iOS 754: Document Editors - Apps for editing PDF files on iOS!
iOS Today (Audio)
Leo Laporte
4.1 • 616 Ratings
🗓️ 29 May 2025
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Document editors take center stage as Mikah and Rosemary show viewers the best apps for editing PDFs and plain text files on iOS devices. The hosts emphasize practical solutions for common document editing needs while showcasing both free built-in tools and premium third-party options for power users.
- Built-in PDF tool in Notes - Demonstrates how to attach PDFs to Notes documents, use Quick Look for basic annotation, highlighting, and form filling, plus collaborative editing features
- PDF Expert - Rosemary showcases advanced PDF editing capabilities including text editing, image replacement, adding clickable links to table of contents, redaction tools, and custom stamps
- Documents - Mikah highlights the comprehensive file management app with PDF tools, conversion options, page management, form filling, and multi-cloud storage integration
- Textastic - Rosemary gets technical with this specialized plain text editor supporting syntax highlighting for HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python, and other programming languages, plus SSH terminal access and live preview features
News
- WWDC 2025 announcement - Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference runs June 9-13, with keynote streaming available and exclusive Club TWiT live coverage planned for members
Shortcuts Corner
- Follow-up from episode 751 - Dave from Ohio shares success creating an Apple TV remote shortcut button for his iPhone home screen using Rosemary's previous tutorial
App Caps
- Wipr 2 - Simple, effective Safari content blocker that blocks ads and trackers without overwhelming features, created by solo developer Kaylee Calderolla
- Tatami - Addictive number puzzle game where players connect numbered blocks in lines and rectangles, free to play with $4.99 unlock option, also by developer Kaylee Calderolla
Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Rosemary Orchard
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on iOS today, Rosemary Orchard and I, Micah Sargent, talk about some of our favorite document editors on iOS. |
| 0:08.8 | Stay tuned. |
| 0:12.0 | Podcasts you love. |
| 0:13.8 | From people you trust. |
| 0:16.3 | This is Twit. |
| 0:20.6 | This is iOS Today, episode 754 with Rosemary Orchard and me, Micah Sargent, recorded Tuesday, May 20th, 2025 for Thursday, May 29th, 2025. |
| 0:35.1 | Document editors. |
| 0:37.6 | Hello and welcome to iOS today, the show where we talk all things iOS, iPad, OS, watchOS, |
| 0:42.2 | HomePod OS, and all the OSs that Apple has on offer. |
| 0:45.3 | We love to talk about them here on the show because our goal is to help you make the most |
| 0:49.6 | of your various Apple devices. |
| 0:53.1 | Today, we will be looking at document editors and I am excited to be here. |
| 0:59.4 | My name is Micah Sargent. And my name is Rosemary Richard and I'm going to be a really nerdy one |
| 1:07.3 | when it comes to the document editors and talk about the plain text ones because that's |
| 1:11.3 | me, but that's okay because we are a team. So we're going to balance this out with all the cool |
| 1:16.7 | stuff. Yes. So when we're looking at document editors, we wanted to kind of take a look at, you know, |
| 1:23.3 | your plain text editors, your formatted text editors, PDF work and everything in between. |
| 1:30.4 | And there are many ways to go about doing this, but we kind of like to start with the built |
| 1:36.1 | in tools, right, and go from there. So let's say that we have a notes document and we want to work with a PDF. So here, I have a notes document. I have |
| 1:52.6 | hit the little paperclip icon and I chose attached file and then I attached a little PDF. |
| 1:59.1 | Now here I'm seeing the PDF file. If I hit the down arrow |
| 2:04.7 | in the top right corner of this PDF file, I can quick look the PDF, which means just getting |
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