Quira PDF
Scan, sign, fill & edit PDFs
Free · In‑App Purchases
Quira is a calm, all-in-one PDF app for iPhone, iPad and Mac. Read, scan, sign, fill and edit — without the clutter.
SCAN
Point your camera at a document and Quira finds the edges, straightens the page, and reads the text so you can search inside your scans.
SIGN
Draw your signature once, then place and resize it on any page. No printing, no scanning back.
FILL & BUILD FORMS
Fill a form someone sent you, or build your own with text fields, checkboxes, dropdowns and signature lines. What you enter saves into the file.
MARK UP
Pen, highlighter, underline and shapes, right on the page.
THE TOOLKIT
Combine, split, compress, watermark, redact, number pages, lock or unlock, crop, convert to grayscale, and pull out pages or text.
ACROSS YOUR DEVICES
Scan on your phone and it's already on your iPad and Mac, through your own iCloud. Your files stay yours.
FREE TO START
Read, mark up and scan for free. Quira Black adds the full toolkit, OCR, signatures, forms and cross-device sync — free for your first 14 days, then a one-time purchase or a small monthly plan.
Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
more Quira now looks and works the same on iPhone, iPad and Mac:
• Buttons, menus, switches, sheets and icons match everywhere.
• Sheets and panels close more smoothly.
• Clearer wording throughout.
• Settings has new defaults for viewing, markup and signing, and saving and export.
• Form Builder and markup fixes.
Plus many small fixes on iPhone, iPad and Mac.
1.0.28 18h ago
Smarter forms and tidier tools:
• Auto-detect names each set of options after its question, even when the question sits on the same line.
• Long options that wrap onto two lines stay in one group, and labels are no longer cut short.
• Fields you delete in Form Builder are removed completely, so other apps always see the right answers.
• Export, Print, Watermark, Page numbers, Compress, Lock and Import are laid out more clearly, with live previews for watermarks and page numbers.
• Mac: a clearer sidebar selection.
Plus smaller fixes on iPhone, iPad and Mac.
1.0.27 4d ago
Better forms and smaller files:
• Tick boxes and option buttons now save correctly, so other apps see your answers.
• Mac: Tab and Shift-Tab move between form fields, and Return moves to the next one.
• Big forms stay smooth while you type.
• Locked form fields stay locked, and a field that appears on two pages shows on both.
• Files no longer grow each time you save, and Flatten keeps files small.
• Password protection works reliably on every iOS version.
Plus smaller fixes on iPhone, iPad and Mac.
1.0.26 Oct 10
A polish pass across the whole app:
• Easier to read: clearer text contrast in dark and medium themes, and a richer brass.
• Easier to tap: small buttons on iPhone and iPad respond to a bigger touch area.
• Find in a document highlights matches in brass, and reading mode is fully immersive on iPhone.
• Tidier forms, crop, scanner and tool screens — clearer button names and states throughout.
• The “Added to your library” note no longer covers the screen title.
• Mac: Files list has Name, Modified and Size columns — click to sort.
• Required form fields are marked on the page while you fill them in.
Plus many smaller refinements on iPhone, iPad and Mac.
1.0.25 Oct 8
Faster with big documents:
• Long forms with hundreds of fields scroll and fill smoothly, even with many PDFs open.
• Large scanned books use far less memory — opening, page thumbnails, export and OCR stay quick.
• Export no longer pauses on very large files.
• Mac: printing no longer freezes the app, and tells you if a print can't start.
Plus smaller refinements.
1.0.24 Oct 5
Smoother and simpler everywhere:
• Tools tidied up — Split and Extract are now one Pages tool, Lock and Unlock one Password tool.
• Markup, Insert and form panels float over the page — no more jumps or flashes when you switch.
• Fixed: turning on reading mode could freeze the app.
• Mac: Quira always keeps a single window, and every button and link shows the pointing hand.
• Mac: Esc closes any sheet, and search opens ready to type.
• iPad: layouts fit smaller iPads and Split View, and keyboard shortcuts (New, Open) work.
Plus many smaller refinements.
1.0.23 Oct 4
A cleaner, more polished Quira:
• All-new icons throughout — one crisp, consistent set on iPhone, iPad and Mac.
• Scans come out clean and white, even when the camera picks up a colour tint.
• Page numbers now glide smoothly with their pages as you scroll.
• On Mac, closing the window keeps Quira ready in the Dock — click the Dock icon or choose Window ▸ Quira PDF to bring it back.
• On Mac, Fit page now shows the whole page.
Plus many smaller refinements.
1.0.22 Oct 2
A fresh, calmer Quira:
• A new Home — pick up where you left off, your recent pages, your tools and folders at a glance.
• Tools and Settings redesigned to be cleaner and quicker to use.
• Forms are more reliable: radio buttons, checkboxes, dropdowns, dates, signatures and photos all stay put when you save, reopen and export.
• Nothing gets lost: text you're typing and markup you've just drawn are saved even if the app closes unexpectedly.
• Search in long PDFs no longer pauses the app.
Plus many smaller refinements across iPhone, iPad and Mac.
1.0.21 Oct 1
A careful pass over every tool in Quira:
• Split, Extract pages, Combine and Flatten keep your links and table of contents.
• Sanitize now also removes camera and location details from photos inside the PDF, and hidden comments.
• Grayscale makes much smaller files and keeps your table of contents.
• PDF to images saves straight to a folder on Mac, at the image's real resolution.
• Images to PDF handles big batches of photos smoothly, in the order you pick them.
• Compare lines up pages properly and tells you when pages are scanned images.
• Lock, Unlock, Watermark, Page numbers and Redact are more reliable, and PDFs protected by their author are handled honestly.
• Any unsaved changes are always included when you run a tool.
Plus many smaller fixes.
1.0.20 Sep 29
Everything lines up better: a full layout pass across iPhone and iPad — cleaner sheets that fit their content, consistent buttons, fields and spacing, and sharper custom icons. Form fields and checkboxes now stay glued to the page while you zoom, and Quira Black is now available as a monthly or lifetime purchase.
1.0.19 Sep 28
Filling in forms is smoother: checkboxes and fields now stay attached to the page while you zoom, and on iPhone and iPad fields show a subtle outline so you can see where to tap. Also: a cleaner Add page button in the page thumbnails, and side panels that sit neatly below the toolbar on iPad.
1.0.18 Sep 26
Signatures and markup now stay crisp at any zoom: drawn and typed signatures are saved as sharp vector ink, and pen strokes and signatures render at full resolution when you zoom in. Also: more reliable iCloud sync, sharper icons on Mac, and a cleaner sidebar.
1.0.17 Sep 26
Form Builder refinements: new checkbox and radio styles, a cleaner and more consistent field look across every field type, smoother field dragging, and fixes to alignment undo and radio groups.
1.0.16 Sep 24
Design refinements across Home, the tool grid, and the document toolbar — cleaner layouts and small consistency fixes throughout.
1.0.15 Sep 23
This update fixes an issue where cropping a scanned page could clear the page, plus general performance and stability improvements.
1.0.14 Sep 22
New: a Quira widget for your Home and Lock Screen — jump back into your last document at the right page, or scan, open, search, and sign in a tap. Plus general performance and stability improvements.
1.0.13 Sep 21
Automatic form-field detection is now faster on longer documents — the form builder scans your pages in the background so it opens and suggests fields more quickly. Includes general performance and stability improvements.
1.0.12 Sep 19
This update fixes a crash that could occur when opening a document or using the Select tool, and brings stability improvements throughout.
1.0.11 Sep 19
PDF pages now fill your iPad screen edge to edge, the New blank PDF screen has a cleaner, more modern design, and opening the page navigator — plus every pop-up — is faster and smoother. When you edit a file in place it's now clearly marked, and there's a fresh round of polish throughout.
1.0.10 Sep 17
Zooming now glides smoothly instead of jumping, PDF pages fill your iPad screen edge to edge, and the form builder's field picker has a calmer, cleaner look — plus a fresh round of polish throughout.
1.0.9 Sep 16
When continuous scrolling is off, you can now swipe left or right to turn pages. Opening a PDF now reliably brings Quira to the front, scrolling and zooming feel smoother throughout, and there's a fresh round of visual polish across the app.
1.0.8 Sep 13
Marking up with Apple Pencil is smoother and more dependable in this update. Strokes keep up no matter how fast you write and no longer drop, the line stays a steady thickness, and pausing at the end of a stroke snaps it into a clean shape. Undo is a quick two-finger tap and redo is three fingers, and you can pinch to zoom while you draw with any tool.
1.0.7 Sep 11
Everyday editing feels smoother in this update. Drawing with Apple Pencil keeps up when you write quickly, and resting your hand on the screen no longer interrupts your strokes. Filling in forms is tidier: fields stay easy to tap even with notes drawn over them, and undo behaves more predictably as you type. Reordering your open documents is now a simple drag, and the Files view is cleaner — a more compact menu, better preview sizing, and a layout that adapts to portrait, landscape, and smaller windows.
1.0.6 Sep 10
Filling in forms is smoother: fields highlight as you hover so they're easy to find, smarter detection picks up more fields automatically, and you can now select and manage several fields at once. Signatures and photos are easier to replace, the print and export screens are cleaner and more compact, and there are refinements across the viewer.
1.0.5 Sep 9
This update polishes the iPad layout:
• Cleaned up the sidebar and the divider between your files and the preview — edges now stay crisp and consistent, top to bottom.
• Small visual refinements across the light, medium and dark themes.
1.0.4 Sep 8
Quira now looks and works the same on iPhone, iPad and Mac:
• Buttons, menus, switches, sheets and icons match everywhere.
• Sheets and panels close more smoothly.
• Clearer wording throughout.
• Settings has new defaults for viewing, markup and signing, and saving and export.
• Form Builder and markup fixes.
Plus many small fixes on iPhone, iPad and Mac.
more Version 1.0.28 18h ago
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