memory usage, zoom in/out issues
1) The app seems to use a lot of memory. A simple 40 page PDF was using 1.2 GB of memory. 2) Scrolling large PDFs has been very choppy. When I open the exact same PDFs in Apple Preview, the scrolling becomes very smooth 3) You can’t zoom in and out of documents. The size of the doc just changes as you size the window, whereas with Apple Preview, you can zoom in and out of documents. 4) Can’t make page size smaller than app window.
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The only
That’s counts
Need Pro for many features
Had hoped to find a great pdf editor. This appeared to be the solution... until, after downloading, found that so many desired features required the Pro edition.
Disappointing that this was not clearer before downloading.
Disappointing that this was not clearer before downloading.
App keeps crashing
I love this app, it’s the only pdf viewer that will let me scroll as fast as I want, however when ever I try to search a for a word in a pdf or add a bookmark to a large pdf, it just closes on me. I hope this gets fixed, I would really love to give 5 stars but I can’t until it at least runs
Not working with Google Drive
I was loving this app but today clicking on G-drive in the left pane is not working and I cannot access my files. Also when I open the files from G-drive and click the three dots and then open with and then Google drive, where do they go?
Doesn’t Sync with OneDrive all the time
Works ok
Page Blinks Constantly
I think this app is good but when I jump to a portion of the document using the outline the page starts to blink constantly. Until they fix this it will be unusable. I redownloaded the app and tried it on multiple documents but it still the same issue. I will update this review when it’s fixed.
UPDATE:
It’s fixed for the iPad but not iPhone!
UPDATE:
It’s fixed for the iPad but not iPhone!
Cannot restore pro
Cannot restore pro version. Then”please wait” loading sign is stuck.
Annoying bug since update
Good product, but ever since the update there is an annoying bug. When looking at a document, if I switch away from that document to another tab, or to another app, when I come back to the document, it reverts to a different page than where it was last. There’s nowhere to contact the developer, so writing this review in hopes that they see this bug report. It’s really annoying to constantly have to scroll back to the page I was looking at every time.
separating screen bug
always
Sentiment summary
91%
Positive (4-5★)
4%
Neutral (3★)
5%
Negative (1-2★)