Comparison

PDF Reader vs Quick Draw

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

Head to head
About

PDF Reader

This app offers a superior PDF reading experience with its innovative Liquid Mode, which optimizes documents for mobile screens. It also provides robust tools for annotating, signing, managing, and sharing your PDF files, catering to both work and study needs.

Highlights
  • Liquid Mode for optimized mobile reading
  • Annotation tools (pencil, text, highlighting)
  • Handwritten signature insertion
  • File management (move, merge, copy, delete)
  • Cloud service integration (Wondershare, iCloud)
  • Create blank PDFs and folders
Features
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PDFelement - PDF Reader is a PDF reader using the latest technology. The newly connected Liquid Mode function allows you to enjoy the best reading experience. In addition, there are various annotation tools, file management, signature, Various functions such as cloud services can meet your PDF needs in work and study. PDF VIEWER • Liquid Mode gives you the best PDF reading experience • Star files to find them quickly • Easily locate recently accessed files in the "Recent" list. • Enter the page number to navigate to the desired page for viewing LIQUID MODE • Get the best PDF Reading experience with Liquid Mode • PDF document fully fits the mobile phone screen, no need to zoom in and out repeatedly. • Easily adjust brightness, font size,style, and spacing. ANNOTATE • Using Pencil to annotate like writing on the paper • Add text annotations, freely modify the text and background, border colors, choose the appropriate font and font size. • Supports many annotating tools like highlighting, underlining, squiggly lines, or strikethroughs. MANAGE • Move, merge, copy or delete files SIGNATURE • Enables handwritten signatures to be inserted anywhere within the document, while also offering the ability to zoom in and out for greater flexibility. • Built-in commonly used stamps CREATE • Quickly create completely blank PDF documents • Creat blank folders. SHARE • Sharing document content with others is just a click away with capture feature. • Select sentence(s) or pragraph(s) to share CLOUD SERVICE • PDF Reader supports uploading or downloading docs via computer, Wondershare document cloud and iCloud. Please note that this app only supports editing native PDF files. It does not support editing scanned or raster PDF. If you find you cannot edit text in PDF, please check if it is scanned PDF. Thank you! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Need HELP? Please contact us! We'll feedback to you ASAP. Email: pdfelement@wondershare.com Support Center: http://support.wondershare.com Forum: http://forum.pdf.wondershare.com Official Website: https://pdf.wondershare.com If you think this App helps you, your positive review in the App Store would be much appreciated.

About

Quick Draw

Easily draw and annotate directly on web pages within the Safari browser. This tool allows for immediate on-screen drawing, making it simple to highlight or mark up content as you browse.

Highlights
  • Draw on web pages
  • Safari browser extension
  • On-screen annotation
  • Immediate drawing capability
Features
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Quick Draw - Need a tool to draw quickly on web pages? You are coming to the right place! Quick Draw is a wonderful tool that can help you to draw everything you want immediately on screen through Safari browser. ( base on new Safari Extensions ). Quick Draw is really useful and suitable for every person to use. PURCHASE RIGHT AWAY! WITH ONLY 1.99$ to own this marvelous tool for permanence.

Screenshots

PDF Reader4 screens
Quick Draw4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: PDF Reader at 77% against Quick Draw's 30%. PDF Reader also leads on price (Free vs $1.99) and rating (4.3 vs 3.0). Quick Draw's advantage is update cadence (daily vs every 2 months). On ads, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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

PDF Reader is free to download; Quick Draw costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

PDF Reader holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: PDF Reader has 3.9K ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 77% of PDF Reader's written reviews are positive against 30% of Quick Draw's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

PDF Reader ships an update every 2 months, Quick Draw daily. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
PDF Reader versus Quick Draw: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPDF ReaderQuick Draw
PriceFree — better$1.99
Rating4.3 (3.9K ratings) — better3.0 (6 ratings)
Positive reviews76.7% of reviews — better30.0% of reviews
Number of ratings3.9K — better6
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size173 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperWondershare Technology (Hunan) Co.,Ltd.Mai Tuan Viet

Customer experience

PDF Reader

All ratings3,923 ratings
Positive83.1%
Neutral3.2%
Negative13.7%
Written reviews1,582 reviews
Positive76.7%
Neutral6.1%
Negative17.2%

Quick Draw

All ratings6 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews10 reviews
Positive30.0%
Neutral10.0%
Negative60.0%

Bugs and requests

PDF Reader

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Text boxes appearing randomly
  • Inability to select/edit text in some PDFs
  • Scrolling issues and page loading delays
  • Incompatibility with certain PDF formats

Requested features

5 requests
  • Ability to edit text formatting (font, size, color)
  • Support for multiple open documents
  • Improved Apple Pencil integration
  • Bookmark/favorite feature for frequently used PDFs
  • Expanded cloud storage integration (OneDrive, Google Drive, etc.)

Quick Draw

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

PDF Reader

No in-app purchases

None

Quick Draw

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is PDF Reader free?
PDF Reader is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Quick Draw free?
Quick Draw costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, PDF Reader or Quick Draw?
PDF Reader is rated higher. PDF Reader averages 4.3 out of 5 from 3.9K ratings, while Quick Draw averages 3.0 from 6 ratings.
Do PDF Reader or Quick Draw have ads?
Neither PDF Reader nor Quick Draw shows ads.
Which is updated more often, PDF Reader or Quick Draw?
PDF Reader ships an update every 2 months, and Quick Draw daily. Most recently, PDF Reader was updated on October 18, 2026 and Quick Draw on October 11, 2026.

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