Comparison

AppLocker vs PDF Document Scanner

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

AppLocker

Secure your sensitive apps with a password, Face ID, or Touch ID. Protect your privacy by preventing unauthorized access to any app on your device, including social media, banking, and photos. Features an emergency password to hide your private content.

Highlights
  • Password protect individual apps
  • Face ID and Touch ID support
  • Emergency password feature
  • Private gallery for photos/videos
  • Private notes
  • Removal protection
Features
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With AppLocker you can password protect individual apps on your iPhone and iPad - all at once or one at a time. It works with any app, Facebook, Photos, Tinder, Mail or banking and financial apps. You can also unlist apps from your device. Stop worrying about your privacy when you lend your phone or tablet to a friend, colleague or family member. No one will mess with your important apps anymore. Just start AppLocker, configure a password and select the apps you want to keep private. FEATURES • Block access to applications that you want private and avoid sneak peeks from friends, family members or co-workers (all at once or individually) • Emergency Password: create a fake password that hides the entire configuration making the app look empty • Lock Screen & Control Center actions, Shortcuts and Automation full support • No one can use or see the content without entering the password first • It works with any app installed on your phone: social, chat and dating apps, business apps, banking or financial apps • AppLocker will protect you by using a secret password and optionally Face or Touch ID. Keep your important apps safe, including removal protection • Private gallery: keep secret files, photos or videos • Private notes: keep secret notes • Easy to use, no configuration required. Also works great as a self control or parental system We read your support emails every day, day by day. Write with confidence any question, feedback or complaint and you will receive an answer in a very short period of time. We offer two auto-renewing subscription and a one time payment option: • Basic, a 1 Month subscription • Premium, a 12 Months subscription • Lifetime access: one time payment only Prices may vary by location. Subscriptions will auto-renew unless canceled. • Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase • Subscription may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user’s Account Setting after purchase. • No cancellation of the current subscription is allowed during active subscription period. • Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. • Your account will be charged for renewal for the amount of your current subscription within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period. All cost for subscriptions are mentioned above. Privacy Policy https://alexdenk.eu/subscriptions-privacy-policy.html Terms of Use https://alexdenk.eu/subscriptions-terms-of-use.html

About

PDF Document Scanner

Features
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Paper in front of you. A clean, searchable PDF in your own iCloud a moment later. That is the whole job, and Pageora does it without an account, without a server, and without a subscription. SCAN, OR BRING PHOTOS YOU ALREADY HAVE Point the camera at any paper — letters, contracts, receipts, handwritten notes. Pages are straightened automatically, cleaned up in color, grayscale, or crisp document black & white, and read by on-device text recognition so every PDF is searchable and its text selectable. Already photographed it? Import JPG, HEIC or PNG straight from your photo library, or bring in an existing PDF. Imported photos get the same straightening, the same cleanup and the same text recognition as a live scan. YOURS, IN YOUR ICLOUD Every scan is saved as a normal PDF in your own iCloud Drive — visible in the Files app, synced to your other devices, and still yours if you ever delete the app. Pageora has no server. Nothing you scan ever leaves your devices and your iCloud. FIND ANYTHING Search finds words from inside your documents, not just titles — including from your iPhone's Home Screen search. Where Apple Intelligence is available, scans name and tag themselves on your device; everywhere else they are named from the date and the first line of recognised text. REDACTION THAT MEANS IT Draw a box over anything sensitive and the text underneath is deleted from the PDF, not covered. Copy, extraction, and search find nothing — because nothing is there. EDIT PAGES Reorder by drag, rotate, retake a single page, delete pages, add tags, rename freely. MORE, IF YOU WANT IT Pageora Unlimited adds sign & date, merge and split, find-and-redact across a whole document, export to text, spreadsheet or receipt CSV, archival PDF/A, password-protected PDFs, fit-to-email sizing, filing rules that tag scans for you as they arrive, a Face ID locked folder that hides documents from the library, from search and from Siri, duplicate finding, and a one-file backup of your whole library. PAY ONCE, OR DON'T The free app is the full scanner for up to 10 documents — full quality, no watermarks, no ads, iCloud included. Pageora Unlimited lifts the limit and turns the rest on, for a single one-time purchase. No subscription, ever. Privacy: Pageora collects no data. There is no analytics, no tracking, no account. The privacy label says "Data Not Collected" because that is the truth.

Screenshots

AppLocker4 screens
PDF Document Scanner4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: AppLocker at 16.4 against PDF Document Scanner's 26.0. On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. AppLocker sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and PDF Document Scanner sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
AppLocker versus PDF Document Scanner: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAppLockerPDF Document Scanner
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (391 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews37.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings391 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.4 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size37 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDenk AlexandruNikola Sretenovic

Bugs and requests

AppLocker

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Doesn't accept correct password
  • Locks entire system instead of just selected apps
  • Blocks access to Activity Monitor and other system tools
  • Doesn't work with latest macOS updates

Requested features

5 requests
  • Option to automatically lock apps after inactivity
  • Ability to reset forgotten password
  • Support for Touch ID/Face ID
  • Ability to lock more than one app in free version
  • Option to hide app icon

PDF Document Scanner

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

5 purchases

AppLocker

Subscriptions3
  • Monthly Subscription2 variants$2.991 Month
  • Annual Subscription$8.991 Year
  • Annual Subscription7 Days trial2 variants$11.991 Year
One-time2
  • Lifetime Access$12.99
  • Lifetime Access2 variants$17.99
1 purchases

PDF Document Scanner

One-time1
  • Pageora Unlimited$14.99

Questions

Is AppLocker free?
AppLocker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is PDF Document Scanner free?
PDF Document Scanner is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do AppLocker or PDF Document Scanner have ads?
Neither AppLocker nor PDF Document Scanner shows ads.
Which is updated more often, AppLocker or PDF Document Scanner?
AppLocker ships an update every 2 weeks, and PDF Document Scanner every 2 weeks. Most recently, AppLocker was updated on October 13, 2026 and PDF Document Scanner on October 8, 2026.

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