Name: PDFpen
Price: 79.95 $
Rating: 3.6374 (80 reviews)

PDFpen overview

PDFpen allows users to easily edit PDF's. Add text, images and signatures. Fill out PDF forms. Merge or split PDF documents. Reorder and delete pages. Even correct text and edit graphics!

Features:

Add text, images and signatures to PDF
Correct text in original PDF with editable text blocks
Fill out interactive PDF forms and sign them
Redact or erase text, including OCR text
Search and redact text; search and replace text
Export in Microsoft® Word format
Scan directly from Image Capture or TWAIN scanners
Perform OCR (Optical Character Recognition) on scanned documents
Viewable OCR layer for proofing OCR text from scanned pages
Adjust resolution, color depth and contrast, skew, and size of an image or scanned document
Sign PDF forms via interactive signature fields (not digital signatures)
Insert and remove pages; re-order pages in a PDF by drag-and-drop; combine PDFs
Move, resize, copy and delete images in original PDF
Save PDFs directly to Evernote
Copy and paste rich text; retain fonts and formatting when copying from PDFs, including columns
Context-sensitive popup-menus enable quick edits
Add (and print) notes and comments
Mark up documents with highlighting, underscoring and strikethrough
Save frequently-used images, signatures, objects and text in the Library
Apply business-related and sign here stamps via the Library
Print notes and comments with or without the original text
Print a list of all annotations along with the document
Full screen mode, as well as zoom to document width and zoom to actual document size
Password protect a document with up to 256-bit AES encryption
Compatible with iCloud Drive
Sync Library items with PDFpen for iPad and iPhone via iCloud
Automate PDF manipulations with AppleScript
Available in English, Japanese, German, French, Italian, and Spanish

What’s new in version 13.1

Updated on Jun 25 2021

Version 13.1:

Note: Please note that PDFpen 13 is a paid upgrade for users of PDFpen 12 and earlier who purchased prior to January 1, 2021

New:

Faster document scrolling and drawing
Adds additional Sidebar modes to Preferences
Updates OCR engine to CSDK 21 with Apple Silicon / M1 support
Other fixes and improvements

View older PDFpen updates

Information

License

Demo

Size

222 MB

Developer’s website

https://smilesoftware.com/pdfpen

Downloads

131794

App requirements

Intel 64
macOS 10.14.0 or later

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Afmac

May 16 2021

13.0

Version: 13.0

I will not be updating to 13.0, I find PDF PEN to be buggy and slow with jerky scrolling compared to PDF EXPERT which has very smooth scrolling and overall works much better.

Odysseus

May 27 2020

12.0.2

3.0

Version: 12.0.2

I concur with the others who observe that PDF Pen is "buggy as hell." Not only that, it is much less easy to use than its less-full-featured competitor, PDF Expert. They keep adding features, but they don't seem to fix long-standing bugs or update the dated UI.

Cerniuk

May 22 2020

5.0

Supported by SME's not *Tear*-1 help desk script readers. Just had a great support experience and they even figured out what caused the problem (CleanMyMac corrupted the app when pulling localizations) with only a few small clues. Nice call Jeff!

nekton123

Jan 23 2020

11.2.1

Version: 11.2.1

In terms of price performance vs Acrobat, PDFPenpro is good value BUT it is buggy as hell when dealing with any complex PDF. I've sent numerous example of files that PDFprenpro cannot handle but none of the bugs seem to ever get fixed in the endless releases. A pet hate is how sometimes the text edit tool creates a duplicate of the text to be edited but leaves original ghost test behind. Checkboxes are another major fail.

DragonMaster

Nov 3 2019

11.1.2

Version: 11.1.2

One of the ultimate PDF tools. The Pro version even better. This is a must have!

ahmedhatata-ah

Apr 9 2019

10.2.4

Version: 10.2.4

The most convenient and reliable pdf software for mac , with many outstanding features and reliable results , annotation , OCR , merge and rearrange with powerful tools to create a beautiful pdf , finally a reliable application with stunning design. My daily use in my study and work , it make me have fun while study and working .

Novascotian

Jun 22 2018

10.1.1

Version: 10.1.1

Finally, an app that does precisely what it is supposed to. I love to be able to search PDF documents that arrive without a search facility and the OCR seems to be very accurate. Further, being able to scan and save a signature is great -- something I had struggled to achieve in other ways. Good stuff.

kfr3

Nov 2 2017

9.2.2

Version: 9.2.2

I am not using this in a business; strictly personal use. I use PDFPro mainly creating and editing PDF's on my geneology work. If you are using this for business, I cannot express an opinion.

Mac512k

Jun 7 2017

9.0.2

1.0

Version: 9.0.2

Can't download older versions you paid for. What a scam and waste of money. Now corrupt version don't work and i don't want newer version.

StrictlyBagel

Apr 12 2017

9.0

1.5

Version: 9.0

Getting tired of the annual upgrade procedure and limited new functions. I'm switching to PDF Expert now. PDFpen hasn't improved much for me (at least in my workflow) over the last years and still has the same layout as earlier versions.

just-dream-on2

Dec 9 2016

8.3

0.5

Version: 8.3

Watched the video and thought, "This will do nicely." Unfortunately, the actually software, as has performed on Mac at least, seems to have vague similarity to the videos/written instructions. I'm sorry I wasted my money on this awkward, counter-intuitive mess.

anonymous-skink-4599

May 2 2016

8.0

Version: 8.0

Just a note about Smile Software's customer support. I'd bought PDFpen 7 in February this year from the Mac App Store, but v8 insisted that I'd bought it before January and would have to pay upgrade price. I raised a support request on Smile's website, and sent them a copy of the email receipt from my original purchase. Within a few hours, I had a complementary licence in my inbox. What a nice change from having to deal with the 'support' from a certain large company whose name and competing product both start with 'A'.

Gary30

Apr 27 2016

I am still on PDF Pen 6 and it works fine on El Capitan. This is an app I use often enough that I would normally upgrade. However, I mostly find myself wanting to modify existing text in PDF files. For some reason, the process of actually selecting text and then modifying it seems clumsy and ill-conceived. I have really worked at mastering this procedure, but a pleasant experience eludes me. I saw others who found this app clumsy with regard to manipulating PDF elements when I looked into it a while ago. Does version 8 offer improvements in this regard? Otherwise, the new features of recent versions don't seem compelling to me.

willowski

Jan 18 2016

7.3.4

Version: 7.3.4

Excellent service and a product that simply works. I especially like the iOS PDF Scan Pro, but having the Mac App too helps for integration etc. Good luck with the future dev work. Willow.

bhaslett

Jan 12 2016

In my 30th year of computing I have in the past been stuck with Adobe Acrobat to manipulate and process my PDF files. I have finally found a software package in PDFpen Pro that provides all the tools I have been looking for to replace the very expensive Adobe product. Smile has put forth a fantastic program at a fantastic price and is the best MAC PDF manager. Thanks for the development excellence.

Esky212

Dec 9 2015

7.3.2

Version: 7.3.2

Awesome piece of software!

I use it several times every week for editing invoices and creating other documents for work. Very powerful and to me easier to work with than with Acrobat. However Acrobat has probably a steeper learning curve, for me PDFpenPRO 7 is absolutely sufficient and gets the job done. Easy and faster in my opinion :-)

Aetnaria

Nov 19 2015

Be aware that this $75 software does NOT include the following features: Create cross-platform fillable PDF forms Add interactive signature fields to forms Create and edit Table of Contents Correct typos in OCR text layer Automatic form creation - detects text fields and check boxes in existing PDF and makes them fillable Export in Microsoft Excel (.xlsx, .xls), Microsoft PowerPoint (.pptx, .ppt), and PDF Archive If you want those, you need the Pro version for $125. Make sure you research the features you need before making your purchase.

Jimge

Nov 17 2015

This is for PDFpen 6.3.2. Based on my experience, I would not upgrade. I did buy it as part of a StackSocial deal, so I am philosophically resigned to the issues. Maybe it is a bug. I wanted to edit text on a PDF. I selected the text, then went to the Correct Text button. It actually duplicated the selection, which I then could edit easily. But how to get rid of the original text. The Help section was not helpful. So I found the workaround. I was able to select the text, then go to Format Text in the Menu Bar, and select Redact Text Erase. But I was only able to do it once. To do another piece of text I had to save the document, reopen, then repeat the process. Is this a bug or a deficiency? Plus, the interface is somewhere between Windows XP and Mac OS9. Seriously.

Philmiler

Nov 2 2015

CRASHES ALL THE TIME. And the update process is the worst. First we're told it's free and later they charge for it.