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Best Document Editing Apps for iPhone (2026)
Google Docs is the top-ranked of 27 document editing apps on iPhone, at S tier with 4.8/5 from 3,280,176 ratings.
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Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 3,280,176 ratings · score 99 - 2
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 3,018,288 ratings · score 98 - 3
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 575,730 ratings · score 96 - 4
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 26,153 ratings · score 93 - 5
Free + IAP · ★ 4.5 · 29,311 ratings · score 91
What belongs in this list
Create and edit documents on my phone.
Not here: a document viewer alone; a PDF reader alone; a plain text editor alone; a document scanner alone; a printing app alone
More lists: Best PDF Editing Apps
How we pick
For this list we ask the App Store the same searches a person would, in several countries, and keep every app it returns. A model reads each app's listing and rejects the ones that only mention the use case. Every app that stays is scored out of 100 from four parts, each 0 to 100 and averaged with no weights: its App Store rating, how many people rated it, where the App Store itself ranks it for this list's searches, and how recently its current version shipped. An app showing Apple's Editors' Choice badge gets a fifth part of 100, which can only lift its score. Tiers follow fixed score bands: S from 90, A from 80, B from 70, C from 60, D from 50, F below. The list's leader is S if it scores 80 or more. On a list of 20 or more ranked apps, a tier from S to D takes in new apps only up to a quarter of the top 40: an app pushed out of a full tier falls to the next tier with room, and F takes the rest. An app already in a tier keeps its place while the tier is at most 2 apps over a quarter; past that, only the apps over that margin go down, lowest score first. Equal scores share a tier, and no app has a better tier than an app ranked above it. An app keeps its tier until its score passes the band edge by more than 1 point, or a full tier or the order above moves it. Only the top 40 of a list get a tier. Read the full method →
Compare every app
- 1Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 3,280,176 ratings · score 99 · best in class
- 2Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 3,018,288 ratings · score 98 · best in class
- 3Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 575,730 ratings · score 96 · best in class
- 4Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 26,153 ratings · score 93 · best in class
- 5Free + IAP · ★ 4.5 · 29,311 ratings · score 91 · best in class
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Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 44,764 ratings · score 89 · excellent - 7
Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 7,523 ratings · score 88 · excellent - 8
Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 52,025 ratings · score 86 · excellent - 9
Free download · ★ 4.6 · 4,670 ratings · score 83 · excellent - 10
Free + IAP · ★ 4.5 · 9,100 ratings · score 82 · excellent - 11
Free · ★ 4.7 · 8,860 ratings · score 80 · excellent - 12
Free + IAP · ★ 4.5 · 3,744 ratings · score 79 · good - 13
Free + IAP · ★ 4.5 · 4,763 ratings · score 77 · good - 14
Free + IAP · ★ 4.2 · 5 ratings · score 72 · good · provisional - 15
Free · ★ 4.5 · 43,722 ratings · score 70 · good - 16
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 10,318 ratings · score 70 · good - 17
Free download · ★ 4.7 · 25,710 ratings · score 69 · situational · provisional - 18
Free + IAP · ★ 4.2 · 38 ratings · score 69 · situational - 19
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 7,575 ratings · score 68 · situational · provisional - 20
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 9,670 ratings · score 68 · situational - 21
Free download · ★ 4.6 · 3,235 ratings · score 67 · situational · provisional - 22
Free download · ★ 4.5 · 2,624 ratings · score 66 · situational · provisional - 23
Free + IAP · ★ 4.3 · 22,230 ratings · score 65 · situational · provisional - 24
Free download · ★ 4.5 · 7,326 ratings · score 65 · situational · provisional - 25
Free download · ★ 4.3 · 2,951 ratings · score 50 · avoid - 26
$4.99 · ★ 4.5 · 4,504 ratings · score 43 · avoid · provisional - 27
Free download · ★ n/a · 0 ratings · score 25 · avoid · provisional
New in the last 30 days
- Microsoft Word (S)
- Documents Pro, Download & Edit (A)
- PDF Gear - PDF Editor & Reader (A)
- Quip - Docs, Chat, Sheets (C)
- Office Word:Edit Word Document (C)
- Notes Writer Browser: Nautilus (C)
- Ulysses Mobile (C)
- PDF Editor ,PDF Book Reader ® (C)
- Notes Writer: PDF, Voice, AI (C)
- TextEditor : Rich Text Editor (F)
- Documents (F)
Questions people ask
- What is the best document editing app for iPhone?
- Google Docs, S tier, ranked #1 of 27, rated 4.8 by 3,280,176 people.
- Which document editing apps are free?
- 26 of 27 are free to download: Google Docs (S), Microsoft Word (S), Pages: Create Documents (S), Forma: PDF Document Editor (S) and more. 17 of them sell in-app purchases. 2 report no in-app purchases.
- Which document editing app has the best App Store rating?
- MobiPDF・PDF Text Editor・Reader at 4.8 from 7,523 ratings.
- How many document editing apps reach S or A tier?
- 11 of 27. Tiers follow fixed score bands: S from 90, A from 80, B from 70, C from 60, D from 50, F below. The list's leader is S if it scores 80 or more. On a list of 20 or more ranked apps, a tier from S to D takes in new apps only up to a quarter of the top 40: an app pushed out of a full tier falls to the next tier with room, and F takes the rest. An app already in a tier keeps its place while the tier is at most 2 apps over a quarter; past that, only the apps over that margin go down, lowest score first. Equal scores share a tier, and no app has a better tier than an app ranked above it. An app keeps its tier until its score passes the band edge by more than 1 point, or a full tier or the order above moves it. Only the top 40 of a list get a tier.
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