Category : Productivity
the reader itself is simple and basic. as I'm only using it to read, that's not too problematic, even if I could stand to have access to a thumbnail to quickly access chapters when I close and reopen. HOWEVER, the amount of ads in the app, the intrusivity of the ads themselves, the frequency and duration is absurd. If that wasn't enough, though, the ads will also intrude on your phone usage, regardless of whether you're currently using the app, or even if the app is open! unacceptable conditions
A few weeks after installing two PDF reader apps (including this one) I started getting full-screen pop-up ads, with sound, at random times! Very sneaky. After uninstalling, the ads stopped. Draw your own conclusion. I never even got around to trying the app. At least the ads went away after uninstalling, it could have been worse.
Very intrusive and frequent ads make reading anything almost impossible. You can't even select and open a file within the app without seeing an ad, as the very first thing it does after opening is showing you one unskipable and loud video commercial. You open one file, another ad. Did you select the wrong one and had to go back to the main menu? Another ad. Select the correct file and... another ad. If you have a poor signal or a weak connection the app won't even open, but tries to load an ad.
A very good app. However, first time users need a bit of introducing to how to operate it. For example, one finds that to access documents, one taps the PDF icon on the shut(?) screen rather than on say, the WhatsApp if it is the app carrying a message file. Once the user gets past this functionality bend, s/he finds the PDF Reader incredibly versatile and superbly easy to navigate. Kudos to you the developers of the app!
AVOID! So many unwanted video ads, popping up at random, sometimes in the middle of sending a text, dialling a number, even when the app wasn't in use, making my phone, at times, unusable. It has taken me 7 months to work out which app was causing the problem, finally discovered, via a help forum, that this is the one responsible. Since I uninstalled, problem solved. AVOID!!!!
It serves it's purpose and functions quite well. Used it for many of my documents. Although everytime I have to access a pdf or document it sends you to the screen to choose which app you prefer using. There are like 6 identical icons that read use once or always. What contributes to the worst experience are the full page ada with video that's so loud and you are unable to exit it until it's half-way over or you hit the home key then exit it then come back to your document. So many obstacles...
I cannot reccomend this app whatsoever, it gets one star because yes, it holds pdfs. The ads, although annoying before, have only gotten worse at this point. Before, every other page you'd find an ad, and it was a quick swipe to get rid of it. Now? Everytime I click on a file, it's a 30 second ad, with NOISE. Then, the app doesn't even open the file, and I have to click it again, just so they can get more advertising money.
I made a purchase few minutes ago to remove ads, but some ads keeps popping up...so, if you could refund me, it will be much appreciated. ....i updated the app, hoping for improvements, now the darn thing doesn't work at all...something about unexpected errors, but there were no errors when i made a payment. You can keep money i don't want it anymore.
Provides basic functionality but is full of ads. After starting the app and closing the immediately appearing full screen app, there is a banner ad and two eye-catching buttons in the UI (one of them is animated) only showing you an ad when pressed. App asks for 5 star review after closing. Highscore of ads shown at the same time: 4. Can you beat me?
I don't usually leave review but this app is just ridiculous. It actually functions well and I enjoy reading PDF here, BUT the main issue is it keeps on showing ads even if you don't open the app. I opened camera, it shows ad, I opened another application, it shows YouTube ad. it's really annoying esp when you're in a rush checking something and the ads keep on showing up randomly. had to uninstall due to this issue. if they fix the annoying ads I would give it 5*
ADS are annoying. I opened my document and ADS was the first one to open not my document. And all along I thought it was my document so I deleted and then I opened again and it is still the same. Just realized to close the ad they made a very tiny X mark not noticeable so that like me will not see it very easy and will have a hard time closing the AD. Nice way to trick users. I gave stars because maybe it's another trick that they only open 5 stars rather than no stars.
App hangs too often after search. Too many ads. I was okay with ads but to give an idea this app show it when you click to open, click to close, read few pages, search a pdf. And surprisingly, after search it hangs. Hangs pretty bad, even navigation button of mobile don't function. Seems money oriented app, very bad experience. Uninstalled in 10.
I would not recommend this app to anyone. As others have said, this app gives you intrusive ads that pop up on your phone even when the app is not in use. If you want revenue from ads so badly, you should just include them in thr app itself. Also, suggesting to peiple to buy the paid version won't do anything, when you've already made people hate the free version with all the annoying ads. Terrible.
i dont usually write reviews but this one compelled me to do so by how horrible this app is. At first glance i was attracted by the small size of the app. But that was not worth it at all. The app always is slow and laggy and has tooooo many ads. prompt ads, banner ads, interstitial ads, you name it, they have it. basic functions take at least 3-4 attempts to even reach the share screen. Ridiculously bad app, would only recommened to my friends if i want to get beaten up.
Ads EVERYWHERE. Constant banner ad at the bottom. I installed Adobe PDF reader to see if my document was being obscured by full page ads, and sure enough, if you scroll to a new page with this app, it will sometimes be an entire page of ads hiding the document you're trying to read. I uninstalled this app so fast the tempereture of my phone rose a few degrees. Completely trash app.
Worst pdf viewer app ever designed. Its slow to just open the app, show a bunch of adds before you can view your document. The documents are not stored in order, finding a document is really hard i tend to even give up looking for one. It sometimes just goes blank when you try to reopen a document I could go on. Don't download this!!!
Would give 0 stars if I could. Downloaded what I thought was the same pdf viewer that I had on my old phone, don't think it was as its full of ads 🙄. Ads are everywhere, opening the app, during what your doing, after completely closing the app, on top of other apps. Plus I dislike the fact it says I have a notification to say hey you still have a pdf open even though I completely closed it. Uninstalling the app and finding another pdf viewer
Makes ads pop up in your screen every 30 minutes, even when you are not using this app! After a few days of installing it, became especially irritating when it didn't even tell you that this app was the one causing it since I had to look on the internet for answers.
Ads constantly pop up. Clearly this app is the problem. Just to see what would happen, I bought the "Premium" version that would remove ads and what happens? The ads still pop up. Still functions as a PDF reader, just tone down the ads and it will be good.
I really liked the app, but there is a problem there. The adds are overflowing and closing another apps. This happened a few times already. I'm 100% sure that it is this app thst is doing this, because it started after i downloaded this app and the only app it doesnt overflow on that way(its shows a black screen with squares and a bottom on the top to close it) is when im using this one.
At first it was kind of ok pdf reader as any other, but now it randomly launches itself and plays ads on full screen with sound on. When it happened for the first time I thought I have pressed something accidentally, but when it happened few more times, it was clear that this app have to be deleted.
Just trashed when I understood it was *this app* that was flowing my device with full-screen ads while I was doing nothing (such as overnight). Not worth a look. There are many open-source PDF readers, on every OS, including Android. Maybe not fancy (what I don't care to view a document) , but with no ads.