HLL Pdf Reader vs MDacrobat
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
HLL Pdf Reader
This app offers a streamlined PDF reading experience with an iBooks-inspired interface. It provides features like recent reading history, page cropping for larger content views, and an outline for easy navigation. Zooming is simplified with double-tap gestures.
- iBooks-like design
- Reading history
- Page cropping
- Document outline
- Double-tap zoom
- Automatic fit on rotation
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Universal app - Support for iPhone / iPad iBooks-like design - Support your reading experience with simple User Interface. Recently read books - Show your reading histories. Therefore you can find books that you read recently. Cropping - Crop page merging to show contents bigger automatically. Outline - Show current document structure so that you can see your position and move around easily. No more pinch in/out. - Zoom in/out with double tap. - Fit document to device size automatically when rotating.
MDacrobat
This app provides a comprehensive Markdown editing experience for iPhone and iPad, offering live previews, robust export options, and offline functionality. It treats Markdown files as editable documents with advanced features for formatting and organization.
- Live GitHub-Flavored Markdown preview
- Offline rendering of math, code, and diagrams
- Markdown editor with syntax highlighting
- Export to PDF, HTML, DOCX, RTF, and plain text
- Native document browser integration
- Hardware keyboard shortcuts on iPad
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MDacrobat is the complete Markdown app for iPhone and iPad — what Acrobat is for PDF, MDacrobat is for Markdown. It treats your .md files as real documents, with a live, reference-quality preview and honest export, and your files stay ordinary Markdown on disk. No account, no sync service, no tracking, no ads. LIVE PREVIEW • GitHub-Flavored Markdown: tables, task lists, footnotes, strikethrough, autolinks • Math with KaTeX, code highlighting, and Mermaid diagrams — all rendered offline • Flicker-free updates and synced scrolling between editor and preview • Tap task checkboxes in the preview to check them off in the source • Five typographic themes, light and dark EDITOR BUILT FOR MARKDOWN • Live syntax highlighting, smart list continuation, and auto-pairing • A formatting bar above the keyboard, and full hardware-keyboard shortcuts on iPad • Front matter shown as a tidy metadata card DESIGNED FOR iPHONE AND iPAD • Native document browser (works with the Files app and iCloud Drive) • Side-by-side editor and preview on iPad; editor / split / preview modes everywhere • Outline sidebar to jump between headings EXPORT & SHARE • PDF, self-contained HTML, Word (.docx), RTF, and plain text • Copy as HTML, print, and share anywhere Your documents never leave your device. MDacrobat works entirely offline.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: MDacrobat at 3 against HLL Pdf Reader's 1. HLL Pdf Reader's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for HLL Pdf Reader against 5.0 for MDacrobat. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 3 respectively.
| Parameter | HLL Pdf Reader | MDacrobat |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 3 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 9 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 15 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | hades lade lam | Prabhjot Singh Sandhu |
Customer experience
HLL Pdf Reader
MDacrobat
In-app purchases
HLL Pdf Reader
No in-app purchases
MDacrobat
No in-app purchases









