PDF Hero - PDF Editor & Reader

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1. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

   Just disappointed. This was such a good app when I got it a year ago; as a college student it allowed me to mark up practice exams, worksheets, and anything else I might need to do with PDF for free. Now, everything is blocked behind a paywall, and it’s just simply sad to see such a good app stoop to such a low level due to pure greed. You people are sad and shouldn’t be forcing people into subscribing especially when using the app sparingly.

2. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

   Locks up. I pay for this every month, use it a lot! Once in a while a PDF i am working on locks up and will not. Allow me to email or even print! This is the only customer support I can find! Very frustrating !!

3. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   No support site. The support link goes to the parent company which doesn't list PDF Hero. Clicking on 'support not listed' is a link to the first page where PDF Hero isn't listed.

4. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   Terrible. Glitchy

5. ★★★★★trial charges and refunds

   Does not work. Tried to fill out paper work on my phone it was not working…..also I can’t find my account or how to access to unsubscribe so I’m not charged after free trial!

6. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   Garbage. Trash

7. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

   This app is stupid. Used their free subscription so I could turn a website page into a pdf and then it wouldn’t let me download the pdf. Tried it leave feedback and it told me to make an account with an email but I was not given a way to make the account so I hate this app and it’s dumb goodnight.

8. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

   Malfunctions. This app malfunctions frequently, its very very slow and will delete your information if you add anything such as text then crashes. Please beware that if you delete and add the app again you lose all previous documents. I would not recommend this at all. Im only using it until my subscription is up.

9. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

   Canceletion not true. I download the app but seem is not used full for me I cancelled and still get the charge after the promo

10. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    I wrote and changed things that never appeared in the document. I was trying to translate a document and switching the words from Spanish to English and it did not matter how many times I wrote and move things the document was not altered in the slightest, extremely frustrating that I had to remake the document entirely in another server instead of just doing the modifications I was trying to do when I downloaded this app and got the subscription. Maybe good for other things but it does not comply with everything the advertisement says it does. False advertisement entirely.

11. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    awful pdf editor. I just needed to edit one word in my resume and this god awful app just ruined the whole thing cause it’s so laggy. Now I have to start over from scratch when I got the free trial just to edit one word…

12. ★★★★★data, history or progress disappears

    App needs serious work. Can’t edit documents, you can start but it’ll jus delete the rest of your document for some odd reason

13. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    It keeps reloading. I just put a PDF file into the app to edit it, but when I press the editing button, it will keep loading. I close the app multiple times. I subscribe the same thing is happening, so I cancel the subscription and I deleted the app

14. ★★★★★saving, exporting or sharing the result fails

    Doesn't save. Highlighted and wrote a lot of notes but it doesn't save any of it ☹️

15. ★★★★★trial charges and refunds

    Not Free. I’m not one of those people that believe everything in life should be free. I do however expect that something advertised as “Free” as in Free PDF Hero and advertises that you can read and edit PDF’s for free in the description does actually offer the ability to read and edit a PDF for free. A 3 Day Free Trial with an automatic subscription after that is NOT free. I unexpectedly needed to take presentation notes on a PDF document on my iPad and didn’t have time to to print a copy to to write notes on. All this false advertising did was waste my time even after accepting the free trial because I still couldn’t add any notes, completely distracted me from focusing on the live presentation AND gave me one more company that I will never do business with. If it not free fine just say so and let me move on. Q1 Why would you expect someone to download something advertised as a Free PDF editor because they specifically needed to access a free PDF editor to buy a subscription? Even after begrudgingly agreeing to the Free 3 Day Trial version I still couldn’t actually add any notes to the document. Q2 Why would you expect someone to pay for a product that was falsely advertised and was really a bait and switch scam? Q3 Why would you expect anyone you misled and wasted valuable time because of your false advertising to ever purchase anything from you in the future?

16. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Awful. Won’t let you do anything you need / hard to unsubscribe

17. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    De verdad que no sirve para nada. Me siento estafada no sirve para nada no ayuda a editar no ayuda a nada súper mala

18. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    What’s the point. Converted to pdf but glitchy and won’t allow sharing. overpriced and frustrating.

19. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Disappointment. Glad I only used the free trail, when editing text things jump all over the place. Text changes size, location, format.. and once you have it fixed you save it and things change yet again. Absolutely frustrating and awful

20. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Didn’t work for me.. Edited text and saved it but the text disappeared. I think a background object came to top and covered it up

21. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Too glitchy. It’s the most difficult pdf editor ever. Everything glitches. The auto detection is off, trying to edit something that’s already there just makes it disappear. Trying to resize or move anything is way more difficult than it should be. Something that would take 10 mins on adobe acrobat or pdf expert literally will take you 45-60 minutes. It’s too much of a headache to try to use functionally

22. ★★★★★trial charges and refunds

    Scam. It said it would give me a 3 day free trial, then when i subscribed to the trial it immediately charged me $11. Reporting to the FTC and my bank for fraud.

23. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Misleading. Can’t use without subscription. Very sneaky.

24. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    No sirve.. No sirve.

25. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Couldn’t recognize text. Charged me to use a function that didn’t even work

26. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    No la recomiendo. No funciona

27. ★★★★★trial charges and refunds

    Inconvenience!!. I downloaded this app and it dnt even work!! After uploading my pdf I wasn’t able to edit it, I just got a blank white screen. To make things worse I signed up for the free trial and because I deleted the app I forgot about the trial and was charged $11.99 for it. That’s some B.S If you ask me or anyone with morals I’m sure they’d agree that I deserve a refund!!!

28. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Did not work. Tried several different ways and could not get this app to edit a pdf . Tired of trying, had no help in app for problems. Moving on …

29. ★★★★★trial charges and refunds

    Terrible scam. Don’t buy it!!!!. They don’t honor their free trial and charge you anyway!!! SCAM!!!!!

30. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    So bad I had to rate. I’m trying to edit a document the words keep disappearing, I can’t save it, I can’t transfer it to a new app, and every time I type words they disappear. I’ve only had the app for about an hour. terrible