Foxit PDF Editor Reviews and Ratings

Rating: 8.6 out of 10

Score

8.6 out of 10

Community insights

TrustRadius Insights for Foxit PDF Editor are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.

Pros

Efficient and User-Friendly: Users have consistently praised Foxit Phantom for its efficiency and user-friendly nature. Many reviewers have mentioned that the software's intuitive user interface makes it easy to navigate and utilize its features, simplifying the adoption process for organizations. Additionally, users appreciate the ability to work on multiple documents by splitting them into separate tabs, which improves workflow and enhances productivity.

Collaboration Capabilities: Several users have commended Foxit Phantom for its collaboration capabilities. They mention that the software ensures document security, which is crucial for news organizations. Reviewers have also compared Foxit Phantom favorably to Adobe Acrobat, stating that it offers superior editing tools and robust modification options for text, images, and objects. The integration of Foxit Phantom with Microsoft Office products like Word, PowerPoint, and Excel has been highlighted as well, allowing users to work in a nearly paperless environment.

Excellent Form Creation and PDF Viewing: Many users have found Foxit Phantom excellent for creating fillable forms, viewing PDFs, filling out forms, and using digital wet signatures. They appreciate the software's user-friendly design which makes it easy to navigate and utilize these features effectively. Furthermore, the compatibility of Foxit Phantom with various cloud storage services such as Google Drive and Dropbox has been highly praised as it enhances collaboration efforts while improving document accessibility.

Reviews

35 Reviews

Foxit PDF Editor- highly satisfied

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

April 29, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Foxit PDF Editor extensively across our organization due to its intuitive and user-friendly interface. It’s easy to navigate, even for users who aren’t particularly tech-savvy, which helps reduce training time and streamline our workflows. One of the primary business problems it addresses is the efficient preparation and organization of documents for hearings. The ability to quickly combine multiple PDFs into a single file is critical when assembling hearing exhibits.

The bookmarking feature and the ability to instantly generate a table of contents have been absolute game changers. They significantly improve the navigability of large document sets, making it easier for our team, judges and other parties to locate specific sections quickly.

Pros

Easily combines multiple pleadings, exhibits, and supporting documents into a single, organized PDF—ideal for preparing court filings or hearing binders.
The ability to insert bookmarks and generate an instant table of contents makes navigating large case files straightforward for attorneys, judges, and opposing counsel.

Cons

The OCR will sometimes not fully capture all of the document properly, especially with older legal documents.
Searching through large documents can be a bit glitchy and lag or miss information.
We haven’t been able to real time collaborate with other team members on the documents in Foxit. That would be a nice addition.

Likelihood to Recommend

Great for marking up depositions or pleadings with highlights, comments, and notes during case review.

Supports Bates stamping, password protection, and other features often required for electronic filing.

Built-in tools allow for quick and secure redaction of privileged or confidential information before sharing or filing. Less appropriate if you needed to work on real time collaboration or building complex form templates from scratch.

Verified User

Employee in Legal (11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

Foxit PDF Editor Meets and Exceeds Our Business Needs

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

April 29, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We utilize Foxit PDF Editor daily in our organization. It allows us to easily edit and modify PDF documents in real-time, without the hassle of compatibility or needing to login. It even allows us to edit PDFs that are attached to emails without physically saving the documents to a local drive. In terms of Accounting and Sales Order Confirmations, Foxit PDF Editor truly meets all of our needs.

Pros

Easy to use interface
Allows edited documents to be attached without saving physical copies
No login required - integrated seamlessly

Cons

Every now and then, the program will crash, but it is not often
Training modules for additional features would be nice - they may even already exist and we are just unaware!
When using the fill & sign feature, it would be nice if the program would recognize the text lines to write on, instead of having to add free-floating text boxes.

Likelihood to Recommend

Foxit PDF Editor allows us to customize our accounting statements, invoices & sales order acknowledgements, along with all other sorts of PDF documents, while not having to save file locally to our computer. The intuitive features and breadth of options are also appreciated. I do not see any scenario that would be an inappropriate use of this software.

Tim Edwards

General Office Accounting Administrator in Finance and Accounting at Magnetic Shield Corporation (11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

4 years of experience

Foxit PDF makes the day to day functions so much easier and efficient!

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

January 10, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Foxit PDF daily. It allows us to review documents we need, bookmark and annotate on them. This makes our job so much easier and more efficient.

Pros

Reviewing records
Bookmarking
Annotating

Cons

Capability to handle larger documents
Sometimes it runs a bit laggy
Better organizational features such as moving pages around can be time consuming and clunky

Likelihood to Recommend

Merging files together and converting them from emails, word documents or other file types into a PDF is much easier with Foxit.

Verified User

Manager in Professional Services (11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

6 years of experience

Best alternative to Adobe

Rating: 6 out of 10

Incentivized

December 30, 2024

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Foxit volume licensing to distribute Foxit PDF Editor PDF Editor and E-Sign licenses within our organization. We generally use it for basic tasks, like editing or creating PDF documents.

Pros

OCR
Recognizing text blocks that can be edited
Simple interface

Cons

Sign and complete vs E-Signature is unclear
Licensing limited to 1 device per user
Sometime the menu can be too much for users

Likelihood to Recommend

Most users are used to and are more familiar with Adobe PDF products and depending on your end users this may be a hurdle. Foxit PDF Editor looks and works a little bit different and if users aren't able to adapt this can become a burden on the support staff.

Verified User

Manager in Information Technology (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

Decent PDF editing tool.

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

December 20, 2024

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using the Foxit PDF editor in our organization to edit PDF documents. It enabled us to convert documents to PDF and vice versa. With Foxit PDF editor, we can merge PDFs, split PDFs, change page sequences, compress PDFs, etc. We also able to create fillable PDF forms, Sign PDF documents easily.

Pros

You can edit pdf document easily.
You can convert documents to pdf and vice versa.
you can merge, split pdf.
You can sign documents.
you can create fillable pdf form.
You can convert scanned documents to editable and searchable text format.

Cons

Pricing is quite higher.
OCR takes longer time sometimes.
Rest everything is fine.

Likelihood to Recommend

It is well suited for all types of organizations. Whether you are a professional or a small, medium, or large organization, it is the best PDF editing tool for you. With Foxit PDF editor, you can edit, convert, and format PDF documents easily. It provides you with other features like split or merge PDF, Esign document, OCR, etc., which saves you time and boosts productivity.

Siddhesh Salkar

Project Manager in Information Technology at Origin Logistics Private Limited (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

Best PDF Software for going Paperless

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

December 18, 2024

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Foxit PDF Editor (FoxitPhantom) for filling out PDF forms, editing forms, and requesting eSignatures for forms. The program gives us the ability to quickly open any PDF form and prepare it for our business purposes with relative ease. The program also gives us the ability to get signatures quickly and efficiently instead of having to request for customers to print, sign, and scan and email back to us.

Pros

Fillable PDF Forms
Editable PDF Forms
eSignature PDF Forms

Cons

Login process on Desktop App can be improved
eSignature process for adding new signers can be improved
Multiple Typewriter tools can be all placed next to each other or somehow combined.

Likelihood to Recommend

It's a great solution for replacing the more expensive and cumbersome Adobe Acrobat PDF Editor. It is a great solution for editing PDFs and for filling in PDF forms. It also has the ability to create your own fillable PDFs. And the best time saving part is the eSignature capability.

Steven Sheasby

President in Corporate at Integrity Mortgage Licensing (11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

Verified on LinkedIn

My favorite PDF Editor of ALL Time

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

December 17, 2024

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I have Foxit PDF Editor Standard Edition Version: 10.1.12.37872. I like the permanence of it. I use most of the features frequently but I use the features on the Fill & Sign tab, the Insert, Delete, Extract, and particularly the Flatten features of the Organize tab, and many of the features on the Form tab all the time and love how intuitive they all are. In my business, I found that I always needed to modify a PDF one way or another and Foxit PDF Editor was extremely easy for me to use and doesn't cost me anything on a recurring basis.

Pros

Flattens a document so text, pictures, signatures become part of the document
Allows me to fill and sign PDFs easily and quickly
It allows me multiple ways to insert, extract, and delete pages easily

Cons

It would be nice if the text formatting option came up immediately when I click on the Typewriter button

Likelihood to Recommend

It allows me to easily create fillable forms from a document and then gives me a plethora of tools to edit the form to be exactly as I need/want it. In my opinion, it is by far the easiest tool I have used to do this. The only negative I have is that sometimes the number of features and tools can be a little daunting since there are so many.

Douglas S Bush

Owner, ITMSP/MSSP, and Lead Consultant in Information Technology at Hearthside Business Systems (1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

4 years of experience

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FoxIT : All you can say to it is. . . . Hey FoxIT. .. DoIT

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

April 7, 2023

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Apart from the traditional software we deploy in News Room, News channels and broadcasting companies like us often rely on PDF documents for our scripts. With Foxit

PDF Editor, news scripts can be easily edited and customized as per the

requirements. Sub-Editors allows Editors to add annotations and comments to PDF documents.

This feature can be helpful in providing feedback, making notes, or

highlighting important sections of a news script.

Pros

Collaborating on News Reports
Enhancing Graphics and Visuals in the annual / monthly reports prepared.
Ensuring Document Security which is the matter of concern for any News Organization.

Cons

Foxit is lagging with the OCR technology.

Likelihood to Recommend

In a Newsroom, sensitive information may be shared via PDF documents,

such as interviews with confidential sources. Foxit PDF Editor's

security features, such as password protection can be

useful in ensuring the confidentiality of such documents. Foxit PDF Editor is a versatile tool that can be useful in a variety of

scenarios in a newsroom, from editing news scripts to collaborating on

news reports to creating graphics and visuals. Its advanced features and

ease of use make it a popular choice among newsroom professionals.

Verified User

Employee in Professional Services (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

Foxit PDF Editor is the most user friendly PDF software

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

March 7, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Foxit PDF editor to edit and create PDFs. It's much easier than Adobe or other PDF software I've used. It's also much easier to comment and edit PDFs, get signatures, etc. It can be collaborative if necessary which is helpful when sharing a project amongst team members. We also can use it for secure documents with protection for important work agreements and contracts.

Pros

Comments and editing PDF documents.
Clean PDF creation.
Easy design and style changes.

Cons

There are so many features and it would be helpful to have more basic functions intuitively.
Some of the categories of editing seem to overlap.
Signature workflow could be streamlined.

Likelihood to Recommend

It is extremely well-suited for viewing documents, and for editing/commenting on PDFs. It's also ideal for form filling and signing. It's less well-suited for more complex design situations. Really great for merging PDFs and viewing multiple documents at once.

Verified User

Employee (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

Great alternative to the bigger offerings in PDF editing software

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

November 24, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Foxit for all of the scanned and secured documents for our loan applications, with supporting documents. In our attempt to go "paperless" we use thousands of scanned copies that have to be securely sent to closings, banks, and other financial institutions, and it does a very good job of doing so.

Pros

Reproducing legibly scanned files & images in a workable size.
Fast compression when converting to smaller sizes.
Easy use of different types of digital signatures.

Cons

Their support is a little hard to follow online.
Like all pdf editors, steep learning curve for various tools and functions.
Compression vs. readability takes some time to tweak.

Likelihood to Recommend

I think Foxit is a great alternative to Adobe's offering, at a cheaper price when needing a fully functioning editor. I have not seen anything lacking in comparison to the two. Again, their online support could use some work, especially over different versions, but that is not too much of an issue.

Chris Johnson

IT Administrator in Information Technology at Direct Lenders, LLC (11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

7 years of experience

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Foxit PDF Editor- highly satisfied

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

April 29, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Pros

Easily combines multiple pleadings, exhibits, and supporting documents into a single, organized PDF—ideal for preparing court filings or hearing binders.
The ability to insert bookmarks and generate an instant table of contents makes navigating large case files straightforward for attorneys, judges, and opposing counsel.

Cons

The OCR will sometimes not fully capture all of the document properly, especially with older legal documents.
Searching through large documents can be a bit glitchy and lag or miss information.
We haven’t been able to real time collaborate with other team members on the documents in Foxit. That would be a nice addition.

Likelihood to Recommend

Great for marking up depositions or pleadings with highlights, comments, and notes during case review.

Supports Bates stamping, password protection, and other features often required for electronic filing.

Verified User

Employee in Legal (11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience