PDF Reflow
Read PDFs without zooming
Free · In-App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Reading PDFs on your phone shouldn’t feel like work.
PDF Reflow transforms PDFs and Word documents into a clean, phone-friendly reading experience. No more tiny text, constant pinching, horizontal scrolling, or multi-column pages that don’t fit your screen.
The latest version uses AI-powered page analysis to better understand each document’s layout, including text, graphics, figures, tables, and mathematical formulas. It then reorganizes the content into a natural vertical flow while preserving the document’s structure and visual context.
PDF Reflow is ideal for:
• Research papers
• Reports and manuals
• Articles
• Word documents
• Technical and scientific PDFs
• Documents with figures, tables, colors, and formulas
Features include:
• AI-powered page and layout analysis
• Comfortable, screen-width reading
• Text selection and highlighting
• Search within documents
• Adjustable text size up to 300%
• Automatic Table of Contents
• Dark mode for PDFs
• Built-in document picker
If you read PDFs on your phone and are tired of fighting the original page layout, PDF Reflow is made for you.
Questions or feedback?
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more Improved heading and paragraph layout, better recovery of missing text, more natural word spacing, and faster processing for digital PDFs. This update also includes reliability and performance improvements.
2.6.9 3 days ago
What’s New in Version 2.6.8
- Improved reflow for scanned and image-only PDFs with private, on-device text recognition.
- Automatically straightens slightly crooked scans.
- Better separation of headings, paragraphs, captions, headers, and footers.
- More reliable removal of page borders without clipping text.
- Sharper text while scrolling and zooming.
- Better preservation of original page colors.
- General reliability and performance improvements.
This version requires iOS 16.4 or later.
2.6.8 27 Oct
- fixed issue on older iPhone versions
- Improved support for scanned PDFs. Documents using advanced image compression now display and reflow correctly instead of appearing blank
2.6.7 22 Oct
Improved reflow accuracy for clipped words, wrapped hyphenated words, overlapping text regions, and complex multi-column PDFs. Also improves document title layout on Mac and overall rendering reliability.
2.6.6 19 Oct
What’s New in Version 2.6.5:
Large PDFs now load more smoothly, with pages prepared as you read and more reliable navigation from the table of contents, search results, and highlights.
This release also improves highlighting performance, text layout for unusual fonts, PRO restoration for longtime customers, and PDF error messages. You can now swipe down to close full-screen images, with improved document actions when using the iPad app on Mac.
2.6.5 16 Oct
- Text selection and highlighting now work more reliably on iPhone, including devices running older iOS versions.
- We also improved PDF text extraction and fixed an issue that could prevent words from being selected.
- PDF Reflow now handles long documents more smoothly by loading pages as you need them.
- Page, table of contents, search, and highlight navigation are more reliable, while highlighting is faster across large PDFs.
- You can also swipe down to close full-screen images, and document management works better when using the iPad app on Mac.
- This release includes additional text layout and stability improvements.
2.6.4 15 Oct
- Improved PDF rendering quality while preserving accurate text selection and highlighting.
- Added drag-and-drop PDF importing on iPad and compatible Macs.
- Improved page analysis, layout detection, and overall reliability.
2.6.3 13 Oct
- fixed issue in highlighting where some words were still blank
- launch screen and app screenshots designs
2.6.2 11 Oct
What’s New in 2.6.1
- All-new AI-powered reflow engine with improved page layouts, typography, images, tables, and formulas.
- Faster, fully on-device PDF processing with no network connection required.
- Automatic Table of Contents
- Tap images, tables, or formulas to view and zoom them full screen.
- Bookmark a page and quickly return to it later.
- Improved text-size controls with saved preferences.
- New native highlights list: jump to highlights, swipe to delete, and share highlighted text with optional context.
- Better dark mode, search, page navigation, spacing, and rendering quality.
- Improved PDF importing from Safari, Files, and other apps.
- Refreshed library, Settings, Help, and Share Extension experiences.
- Numerous performance improvements and bug fixes.
2.6.1 10 Oct
- fixed small text being separated from their paragraphs in some cases (thanks Mitch!)
2.5.11 6 Oct
- fixed crash on iOS 27
2.5.10 4 Oct
- Highlights are now easier to export and share. Choose between Text, HTML, and Markdown formats, or email your highlights directly in the message body, with the document title and source included.
- We also redesigned the reader controls for smaller screens. A new text-size slider replaces the separate zoom buttons, keeping Share and Theme controls readily accessible.
2.5.9 2 Oct
- Resume reading where you left off with a quick “Resume from page” shortcut (thanks Jörgen!)
- Export or share highlights as Markdown, including source information when available (thanks Matthew!)
- Organize PDFs into folders to keep your library cleaner (thanks CD!)
- Search across your PDF library, including document text
- Open a PDF from search results and automatically continue that same search inside the reader
- Improved PDF library layout with larger titles, highlight counts, and a cleaner search experience
- Better document title detection, including longer multi-line titles
- Imported PDFs are checked for duplicates
- Recently added documents now appear first without resetting their original added time every time you open them
- Better filename handling for PDFs opened from the share extension when the source app provides a suggested name
- Updated reader controls with zoom, share, theme, and highlighting actions arranged more cleanly across the app and share extension
- Improved dark/light theme controls and navigation bar appearance
2.5.8 19 Jun
PDF Reflow now does a more complete App Store restore check for PRO access. If you previously received PDF Reflow PRO through a purchase, promotion, or the earlier paid version of the app, Restore Purchase will check both your current App Store entitlements and your historical App Store purchase records before deciding no purchase was found.
2.5.7 9 Jun
- fixed issue to restore purchases from another device (thank you Stefano)
2.5.6 4 Jun
- new option to pick a PDF inside the app (thank you Gavette)
- option to delete your highlights (select some word and tap the pen icon) (thanks Gavette)
- better margins around the pages
- upgrade to PRO bottom card explains clearly why you see a limited number of pages in the free version
2.5.5 6 Apr
- free versions shows you 3 pages of the PDF documents (unlimited of course with PRO)
- new: you can highlight text in your PDF files!
- new: you can now search your PDF files, across iOS
- new: the main app keeps all the PDFs you opened with PDF Reflow
- fixed: ? icon is replaced with a proper Settings icon
2.5.4 4 Apr
- replaced UISlider with a UIStepper to decrease/increase the font size
- using PDFKit to render PDF images
2.5.3 10/07/2022
- fixed line detection using text line heights (works for Thai PDFs, thanks Thanh)
2.5.2 10/04/2022
- fixed reflow problems for some PDF where text has lots of accents (e.g. Vietnamese)
2.5.1 05/02/2022
- new: dark mode (thanks Arjun)
- new: quickly adjust text size from 50 to 300% (thanks Arjun!)
- new: full screen reading experience with navigation bar scrolling away
- reduced margin between pages
- new action extension
- removed PDFView to save memory
- new help page with new action extension
- new icons using iOS system icons
- new progress bar when app is processing the documents
- optimization: page image sizes always integers
- fixed memory issues crashing extension on some PDFs
- removed in-app purchase (thanks Dan!)
2.5.0 01/02/2022
- tested on iOS 14+
- fixed bug in some PDFS (thanks Christian)
- fixed issues with long horizontal likes (thanks Christian again!)
2.4 28/12/2020
- Reflow appears only once in the Share icon list (supports public URLs, PDF and file URLs)
- Now works with Word documents (DOC, DOCX, RTF and PPT) from the extension
- Important bug fix when a PDF had no content in a page (thanks Doug and Peter)
2.3 19/12/2019
- bug fixed in endless loop (stopped Reflow at page 2, thanks André!)
- better reflow of email addresses or parts that are longer than the device's width
- improved reading order algorithm and figure detection
2.2 25/11/2019
- improved detection of tables
- fix bug (endless loop)
2.1 16/11/2019
Improved heading and paragraph layout, better recovery of missing text, more natural word spacing, and faster processing for digital PDFs. This update also includes reliability and performance improvements.
more Version 2.6.9 3 days ago
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