Fillably
Design and construct forms that work in Preview
£9.99 (lifetime licence) FROM Mac App Store, Joel Norvell NEEDS macOS 10.14.6 or later
Once the fields are laid out, Fillably sets their tab order.
Mac FORMAT VERDICT
The perfect suite of tools for swiftly creating better PDF forms for completion in Preview.
★★★★★
+Creates perfect forms
+Ideal for Preview
+Excellent tools
+Low price
Image credit: Joel Norvell
Among Preview’s virtues is its ability to fill PDF forms, with AutoFill to complete information drawn from your Contacts details. If you’ve ever tried using it for real, though, you’ll have discovered it’s far from perfect, skips some fields you need to use, and doesn’t handle checkboxes well. Fillably is a lightweight app that does one thing better than any of the more general PDF editors: it helps you design and construct forms that work properly in Preview. Concentrating on this single function makes Fillably both quick and simple to use and powerful, as shown in its interactive tutorial that it opens the first time you run the app. This takes you through turning a US IRS Tax Form 4868 into a fillable form, and shows off most of its features. It also serves as a reference as you progress to tackling your own forms.