Pdftool vs RECAP Uploader
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pdftool
Easily manage, read, and annotate PDF documents with intuitive tools. Highlight text or images, crop, merge, and export pages. Optimized for large collections and supports keyboard shortcuts for efficient navigation.
- Manage PDFs with tags and lists
- Crop, erase, and merge pages
- Highlight text and images
- Export PDF pages
- Batch operations
- Keyboard shortcuts support
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Designed to provide a visually pleasing and intuitive way to manage/read/highlight PDF documents on iPhone or iPad. Highlighter works for both text based and image based PDF. You can crop, erase area, merge, and export PDF pages. Crop operation is enhanced to support long document, such as those single page web content in PDF. You can zoom in and out to reposition document to make cropping large document a breeze. PDF documents can be easily shared to other apps or other compatible devices via AirDrop. ## Main Features - Manage PDF documents by Tags and Short List - Crop, Erase Area, Merge PDF pages - Export - Highlighting - Batch operations - Optimized to work with large collection of PDF documents - Keyboard shortcuts support for page navigation (when using external keyboard) ## Supported keyboard shortcuts - Cmd/alt + Left/Right arrow for previous/next page - Arrow keys to move around page - Cmd + plus/minus for zooming in/out - H for highlighter - T for thin highlighter - E for eraser - ENTER for committing changes Note: The app does not come with sample PDFs. Please add PDF files (such as via AirDrop) for them to show up in the app.
RECAP Uploader
This application allows users to upload legal documents to the RECAP system, which is compatible with ECF logins. It ensures that documents from sealed cases are not uploaded, providing a secure and compliant way to manage legal filings.
- ECF login compatibility
- Secure document uploading
- Excludes sealed case documents
- Free to use
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RECAP is compatible with ECF logins and will not upload documents from sealed cases. Learn more at https://free.law/recap/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: RECAP Uploader at Free against Pdftool's $1.99. RECAP Uploader also leads on rating (5.0 vs 1.0) and ratings volume (9 vs 1). On update cadence, 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
RECAP Uploader is free to download; Pdftool costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
RECAP Uploader holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: RECAP Uploader has 9 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Pdftool ships an update every 6 weeks, RECAP Uploader every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pdftool | RECAP Uploader |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 1.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (9 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 9 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Zhiguang Han | Free Law Project |
Customer experience
Pdftool
RECAP Uploader
In-app purchases
Pdftool
No in-app purchases
RECAP Uploader
No in-app purchases
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