How to fill out a PDF form from your mobile (Android or iPhone)

How to fill out a PDF form from the mobile?

How to fill out a PDF form from your mobile: Best apps for Android and iPhone

In this era of technological advancement that we are living in, more and more tasks are being digitized to be done online and through a mobile device. One of these tasks could be fill out and sign forms in the popular format created by Adobe Inc, the PDF.

Most of us own a mobile—with countless functions to be executed with a couple of clicks—but not all of us know how to put it to good use in areas such as office automation. This may be because smartphones are generally designed more for entertainment and less for work.

Therefore, in this article, we want to clarify once and for all this popular doubt and explain how to fill out a pdf form from mobile, either Android or iPhone.

Fill PDF form on Android and iPhone

Woman visiting website from mobile

First of all, we want to remind you that not all PDFs are fillable (only those that were specially configured to be edited in this way). Therefore, if when you try any of the methods below, you find it impossible to fill out your form, it is most likely that the PDF file you are trying to fill out cannot be edited in this way.

That said, in the app stores, both Android and iOS, there are several apps that can be used to fill in PDF forms. Here are a few:

Option #1: Google Drive

Google Drive

The first option for fill out a PDF form is to use the Google Drive application. This might be the best option, as Drive is pre-installed on most mobile devices out of the box, plus it not only lets you fill in PDFs, but has many other features like cloud saves and device sync; In short, an all-in-one option.

To fill out a PDF form in Google Drive you first have to upload that same form to your Cloud account. To do this, you have to have the app installed, search for the PDF file and hold it down for a few seconds to select. Then click Send > Drive and choose your Google account.

Now, once the PDF form is in your Drive account, follow these steps to fill it out:

  1. Aopen Google Drive and sign in with your Google account if you haven't already.
  2. Tap on the PDF form you want to edit and hold it for a few seconds.
  3. At the top right, tap Edit > Form Fill.
  4. Now fill in the form fields.
  5. Toca Save for the changes to take effect.
Google Drive
Google Drive
Developer: Google LLC
Price: Free
Google Drive - file storage
Google Drive - file storage
Developer: Google
Price: Free+

Option #2: Adobe Fill & Sign

Adobe Fill & Sign

Fill & Sign is a specialized tool from Adobe, with which you can fill, sign and send digital PDF forms on your mobile or tablet. It is a relatively simple program. To fill in a file, you can open any PDF on your mobile or upload one from your email to the app.

You can also take a photo of a paper form to digitize it and fill it with the app. As we told you, with Fill & Sign you can also sign your documents using your finger or a stylus (this feature works especially well on tablets). Once you have your form ready, save it and email it to your recipient from the same app.

Adobe Fill & Sign
Adobe Fill & Sign
Developer: Adobe
Price: Free
‎Adobe Fill & Sign
‎Adobe Fill & Sign
Developer: Adobe Inc.
Price: Free

Option #3: pdfFiller

pdfFiller

pdfFiller is one of the most complete tools to fill in PDF forms. Allows you to upload files from your PC or OneDrive cloud, dropbox, Google Drive, Box, mail, etc. Once you have uploaded a form you can fill it in and edit it if you need any extra changes. pdfFiller also has a form creator and its own file cloud for registered users.

Now, maybe you were thinking that installing an app for nothing more than filling in forms was a “waste of memory space”. And you may be right, so let me tell you that pdfFiller also has a web page, in which you can access all its functions without installing anything. But if you don't mind taking up a few MB on your mobile, here are the links to the app.

pdfFiller: Modify PDF
pdfFiller: Modify PDF
Developer: airSlate, Inc.
Price: Free
‎pdfFiller: the PDF Editor
‎pdfFiller: the PDF Editor

Option #4: Edit PDF

Edit PDF

Edit PDF is a simple PDF editor for writing in forms and signing documents. It allows you to import and work on files from your device or stored in clouds such as Dropbox, iCloud and Google Drive. Likewise, from this app you can also share the documents by email when they are ready to be sent. Edit PDF also works with MS Word files.

To edit a PDF form you just have to open the file with the app, click on Add text and enter the data you want. Now, if what you want is to sign a document, it is a similar process: you have to open the PDF, sign with your finger and put it in the corresponding space.

Of course, it should be noted that this app is not available for iPhone, only Android.

Edit PDF, write and sign
Edit PDF, write and sign
Developer: PDFEditor
Price: Free

Option #5: Fill and Sign PDF Forms

Fill and Sign PDF Forms

Finally, we have Fill & Sign PDF Forms. It is a fairly simple app, which weighs only 8,4 MB, which is ideal if we need space in the mobile memory. To fill out a form you can open it with the app's file explorer. Of course, a huge drawback of this app is that it puts watermark to the documents filled out or signed in the free version.

Fill and Sign PDF Forms
Fill and Sign PDF Forms
Developer: BinarySolutions
Price: Free

Conclusion

Filling out forms used to be a tedious task. Before they sent us the form by email or sometimes on paper. Many times you had to print it to physically sign it, then scan it, fill it out and print it again to deliver it physically again. A whole process.

With the massification of increasingly advanced technologies, these days are gone (almost). We no longer have to go through a super tedious process moving the form from one format to another. With the apps that we show you in this article, we can now download a form from the internet, fill it out with our mobile phone and send it by email or WhatsApp in a matter of minutes.


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