# Drawboard PDF Reviews **Vendor:** Drawboard **Category:** [Document Creation Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/document-creation) **Average Rating:** 4.3/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 40 ## About Drawboard PDF Millions of engineers, architects, lawyers, students and educators are already using Drawboard PDF every day for fast and collaborative PDF markup. Our remarkable markup tools are helping streamline workflows and reduce the world’s reliance on paper. Drawboard PDF is available as a Windows 10+11 app, an iOS app and as web app. - Feels like real ink - Store+Share markups with your team - Text review tools - Bookmarks, markup history and keyword search - Favorites toolbar - Draw objects and shapes - Signatures library - Page manipulation PRO - Document Builder - Calibrated Measurements - Digital Protractor - Grids and Lines - Engineering Line Styles - Callouts ## Drawboard PDF Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users praise the **powerful and versatile features** of Drawboard PDF, enhancing their workflow with seamless PDF editing. (2 reviews) - Users commend the **courteous and quick customer support** of Drawboard PDF, resolving issues efficiently and effectively. (1 reviews) - Users find **Drawboard PDF invaluable** for daily markup and note-taking, appreciating its responsive support and reliability. (1 reviews) - Users find Drawboard PDF to be incredibly **easy to use** , significantly enhancing their workflow and productivity. (1 reviews) - Users value the **easy implementation** of Drawboard PDF, facilitating a smooth and efficient annotating experience. (1 reviews) - Users find Drawboard PDF to be highly **efficient** , significantly enhancing their workflow with powerful editing features. (1 reviews) - I find Drawboard PDF to be incredibly **intuitive** , vastly improving my workflow with its user-friendly features. (1 reviews) - Reliability (1 reviews) - Users appreciate the **s smooth and professional interface** of Drawboard PDF, enabling seamless annotating and editing of documents. (1 reviews) - Versatility (1 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users find the **missing features** like hot keys and PDF cropping limit Drawboard PDF’s functionality. (1 reviews) - Users desire **enhanced PDF editing capabilities** , particularly for cropping and discovering hotkeys for efficiency. (1 reviews) - Users experience occasional **slow performance** with large documents, though updates have improved speed and stability. (1 reviews) ## Drawboard PDF Reviews ### 1. Finally, a product that makes PDF editing as easy as PowerPoint/Google Presentations **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Matthew E. | Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 13, 2025 **What do you like best about Drawboard PDF?** I rarely recommend products, but I've found Drawboard PDF to be an incredibly useful app. So much so, that within a few days of using it, I ended the trial early and signed up for the full paid product. Quick context. I'm in the middle of building a house, and the architect & other consultants routinely send me PDFs and ask for detailed markup. I'd been struggling through Kami, Adobe (both paid licenses) and looking for a better option. I tried Canva. All were limited. What I wanted was something that had the power of a vector drawing program, with layers, snap to, reusable object libraries, shapes, different fill types, etc. and -- amazing, hard to find - actual copy/paste. Trying to edit on top of a PDF much like I would in PowerPoint or Google Presentations. I also used Kami a lot for adding signatures / other basic editing, as well as merging / cutting up PDF files. Drawboard PDF does *all* of this. It is by far the most full-featured program I've found (and I've tried dozens). So much better than Adobe's own product in the space that I'm scratching my head why. Using it is very easy. Features make sense, and when you try something it generally works like you'd expect. This product has vastly improved my workflow with my design and build team. **What do you dislike about Drawboard PDF?** I haven't yet discovered hot keys. Also, something that allows cropping a PDF similar to cropping an image would be greatly appreciated. **What problems is Drawboard PDF solving and how is that benefiting you?** Design workflows that involve PDF documents, but require lots of markup / feedback. Currently using for architect/designer workflows building a house, but could equally see this in many areas. ### 2. Excellent product and service **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 30, 2025 **What do you like best about Drawboard PDF?** I use drawboard pdf on a near daily basis to markup documents, and for notetaking. I have been using it since it first was introduced and have been extremely happy with it. I recently had a problem with drawboard freezing intermittently after an operating system update. I contacted drawboard support. They were courteous and quick. They had the problem resolved within a couple of days. I am a very happy customer. **What do you dislike about Drawboard PDF?** No downsides. Everything is great and the product is constantly improving. **What problems is Drawboard PDF solving and how is that benefiting you?** Collaboration / revision of pdf documents as well as note taking and drawing. ### 3. Drawboard PDf to transform PDFs into dynamic working tools. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 10, 2025 **What do you like best about Drawboard PDF?** Drawboard PDF offers a smooth and professional experience in annotating and editing PDF documents; it's very versatile and easy to take notes, draw free-form shapes, underline and even write directly and accurately on my PDFs with the stylus on my tablet's touch screen. By having a neat interface it's possible to access any of its tools or move my annotations around with ease without overwhelming me or affecting the flow of my activities. **What do you dislike about Drawboard PDF?** There were times when it presented small lags in its performance especially when working with large documents and many annotations, but this issue was resolved with an update that improved the speed and stability of Drawboard PDF. **What problems is Drawboard PDF solving and how is that benefiting you?** Above all I highlight the versatility and simplicity of Drawboard PDF for annotating, deleting and manipulating the position of my annotations on the devices I use, making it very easy for me to reorganize ideas and content in real time during presentations and meetings; it really is a well–designed application for working with PDF documents. ### 4. Use of feedbacks and editing in the working process **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Hoffmann M. | Junior Project Manager, Government Administration, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 14, 2024 **What do you like best about Drawboard PDF?** Textual annotations using highlighter, text boxes, and the freedom to draw with a pressure-sensitive stylus in Drawboard PDF creates a near-authentic experience to apply marks on an actual piece of paper. **What do you dislike about Drawboard PDF?** There is no option for editing fillable forms in PDFs which are included as fillable forms in Drawboard PDF. This is a constraint for me, especially since many times I am involved in many form sign and complete from different purposes. **What problems is Drawboard PDF solving and how is that benefiting you?** Drawboard PDF has turned out to be an interesting tool for annotating and collaborating on PDFs. It is quite user-friendly with the realistic pen tools, and helpful when reviewing documents since it minimises on paper usage. ### 5. Experience a new and easy way to manage your PDF work **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Anuj Y. | Web Developer, Information Technology and Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 10, 2023 **What do you like best about Drawboard PDF?** It provides an excellent graphical user interface and high user controllability for those who work with PDF documents. It encompasses many functionalities such as combining several files and preparing color and style standards and templates. We can use different pens and brushes and our work will be instantly saved. **What do you dislike about Drawboard PDF?** There are no problems when using the whiteboard. It’s okay when you make modifications on PDF frequently because it is easier to use than other options. **What problems is Drawboard PDF solving and how is that benefiting you?** In meetings, I use a drawing board as if it were a whiteboard to check on my presentation or during meetings. The PDF slides can be used to display our presentation, and in case of need, we can indicate notes to all persons at sight. Anything that we select to write, we can also highlight, draw, or change color. It also works for highlighting and annotation of PDFs, including signing those documents. ### 6. Great tool for annotating and adding notes to PDFs **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Simran S. | Instructor, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 29, 2022 **What do you like best about Drawboard PDF?** Drawboard allows us various editing options including writing notes, adding comments, annotating with multiple colors and highlighting text. Most of the essential features are available in the free version of the software. The UI is great and it also supports dark mode. The feature of adding blank pages to an existing PDF is very useful. **What do you dislike about Drawboard PDF?** The downside is that the software lags a bit when drawing and highlighting text. The highlighting tool is not very precise and sometimes marks some other text rather than the desired text. The pen tools are limited and some features are not available even in the paid version and we need to pay extra for them. **Recommendations to others considering Drawboard PDF:** A very good PDF Editor. It's easy to use and if you frequently edit PDFs then it's the best. **What problems is Drawboard PDF solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use drawboard PDF to annotate reports and add comments and highlight texts. It is useful for online teaching and we can use it as a whiteboard during online meetings and then save it as a pdf document. Useful for adding comments to notes so that we can review them later. ### 7. Adobe acrobat reader for the modern technology user **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Seth Matthew M. | Grad Student, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 16, 2021 **What do you like best about Drawboard PDF?** The GUI, the GUI, the GUI. Really, this application looks so good. Sure, there are a few features in here that are not available on Adobe Acrobat, but the GUI here is so much more pleasant. **What do you dislike about Drawboard PDF?** This is a strange complaint, but the pen icons don't really look like they are pens, and do you have to do a double take when trying to use it for the first time. I hate to say this, but the pen icons almost look like the poop emoji in different colors. **What problems is Drawboard PDF solving and how is that benefiting you?** I frankly don't really enjoy reading or taking notes as much in Adobe acrobat reader because the user interface does not look as pleasant. So the big problem that I solve with this app is that i have something easier on my eyes (love dark mode) ### 8. Best pdf editing & markups software **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mangesh M. | Design Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 08, 2022 **What do you like best about Drawboard PDF?** It can handle large pdf files quickly as compared with other software. Easy to give Markups on drawing in pdf format. Lots of pdf editing & markup features are available. **What do you dislike about Drawboard PDF?** Nothing as such to dislike. Best application. I use its free version & have lots of options. If they can add a test editing option, it would be excellent for users **Recommendations to others considering Drawboard PDF:** If you need a software which can handle large pdf file, definitely go with Drawboard pdf **What problems is Drawboard PDF solving and how is that benefiting you?** It makes it easy for me to review large engineering drawings in pdf file. Easy to mark comments on a pdf file. It makes my day-to-day work easy, thanks team Drawbord. ### 9. Drawboard - simple, easy and it works! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Hank P. | Marketing Consultant, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 08, 2021 **What do you like best about Drawboard PDF?** I like drawboard because it's very user friendly, does all the things I need and it works. Every single time I use it, it works! That's kind of a big deal with a free/or inexpensive app/program. **What do you dislike about Drawboard PDF?** There is really nothing that I dislike. There are a few pieces that you have to get used to, like lining up the text box on a line that you are filling out, but that only takes a few tries for the user to get the hang of it. **What problems is Drawboard PDF solving and how is that benefiting you?** I love drawboad for signing documents, editing PDF's (similar to track change in Word), and filling out forms on a PDF. It helps me be much more productive than printing a PDF, filling it out by hand, and then scanning the document. It's also easier to use than Adobe's fancy programs that are too expensive for a small business owner. ### 10. Great tool, except for navigating notes :/ **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Public Policy | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 10, 2022 **What do you like best about Drawboard PDF?** As an "Essential" level user, I see a lot of benefits from the variety of mark-up tools (and digital signature) features built into the software. Beyond mark-ups, features replace the basic PDF viewing and fillable form needs. Drawboard makes a near-perfect go-to software for these tools. **What do you dislike about Drawboard PDF?** The only downside experienced in the software is the lack of a view pane for reviewing a list of comments/notes in the document. As someone who has marked up extensive documents in my career and reviewed mark-ups by others, having a list of notes/comments (linked to the note's position on the page) is essential to a productive workflow. I highly recommend this feature to be developed ASAP to make this software the must-have application on my computer. For the Pro version, offering up an "accept/decline/reply" feature in the notes would make a fine addition. **What problems is Drawboard PDF solving and how is that benefiting you?** PDF altering, signing, and reviewing content. ### 11. Useful software for annotating and marking up PDFs by hand **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 20, 2021 **What do you like best about Drawboard PDF?** It's great to be able to use digital pens and touch features to edit, mark up, and take notes on PDFs by hand. It allows a lot of user control in working with pdf documents. **What do you dislike about Drawboard PDF?** It's not as precise as it could be in terms of the touch location matching the location of the highlights, notes, etc. Sometimes the highlighting is slightly off or expands to another line you don't intend to highlight, for example. **What problems is Drawboard PDF solving and how is that benefiting you?** It's great for those who want to be able to work by hand. I have found that students especially can take advantage of this software for note-taking, and it's also great for providing feedback on others' work. ### 12. Elevate reading your pdfs to the next level **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sonja H. | PhD student, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 22, 2021 **What do you like best about Drawboard PDF?** Drawboard PDF allows you to read your documents in multiple different formats, from sequential to book format. Further, the editing options include highlighting text, adding comments, adding shapes and text boxes, writing notes, and all of that with multiple colors and transparency schemes available. Drawboard pdf comes in the free, non-business version, and the subscription business version comes with additional features such as merging documents, customizable color and style guides, templates, and many more features. **What do you dislike about Drawboard PDF?** The free version comes with all the basics a student or employee may require who doesn't need to create or edit pdfs regularly. However, not being able to use customizable style guides and templates unless paying for the business subscription is a downside. The application is overall straightforward to use. However, it may require a little time to get used to and work out the necessary workings. On occasions, the highlighting or marking tool is not as accurate and won't allow one to precisely highlight or mark the desired text. **What problems is Drawboard PDF solving and how is that benefiting you?** Reading research papers has gotten much more manageable with Drawboard PDF. It allows me to highlight different aspects of a research paper in different colors, insert comments and mark sections for easy reference. This application allows me to have multiple PDFs open at the same time and easily switch between them. ### 13. Drawboard PDF: The best PDF editor I've ever used **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 22, 2021 **What do you like best about Drawboard PDF?** I love that it automatically saves your work as you go. I love all the features and different pens/brushes you can use, and I love that it has excellent palm rejection, meaning that you can write normally on a tablet. **What do you dislike about Drawboard PDF?** I don't like that some features are hidden behind a paid subscription even though it is already a paid app. (Who wants to pay for graph paper?!?) **Recommendations to others considering Drawboard PDF:** Drawboard is a really solid PDF editor. The functionality works ridiculously well with lenovo tablets, and the features are frequently updated. It also automatically saves your work as you go, which has saved me several times. **What problems is Drawboard PDF solving and how is that benefiting you?** I did almost all of my assignments and professional internships during college using drawboard PDF. ### 14. Useful App for my Surface Pro **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jay-Philip G. | Practitioner, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 16, 2021 **What do you like best about Drawboard PDF?** Powerful yet userfriendly PDF annotation app. Also it is free. **What do you dislike about Drawboard PDF?** I cannot think of any, as I am satisfied so far. **Recommendations to others considering Drawboard PDF:** if you are a Surface device user, this is the best PDF app to have. **What problems is Drawboard PDF solving and how is that benefiting you?** Nothing. ### 15. Teacher's easy way to class **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Arts and Crafts | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 30, 2021 **What do you like best about Drawboard PDF?** Its very user friendly. Anyone with basic knowledge can start using it! There are no complicated settings to go about and start writing on it. Interface is simple. Has shortcut widgets to access tools easily **What do you dislike about Drawboard PDF?** I dislike that pen has a smudge feel after every stroke I write. Does not have many options for pen tools **Recommendations to others considering Drawboard PDF:** Just go for it if you want a simple interface and platform if you looking to teach something or annotate in a meeting! **What problems is Drawboard PDF solving and how is that benefiting you?** Drawboard benefits for online teaching. Its easy to write on it with a drawing board and easier to save as a pdf document and send it to students directly ### 16. Works but lags and has moderate bugs. **Rating:** 0.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 18, 2021 **What do you like best about Drawboard PDF?** The free version has decent features. It works well with a surface pro 7 10th gen intel. **What do you dislike about Drawboard PDF?** Things it does: Causes graphics card crash which makes the app unusable for 5 seconds, very often. Lag Uses significant ram resources Opening multiple documents slows it down Can't run 2 instances Non intuitive controls Not fully compatible with windows pen Has bad palm detection on a tablet Has lots of settings that can't be changed Pasting does not go to the center of a zoomed in document **Recommendations to others considering Drawboard PDF:** Test it to see how well it runs on your machine. **What problems is Drawboard PDF solving and how is that benefiting you?** Works ok as a notepad for solving engineering problems. When it works, its great. When not, it is bad. ### 17. Versatile PDF reader/editor **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Collin F. | SAT/LSAT Prep Instructor, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 29, 2020 **What do you like best about Drawboard PDF?** - Great touch controls - Great pen support - Easy document manipulation **What do you dislike about Drawboard PDF?** - Slow loading times - Unstable at times when opening many documents at once **What problems is Drawboard PDF solving and how is that benefiting you?** - Great at manipulating PDF's (deleting pages, adding pages) - Easy to add images, signatures, pen marks, highlights - Great for academic setting where many assignments are given via PDF - Great for annotating reading ### 18. Nice tool for adding notes to pdfs **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Lara G. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 26, 2020 **What do you like best about Drawboard PDF?** Together with my touchscreen enabled laptop it is really easy to add notes. The change between pen type and color is really fast with the integrated tool, which you can also minimize to have more space. If you need more space you can also add new PDF pages. Adding images or geometric figures is also easy with the toolbox. **What do you dislike about Drawboard PDF?** A few tools are to be paid extra. I'm a big fan of software that you pay once and then you can use all the features and not have to unlock in-App tools again. Nevertheless it is my favorite tool for writing notes on pdfs. **Recommendations to others considering Drawboard PDF:** In my opinion one of the best tools for taking notes on pdf files. You can also do without the additional payment functions, you can also use the basic version quite well **What problems is Drawboard PDF solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use drawboards to annotate reports and other documents. I also use this app to review presentations to see if everything fits, and note any errors. At meetings I also use drawboard as a replacement for the classic whiteboard. ### 19. Great pdf reader and annotator **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 03, 2021 **What do you like best about Drawboard PDF?** 1. Dark mode 2. Great UI 3. Best PDF reader **What do you dislike about Drawboard PDF?** Needs custom margins to make it easier to annotate and let users write long sentences **What problems is Drawboard PDF solving and how is that benefiting you?** Made my pdf reading experience great ### 20. Great for making your notes on PDF or even presenting **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Anita O. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 27, 2020 **What do you like best about Drawboard PDF?** Drawboard PDF is a great software that I regularly use on my surface to make notes on PDFs. The system they use in order to change color/thickness or even make some sketches with preset forms is great. You can preset some pen styles you regularly use and then switch fast between them. Drawboard PDF also recognizes if you touch the screen with your stylus or with your hand. So there is no possibility to accidentally write something with your finger. Also adding blank pages to an existing PDF is really easy so you can increase your space. I use it also during online meetings or webinars, if I have to make some written examples since it works really good. On one hand you can show your presentation through the pdf slides and in case add some notes for everyone to see. **What do you dislike about Drawboard PDF?** I would like to have one edition that you can pay fully and do not have to make in App purchases for further support or additional features. **What problems is Drawboard PDF solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use Drawboard PDF to make note on PDFs and also during online meetings or presentation if I have to make a written example for the audience. ### 21. a digital alternative to forget about pencil and paper, a novel tool. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mariano P. | Senior Engineering Project Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 12, 2019 **What do you like best about Drawboard PDF?** a great tool developed by microsoft that simplifies us and gives us the possibility to work on PDF files, modify them and highlight them or mark documents. It allows us to measure, draw or manage office or CAD tools. **What do you dislike about Drawboard PDF?** a great novelty and news of a new program. It has options between them you can insert text, images, brand, make notes, all digitally as if you were writing with a pencil and paper really a very new tool. **Recommendations to others considering Drawboard PDF:** It is a software that I usually use in meetings with managers or workers of the company since in it I can allow myself to write down some prominent text within the documents, I use many ideas diagrams highlighting important information. also allowing us to keep our notes for future modifications within the document. It is a software that I usually use in meetings with managers or workers of the company since in it I can allow myself to write down some prominent text within the documents, I use many ideas diagrams highlighting important information. also allowing us to keep our notes for future modifications within the document. It is a software developed to be executed and worked in operating system like windows **What problems is Drawboard PDF solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is an innovative and good pay program. This offers us a great tool with which we can carry out activities within the company and use this software for our notes and improve documents generated within the company for better control within the company. compactible for windows operating system with a variety of current operating system. ### 22. Life changing program **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** CLAUDIO N. | export manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 23, 2019 **What do you like best about Drawboard PDF?** Everything, it came pre installed on a surface I took and I could never go back, taking notes directly on PDFs with the usrface pen is awesome. You can highlight, write, draw shapes and figures, change colour with anything you want and it's super easy to use. Sometimes when my laptop powers I worry that I'm going to loose all my work, but not a single time with drawboard **What do you dislike about Drawboard PDF?** just small things, like when you close the first pdf in the column and than open anotherone just right after sometimes the program closes, and also sometimes the program stops working when the connection goes down when it is opening **What problems is Drawboard PDF solving and how is that benefiting you?** The ability to write and note on PDFs like never before, with the kwyboard, with the pen, also with my finger if I like and it's super usable ### 23. Must have software if you use digital pen **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Government Administration | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 27, 2019 **What do you like best about Drawboard PDF?** This is a great software if you use a device with pen. **What do you dislike about Drawboard PDF?** I like everything about the product there is nothing I would like to be changed **Recommendations to others considering Drawboard PDF:** The software is a great one if you use a pen, otherwise, for a regular PC it may not be that useful for you **What problems is Drawboard PDF solving and how is that benefiting you?** The software is great for signing PDFs, as well as highlighting and adding notes to a pdf ### 24. Best tool for adding notes to PDFs with surface book. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Thompson G. | Internal consultant, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 09, 2019 **What do you like best about Drawboard PDF?** Nice program surface, works brilliatly with surface pen. Best program tested so far, for adding notes on pdfs. **What do you dislike about Drawboard PDF?** More options are available only if some sort of premium account is beeing paid. **Recommendations to others considering Drawboard PDF:** Best tool so far for pdf eiditing. **What problems is Drawboard PDF solving and how is that benefiting you?** Adding notes to PDFs f.e. during lectures. No needs to print out slides, hand notes are almost the same when written on the computer. ### 25. Best application for any professional **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Surya k. | Informatica and Teradata Developer , Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 25, 2019 **What do you like best about Drawboard PDF?** Dashboard has everything from highlighting and underlining to measuring contents on page and using a protractor. We can which switch between inserting , adding content, and multiple pens, some of these categories expand to a number of other features such as insert expanding to option to add an image, signature , measurements or other content. It is possible to configure the too according to our rules. We can rearrange the pages, rotate them etc. The user interface is very simple. **What do you dislike about Drawboard PDF?** I liked the trial version but is of too short period. I think the insert tool should be improved a little and it should have a rich text editor. I like the drawboard pdf **What problems is Drawboard PDF solving and how is that benefiting you?** I used to prepare documents easily with lot of functionalities avaible and use it in signing the pages, filling out the PDF format, editing files, saving copies and directly emailing them. ### 26. WOWZA :O **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Construction | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 25, 2019 **What do you like best about Drawboard PDF?** I absolutely loved working with this software. It is very impressive and the power it carries is unbelievable. I used to use OneNote but I switched per a peer recommendation and I really like it. **What do you dislike about Drawboard PDF?** If I had to pick something, I would say that for other people it might be a bummer to know it's missing a few important features that you could probably find for free on the internet. But to be honest, most of those tools aren't really things I would use anyway, so it's a terrific software if you ask me. **Recommendations to others considering Drawboard PDF:** Give it a try- you might love it. If you are looking for speed and ease of use, this is your product. If you're looking for more complicated and specific tools, then maybe not. **What problems is Drawboard PDF solving and how is that benefiting you?** PDF markup and annotations literally feel like you're writing with pen and paper. When you're on the fly, this makes all the difference. It's a fantastic product and to this day, we haven't dealt with any issues, bugs, or kinks in the software. I'm a happy camper. ### 27. Experience using Drawboard for reading PDF papers **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 30, 2019 **What do you like best about Drawboard PDF?** Drawboard is really nice for marking up PDFs and typing comments in the margins. I like the side bar that allows for frequently used marking tools to be quickly accessible. **What do you dislike about Drawboard PDF?** My biggest complaint with Drawboard is that you can't use CTRL + F to search the document. Instead you have to go through a more tedious menu list to select the find icon. In addition, I with Drawboard had the ability to add blank pages or additional margin space (e.g., for note taking). **What problems is Drawboard PDF solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use Drawboard PDF to read academic papers. It allows me to save all of the papers I read digitally, thus saving a lot of paper. **Official Response from Nathan Field:** > Hi there, thanks very much for your feedback! You'll be glad to know that as of a couple weeks ago, you can now use CTRL + F to search your document. Let us know what you think! Also, if you would like to add additional pages to a document, you can navigate to the Pages view (in the left-hand menu), and click the '...' icon on the page you wish to insert at. Hopefully this helps! Thanks again for your feedback. ### 28. I Love Using Drawboard for Editing Papers **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Museums and Institutions | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 18, 2018 **What do you like best about Drawboard PDF?** I have a touch screen laptop with a stylus, and I can fold my laptop into a tablet. So, I can sit in the comfort of my own home, or on the go, and edit papers with my stylus on Drawboard PDF. I value being able to see my edits, so I don't like to edit them in the word processing program. If I don't have a printer close by, this is the perfect program to use to do so. **What do you dislike about Drawboard PDF?** I am not a huge fan of the circle as the hub of control. I would much prefer all my options to be available along the side of the screen. The circle just gets in the way, even when I move it around. **What problems is Drawboard PDF solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is easier to assist others who request help by digitally editing files, saving a copy of it, and emailing it directly back to the one who requested the assistance. ### 29. Drawboard is the best PDF editor **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 25, 2019 **What do you like best about Drawboard PDF?** Drawboard is pretty quick and easy to edit, create new, and save PDFs. It's no-nonsense. It works with my tablet device's pen. It saves the pages you were last looking at for multiple documents, so you automatically never lose your place. **What do you dislike about Drawboard PDF?** The application is very CPU intensive. I use the application on my surface book 2 and surface pro 4 and it uses a lot of battery life. If it used a little less resources I feel like it would be better. **Recommendations to others considering Drawboard PDF:** If you have surface pro devices in your enterprise -- absolutely get drawboard. **What problems is Drawboard PDF solving and how is that benefiting you?** I typically use drawboard PDF to jot down ideas for my business, and draw diagrams for database designs, and highlight important parts in books. I can edit existing documentation for software and add notes for myself regarding certain sections. ### 30. Great for Surface, difficult on standard laptop **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Torin L. | Technical Support Associate, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 22, 2019 **What do you like best about Drawboard PDF?** Using a surface pen with the app feels like second nature. **What do you dislike about Drawboard PDF?** When using a laptop, navigating through highlight/pen options feels unnatural **Recommendations to others considering Drawboard PDF:** Must have for digital pen users. This makes digital document modification fell so natural. The UI is clean and easy to pick up, i feel i could give this app to my gradmother. **What problems is Drawboard PDF solving and how is that benefiting you?** Drawboard makes filling out forms extremely easy. This app has save me a ton of time since I no longer need to convert docs to edit ### 31. A must-have for any student **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Corey W. | Travel Consultant, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 14, 2018 **What do you like best about Drawboard PDF?** Drawboard PDF is light-weight, but is packed with features. I love that you can easily collapse or expand the tool panel and move it around. I also like that you can add preset sizes, colors, opacities, etc. for pens/highlighers/erasers. Drawboard is incredibly powerful given its low cost. You can do many things that Adobe Acrobat DC would, but for much less. You can rearrange pages, rotate them, etc. **What do you dislike about Drawboard PDF?** The insert text tool needs improvement. A rich text editor would be nice. I dislike that you can't double-click on a text box to edit text. When you do edit, rather than it editing in the text box itself, you edit it in a pop-up dialog. **Recommendations to others considering Drawboard PDF:** Drawboard is an incredible value, with a one-time cost of $9.99. It comes with many features as-is, but you can get even more features by paying $25 per year for Drawboard PDF Pro. They have a free trial to test out the Pro version, so you have nothing to lose. The PDF Pro subscription includes any future features they will develop, so it is well worth it, considering they are constantly releasing new updates. **What problems is Drawboard PDF solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use Drawboard as a graduate student who reads hundreds of pages a week. It is vital for anyone who does a lot of mark-up on documents. I also use it for signing and filling out PDF forms. ### 32. Easy Document Markup **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Online Media | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 25, 2019 **What do you like best about Drawboard PDF?** I like how this program allows me to go paperless and helps me organize my documents on my tablet as it is very portable and shareable with other clients. **What do you dislike about Drawboard PDF?** Could use a software upgrade time to time to keep up to date with new programs we are using to create templets. **What problems is Drawboard PDF solving and how is that benefiting you?** the great benefits it has is that instead of carry around many pieces of paper this allows someone to just show up with their tablet and can easily share their documents in front of many others with just one screen and one click away. it helps our company stay organized and move meetings allow faster and more efficient. ### 33. Note heaven **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Stephanie S. | Creative and Creator , Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 03, 2018 **What do you like best about Drawboard PDF?** The ability to easily fill in forms that need handwritten information. And can view previous forms easily **What do you dislike about Drawboard PDF?** The user interface very simple- perhaps too simple. **Recommendations to others considering Drawboard PDF:** I reccomend use for people with some sort of tablet, surface product like the surface book, an apple Ipad or stylus supporting smart phone. (or amazing mouse skills!) for the handwriting feature, but if you do not need to write by hand it has an extremely flexible text imput tool great for filling out forms, adding notes to projects and the like. Easy and straightforward, I use this before any other product for filling out forms. **What problems is Drawboard PDF solving and how is that benefiting you?** Traveling a lot, and not having a printer and scanner on had it is so easy to fill out forms and sign on my surface without spending valuable time going to an office. ### 34. Decent PDF viewer/editor for the price **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Justin C. | IT Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 25, 2019 **What do you like best about Drawboard PDF?** - Drawing on the PDF directly - Alternative to Adobe Reader is always nice - Works wonderfully on tablet/convertible PCs **What do you dislike about Drawboard PDF?** - Not the fastest PDF viewer around - Some UI elements aren't always obvious for use **What problems is Drawboard PDF solving and how is that benefiting you?** Having a PDF viewer/editor preinstalled is a huge benefit for our IT team, shaving minutes off the rolling out new systems. ### 35. Great Tool I love it! **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Leisure, Travel & Tourism | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 25, 2019 **What do you like best about Drawboard PDF?** I love this tool, you can use it when you need to place notes on a PDF . I love the tools to markup and insert images. **What do you dislike about Drawboard PDF?** You only have limited access on the free version. **Recommendations to others considering Drawboard PDF:** This is one of the better products for PDF's it is very easy to use. **What problems is Drawboard PDF solving and how is that benefiting you?** I can make notes and place notes on the document . It solves the problem of only being able to use the tracking function for word documents. I love i can use this for PDFs. ### 36. Drawboard experience **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 24, 2019 **What do you like best about Drawboard PDF?** I love using this software because its a most comprehensive tool for microsoft windows 10. Initially it was complicated but then got hang of it **What do you dislike about Drawboard PDF?** Trying to understand initially how it works **What problems is Drawboard PDF solving and how is that benefiting you?** It has a menu with different tools that include pencils of different thicknesses; draft; marking tools; possibility of inserting notes, forms, images or text; that allow to be efficient when making annotations on a pdf document, also if you have installed on a tablet or a smartphone you can use the touch or a digital pencil for use. ### 37. I love Drawboard PDF, this enables me to draw and note directly onto my documents! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 24, 2019 **What do you like best about Drawboard PDF?** Drawboard PDF allows me to directly download PDFs and write or draw on them with ease. With Drawboard PDF I can illustration, correct, and annotate directly and with ease. **What do you dislike about Drawboard PDF?** I wish my writing was better! My only other complaint is the lack of spell check for my own handwriting. **Recommendations to others considering Drawboard PDF:** I love Drawboard PDF, I would highly recommend! **What problems is Drawboard PDF solving and how is that benefiting you?** It saves us so much time, I no longer have to download PDFs and then convert them into word documents just to edit! ### 38. Love it! **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Architecture & Planning | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 25, 2019 **What do you like best about Drawboard PDF?** That I can write or draw directly on my pages like a real piece of paper! **What do you dislike about Drawboard PDF?** I’ve had some issues of the software crashing from time to time or freezing up **What problems is Drawboard PDF solving and how is that benefiting you?** Solving having to print so much paper! Therefore the benefits are saving money for the buisness!! ### 39. PDF viewer that has better features **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 25, 2019 **What do you like best about Drawboard PDF?** How documents can be merged, reordered, and the amount of great overlays available. **What do you dislike about Drawboard PDF?** Drawboard is overpriced for the amount of stuff that can be done to a pdf file. **What problems is Drawboard PDF solving and how is that benefiting you?** Jazzing up the pdf to make it something that is cool. ### 40. An amazing PDF software for all uses. Although multiple payment barriers **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Utilities | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 28, 2018 **What do you like best about Drawboard PDF?** Best PDF reader I have found for portable devices. Very user friendly and intuitive to reading and marking PDF. **What do you dislike about Drawboard PDF?** Is not the best software for PDF merging forming and splitting unless you pay for the monthly subscription to the service. **What problems is Drawboard PDF solving and how is that benefiting you?** It has helped me increase productivity immensely both in work and for my school studies. 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