PDFescape Reviews in April 2025: User Ratings, Pros & Cons

Its good to see that PDF escape have…

Its good to see that PDF escape have not heeded the outpouring of criticism from its users. A great application rendered totally unusable by the recent self sabotage upgrade. PDF escape should try downgrading their upgrade then i would gladly give 5 star review - as it stands 1 star is high praise indeed. Please change it back and I will subscribe

Please roll back this atrocious change

Please roll back this atrocious change. Performance is so poor. The UI is very unintuitive. I used to be able to rely on this tool and now it is really bad and will need to find an alternative. I never leave reviews, and went out of my way to leave one as I am so disappointed.

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Date of experience: January 29, 2023

Pdfescape is dead.

I have been using this for years. It was excellent, fast, and free. However, they updated it recently, and it killed it. It is complete trash now. Broken, slow, and just straight up non-functional. Pdfescape is dead, hopefully they will revert to the old version.

New version is soooo bad!

New version is soooo bad! I can not state how bad the new updated version of pdfescape is. Every time you make the slightest change to the document it loads for 5 seconds. It never does what you want it to do either. Please return to original version, it worked perfectly.

ABSOLUTLEY RUBBISH

ABSOLUTLEY RUBBISH - the new update is horrible ! Convert it back to how it was please. I used this program for years - can't stand it now. Takes ages to load when adding and removing annotations + loads of other small irritating bugs. This update is a DISASTER I'll be looking for another option for Work Files - Bye Bye PDF Escape ...................

I used to love this editor but now its useless. Please sort it!!

I used to love this editor, It was perfect and then they had to completely ruin it and now I can't use it. I have now gone over to a much better system called PDF editor but have to pay for it. Why they had to change it, I just don't know. If it ain't broke, don't fix it !!!!!!

Another good thing is gone

Been using this website for YEARS with no issues and the first time I tell a friend about my "secret", we go and see it has turned into complete trash! It loads everytime you do ANYTHING and then when you want to "undo", it loads to undo it, then freezes and you lose all of your work. This happened every single time I used it since the upgrade. Horrible product. Already found something else. Praying it works.

Revert back to the older version

Either revert back to the older version or PDFescape is dead. Apart from everything already said in the other comments, the link function is broken (now it adds a visible outline to the link area, wich makes it unusable). For the time being i'll keep using iLovePDF + Sejda editor to add links.

The new pdf escape is SO BAD

The new pdf escape is SO BAD. What a disappointment. Why mess up a good thing??? Now its super slow and frustrating. Not user friendly at all. WHAT HAPPENED??? How are you guys considering this improved??? To the creators...you try using it compared with the old version and tell me how in the heck you feel it is better because this is AWFUL.