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Product
What is PDF JustFit?
PDF JustFit is an all-in-one PDF toolkit for iPhone and iPad. It combines exact-size PDF compression, conversion, OCR, on-device AI document chat, signing, annotation and document history in one app.
Who is PDF JustFit for?
The product description names students shrinking lecture slides, papers and textbooks; office teams sending contracts, invoices and reports through email size limits; anyone tidying up receipts, forms and scanned ID copies; and readers who would rather ask a question about a long PDF than scroll through it.
Does PDF JustFit work on iPhone?
Yes. PDF JustFit is designed for iPhone and iPad. It requires iOS 26.5 or later.
Does PDF JustFit work on iPad?
Yes. PDF JustFit is designed for iPhone and iPad. It requires iPadOS 26.5 or later.
Does PDF JustFit support Apple Pencil?
Yes. Apple Pencil is supported for drawing, highlighting and placing a handwritten signature, alongside finger input.
Compression
Can PDF JustFit compress a PDF to an exact size?
Yes. PDF JustFit lets you set an exact target size, for example 2 MB for an email attachment. Its two-stage solver searches for a compression result that reaches the target while preserving as much quality as possible.
What is Smart compression?
Smart compression reduces the size of a PDF while keeping text, fonts and document structure fully selectable. It is one of the two compression modes in PDF JustFit.
What is Maximum compression?
Maximum compression rasterises pages to produce the smallest possible output. It is the second compression mode, chosen when a hard size limit matters more than keeping text selectable.
What are the compression presets?
PDF JustFit provides four one-tap quality presets: Light, Balanced, Strong and Extreme.
What happens if my PDF is already fully optimised?
According to the product description, if a PDF is already fully optimised, your original file is kept rather than producing something larger.
Conversion and OCR
Does PDF JustFit support OCR?
Yes. PDF JustFit extracts text from PDFs and automatically OCRs scanned pages so that scanned documents can be indexed and queried.
Can I chat with a scanned PDF?
Yes. Scanned documents are OCR-recognised automatically, so nothing is left out of the index used by AI document chat.
Which formats can PDF JustFit read and write?
PDF JustFit reads and writes PDF, PNG, JPEG, HEIC, TIFF, TXT and ZIP.
Can PDF JustFit convert a PDF to images?
Yes. PDF JustFit converts a PDF to images in PNG, JPEG, HEIC or TIFF, producing one image file per page.
Can PDF JustFit combine images into one PDF?
Yes. PDF JustFit can combine several images into a single PDF document.
AI
What AI models does PDF JustFit use?
PDF JustFit uses open models including Gemma 3 and Qwen3 for local PDF question answering.
Do AI answers include page citations?
Yes. PDF JustFit lets you ask questions about a PDF and receive answers with page citations, so you can check where an answer came from.
Does PDF JustFit work offline?
AI document chat works offline once the AI model has been downloaded. The product description notes that the recommended model is about 1 GB and is downloaded one time.
Privacy
Does PDF JustFit upload my PDFs?
According to the current product description, PDF JustFit does not upload your documents. Compression, conversion, OCR and AI are designed to run on-device, and questions and answers stay on your iPhone and iPad.
What is the network used for?
According to the product description, the network is used for one thing only — downloading AI model weights — and never for your documents.
Does PDF JustFit require an account?
No. According to the product description, PDF JustFit requires no account.
Does PDF JustFit collect data?
The App Store privacy label for PDF JustFit is listed as "Data Not Collected". Apple states that privacy information on App Store product pages is provided by the developer and has not been verified by Apple.
Does PDF JustFit show ads?
No. According to the product description, PDF JustFit has no advertising.
Does PDF JustFit track me?
According to the product description, PDF JustFit does not track users.
Workflow
Can I compress a PDF from the share sheet?
Yes. The built-in share sheet extension compresses a PDF straight from Mail, Files, Safari or any other app, and the result flows back into PDF JustFit automatically.
Where are my compressed files kept?
Every result is saved to History in PDF JustFit with the original size, the output size and the savings, and can be re-shared or re-exported at any time.
How much does PDF JustFit cost?
The US App Store price for PDF JustFit is $9.99.
What are the system requirements?
PDF JustFit requires iOS 26.5 or later on iPhone, or iPadOS 26.5 or later on iPad.
Is PDF JustFit available on Mac?
The App Store compatibility section lists Mac, but the listing is marked "Not verified for macOS". This website therefore describes PDF JustFit as an iPhone and iPad app. Check the current App Store listing for the latest compatibility information.