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I have a lot of PDF-documents I want to annotate with comments or highlight passages. I need this across multiple devices (iOS, Windows7+, maybe macOS, Linux as a bonus), so a cloud service is fine (prefer Google Drive, OneDrive; iCloud and Dropbox may be accepted, too).

Is thera any tool I can accomplish that? Is Adobe Reader with any Cloud Storage already sufficient?

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It sounds like you are looking for Mendeley - it is an online service with apps for desktop & mobile that provides:

  • Web App
  • Desktop Apps for Windows 7+, MacOS & Linux
  • iOS & Android Apps
  • Online library of pdfs & other materials
  • Tagging, Notes and Organisation
  • Reference Management
  • Co-operation with others on library entries
  • PDF viewer
  • PDF Highlighting & Annotation
  • Export with or without annotations
  • Various research tools
  • Job Alerts

The amount of storage and various other facilities depend on the plan that you are willing to sign up & pay for but there are free accounts that will let you at least get a feel for how useful it might be.

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  • Is it there any other way that doesn't involve using a whole app? I just want to sync pdf annotations. It is just words and highlighting on the same file, but across different systems.
    – Alek Fröhlich
    Commented Jun 6, 2023 at 23:02
  • @AlekFröhlich - the problem is that, unless the file is on a shared resource, each system is likely to have its own copy of the file. So you need something that can annotate the file and share that information. If you hosted the pdfs in a shared location and annotated them, (ensuring syncing), then the annotations should be shared but may not be visible on other systems.
    – Steve Barnes
    Commented Jun 7, 2023 at 3:46
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    @AlekFröhlich of course since Mendeley has a Web interface you don't have to install an app on each system.
    – Steve Barnes
    Commented Jun 7, 2023 at 3:49

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