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PdfCraft

Read, comment, fill, sign and edit PDFs on your phone, all on the device.

  • Completely free
  • Android
  • Open source

Overview

PdfCraft is a PDF reader, available on Android. Other documented uses: PDF editing.

Features described in its F-Droid listing and in its GitHub repository: attachments, read-aloud, themes and dark mode.

File formats mentioned: PDF, RTF, PNG and JPEG.

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information
  • “Read, comment, fill, sign and edit PDFs on your phone, all on the device” — F-Droid, 10 November 2026
  • “An Android native open-source PDF reader and editor written in Rust, built on the same engine as the desktop app, PdfCraft , with a Kotlin/Jetpack Compose UI.” — GitHub, 10 November 2026
  • “Find, text selection, links, bookmarks and the table of contents, attachments” — F-Droid, 10 November 2026
  • “Read aloud with the phone's voice, the words marked as they're read” — F-Droid, 10 November 2026
  • “Works upright and sideways, in the light and dark themes.” — F-Droid, 10 November 2026

At a glance

All of PdfCraft is free: no feature is locked behind a paid plan, and its code is open.

Its licence (MIT) is a permissive open source licence: use, modification and redistribution are allowed, including in commercial projects.

Strengths

  • Open source code
  • No advertising
  • Commercial use allowed

Sources and checks

  • Facts collected from F-Droid (credit card, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, ads, commercial use, version) —
  • Facts collected from LicitPro automatic classification () —
  • Last technical check: 6 November 2026
  • Description from F-Droid — F-Droid (citation courte)

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