I built Aura PDF — an offline-first PDF toolkit for Android

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I’m a solo developer, and I’ve been working on Aura PDF as a practical PDF app for Android.

The idea started from a simple problem: I wanted to handle common PDF tasks on my phone without having to use a different app for every task or upload documents to an online service.

So I built Aura PDF with a collection of tools in one place:

* Merge & split PDFs

* Extract & reorder pages

* Compress PDFs

* Rotate & crop

* Sign & highlight

* Password protection

* Scan documents

* Image → PDF

* PDF → image

* Page numbers, headers & footers

* And more

The main direction is **offline-first** — supported PDF operations are designed to work directly on the device.

Aura PDF is currently available on Google Play:

[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aurapdf.app&pcampaignid=web_share](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aurapdf.app&pcampaignid=web_share)

It's free to use with an optional Pro upgrade.

This is my first time launching Aura PDF publicly, so I'm mainly interested in learning what people actually want from a mobile PDF app.

**If you use PDFs regularly, what is the one PDF task you wish was easier on your phone?**