I can’t believe how phenomenal this app is. Anyone who is poorly rating it doesn’t understand it’s capabilities. This is seriously at least 10x better than adobe acrobat and they never ask for money. The problem for me is it is crashing very frequently which obviously is an issue if I want to get anything done in a timely manner. I hope I just need to update my computer or wait for an update of this app to be released because it crashed at least 10x in the span of 2 hours, didn’t lose any work though, and to be fair, Apple’s Preview app also crashed frequently for me and that was what I was using before this (it had A LOT less features too). Perhaps all of tech is focusing so much on AI that they’ve neglected pdf editors completely haha

This free utility solved my PDF to spreadsheet issue without any hassles, ads, restrictions or subscriptions. It does the job pretty flawlessly. The things about it that bugged me was after installing, any time I clicked on any PDF it opened with PDFgear instead of Apple's Preview. Clicking "Get Info" and changing "Open With" to Preview and checking "Use this application to open all documents like this one" fixed that. Then I noticed the tiny PDFgear icon in the menubar on the upper right hand side of the screen. Turns out PDFgear wants to launch on startup and always be running, I had to turn that off and tell it "no". If you're converting PDF documents all the time I guess that could be handy, but it's something I only need to do occasionally.

PDF editors are notorious cash cows for companies like Adobe and Readdle, who offer what amounts to basic word processors with signature capabilities and a PDF save and load feature. The cost of these tools is prohibitive for a student and just about anyone, except for a company, perhaps. I came across PDF Gear and was very skeptical about its zero price. The old adage that if you don’t pay for the product you are the product really frightened me. From what I am seeing thus far, however, the publisher for this utility has kept to its word about zero ads and full features. It seems very easy to use, too. PDF Expert seems to be a unicorn in this space, and I recommend it.

This is a necessity if trying to print pdfs from emails or downloads otherwise doc does not shrink to fit to screen. I am converting from laptop and converting to Mac and slowly cutting all Microsoft & Google cloud type apps that spy on your every waking moment and change your defaults with every upgrade with a few exceptions where I purchase an app for hard-drive use. One inconvenient difference is I am having to download PDFS before opening in order to print to shrink to fit to page but this old dinosaur is adjusting and adjusting. Even with annoyances, I recommend this product.