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iOSCENTRAL REVIEW: PDF EXPERT 7revamped user interface with a focus on
minimalism. Case in point: Similar tools are
now grouped into easy to find categories—
Annotate, Draw, and Insert—but everything is
more intuitive across the board.
While the new features are almost
exclusively for Pro subscribers, PDF Expert
7 does add something for everyone:
Stickers. Yes, you can now dress up
documents with cute graphics in one of
seven categories (Raccoon, Cat, Dog,
Education, Food, Weather, Calendar).
There are more than 300 in all, each
appropriately adorable if you’re into this
kind of virtual adornment.GOING PRO
While existing users don’t lose any paid
features from the previous version, they’ll
need to subscribe if they want
a trio of new Pro features
debuting in PDF Expert 7. You
can now convert Word, Excel,
and PowerPoint (or Apple
Pages, Sheets, and Slides)
documents to PDF format. This
is convenient but not exactly
groundbreaking, considering
those respective iOS apps can
already perform the same trick.
(Earlier versions of PDF Expert
could also do the same by
purchasing Readdle’s PDF
Converter app, which is noFREE IS THE NEW PAID
After debuting on iPad in 2010, PDF Expert
has lived up to its name as the premiere
iOS app for working with PDF documents
on the go. And there’s absolutely no
reason not to own it now, because version
7.0 of the app is free. That’s right, no more
up-front purchase, nor in-app upgrades.
To be fair, PDF Expert 7’s “free” isn’t
exactly the same as paying $10 for the
previous app. You won’t be able to sign,
password protect, or merge documents,
nor add, delete, and extract pages. That’s
because these features have been moved
to a $50 per year Pro subscription, along
with advanced editing features formerly
available as a $20 in-app upgrade.
But that’s where the bad news ends,
because all PDF Expert 7 users get the same
More than 300 different free stickers are available to dress
up your documents in PDF Expert 7.