Edit & Annotate PDF

Edit & Annotate PDF lets you change and mark up a document without printing it. Open a PDF and the first page appears large, with thumbnails beside it. Tap “Edit existing text” and every piece of the PDF’s own text gets a faint outline: tap one, type the correction and press Enter. The old words are covered in the page’s own colour and your text is drawn on top at the same spot and size, in the closest standard font.

Highlight, underline and strike-through snap to whole words, like selecting text. There are also text boxes, a pen, rectangles, ellipses, triangles, stars and clouds, solid, dashed or dotted lines and arrows, speech-bubble callouts, numbered markers, ticks, crosses, white-out, image stamps, sticky notes, clickable link areas and page cropping. Every mark stays editable until you save, with undo, redo and an eraser.

Saved marks are written into the page, so they look the same in every reader and print. Everything happens in your browser: the PDF is never uploaded.

1. Press “Choose a PDF” (or drop one on the box). The first page opens with thumbnails beside it.
2. To correct a word, pick “Edit existing text”, tap the outlined text, type and press Enter.
3. To mark text, pick Highlight, “Underline text” or “Strike through text” and drag from the first word to the last.
4. Add anything else from the bar: shapes, “Callout bubble”, “Numbered marker”, “Link area”, “Crop page” and more. Change colour, thickness and line style in the panel.
5. Press “Save annotated PDF”, then “Download annotated PDF”.

• Edit existing text: covers the original in the matched paper colour and redraws your words at the same position and size, in Helvetica, Times or Courier, whichever is closest.
• Highlight, underline and strike-through that snap to whole words across several lines.
• Callout bubbles with a tail you can point anywhere, and numbered markers that count up by themselves.
• Rectangles, ellipses, triangles, stars and clouds, with an optional tint, plus solid, dashed or dotted lines.
• Link areas that open a web page, start an email or jump to another page of the PDF.
• Crop a page to the part you need, or crop every page the same way in one tap.
• Text boxes, pen, arrows, ticks, crosses, white-out, image stamps (including iPhone HEIC) and sticky notes.
• Eraser, 200 steps of undo and redo, zoom up to 800% and keyboard shortcuts.

• Edited text matches the original as closely as standard fonts allow. Unusual typefaces, letter spacing or very long replacements may look slightly different, so check the result.
• Edits, white-out and crops cover or hide things but don’t delete them: the old text is still inside the file. Never rely on them to hide passwords or account numbers.
• Scanned pages are pictures with no real text, so there is nothing to edit or snap to. Use White-out with a Text box on top instead.
• Shortcuts: V select, Y edit text, U underline, S strike, B callout, M marker, Q eraser, and Ctrl or ⌘ with Z to undo.