PDFOptim

I compose “how-to’s,” “tips ‘n tricks“ and recipes that I like to send & share with friends & family. These require photos & screenshots because ("A picture is worth a thousand words".) Invariably these documents run into trouble when I try to paste them into an email. Either the pictures are moved around, or the text gets scrambled about, or most often the file refuses to email because ‘it’s too big.” PDFOptim let’s me save my documents as PDF files that are 90%+ smaller than the raw documents. I’ve been able to email the small PDF documents as mail attachments without fail! Price was reasonable & it does the job I need. Takes a bit of time to get the hang of it, but easy after a few goes.

Making PDF files smaller is probably the one thing that about everybody needs at some point. There are hundreds of apps that will mark up, save, reorder pages and stuff with PDF files (Good Reader is my personal favorite) but none of them will help you get a a 30mb PDF down to email size. This does it without an annoying subscription. Simple, affordable, worth every penny. I squished down a 25mb PDF to 3mb and couldn’t even tell the loss in quality. A life saver.

I use Notability to document construction jobs, taking pics and adding comments,however after multiple pages of photos, the file becomes too large to export from the app into an email (4 page note was 37MB😑🔫). I tried exporting the file to various apps (Drive, PDF converter, acrobat, docs2go) but there was no work-around to the too-big-to-attach file size. Three bucks later I download this app and boom, file was compressed and emailed. The app really is perfectly simple. I sent it to the app right from Notability. Once in the app I played around with the various compression sizes, emailing myself different settings until I had the perfect size for photo quality and email attachment. This app is a lifesaver. Well done developer, you truly have created a solution.