ClearPDF V5.1 — Word Editor, Dark Reading That Keeps Photos, Arabic, Fill Forms On The Page (2.1.1)

ClearPDF V5.1 (app version 2.1.1)

Sorry about V5. The V5 APKs were built before a few pull requests had been cleanly merged, so some fixes I mentioned weren't in them, for example files opening in their own window. V5.1 is built from main with everything merged. The V5 APKs stay available below.

ClearPDF is a free, open-source PDF editor and reader for Android. You can edit the text already in a PDF, fill and sign forms, annotate, edit Word (DOCX) documents and Excel (XLSX) spreadsheets, view PowerPoint files, and scan documents. Everything runs on your device, with a Liquid Glass interface you can tune yourself.

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APK	Recommended for
arm64-v8a	Most Android phones and tablets (pick this if unsure)
armeabi-v7a	Older 32-bit ARM devices
universal	Works on everything; larger download
x86 · x86_64	Emulators and x86 devices

Updating? Install it over V4 or V5. It's signed with the same key, so your files, bookmarks and settings stay.

Install via Obtainium: open Obtainium → Add App → paste https://github.com/Chethan616/ClearPDF. It tracks this repo and prompts you to update straight from GitHub.

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🔄 Updated build (still 2.1.1)

The APKs below were replaced with a newer build of 2.1.1 that adds:

📄 Word documents open in their own editor (#73)

• A .docx now opens as real pages, like on a desktop: true margins, fitted to your screen, Word's own page breaks, pinch to zoom, a page counter with Go to page, and it reopens at the page you were reading.
• Tap the pencil to edit any paragraph or table cell in place, with a LibreOffice-style bar (paragraph style, font, size) and tools for bold, italic, underline, colour, highlight, alignment, bullets, numbering and indents.
• Save writes back into the same .docx without touching the parts you didn't edit. Print and Open as PDF use the Office engine (LibreOffice) when it's installed.

🌙 Dark reading that keeps photos (#74)

• Dark pages keep blue headings blue, and photographs stay as they were printed in PDFs, slides and Word files. Scans and diagrams still turn dark with the page.
• Settings → Dark pages in dark mode opens documents with dark pages whenever the app is dark.
• The Word and spreadsheet viewers now take their look from the page, not the app theme, so every button, menu and search bar stays readable.

📊 Spreadsheets as Excel shows them (#71)

• Pictures and logos appear, text fits its cells like in Excel, and sheets are white paper with a dark switch.

🌍 Arabic and complete translations (#72)

• ClearPDF now comes in Arabic, and Arabic text copies and searches in the right order.
• Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and Russian now translate every screen.

📝 Fill Form tool and printing

• The Fill Form tool now opens the form ready to fill right on the page.
• Print PDFs from the Share dialog, exactly as they are.

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✨ What's new in V5.1

📝 Fill PDF forms right on the page

• Form fields are now drawn with Liquid Glass controls: frosted text fields, glossy checkboxes and radio buttons, a dropdown with a glass menu, and list boxes that scroll and highlight the chosen item.
• Tap any field to fill it where it's printed. Text uses the form's own size, alignment and colour. A bar above the keyboard moves to the previous or next field.
• Values are saved into the form itself, and they work with undo, Save and Share. Dark reader mode is supported too. (#68)

✏️ Edit only what you select

• Select some words and tap Edit text. Only those words change, in the document's own font, weight and style, and the rest of the line moves to fit.
• The preview is the real edited page, so what you see is what gets saved.

🔍 Sharp text at any zoom (#29)

• When you zoom in, ClearPDF re-renders the visible part of the page at your screen's resolution, so text and fine diagrams stay crisp. This applies to PDFs, Word and PowerPoint files.

🪟 Its own window (#29)

• Files opened from WhatsApp, a file manager or another app now open in their own ClearPDF window. They no longer run inside the other app, so you can switch between the two. Closing the document takes you back.

📊 PowerPoint fixes (#29)

• Slide titles that sit near the top of a slide are no longer cut off. Titles also use the template's own style, such as ALL CAPS, matching PowerPoint.
• The built-in renderer now draws template backgrounds and colours, and inherits text alignment from the slide master.

🙏 Thanks

Thanks to @Zokii0 for the detailed reports and sample files, and to @underwaterfall for the form-editing idea.

⭐ Like ClearPDF?

ClearPDF is a free, independent open-source project. If it's useful to you, star the repository. It helps other people find it.

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Notes

• Forms: text fields, checkboxes, radio buttons, dropdowns and list boxes can be filled. Push buttons that run scripts in other viewers, such as Submit or Hide field, aren't run.
• Privacy and network: documents are processed on your device and are never uploaded. See PRIVACY.md.
• F-Droid: this release adds a free-software-only build flavor and store metadata for F-Droid.

Built from main at 534d0e4 (first V5.1 build: f0d3fea). Found a bug or have an idea? Use the issue forms.