They have a free tier (and downgraded 'Pro' users to the free tier) but most of the tools and functionality of the 'Pro' tier are now behind a paywall.
I personally didn't really care for the restrictions and the majority of users probably didn't care as well.Īll of this changed on March 1st, 2023 when Drawboard removed the 'Pro' tier in favour of an all subscription-based model (with the cheapest subscription now being $50 annually). Also cloud features were a big point of the subscription model. You could add blank pages and pages from other PDFs with the 'Pro' tier for example, but chequered or lined pages were locked behind the subscription model. The distinction between the perpetual 'Pro' tier and the subscription model was arbitrary at best. Development for this version was pretty much halted years ago and new features where only available with a subscription model. It was priced around 10 units of the local currency (Dollar, Euro or whatever) for the perpetual 'Pro'-Version. You could easily add pages and annotations to PDF documents and it was widely used in university, school and similar environments. Drawboard PDF was a popular PDF mark-up tool.
