SimpleEdit vs PDFr
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SimpleEdit
This is a straightforward plain text editor that allows you to open and edit various text files. It offers a view-only mode for data detection and a rewind feature to restore original file states. The app supports customization of fonts and keyboard types for a personalized editing experience.
- Open text files from Files app
- View-only mode with data detection
- Rewind button to revert changes
- Supports dark mode and multiwindow
- Customizable font family and size
- System font picker integration
- Switchable native iOS keyboard types
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A simple plain text editor built using SwiftUI. Features: • Open any text file or compatible data files as UTF8 encoded text from the Files app. • Enter view-only mode for data detection (links, phone numbers, addresses, …). • Rewind button to revert files to their original state. • Supports dark mode, multiwindow, and state restoration. • Customise font family & size used for editing. • Select fonts using the system font picker, which shows fonts installed in the Settings app. (Settings → General → Fonts) • Switch between native iOS keyboard types (default, number pad, phone pad, URL, web search, Twitter, …).
PDFr
This app allows you to scan documents, convert them to PDF, and edit existing PDF files. You can also add watermarks, signatures, and annotations, as well as manage pages and merge files.
- Scan and convert documents to PDF
- Edit PDF files
- Add watermarks and signatures
- Annotate PDFs
- Manage pages and files
- Compress and merge PDFs
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PDFr combines all the available functionality, allowing you to work with documents quickly and almost in one movement. It makes absolutely no difference what exactly you will use PDFr for: studying at school or university, work, signing papers and preparing contracts or just saving important data in a convenient format - you can do it all with one application. List of Pdfr functions: -Scan and convert photos and any types of docs into PDF. -Edit the PDF file. -Use Watermark / Sign / Fill files. -Annotate PDFs. -Reposition, delete pages and files. -Compress PDF files. -Merge files and pages.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: PDFr at 5.0 against SimpleEdit's 3.5. PDFr also leads on review sentiment (93% vs 62%) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 26). SimpleEdit's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 3 months) and ratings volume (22 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
Both are free to download. SimpleEdit sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and PDFr sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
PDFr holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: SimpleEdit has 22 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 62% of SimpleEdit's written reviews are positive against 93% of PDFr's.
SimpleEdit ships an update every 3 weeks, PDFr every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and June 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SimpleEdit | PDFr |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.5 (22 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 61.5% of reviews | 92.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 22 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 26 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 26 MB | 86 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jamie Froggatt | KARINA ROZITE |
Customer experience
SimpleEdit
PDFr
In-app purchases
SimpleEdit
- Small Tip$0.99
- Medium Tip$3.99
- Generous Tip$9.99
PDFr
- Weekly trial3 Days trial$3.997 Days
- Week$4.997 Days
- 3-day Trial3 Days trial$5.997 Days
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- Month$9.991 Month
- Offer$19.991 Year
- pdf editor$29.991 Year
