Readdle has always been fair in not forcing users to upgrade, or upgrade to a subscription - you always got to keep what you paid for previously. So due to Apple’s store requirements, developers who distribute via App store are fairly restricted in what they can do in terms of pricing. There’s no good way to offer update pricing. Developers can only charge fully for new apps or provide subscriptions. Part of the problem is the Mac/iOS stores themselves. But after 1 year I can always go back to the “old” features which I love. I might subscribe for one year and see how much extra value it provides. But the price for educators (who already have PDF Expert from the past) will be $20 for the first year, $40 for ongoing years. I imagine they’ll add more features in the future.Įducational pricing for upgrading the new features are not in place yet: I think it comes out this week or next.

The only features that I can see that are new to v3 (and thus need an upgrade) are scanning/OCR and exporting. If you subscribe all is unlocked on all versions for you: Mac, iPad, and iPhone. But there’s no need to do this and the old features work as before. If you want to use a new feature beyond v2 then you are prompted to unlock the additional features. No nagging involved for me (except maybe the first time).

Upgrading to 3 is free for version 2 users. And others: There’s a lot of posts here in relatively little time and I have not read all of them (about 70% of them only) so I may be repeating info.

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