Hello,
I searched the forum but couldn’t find any recommendations for a good pdf editor.
I was using PDF Expert on iOS (freemium but was enough for me. Tho privacy-wise not sure about it tbh). but it’s not on Android.
I don’t have heavy editing needs just the usual highlighting, underlining, bookmarking, annotating, etc..
thank you
but lacks highlighting.
Was wondering the same (PDF annotation on Android). Unfortunately, i didn’t get an answer. Would still love to find something.
There are already multiple threads about this topic
Those two threads seem to refer to readers not editors. I have checked them already. There isn’t a dedicated question for editors.
Thanks @jerm . True thrse are similar threads. With regards to my topic, these discussions were in the end mostly focused on desktop.
I think for now there is just no great pdf annotator or editor for android. Very happy to stand corrected on this 
I did use Xodo PDF in the past to edit my pdfs, it’s by no means private but if you use it like in GOS without network access you should be fine.
I’ve spent countless hours researching this same problem and this has been my best answer from everything I’ve read on GrapheneOS’ website and reviewers:
I know it’s not an editor but I thought it’d be helpful for you!
Did you consider using a secure PDF reader App and then copying the text from within the PDF and pasting into another App like the LibreOffice Suite?
I think the closest that you will find in Android might be Collabora.
The only feature that is supported is to add comments to PDF
Even using Graphene’s PDF viewer and copying out the text to another app would work.
Sorry to be bumping an old thread but Yolakalemowa is still active on here so I was just wondering what was the best PDF editor he could find?
I still think Secure PDF by GrapheneOS is the best option to go for:
Hello,
The GOS one is a reader not an editor.
I’ve been using LibreraReader. Clunky tbh. Another new one I recently found is Readest. Seems very good still need to try it more.
Again those are editors. Not just readers .
The following Apps claim to be able to Open PDF documents and export to PDF format:
Also you might want to look into browser extensions instead of dedicated Apps, on a Windows Desktop (when I have to use one) Firefox is enough for my PDF viewing and annotation needs. The mobile version does not have the same features, but there might be extensions … I don’t actually know.
Before leaning on the copy-text-out workaround, know it fails silently on two common files. Scans have no text layer, so you need OCR, not extraction. And a PDF with subsetted fonts and no ToUnicode map has a text layer that pastes out as gibberish. Looks perfect on screen, garbage in the clipboard. Worth testing on the documents you actually care about first.