Foxit PDF Reader App Reviews

I was happy to see a new PDF Reader by an „old“ company (Foxit Reader had been only available for Windows all the years). The reason is that I’m totally disappointed about Adobe’s development: Both Adobe Reader and Acrobat Pro are huge software monsters nowadays, and the user interface gets worse and worse. They are changing the UI with every version, and the present „DC“ versions are totally ridiculous in design - obviously there software is targeted exclusively to kiddies with mobile devices. From this pont of view, I welcome Foxit Reader on my Mac and kick Adobe Reader (Acrobat pro ist currently replaced with Callas toolbox). Foxit Reader has a clean design, is not hundreds of MByte heavy and fast. Why only 3 stars? It is not translated yet (I could live with that), but misses 1. standard file infos (for example for used fonts) and 2. localization - sorry, we don’t have inches in Germany and an international product MUST have the ability to show metric units. With localization and a little more file status infos it is immediately 5 stars!

I found it on ios first and it is awesome. Quality is great especially considering it is free. The way it is now though it is a pain to input many text annotations one after another (type writter function in the app). If that would be fixed it would meet all my needs so far. Use it currently for filling class labs. In addittion keyboard shortcuts would be great. Thanks and keep up the good work! One more thing, I made it my default program for PDF’s, it is that great, but now all my pdf files have blank white page as the icon. Perhaps change it to some PDF symbol (foxit yellow), the letters “PDF” (yellow) or the foxit logo.

Even with moderately sized PDF scrolling performance is very slow (running a very fast 5K iMac).

The most useful thing that has Windows Foxit is the Advanced Search and here at Mac does not. Truly disappointing.

Foxit reader review ver.1.1.1.0307 of 160611 The page quality and detail appear equal to Adobe Reader and better than many PDF readers. The text shows crystal clear but with slightly heavier silhouettes than Adobe. For speed, it seems that page presentation on my mid-2014 is very fast. It has a perfect zoom level for me -- just slightly larger than nearest Adobe. It seems Foxit has one extra zoom level in my common use zone. More likes: the hand tool, which has more leverage in Foxit than in Adobe; the page spinner, which is especially quick and convenient; the tabbed document bar. Not all roses, though. For page links Adobe is necessary. Also, the current version of Foxit doesnt know how to open a recently used document.

A good app, except that making any changes to bookmarks, which I use constantly, causes app to crash constantly as well. Please fix this!!!

I’ve used Foxit for almost a decade on PC. Work has supplied me with a new Macbook Pro and I was happy to see Foxit available. However, none of the features work. Highlighting text? Forget about it… Doesn’t even begin to work correctly. Adding text? The cursor is placed on the opposite side of the screen from where you’ve clicked. It’s a nightmare of an app. Don’t waste your time on this, it won’t work like you expect it to. The Update from last week fixed none of these problems either.

I use Foxit PDF on my Windows desktop, but have always had to use Mac Preview on my Macbook when taking notes in class. After years of waiting there finally is Foxit PDF Reader for Mac OS. It looks actually a little more stylish than the Windows version and matches Mac’s interface quite nicely. Most importantly, it has a lot of the same annotating tools and functionality as Windows Foxit. You can still highlight, underline, etc., and then right-click the annotation, click properties, and change the color of the highlight/underline. It’s missing what I probably love the most from Windows Foxit Reader, the ability to create hotkeys for pretty much every annoatation tool or action. I have always been annoyed with how Mac Preview lacks keyboard hotkeys for highlight, adding text, underlining because it is so much slower to have to mouse over and click edit, click action, click end action. Windows’ Foxit has an option to for example, make the combination of “alt” and “t” trigger text typewriting, then “alt” and “3” to end typewriting and revert back into scroll mode. Well there are no keyboard shortcuts so it is about the same as Mac Preview in terms of notetaking efficiency. I’d still say it’s better than Mac Preview overall. For one, when inserting text on Foxit, whereever you click the cursor the text actually inserts there; whereas with Preview, the text (stupidly) autolocates to the middle of the screen where you end up dragging it to the spot you wanted originally. Please Foxit, add the shortcuts/hotkeys like in Windows! And thank you for finally coming through with Mac release!!!

I guess the Foxit people didn’t develop their app on a mac with a Retina display, because everything is blurry — including the text in PDFs! Just to be clear, the text is crystal clear in Preview, so it’s Foxit and not the PDF. It’s also buggy. For example, when you zoom in so that horizontal scrolling is necessary, scrolling via the trackpad doesn’t work. Instead, you have to use their horizontal scrollbar with the mouse. It also doesn’t seem to support basic reading features, like text reflow so that you can increase the font size and read a document without having to scroll horizontally back and forth for each line of text.

I’ve used FoxIt for years on Windows, now I switched to a Mac and it works just as well. I have no problems with sharpness of the text. In fact, I did a side-by-side comparison of the same document open in Foxit and Adobe Acrobat. The FoxIt view was much clearer than the Adobe. It gets the job done without much extra flash. I only need it for reading PDF files, and for making comments. It would be great if there were a way to diff two PDF files, such as for getting version differences. But BeyondCompare (or other such compare utility) might be good enough for that.

First of all, Im really happy you decided to bring the great Foxit Reader from Windows to the Mac! This is my favorite PDF reader on Windows, however, the OS X version is lacking: 1. The apps main window wont remember its size, forcing the user to resize it every time the app launches. 2. I really need the "Restore last session when application starts" feature. Its one of the most useful features of Foxit on Windows but its missing from the OS X version. 3. Id love to be able to customize the toolbar (so I can have a quicker access to the comment tools, for example).

Was hoping to make a few quick annotations to a PDF without having to get a full-blown editor. This is not a good choice. - Trying to insert text is very hard to get placed correctly the first time, and often doesn’t even let me insert text until I’ve clicked a few times. - The default annotation text color is blue, and even after changing to it black, it randomly changes back to blue whenever it feels like it. - Strikeout text is very inaccurate and just simply doesn’t work for some pieces of text. - There’s no way as far as I can tell to save only a subset of pages. (Thankfully the build-in Preview app has this.)

Crashes immediately when selecting ‘Open’.