Polaris Office: Edit&View, PDF
Android's Mobile Office : Word, Excel, PowerPoint and PDF, TXT + Zip file
Total ratings
3.85
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spammy, or outdated. Pros
- Rich annotation capabilities for PDFs
- Large cloud storage capacity with Pro subscription
- Overall good performance and functionality in reading and editing documents
- Free to use with some features
- Works well on older devices
Cons
- Frequent and disruptive ads that hinder usability
- Glitches and crashes, particularly when editing or working with larger documents
- Difficult and unintuitive user interface
- Concerns over invasive permissions requested by the app
- Limitations in spreadsheet functionality and accuracy
Most mentioned
- Issues with ads (too many, disruptive)
- Problems with app stability (crashes and glitches)
- User interface difficulties (not intuitive, hard to navigate)
- Concerns about permissions and data access
- Preference for trying a free trial before purchasing
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All time rating average:
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| Date | Author | Rating | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-10-25 |  | | I've been using Polaris Office to read, annotate, and store tons of books & textbooks, for at least a few years now. I love it because of it's rich annotation capabilities for PDF's. I mainly use Polaris Office for reading, annotating, & storing my personal library (in PDF form). Another feature that I love is the large cloud storage capacity (I have the Pro subscription), I literally have thousands of "documents" saved. Other than the occasional glitch, 5 stars Polaris, keep it up! 😊 💜 |
| 2024-06-10 |  | | I never opened it, and will uninstall before I do... but I just wanted to thank you for being honest and forthcomming about it being a subscription model based software. That wouldn't fit mu needs. I only ever use a word proccessor and only to update my resume about every 8 to 10 years. I'd gladley pay like $150 one time fee for no feature updates (maybe just security updates if that) and a update fee when and if I need/want one in the future. I thoroughly appreciate your honesty though. |
| 2024-05-10 |  | | Better than Google Docs, but still not very good. Sure, you can make a spreadsheet, but the UI isn't very intuitive. Hitting [Enter] should automatically move to the next cell, but it doesn't, so it takes forever to enter data. The icons in the menu don't have text descriptions, and it's not always clear what they do. Not many editing options. It's very underwhelming, and actually pretty frustrating to use. Install AndrOpen Office instead. It's fully featured, FREE, and open source. |
| 2024-04-21 |  | | Too bad this good app no longer will open. Others complained and Polaris Office people asked for more info thru settings in the app. But if you can't open the app, you can't get to settings or anything else. I uninstalled and reinstalled. No help. In fact it is worse. Used to get an animated thing to watch spinning around, now the screen is just white when trying to open. |
| 2024-01-25 |  | | This app worked wonderfully for years, and now, just recently, I haven't been able to open it. When I attempt to open the app, the animated opening repeatedly cycles through (the flipping of the four colored pages), eventually stops, shows a white screen, and does nothing else. 😑 I'm not happy, and I have work that I need to get done. |
| 2024-01-11 |  | | The ads were way too disruptive, making this app useless. It starts with opening to full page ads that I had to wait while it completed the ad (no way to close it), which would then automatically start downloading apps I didn't want unless I quickly clicked cancel during the process! Then, once I was finally able to view my document, banner ads covered up parts of it, and there was no way to scroll to see what was under the banner ad. Using this app was a terrible experience. |
| 2023-05-08 |  | | Update: version 9.7.6 issue still exists... When I've been in the app for a minute...I tap menu or try to edit the document, the top and bottom of the screen goes black with only the document showing up. I cannot save any changes to the document(word,excel)...this issue has been around for awhile now... (could this issue have anything to do with the ads not even loading properly...if at all? Perhaps you could try to *remove* the ads...that might allow the app to function...)🙏 |
| 2023-01-27 |  | | You have to be kidding...you need to offer at least a 7-day free trial (Pro version). MS Office 365 is garbage and I'm looking for a replacement. I'd be willing to pay for your Pro version; however, I'm not paying for anything I can't try first. Cloud based programs are all riddled with problems and by reading your reviews I'd guess yours is also. And yes, your full page ads are entirely to long. |
| 2022-01-13 |  | | The menus are typical difficult to navigate menus that are found in badly designed apps. I have to click through every menu to accomplish the simplest task. I still have found a way to close the document I am working on or how to open a second document. Editing is a nightmare of cryptic menu choices that usually ruins my document. I use this strictly for viewing. |
| 2021-10-23 |  | | Horrible app!!! Very, very irritating to work with! This app is complete garbage! Ads pop up at the top of your document while you're trying to edit it and need to be closed or they block part of the screen. Try to copy paste and edit a document longer than so many pages and the app is too stupid to handle it and crashes constantly, destroying all the work you just did. Who would every pay for the premium version when the free one is already completely useless garbage...?!! |
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