In 2019, things are going to change. Yes, we know that Apple is working on a way for iOS apps to come to the Mac. But as Adobe’s announcement indicates, desktop apps are going to iOS, too.

This app is only available on the App Store for iOS devices.

Description

Adobe Acrobat Reader is the free global standard for reliably viewing, signing, and commenting on PDF documents.
VIEW PDFs
• Quickly open and view PDF documents.
• Search, scroll, and zoom in and out.
• Choose Single Page or Continuous scroll mode.
ANNOTATE PDFs
• Comment on PDFs using sticky notes and drawing tools.
• Highlight and mark up text with annotation tools.
• View and respond to annotations in the comments list.
• Use Apple Pencil with iPad Pro for exceptional commenting precision.
WORK WITH OTHERS AND SHARE PDFs
• Quickly access documents shared for viewing, review, or signature.
• Collaborate with others by adding your comments to PDFs sent to you for review.
• Receive activity notifications for files you’ve shared for viewing and review.
• Track pending actions on documents shared with you.
• Easily share PDFs with others by creating a links you can send by email.
WORK WITH SCANNED DOCUMENTS
• Easily access scanned PDFs that you’ve captured using the free Adobe Scan app.
• Open your scans in Acrobat Reader to fill in, sign, review, and share.
FILL AND SIGN FORMS
• Quickly fill out PDF forms by typing text into fields.
• Use your finger or Apple Pencil to e-sign any PDF document.
STORE AND PRINT FILES
• Sign in to your free Adobe Document Cloud account to store access files across devices.
• Connect to your Dropbox account and access other storage providers including iCloud Drive, Box, Microsoft OneDrive, and Google Drive.
• Print documents from your device.
IN-APP PURCHASE
For even more PDF power, subscribe to Adobe Acrobat Pro DC, Adobe PDF Pack, or Adobe Export PDF. Subscriptions work across desktop, web, and mobile.
ACROBAT PRO DC
• Organize and edit PDFs.
• Create PDF files from documents or images.
• Export PDFs to Microsoft Word, Excel, or PowerPoint.
• Combine files into one PDF.
• Send documents to others for review.
ADOBE PDF PACK
• Create PDF files from documents or images.
• Export PDFs to Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or RTF.
• Organize and combine files.
• Send documents to others for review.
EXPORT PDF
• Export PDFs to Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, or RTF.
IN-APP PURCHASE DETAILS
• An Acrobat Pro DC subscription is US$24.99/month (includes Acrobat Pro DC software plus PDF Pack).
• A PDF Pack subscription is US$9.99/month (includes Export PDF).
• An Export PDF subscription is US$23.99/year.
• Payment will be charged to your iTunes account at confirmation of purchase.
• Subscriptions automatically renew unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period.
Terms & Conditions: Your use of this application is governed by the Adobe General Terms of Use (https://www.adobe.com/legal/terms-linkfree.html and the Adobe Privacy Policy (https://www.adobe.com/privacy/policy-linkfree.html).

What’s New

IMPROVED:
• Performance and stability.
Have feedback? Contact us at https://www.adobe.com/go/acrobatiosfeedback

Finally , I find the best PDF files app that suit me

I had tried a few different PDF files and Acrobat is the best so far . It has all the features and functionalities in helping me creating , editing PDF files ; it has very simple interface and tools in guiding me to finish my works. with the Scan file app , it add more useful functions in creating PDF files ; the Acrobat cloud allows me to access my files from everywhere ; and upload to cloud to store my files securely . and Sharing the files easily to anyone .
On the other hand , I find the app a bit of confusing in some area . the default language is English (UK) ; the app i was downloaded for my iphone , I can not use the app to edit or fill the files . and it require Window or Mac Version of the app to edit or fill my files. Why can the app tell me before I purchase it ? lastly , I cannt download the finished the files to my iphone or my icloud

Latest updates killed me

I use this app primarily for work purposes. I save all my service receipts to this app and also fill out and submit safety and order forms daily. The recent update changed alot of things. First of all, the new design I don't like. That I can get used to but it's made it more difficult to use in my opinion. Some of the buttons are not labeled now, they only have icons so I have to guess what they do until I press them and find out if I'm right or wrong. More importantly, there are functions/operations that changed. For example, sharing a file through email no longer takes the file name and automatically makes it the subject line of the email. Also, when you sort by name,files with letters now follow files with numbers. I have to scroll through a hundred files (which have dates) to get to my template (which starts with letters). So I had to through a random zero at the beginning so it's at the top. There is more I could write but I think you get my point. I realize it may sound like nitpicking but when you use the app as much as I do it becomes very annoying. I am disappointed you made such a big change and it doesn't seem to be for the better. Let's get some of this fixed so I can change this back to 5 stars.

What happened

As a subscriber of the Adobe creative cloud I am very displeased to see the industry standard for PDF software become practically unusable! In fact Adobe Acrobat no longer works on my iPhone XS! When I choose to download or simply view a pdf file, Adobe Acrobat nor the Adobe Creative Cloud app appear in the list of apps to choose from in the iOS share to/open menu! I tried a workaround by saving the PDF file to 'files' both locally and via iCloud drive then attempted to open the saved PDF file via Adobe Acrobat which incredibly failed to open with a message stating 'File type unsupported'... This is unacceptable! Can't open the very file format Adobe Acrobat is meant to not only open but create and manage! Wow just wow! Not sure what is going on but Adobe is slacking with other apps as well! I'm contemplating canceling my CC subscription since $50 a month is a price only worth paying for the best and I am literally seeing more and more apps that offer more! The mobile apps are terrible besides a select few! Out of all, I never thought Acrobat would ever lose the crown but here I am having to find an alternative in order to save the PDF I need! Verbal apologies won't change the fact that I'm dishing out money for software that isn't working properly!

Developer Response,

Hi -
The symptoms you are describing sound very much like you don't have a PDF or the PDF you are trying to open is invalid. This would explain both why it wouldn't appear in the share menu and why it fails to open from files. The things you are describing are intended to work. If you are having issues, please reach out to us at https://www.adobe.com/go/appstoresupport We'd love to hear more about how you are trying to open the file and get a copy of the file itself. Thanks!

Information

Requires iOS 11.2 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.

English, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Swedish, Traditional Chinese, Turkish

PDF Pack - Doc Creator$9.99
Adobe ExportPDF$23.99
Adobe Acrobat Pro$24.99

Supports

• Family Sharing

  With Family Sharing set up, up to six family members can use this app.

So it’s official. Photoshop—real Photoshop—is coming to the iPad next year. If you’re someone who uses Photoshop, uses the iPad to get work done, or both, this is big news. It’s a huge shot in the arm for the iPad Pro and another sign of where Apple’s platforms are going in the future. In 2019, iOS apps aren’t just coming to the Mac—one of the biggest and most important Mac apps is coming to iOS.

The power of the familiar

Most of the time when I mention Photoshop around my fellow computer nerds, it’s met with a raised eyebrow. Lots of tech people dislike Adobe’s pioneering of the software subscription route, and there are numerous alternatives to Photoshop out there. On the Mac alone, there are excellent apps like Acorn and Pixelmator Pro.

The truth is, Photoshop is huge and it’s entrenched. It’s been used by graphics professionals for three decades. The workflows of many different fields are based on it. Businesses large, medium, and small rely on it. Adobe makes it really easy to buy seats for a site license, write a check, and equip every computer—Mac or PC—with the industry standard. (Creative Cloud really is to publishing and graphics what Microsoft Office is to business.)

And then there’s the personal factor. I learned how to use Photoshop in my college newspaper offices in 1990—that means I learned on Photoshop 1.0. The computer I used for Photoshop—a Mac IIcx—didn’t have a color monitor, just grayscale. (It also didn’t have layers and only had a single level of undo, which meant the moment your ants stopped marching, your changes were irrevocable. It clarified the mind.)

Companies That Develop Products

Photoshop is deep, deep in my muscle memory now. I have, on my Mac, a half-dozen apps that offer most or all of the same features that I use in Photoshop. And none of them costs the $120 per year I pay for Photoshop. But—and this is my key point here—none of them are Photoshop. Only Photoshop is Photoshop, and I actually appreciate the fact that I can now pay an annual tithe to Adobe and make sure that I am always using the latest and greatest version of the app I’ve been using for 28 years.

(By the way, for what it’s worth, Adobe’s photography bundle—Photoshop and Lightroom for $120 per year—is a pretty good deal if you like those apps. Every other major Adobe pro app is $240 per year, and the full Creative Cloud membership is $600 per year.)

Why it matters on iPad

Example Of New Develop Products

On iOS the same rules apply: While there are lots of apps that do many of the things that Photoshop does, most notably Pixelmator and Affinity Photo, they aren’t Photoshop. (There are even a bunch of “Photoshop apps” from Adobe—but they, too, are weird remixes of Photoshop that aren’t real Photoshop.) For someone like me, that makes a huge difference.

How Do You Develop Products

But it’s not just me. A comics artist I like a lot, Jen Bartel, tweeted a while ago about how much she loves her iPad—but can’t use it to do her job. Her business speaks the language of Photoshop and she has come to rely on custom brushes that are owned by Adobe and only available in Photoshop. To do pro work on the go, Bartel—a Mac user and iPad fan—uses a Windows-driven Wacom MobileStudio Pro device because it runs Photoshop.

Adobe’s move to iPad instantly makes everyone who knows, loves, or relies on Photoshop a possible candidate for an iPad Pro. And make no mistake, the iPad Pro is already plenty powerful enough to run Photoshop, and with the Apple Pencil it’s got an input method that will satisfy most graphics pros. Even better, Adobe has said that it will be building in cloud syncing for Photoshop files, so that you’ll be able to seamlessly hand off projects directly from one device to another.

A lot of the criticism of the iPad Pro as a flawed tool for doing real work comes down to software. The hardware is capable—but where’s the software? These arguments have been weak for a while now—I think Microsoft Office for iPad is aces, and Apple’s iWork apps are remarkably capable, too—but with every major app that arrives on the platform, the quieter that criticism has to get. Adobe’s also bringing a simplified version of Premiere, called Premiere Rush, to the iPad. I wonder if Apple’s considering just how Final Cut and Logic might work on the iPad?

It flows both ways

In 2019, things are going to change. Yes, we know that Apple is working on a way for iOS apps to come to the Mac. But as Adobe’s announcement indicates, desktop apps are going to iOS, too. When Adobe discusses Photoshop now, it does so as a single tool that appears on the various devices used by the people who rely on it. Photoshop is a system that spans Mac, PC, and now iOS. It goes where you go, on the devices you want.

Apple is heading there, too, with its initiative to create a common framework that can be used to build Mac and iOS apps. And it’s hard not to look at the appearance of Apple’s Phil Schiller at Adobe Max as a clear indicator that Adobe’s moves will be a big part of Apple’s messaging around the iPad Pro in the next year.

Because in the end, what’s the iPad Pro but a computer in the shape of a tablet? If you’re an artist, you might want to work outside, or on the couch, or maybe you want to take a much smaller device with you when you’re roaming around town or on a trip. Shouldn’t you be able to bring Photoshop with you wherever you go? And isn’t the iPad Pro with Apple Pencil perfectly suited for some of the tasks that Photoshop is also perfectly suited for?

That’s really Apple’s larger vision for 2019 and beyond: If you are sitting at a desk in front of a big iMac screen or traveling with an iPad Pro, you should be able to have access to familiar software. Choose the right tool for the job, whether it’s a big desktop or a tiny laptop or an even smaller tablet, and you should be able to get that job done.

Photoshop on the iPad isn’t the magic key that unlocks the future of the iPad Pro. But it’s one of the biggest signs yet that things are changing—and that the iPad won’t be denied as a destination for people who want to get work done.