PDF vs PDFiles
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Transform your device into a portable scanner for unlimited multipage documents. Digitize receipts, reports, and more into searchable, editable digital files. Effortlessly share, print, or fax your scanned documents.
- Unlimited multipage scanning
- Advanced OCR text extraction
- Auto-enhancement and smart cropping
- Searchable PDF creation
- Flexible export to cloud services
- Wireless printing and faxing
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PDF-Unlimited OCR Scan transforms your iPhone/iPad into a powerful, portable scanner. Get free, unlimited multipage scans with advanced OCR. Digitize any document, from receipts to reports, into perfect digital files. Scan and Perfect Documents Scan Anything: Receipts, notes, invoices, business cards, contracts – capture it all. Auto-Enhance: Smart cropping and auto-correction ensure clear, sharp scans every time. Extract Text with OCR Powerful OCR: Convert your scans into editable and searchable text. Searchable PDFs: Find specific information easily within your digitized documents. Share and Manage Effortlessly Flexible Export: Email, save to Photos, or upload to Dropbox, Google Drive, iCloud Drive, Box, OneDrive, Evernote, OneNote. Print and Fax: Print wirelessly or fax documents directly from the app. Share Options: Send as PDF or JPEG via social media or email. PDF-Unlimited OCR Scan is your essential, free, and unlimited mobile scanning solution with smart text recognition. Download today and streamline your document management!
PDFiles
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PDFiles is a fast, private PDF scanner for iPhone. Scan documents, receipts, invoices, notes and forms into clean PDFs and save them directly to the Files app. What makes PDFiles different is the workflow. Choose a Files folder once, then every scan lands there automatically. No export maze, no repeated folder picking, no account and no cloud upload required. New in 2.0: faster batch scanning for real documents. Detect several documents in one camera image, choose the pages you want and set the final PDF order by the order you tap them. Scan multiple pages without an artificial 25-page limit. Keep the camera open, collect pages in a scan stack and save one multi-page PDF when you're done. Need to scan book pages, sheet music or two A4 pages side by side? Double Page Mode splits one photo into separate PDF pages. Move or delete the divider before saving. PDFiles also lets you fine-tune every scan. Adjust corners and edges, use the magnifier for precise placement or add a manual scan area when automatic detection misses something. Use PDFiles for: • documents • receipts • invoices • contracts • forms • notes • letters • sheet music • book pages Features: • Scan documents to PDF • Save PDFs directly to the Files app • Choose a default Files folder • Detect multiple documents in one photo • Create several PDF pages from one camera image • Scan longer documents without a 25-page limit • Keep scanning and save one multi-page PDF at the end • Split double-page scans into separate pages • Reorder pages before saving • Merge documents into one PDF • Compress PDFs to reduce file size • Adjust corners and edges manually • Add a manual scan area • Use A4, A3 and US Letter paper formats • Organize folders with colors • Switch target folders quickly Privacy first: Scans are processed locally on your iPhone with iOS and Apple frameworks. No account is required. No cloud upload is required. Your documents stay under your control. PDFiles is made for people who want a simple PDF scanner that gets documents into the right folder fast.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: PDF at none against PDFiles's 1. PDF also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 26.2). PDFiles's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 110 months). On price 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. PDFiles sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. PDF asks for nothing beyond the download.
PDF ships an update every 110 months, PDFiles every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PDFiles | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 25.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 110 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 26.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 193 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ramalingam Sivaramakrishnan | Lukas Daniel Kofler |
In-app purchases
No in-app purchases
PDFiles
- PDFiles Pro$1.99









