The Short Version
PDFwow helps you scan, sign, fill in, convert, compress and protect PDFs. Everything happens on your iPhone, iPad or Mac — your documents are never sent to us, and we never see them. There is no account, no ads and no tracking.
Your Documents Stay on Your Device
Every PDFwow tool does its work on your device: reading pages, finding text in scans, converting, compressing, signing, redacting and protecting. PDFwow has no servers and never uploads your files. When another app hands PDFwow a document, PDFwow keeps its own working copy on your device while that document is in Recents; after that, the copy is deleted, at the latest the next time PDFwow starts. Documents you use in Redact PDF or Protect PDF are never added to Recents. When you open a password-protected PDF, PDFwow works on an unlocked copy: on iPhone and iPad it is deleted once you close the tool and leave the app, and on the Mac when you quit PDFwow. If PDFwow is closed unexpectedly, the copy is deleted the next time it starts.
Apple Intelligence, Translation and Read Aloud
When Apple Intelligence is available, Chat with PDF, AI Summarize, Autofill, suggested file names, the headings and lists PDF to Word adds, and Redact PDF's Smart Redact and search for anything you describe use Apple Intelligence's on-device model: your document is read on your device and is not sent to Apple or to us. Translations use Apple's Translation feature, which works on your device and may first download a language from Apple. Read Aloud uses your device's own voices. Apple features you choose to use on text in PDFwow, such as Writing Tools, are covered by Apple's privacy policy.
What PDFwow Keeps on Your Device
To save you time, PDFwow keeps a few things on your device: your recent files (with a small picture of each one's first page), the tools you pin, your saved signatures, the details you enter in My Info for Autofill, your Chat with PDF conversations, and the text of the documents you open in Chat with PDF, so they open faster next time (at most 20 documents, never a password-protected one). For a password-protected document, Chat with PDF keeps only the conversation: your questions, its answers and the passages they quote. While you work, PDFwow also makes temporary copies of the files you open and export, and deletes them the next time it starts once they are a day old. None of this is synced or sent to us; like other app data, it can be included in your device's backups.
Camera, Photos, Contacts and Calendar
Camera: on iPhone and iPad, PDFwow uses the camera only when you scan paper, and the pictures stay on your device. On the Mac, Scan with iPhone uses Continuity Camera: your iPhone takes the picture and hands it to PDFwow.
Photos: on iPhone and iPad you choose photos with Apple's photo picker, which gives PDFwow only the photos you pick. Saving pictures to the Photos app asks for permission to add photos; PDFwow never reads your photo library.
Contacts and Calendar: when you add a phone number, email address, name or date that PDFwow found in a document, iPhone and iPad open Apple's own New Contact or New Event screen, and you decide whether to save it. On the Mac, PDFwow shows its own New Contact or New Event form and adds it only when you click Add to Contacts or Add to Calendar; macOS asks for permission the first time. In My Info on iPhone and iPad, Import from Contacts opens Apple's contact picker, and PDFwow copies only the card you choose. PDFwow never reads the rest of your contacts or your calendars.
Links and Details in Your Documents
When you tap or click a phone number, email address, street address or link that PDFwow found in a document, PDFwow opens Phone, FaceTime, Messages, Mail, Maps or your web browser with just that detail — and only when you choose to.
Saving and Sharing
The files you make go only where you choose, through your device's own Save, Share and Print features.
Purchases
Subscriptions are sold by Apple through the App Store. Apple tells PDFwow only which plan you have and until when — never your payment details, name or email address. Billing, cancellations and refunds are handled by Apple. PDFwow may show Apple's standard request to rate the app.
No Analytics, Ads or Tracking
PDFwow contains no analytics, advertising or tracking code, and it doesn't use the advertising identifier. We don't build a profile of you, and we never sell or share your data — the app never sends us any. If you turn on Share With App Developers in your device's privacy settings, Apple may share anonymous crash reports and app usage statistics with us.
Deleting Your Data
Clear Recents, delete saved signatures in Sign & Annotate, and change or clear My Info whenever you like. To delete a Chat with PDF conversation, open the document in Chat with PDF and clear it; that also deletes the text Chat kept for it. Text kept for a document you never asked about is removed automatically as newer documents take its place. Deleting PDFwow from an iPhone or iPad removes everything it stored there. On a Mac, macOS may keep PDFwow's data in your Library folder after the app is deleted; email us if you'd like help removing it. Because we never receive your documents, there is nothing for us to delete on our side.
Changes and Questions
If you email us, we receive your email address and what you write (the email PDFwow starts for you also includes the app and system version, which you can delete), and we use them only to reply. Ask us at any time to delete your messages. If this policy changes, the new version will appear on this page. Last updated: October 23, 2026. Questions? Email support@futuraapp.com.