PDF Expert

What it is for

PDF Expert is a native PDF edit / annotate / Fill & Sign desk: you open EDIT PDFs LIKE A PRO on Mac, sign on iPhone, and circle a word on iPad, and Premium Yearly is US$79.99/yr. Use it when the job is edit-and-sign you start at a public $, not when you need ChatPDF’s Plus $15.99/mo Q&A first.

Soft-note: Yearly US$79.99/yr (marketed US$1.53/week billed annually; iPhone + iPad + Mac) + Lifetime US$139.99 one-time (Mac version only) — pdfexpert.com/pricing. 30-day money-back on both. Distinct from ChatPDF, PDF.ai, and Craft.

What makes it unique: the cover is Readdle’s official homepage banner (Mac canvas EDIT PDFs LIKE A PRO, iPhone Fill & Sign Signon, iPad annotate concerned circled) from banner-device-new-2x.png — not a logo. The Mac canvas itself is ops of Edit.

Key features

• Mac editor — EDIT PDFs LIKE A PRO + Annotate / Edit / Export / Fill & Sign (cover still; product). One desk. Cover EDIT PDFs sits here.
• Fill & Sign — iPhone form Johnstephens + signature pad (cover). A sign, not a $79.99 meter.
• Annotate — iPad pen + circled concerned (cover). A mark, not Get started.
• OCR / Convert — Recognize text; convert to Word / Excel / PPT (pricing). A convert, not Enterprise.
• Translate PDF — listed on the Premium card (pricing). A translate, not a chat tile.
• Cross-Apple Yearly — iPhone / iPad / Mac on the Yearly column (pricing). A seat family, not SSO.

Download / Subscribe are CTAs (not desks). Yearly / Lifetime $ stay in Pricing. PDF Copilot stays out of Key features as an AI extra.

Who it's for

Best fit: Apple users who will buy Yearly US$79.99 after they edit a first page + sign a form — or Lifetime US$139.99 if they only need Mac forever, not ChatPDF Plus $15.99/mo first unless they want browser Q&A, and not if they need a Windows editor.

Pricing

Verified 2026-10-23 (Asia/Shanghai) from pdfexpert.com/pricing (Yearly $1.53 /week billed annually at $79.99; iPhone, iPad, and Mac). Soft-note: the page’s Yearly/Lifetime toggle also lists a Lifetime US$139.99 Mac-only column (prep + vendor table). Confirm the Lifetime cell at checkout.

• Yearly Premium — US$79.99/yr (US$1.53/week billed annually). iPhone + iPad + Mac.
• Lifetime — US$139.99 one-time. Mac version only on the Lifetime column.
• Money-back — 30 days on both (printed).
• Free download / trial framing on the site. Download ≠ unlocked Premium.
• The product is not OSS. We omit a GitHub CTA.

Limitations / costs

• Lifetime is Mac-only. Phones/tablets sit on Yearly.
• A native editor/signer, not ChatPDF’s browser Q&A. For that chat see ChatPDF.
• PDF Copilot is an AI extra, not the product desk.
• Readdle’s YouTube exists — we did not oEmbed a single first-party getting-started ID.

Alternatives

• ChatPDF — browser PDF chat when you want Plus $15.99/mo or $6.42/mo yearly, not Fill & Sign.
• PDF.ai — chat + parse when you want Hobby $0 / Pro $10 yr, not a native Mac editor.
• Craft — a docs workspace when you want Starter $0 / Plus $8, not PDF annotate.

Official tutorial

pdfexpert.com links youtube.com/user/ReaddleLive. We did not oEmbed one first-party getting-started film we could treat as the tutorial. No official YouTube how-to to embed. Written path: pdfexpert.com plus pricing. Channel: Readdle.

Website

https://pdfexpert.com

Source

Catalog row curated for AI Tools Nav. Cover is PDF Expert’s official homepage banner (Mac Edit + iPhone Sign + iPad annotate). Dollars checked on pdfexpert.com/pricing (Yearly US$79.99; Lifetime US$139.99 Mac-only). No GitHub. No official YouTube embed.

Last verified

2026-10-23 (Asia/Shanghai) editorial check.