Comparison

PDFGenius vs Talk Fast

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

Head to head
About

PDFGenius

This app offers a comprehensive suite of tools for manipulating PDF documents. It allows users to combine, split, compress, convert PDFs to images, extract pages, and edit content like inserting, deleting, and reordering pages. Advanced features include password protection, page cropping, and text extraction.

Highlights
  • Combine multiple PDFs
  • Split PDFs by various criteria
  • Compress PDF file size
  • Convert PDF to images (JPG, PNG, TIFF)
  • Extract text from PDFs
  • Edit pages (insert, delete, reorder, rotate, crop)
  • Add/remove password security
Features
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PDFGenius is an easy-to-use, intuitive and powerful PDF manipulation utility app that you will ever need. PDFGenius offer features like combining PDFs, splitting PDFs into multiple files, PDF compression to reduce file size, convert PDF into images, extract pages from a PDF to create another PDF and extract text from PDF document. * * * PDFGenius for Mac is also available on the Mac App Store. * * * PDF editing features that allows you to insert new pages from images and PDF files, delete, rotate and reorder pages within PDF. In addition, you can crop and divide PDF pages, remove links, modify metadata, add/remove password security. PDFGenius performs all manipulating operations on PDF by preserving contents (i.e. structure of the file, color profiles, fonts, links, bookmarks) without losing document’s integrity and does it very fast. ◆ MERGE : Combine multiple files into single PDF document. Alternate page merge supported. ◆ SPLIT : Split PDF into multiple PDF files. Five divide criteria along with file labelling options 1) Split by number of pages per file. 2) Split by file size. 3) Split by outline level. Use outline titles as PDF filenames. 4) Split by page size. 5) Split by comma separated page range. ◆ CONVERT: - Convert PDF into each page as images (JPG, PNG, TIFF). - Specify JPEG image quality, resolution and color model. - You can save converted images into Photos Album. - Include annotations control to enable display annotations into converted images. ◆ COMPRESSION: - Compress large image and graphics heavy PDF using extensive set of options. - Controls to change JPEG quality, color model, image resolution and Optimise graphics level to decrease the file size dramatically. New Optimize graphics option removes superfluous information to reduce vector graphics heavy PDF. - Inbuilt side-by-side preview to compare original and compressed PDF for iPad. ◆ COPY/PASTE PDF pages between PDF documents. You can duplicate selected pages within PDF. ◆ EXTRACT PAGES: Reuse selected pages from one PDF document to create new PDF document. - Open to extract each PDF page as separate PDF document. ◆ INSERT: Insert new pages into existing PDF by inserting images and pages from another PDF. - Tool to insert blank page. ◆ DELETE: Delete pages from PDF file. Tool to delete blank pages. ◆ PASSWORD SECURITY: - Add or remove password security with file restriction controls. ◆ PAGE BOXES: Set CropBox and other display box margins of the PDF pages. - Options to remove white margins. - Option to divide(cut) PDF pages horizontally and vertically. ◆ REMOVE LINKS: Remove annotations, internal links, external hyperlinks. ◆ PAGE SELECTION: Most helpful page selection variations to speed up page manipulations. ◆ ARRANGE, SHUFFLE, REORDER and ROTATE PAGES ◆ Modify PDF document METADATA. ◆ Extract plain text. Much more… PDF VIEWER: - Very powerful and fast PDF reader with fully selectable and searchable text contents. - Pinch out and Pinch in to ZoomIn and ZoomOut view. - Navigate within PDF using slide over thumbnail view, outlines and Go to page feature. ◆ TRANSFER AND SHARE FILES - You can share new generated files or archive multiple files into zip. You can send file(s) as Mail attachment, Open In… another app and Send to cloud storage. - Use Copy to iTunes to save and share files with your computer. - Fully supports iPad Drag & Drop feature across the app to transfer files and images between apps. Note: PDFGenius is standalone application running natively to manipulate PDF documents securely on your iOS device. *The free version allow you to open, view and work with PDF using various operations and manipulating tools. Get Premium to enable sharing of resultant PDFs, Images and text documents without any restrictions. Privacy Policy: http://rootrisetech.com/app-privacy-policy Terms of Use(EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Talk Fast

This app allows you to quickly convert your spoken words into text messages. It offers a simple workflow to talk, stop, and then copy your transcribed message to any application. It saves your last 50 transcriptions for easy access.

Highlights
  • Speech-to-text conversion
  • Copy text to any app
  • Save last 50 transcriptions
  • Usage statistics
  • Pay-as-you-go talk time
Features
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We are a husband and wife who text each other a lot, because we love each other... a lot. We built this app for us and we have been using it to communicate by text in a whole new way... by talking! We designed Talk Fast to be the fastest and most accurate way to talk your text messages, with a simple and fluid workflow that results in your text ready to paste anywhere you need it. Just push Talk, start talking, push Stop, and your message is ready to be copied into iMessage, WhatsApp, your email, or wherever you need it. Go back and copy your old transcriptions at any time; Talk Fast saves your last 50 messages. Check your usage stats in the Settings and buy more Talk Time. When you buy Talk Time, you get 2.5 hours of talk time on world-class transcription servers hosted by OpenAI and powered by OpenAI Whisper. You may ask why we are not using a private, offline version of Whisper like many other transcription apps, or why not just use Siri? Simply, they are not as fast or as accurate. Our focus is on making this a solid daily tool that you can use for transcription - that you can truly count on. We haven't found anything else as fast or as reliable and we built Talk Fast with a lot of attention and care to speed and reliability. We do not store your audio files or transcriptions in iCloud or anywhere else besides your iPhone. Our privacy policy and OpenAI Whisper's privacy policy can be found at: https://letstalkabout.app/privacy No need to buy a subscription. You only pay for transcription time in smaller chunks, as you consume them. Try Talk Fast: you will get hooked faster than you think!

Screenshots

PDFGenius4 screens
Talk Fast4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Talk Fast at 5.0 against PDFGenius's 4.3. Talk Fast also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 63%) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 4 months). PDFGenius's advantage is ratings volume (35 vs 7) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. PDFGenius sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and Talk Fast sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Talk Fast holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: PDFGenius has 35 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 63% of PDFGenius's written reviews are positive against 100% of Talk Fast's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

PDFGenius ships an update every 4 months, Talk Fast every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on October 16, 2026.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
PDFGenius versus Talk Fast: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPDFGeniusTalk Fast
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (35 ratings)5.0 (7 ratings) — better
Positive reviews62.5% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings35 — better7
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.6 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size12 MB15 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRootRise Technologies Pvt. Ltd.John Wright

Customer experience

PDFGenius

All ratings35 ratings
Positive80.0%
Neutral5.7%
Negative14.3%
Written reviews24 reviews
Positive62.5%
Neutral4.2%
Negative33.3%

Talk Fast

All ratings7 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

PDFGenius

Subscriptions2
  • Premium : Monthly Access$0.991 Month
  • Premium : Yearly Access3 Days trial$6.991 Year
One-time1
  • Premium : Lifetime Access$9.99
1 purchases

Talk Fast

One-time1
  • Talk Time$1.99

Questions

Is PDFGenius free?
PDFGenius is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Talk Fast free?
Talk Fast is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, PDFGenius or Talk Fast?
Talk Fast is rated higher. PDFGenius averages 4.3 out of 5 from 35 ratings, while Talk Fast averages 5.0 from 7 ratings.
Do PDFGenius or Talk Fast have ads?
Neither PDFGenius nor Talk Fast shows ads.
Which is updated more often, PDFGenius or Talk Fast?
PDFGenius ships an update every 4 months, and Talk Fast every 2 weeks. Most recently, PDFGenius was updated on October 16, 2026 and Talk Fast on October 16, 2026.

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