SCRIBZEE® vs PDF Pond
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SCRIBZEE®
Securely access all your handwritten notes from any device, anytime. This app offers high-quality scans that are automatically enhanced for clarity and readability. Organize, share, and even convert notes to PDF for easy distribution.
- Secure cloud access for notes
- High-quality automatic scanning
- Cross-device synchronization
- Note organization by subject/project
- Share notes via social media/messaging
- Convert notes to PDF
- Revision progress tracking
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ACCESS ALL YOUR HANDWRITTEN NOTES SECURELY, WHEN AND WHERE YOU NEED THEM, on your smartphone, tablet or laptop. Already more than a million people are using SCRIBZEE®. ◆ WITH SCRIBZEE® YOUR HANDWRITTEN NOTES ARE ACCESSIBLE EVERYWHERE, EVEN WHEN YOU DON’T HAVE YOUR NOTEBOOK WITH YOU ◆ Whether you’re a student or a professional on a business trip, it’s great to be able to access all your handwritten notes without having to carry your notes or notebooks around with you. With SCRIBZEE®, access your notes anywhere and at any time via the smartphone app, even in flight mode, or alternatively on a tablet, PC or Mac with SCRIBZEE® Online (www.scribzee.com). ◆ A HIGH-QUALITY SCAN EVERY TIME, BETTER THAN USING YOUR SMARTPHONE CAMERA ◆ Capturing your notes with your smartphone camera is a possibility. However, the result doesn’t often come up to expectations. The pages are crooked, slightly blurry and badly framed. Your notes get mixed up with your photos, they take up storage space and are not multipage. With SCRIBZEE® and your compatible HAMELIN product, your scan is automatically enhanced by the app, so you get a high-quality result every time: • Accurate framing of the page content, • Vertical and horizontal re-framing of the image, • Optimisation of the contrast and brightness levels Your scanned notes are always clear and fully readable, shareable, enrichable and printable. ◆ SCRIBZEE® FOR LEARNING ◆ Are you in the habit of forgetting your notebook? Have you ever misplaced study cards or had them torn to pieces by your puppy? SCRIBZEE® protects your notes so you can study wherever and whenever you need to on your smartphone. Do you wake up in the morning with study cards strewn all over your bed? Organise your notes by subject in SCRIBZEE® and study in bed using your smartphone. Fed up of seeing more pics of your notes or study cards on your smartphone than photos of your friends? Store your notes in SCRIBZEE® and free up your photo gallery for more important things. Got a friend in need? With SCRIBZEE® share your class notes or study cards with one click (Twitter, Messenger, What’s App). Have you written out so many study cards you don’t know where to start revising? With SCRIBZEE® assign a status (red, orange, green) to each card and keep track of your revision progress. ◆ SCRIBZEE® FOR BUSINESS ◆ Does your job involve long-term projects? Save and access all your notes in SCRIBZEE®. Do you manage lots of different projects? Archive your notes by subject, client or project name and find everything you need with SCRIBZEE®’s search function. Do you frequently attend meetings then need to send out the meeting notes quickly? With SCRIBZEE® no more typing out handwritten notes, just convert to PDF and share instantly. Do you find your notes or meeting minutes easily get mixed up? Keep your notes under control access them faster by linking them to the appointments in your calendar. ◆ SCRIBZEE® IS ALSO ◆ • A free app. • Exclusively available with your favourite HAMELIN notebook. • Includes dedicated, unlimited free cloud storage space. • Totally secure. Your notes are encrypted and only readable by you. • Allows you to create automatic reminders for your important notes. • Add photos from your smartphone to enrich your handwritten notes. • And much more. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
PDF Pond
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PDF Pond is a temporary workspace for making one PDF from the pieces you already have. Bring in PDFs from Files, photos from your library, or new scans. Each source stays recognizable while you arrange the document. Open a source and it becomes its pages. Reorder them, rotate them, remove what you don't need, and add new material exactly where it belongs. Then preview the finished PDF and send it. When the job is done, the Pond empties itself. No document library. No folders. No history to clean up. The finished document goes wherever you send it. PDF Pond does not keep a copy. BRING IT TOGETHER • Combine PDFs, photos and scans • Keep imported documents together as recognizable sources • Open any source to arrange individual pages • Add material at any point in the document • Reorder, rotate and remove pages • Preview the finished PDF before sending • Save or share with the iOS system share sheet A WORKSPACE, NOT A LIBRARY PDF Pond is deliberately temporary. Bring in the material. Arrange it. Send it. Once a completed document leaves, the workspace is empty again. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Everything is processed on your device. No account. No tracking. No ads. No document uploads. TRY THE WHOLE JOB Your first complete document is free. Make it, arrange it, preview it and send it from start to finish. If you come back to make another, PDF Pond is available as a one-time lifetime unlock. No subscription.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: SCRIBZEE® at 15.0 against PDF Pond's 26.0. On price, ads, 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. SCRIBZEE® sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and PDF Pond sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | SCRIBZEE® | PDF Pond |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.8 (180 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 53.4% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 180 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Monthly | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 157 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Hamelin SAS | Even Kildal |
Bugs and requests
SCRIBZEE®
Reported bugs
5 issues- App fails to open or get stuck on loading screen
- Issues with account creation and password reset
- Scanned notes not saving or disappearing
- Inconsistent behavior when scanning multiple pages
- Compatibility problems with certain device models
Requested features
5 requests- Add sub-folder support for better organization
- Improve handwriting recognition accuracy
- Implement a more user-friendly interface
- Allow scanning of non-proprietary notebooks
- Integrate with popular note-taking apps
PDF Pond
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
SCRIBZEE®
- Scribzee+ monthly subscription$3.991 Month
- Scribzee+ monthly subscription$6.991 Month
- Scribzee+ annual subscription$24.991 Year
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- Scribzee+ annual subscription$39.991 Year
PDF Pond
- Keep PDF Fond$3.99









