9 Best PDF Editors for Android of 2026

Adobe Acrobat Reader covers the most common Android PDF jobs for free. Adobe's Google Play listing says you do not need a subscription to read, fill in or sign PDFs, and that you can read PDFs without an Adobe account. The free tier highlights text, adds comments and sticky notes, and signs forms with your finger through Fill & Sign. Liquid Mode reflows a PDF to fit a phone screen, which helps with long documents. Acrobat Premium, which starts with a 7-day free trial, edits text and images, adds paragraphs, creates PDFs from photos and Office files, converts PDFs to Word, Excel or PowerPoint, merges and compresses files, reorders and crops pages, runs OCR on scans and password-protects PDFs. The AI Assistant that summarizes and answers questions about PDFs is listed as a paid feature. The main gap is cost clarity: Adobe's pricing page blocked our checks from outside the US, so the Premium price is marked pending.

PDFelement is the lowest-cost full editor on this list with a verified US price. Wondershare's Android store lists a Yearly Plan at US$19.99, a Perpetual Plan at US$39.99 as a one-time fee and a Weekly Plan at US$3.99; all three remove the watermark and ads. The Google Play listing describes editing text, images and layouts, adjusting fonts, spacing and alignment, and importing your own TTF and OTF fonts to keep formatting intact. It also scans paper documents with edge detection, runs OCR on scans and images, converts PDFs to Word, Excel, PPT and images, fills and signs forms, merges, compresses and reorders pages, and adds password protection. AI tools summarize, chat with and translate PDFs across 60+ languages. The free registered tier is thin: text editing, signing, merging and page management are listed as a 1-day free trial, and AI is capped at 2,000 tokens. Buyers should choose the yearly or perpetual plan rather than the weekly one.

PDFgear is the strongest free option for Android users who want to change text, not just draw on top of it. The vendor's Android page says the app is free to use without hidden fees or advertisements, while noting that some advanced options could carry charges in the future. Its text editing mode selects and copies text and replaces or deletes existing text, and you can change font size, color and style. Annotation tools highlight, strike through and underline in 120 colors and add sticky notes and comments. Pages can be dragged to reorder, extracted, split or deleted, and blank pages inserted. Conversion covers Word, Excel, PowerPoint, JPG, PNG and RTF. The PDFgear Copilot assistant summarizes PDFs and acts on instructions such as rotating or printing. The limits are clear in the vendor FAQ: text editing works only on searchable PDFs, not scans, and Copilot needs an internet connection while the rest of the app works offline.

WPS Office suits Android users who want one app for PDFs and Office documents. The Google Play listing describes annotating PDFs with highlights, comments and notes, editing PDF text, managing pages, merging and splitting files, adding signatures and watermarks, and converting PDFs to Word or images to PDF. A document scanner saves paper pages as PDFs and extracts text with OCR. The same app opens and edits Word documents, Excel spreadsheets and PowerPoint presentations, and syncs files across mobile, PC and Mac with Google Drive, Dropbox and OneDrive support. WPS's pricing page splits features between the free WPS Standard plan, which offers basic PDF features, a free PDF reader and 1 GB of cloud space, and WPS Pro+, which adds full PDF editing and conversion, full electronic signatures, 20 GB of storage and no advertising. The page says these prices apply to PC and Android. It showed local currency from our location, so the USD price is pending.

Xodo is a capable Android editor from Apryse, and its value depends on whether you also work on a computer. The Google Play listing covers highlighting, underlining and drawing, adding and editing text, a form filler that detects fields automatically, and built-in e-signatures. Advanced tools crop, flatten and compress files, rotate pages, extract content, redact sensitive information, and merge or split PDFs. The scanner turns paper into searchable PDFs with OCR, and the converter exports to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, JPG, PNG, HTML and PDF/A. On Xodo's pricing page, mobile apps for Android and iOS come with the Xodo Document Suite, listed at $14.99 a month billed yearly, which also includes Xodo Web and the PDF Studio desktop app for Windows, macOS and Linux. The page showed a 40 percent promotion when we checked. Free use of Xodo Web is limited to 1 action per day, and the free trial requires a payment method.

UPDF makes the most sense on Android when you already use it on a computer. The Google Play listing says paid in-app purchases let you use UPDF across all platforms, including desktops and mobiles, and that paid users get 10 GB of cloud storage against 1 GB for free users. The Android app adds and edits text and images, annotates with pencil, highlight, underline, strikethrough and squiggly line tools, and adds text boxes, callouts, sticky notes, shapes, stamps and stickers. You can rotate, insert, extract and delete pages, compress several PDFs at once and open two files side by side in split screen. Signatures can be drawn or imported as images and saved to the cloud for use on other platforms. The AI assistant summarizes, translates, explains and rephrases PDFs, and UPDF's pricing page sells it as a separate subscription. The free version adds trial watermarks, and UPDF's prices load through scripts, so the USD check is pending.

Foxit PDF Editor is the most business-oriented Android app here. Its Google Play listing marks advanced features with an asterisk as subscription features, and those include working on XFA forms, signing with an existing digital certificate, redaction, Microsoft Information Protection, editing text and image objects, converting PDFs to Office formats and combining files. The free app still views, annotates, fills out and saves forms, adds handwritten signatures and reads PDFs aloud, and tablets get a tabbed interface. Form handling goes further than most: you can import and export form data and submit forms by HTTP, FTP or email. Foxit's pricing page says Foxit PDF Editor+ costs $159.99 per user per year and adds mobile apps for iOS and Android plus Foxit eSign with 150 envelopes a year to the desktop editor. That makes it expensive for someone who only works on a phone, but reasonable for staff who already need the desktop editor.

iLovePDF's Android app collects the tools from its website in one place. The Google Play listing covers a phone and tablet scanner with OCR, conversion from Office files and images to PDF and from PDF to Word, Excel and PowerPoint, and image extraction. Its editor highlights text, adds notes and comments, draws and inserts images, and fills out forms that you can sign with your finger. Organizing tools compress, merge, split and rotate files, add or remove passwords, number pages and add watermarks. The listing does not mention changing the original text of a PDF, so it is a markup and conversion tool more than a full editor. iLovePDF's pricing page offers a free Basic plan with essential tools and limited processing, and Premium for 1 to 25 users with unlimited processing, digital signatures and 2,000 AI credits across web, mobile and desktop. Students and academics can get a year of Premium free. Prices showed in euros from our location.

Smallpdf brings its browser toolset to Android, and it is strongest for quick conversions and compression. The Google Play listing covers converting PDFs to Word, Excel, PPT, JPG and PNG, compressing files for sharing, merging and splitting, and scanning documents with automatic cropping and OCR in multiple languages. Editing covers text, images and links, plus highlights, comments and page rotation, deletion and reordering. Signing goes beyond adding your own signature: you can request signatures from others and track the process. The listing says uploaded files are deleted 1 hour after processing unless saved locally or to the cloud, and that it follows GDPR. Free use is limited to 1 tool task per day, with a 7-day trial of Pro. In the US listing the monthly subscription is $7.99, and the annual plan is described only as saving 48%. The daily limit makes the free version a light-use option.