PDF Reader vs ADHD Cricket
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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.
ADHD Cricket
This app provides gentle, periodic chirps to help users stay focused on their tasks. It allows customization of intervals, sounds, and active hours, running quietly in the background to offer a subtle reminder to check task alignment.
- Customizable focus intervals
- Choice of ambient sounds
- Adjustable pitch and volume
- Scheduled operation during active hours
- Background operation
- Simple and intuitive interface
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Stay focused, stay on track. ADHD Cricket gently chirps at regular intervals through your day — a small nudge to pause and ask: "Am I still on task?" If your attention tends to wander, those regular check-ins make a real difference. No nagging, no clutter — just a friendly cricket chirp to bring you back. How it works: • Set your active days and hours • Pick your interval (every 5 minutes to every 2 hours) • Choose your sound — cricket, bird, or sine — with pitch and volume to taste • Press Start and get on with your day Pro tip: keep a notepad handy. When you hear the chirp, jot down what you've been doing, then refocus. Runs quietly in the background — it chirps on schedule even when your phone is locked, and rests outside your chosen hours. Simple, calm, and built to fit around your life.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: ADHD Cricket at 5.0 against PDF Reader's 4.3. ADHD Cricket also leads on update cadence (every 9 days vs every 2 months) and review sentiment (100% vs 77%). PDF Reader's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (3.9K vs 1). On price, in-app purchases and device support 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.
ADHD Cricket holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: PDF Reader has 3.9K ratings behind it against 1, 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 100% of ADHD Cricket's.
PDF Reader ships an update every 2 months, ADHD Cricket every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PDF Reader | ADHD Cricket |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (3.9K ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 76.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3.9K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 173 MB | 27 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Wondershare Technology (Hunan) Co.,Ltd. | ANDREW JONATHON TAYLOR |
Customer experience
PDF Reader
ADHD Cricket
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.)
ADHD Cricket
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
PDF Reader
No in-app purchases
ADHD Cricket
No in-app purchases
Questions
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