# UPDF > PDF editor with AI chat, one license across desktop and mobile UPDF is a desktop and mobile PDF editor for Windows, Mac, iOS and Android, where one paid license covers every platform and UPDF Cloud syncs files between them. It edits text and images, annotates, converts to Office and image formats, runs OCR, builds forms, redacts, compares files and batch-processes them, and its AI assistant summarizes, translates and answers questions about PDFs. It is sold as a yearly subscription or a perpetual license. - **Category:** PDF Editors - **Made by:** Superace Software Technology Co., Ltd. - **Website:** https://updf.com - **Runs on:** Windows, macOS, iOS, Android - **Facts last checked:** Oct 18, 2026 ## Pricing UPDF is a paid product with a free trial, starting at $49.99 per year (US App Store). - **Pricing model:** Free trial - **Free plan:** None. - **Free trial:** Free version: 2 conversions a day, AI on 5 files, and a watermark on saved changes. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Annual Subscription | $49.99 per year (US App Store) | UPDF Pro on every platform with 10GB of UPDF Cloud; the stores also list Monthly ($9.99) and Quarterly ($19) subscriptions. | | Perpetual License | $79.99 one-time purchase (US App Store) | UPDF Pro paid once, without the AI assistant, which is sold only as a subscription. | Read from https://apps.apple.com/us/app/updf-ai-pdf-editor-converter/id1619925971 on Oct 18, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with UPDF before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **Perpetual license** (Lifetime license): UPDF sells a perpetual license as a one-time purchase, listed at $79.99 on the US App Store; it does not include the AI assistant. Source: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/updf-ai-pdf-editor-converter/id1619925971 ## Key features - **Text and image editing:** Change the font, size and color of existing text, resize, crop, replace or extract images, and add or remove links. - **AI assistant:** Chats with a PDF to summarize it, translates whole files while keeping the layout, turns PDFs into mind maps and answers questions about images. - **Convert and OCR:** Converts PDFs to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF/A, images, text and HTML, and recognizes text in scans in 38 languages. - **Forms, signatures and redaction:** Create fillable forms, fill and sign them, add digital signatures, redact sensitive text, compare two PDFs and set passwords. - **Batch processing:** Converts, merges, compresses, encrypts and runs OCR on many files at once, and adds watermarks, headers and Bates numbers in bulk. - **UPDF Cloud:** Syncs files and saved signatures across Windows, macOS, iOS and Android, with 10GB for paid users and 1GB free. ## Good for - People who work on PDFs across a computer, a phone and a tablet - Buyers who want a perpetual license at a lower price than Acrobat - Students and researchers who summarize and translate long PDFs ## Worth knowing - updf.com answered with a bot check, so prices are from the US App Store, where some purchases carry no billing period; website prices may differ. - The AI assistant is a separate subscription; free AI use stops at 5 files and 100 questions. - The Mac App Store edition lacks OCR; the edition downloaded from updf.com includes it. - The free version limits conversions to 2 a day and adds a watermark when saving changes. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 3.0 out of 4**, graded Oct 18, 2026. UPDF is a desktop and mobile app for Windows, Mac, iPhone and Android, and one license covers all of them. It edits text, OCRs, redacts and compares, for $49.99 a year or $79.99 once on the US App Store. The free version watermarks what you save, though, and the AI is a separate subscription. - **Value for money: A.** $49.99 a year on the US App Store, among the cheapest paid editors here, and one license covers every platform. The $79.99 perpetual license, spread over three years, is cheaper still, though the AI isn't in it and updf.com may charge differently. - **Free plan and trial: C.** There's a free version, but it's 2 conversions a day, AI on 5 files and a watermark on anything you save. Fine for a look around, not for real work. - **Features: B.** Edits text and images, converts to Office and PDF/A, OCRs in 38 languages, builds forms, redacts, compares and batch-processes, with Bates numbers. It covers the whole job. The Mac App Store edition leaves out OCR; the updf.com download has it. - **Ease of use: B.** No store rating on record. It's an app you install and start editing in, with nothing to set up first. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Windows, Mac, iPhone and Android, synced through UPDF Cloud, plus Dropbox. No browser version and a short integration list, so it stops at B. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from UPDF's App Store and Google Play pages on 18 October 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among PDF editors - UPDF's GPA of 3.0 is higher than 13 of the 15 other PDF editors we grade, and level with 1. - It stands best on value for money (A, above 12 of 15) and worst on free plan and trial (C, above 0). - Its paid plans start at $4.17 a month when paid by the year, against a middle price of $6.67 for the category: 2 of the 10 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 3.0 out of 4. Nothing scores higher for less, though at least one tool matches that score at a lower price. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/pdf-editors ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** The plain part of UPDF you could make: forms. What surrounds it you could not. The 4 things listed below take a company, not a weekend. It is one of the better ones too: its GPA of 3.0 is higher than 13 of the 15 other PDF editors we grade. It costs $49.99 a year. - You could make: Forms: an app builder makes this well. - You could not: Editing the text inside a PDF without breaking its layout. - You could not: Apps for macOS, Windows, iOS and Android that stay in step with each other. - You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself. - You could not: The depth: we grade its features B, which means it covers the whole job. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with Dropbox, UPDF Cloud **Tags:** PDF editing, AI features, Forms, One-time purchase ## Alternatives - [PDFelement](https://toolgpa.com/tools/pdfelement): Wondershare's PDF editor, by subscription or a one-time license. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/pdfelement-vs-updf) - [PDF Expert](https://toolgpa.com/tools/pdf-expert): PDF reader and editor for Mac, iPhone and iPad from Readdle. 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