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A PDF reader and editor that works entirely on your own device.

IronView

Your PDFs never leave your device.

IronView reads, fills, marks up, signs with a picture of your signature, and scans PDFs with no account, no server and no telemetry. Documents stay on the device because there is nowhere for them to go.

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Platforms
Linux and Android today; Windows and macOS planned
Account
None. No sign-in, no server, no telemetry
Your documents
Stay on the device
Scanned pages (OCR)
Latin text built in; seven more languages as packs downloaded on demand
What it does

  • Read, search and select

    Search, bookmarks, page thumbnails, night and sepia modes, and text selection and copy.

  • Fill in forms, or make one

    Text boxes, checkboxes, radio groups and dropdowns, including forms that validate and calculate. Export the answers as XFDF or CSV, or import them back, and flatten the form when it is finished. Draw a box on a page that never had a form and turn it into a field.

  • Reshape the document

    Split, merge, extract, reorder, rotate, delete and insert pages.

  • Mark up and sign

    Notes, highlights and strikeout that follow the words across line breaks, freehand ink, shapes, and signatures.

  • Scan to searchable text

    Text recognition runs on the device. Latin text is built in; other languages are optional packs, downloaded only when you ask for one.

  • Make a form from a plain page

    Draw text boxes, checkboxes, dropdowns and lists onto a page that never had them.

  • Fill the same details in once

    Save your name, address and email once and fill those fields with a tap.

  • Redact properly

    Redaction removes the content from the file, and the file can no longer be saved by appending. A cover-over option is there too, and the app says which one you are doing.

  • Protect with a password

    AES-256 password encryption, and open protected files.

  • Edit the page itself

    Type onto a page, cover things over, and place pictures and boxes. It does not rewrite or reflow existing paragraphs of text.

  • Scan a page

    Photograph a page and it finds the sheet, straightens it and evens out the lighting. Make it searchable with on-device text recognition.

  • One undo for everything

    A single undo and redo timeline covers every kind of change.

  • Open damaged files

    Reads PDFs with a broken cross-reference table.

  • Reading modes

    Paper, night, sepia and grey.

  • Private by design

    No account, no server, no telemetry and no adverts. The only network use is downloading a language pack when you ask for one.

In useThe pre-release Linux desktop app, shown with a demo document
IronView open on a six-page report. Page thumbnails run down the left side with page two selected, and the page itself is shown large beside them, with a toolbar of markup tools above it.
Read a PDF with page thumbnails down the side; click one to jump to that page. Demo document.
IronView's Fill in view for a form with five fields, a text box holding a name, a ticked box, a choice of Red or Blue and a choice of three countries, with buttons for Use my details, Load answers, Save answers and Flatten.
Fill in a form on a clean list of its fields, with your saved details a click away. Demo form.
A page in IronView with one sentence highlighted in yellow, another struck through, a freehand blue circle around a number and a note icon in the margin.
Mark up with highlight, strike-through, freehand drawing and notes, all undoable. Demo document.
IronView asking Remove this for good? over a dimmed page. It says the content is taken out of the file and cannot be undone, shows the text that will go, and offers Leave it or Remove for good.
Redaction asks first and shows exactly what will be removed from the file for good. Demo document.
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