DigiLocker vs Paradoc
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
DigiLocker
A secure digital wallet for citizens to store and access important documents and certificates. This platform aims to reduce the need for physical paperwork by enabling digital issuance and verification.
- Secure document storage
- Digital certificate issuance
- Document verification
- Paperless governance
- Mobile access to documents
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DigiLocker – A simple and secure document wallet for Citizens. DigiLocker is a key initiative under Digital India, the Government of India's flagship program aimed at transforming India into a digitally empowered society and knowledge economy. Targeted at the idea of paperless governance, DigiLocker is a platform for issuance and verification of documents & certificates in a digital way, thus eliminating the use of physical documents. The DigiLocker website can be accessed at https://digitallocker.gov.in/. You can now access your documents and certificates from your DigiLocker on your mobile devices.
Paradoc
This app transforms photos of documents into high-quality PDFs, offering a suite of tools for editing, organizing, and securing your files. It handles complex PDF types, including encrypted and form-filled documents, all processed locally on your device without needing an internet connection.
- On-device AI-powered scanning
- Merge, split, compress PDFs
- Convert PDFs to images
- Encrypt and unlock PDFs
- Handle encrypted and restricted PDFs
- Fillable form support
- Organize and reorder pages
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Paradoc turns a photo of paper into a clean PDF, then does everything else a PDF needs: merge, split, compress, organize, convert, lock, unlock. All of it on your iPhone. No account. No subscription. No ads. Nothing is uploaded. Put your iPhone in airplane mode and every feature still works. A SCANNER THAT UNDERSTANDS PAPER Point the camera at a page. Paradoc finds the edges, squares up the perspective and runs an on-device neural network that lifts shadows and uneven lighting out of the photo, so a page shot on a desk under a lamp comes out looking like it went through a flatbed. It was built and tested on the things people actually scan, not just clean white sheets: receipts, ID cards, book pages, whiteboards, coloured paper. BUILT FOR THE PDFs THAT USUALLY BREAK THINGS Plenty of apps handle the easy files. Paradoc was engineered for the rest: • Encrypted PDFs. Opens password-protected files, including legacy RC4 and AES-128 ones, and keeps them encrypted through Split, Organize and Compress, upgraded to AES-256 on output. • Owner-restricted PDFs. Files locked against printing or copying are detected and handled, no password required. • Digitally signed PDFs. Paradoc checks for signatures before touching a file and warns you when an edit would invalidate one. Certified documents are left untouched. • PDF/A archives. The conformance claim is detected and flagged before you change the file. • Fillable forms. Merge two forms with the same field names and the result still works: clashing fields are renamed, radio groups and nested fields survive, and filled-in values are preserved through Compress. • Rotated pages, PDF 1.4 through 2.0, linearized files, object streams, files up to 100 MB. • Compress keeps what matters: annotations, form values, bookmarks, tagged structure, page labels, named destinations, attachments, CMYK and ICC colour, and the title and author metadata. • Damaged or truncated files get a clear error, never a crash. SEVEN TOOLS SCAN: Camera or photo library, up to 20 pages per document, saved as Auto, Grayscale or Original. MERGE: Up to 20 files in the order you choose, with per-file passwords for encrypted inputs. SPLIT: Pull a page range out into its own file. Encryption is preserved. COMPRESS: Three presets (Light, Balanced, Maximum). Image re-encoding, font subsetting and object-stream repacking, the same techniques desktop tools use. Document metadata is kept. ORGANIZE: Reorder, delete and rotate pages from a thumbnail grid. Rotation composes correctly with pages that were already rotated. PDF TO IMAGE: Export pages as JPEG at up to 600 DPI with selectable quality, up to 20 pages per export. PROTECT / UNLOCK: Lock a PDF with AES-256, the strongest encryption the PDF standard defines. Unlock removes a password you know or clears owner-only restrictions. The scanner runs on neural networks that ship inside the app and never leave it. The six PDF tools run on Paradoc's own extended build of the open-source PDFium engine, rewriting files at the byte level rather than re-rendering them, so text stays text and vectors stay vectors. PRIVATE BY ARCHITECTURE Paradoc makes no network requests. There is no server, so there is nothing to breach and nothing to retain. Your tax return, your contract, your passport scan: none of it needs to visit someone else's computer to be merged, shrunk or locked. The work happens where the file already is. Available in English, Hindi, Spanish, Chinese, Arabic, Portuguese, Russian and Hebrew, with full right-to-left layout.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Paradoc at 5.0 against DigiLocker's 3.3. Paradoc also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 3 weeks). DigiLocker's advantage is ratings volume (190 vs 1) 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Paradoc holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: DigiLocker has 190 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
DigiLocker ships an update every 3 weeks, Paradoc every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | DigiLocker | Paradoc |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.3 (190 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 35.6% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 190 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 112 MB | 108 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | National e-Governance Division | Vaibhav Teli |
Customer experience
DigiLocker
Paradoc
Bugs and requests
DigiLocker
Reported bugs
24 issues- App keeps logging out after seconds of authentication
- OTP delivery failures and invalid OTP errors
- App crashes when opening Aadhaar documents
- Blank white screens on login/signup
- App crashes on iOS 18 and iOS 26.2 versions
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- Crashes after recent updates
- Continue button not disabling after tap, causing multiple API requests
- Session timeout errors preventing login
- Document loading failures with 'something went wrong' error
- Aadhaar card retrieval failures
- Driving license fetching issues
- Name mismatch preventing document retrieval
- Documents not visible in app despite being added via web
- App not opening after update
- Verification button not clickable
- Password reset freezing during input
- Inconsistent document availability across devices
- Spam increase after app usage
- Wrong user data being pulled
- App not picking up vehicle RC and insurance data
- Cancelled error message on Aadhaar retrieval
- Invalid input error after account creation
- Dark mode text visibility issues
- Back button too small with no swipe navigation
Requested features
19 requests- Email-based authentication option
- Automatic session logout after inactivity
- Folder creation for document organization
- Bulk document deletion capability
- Support for additional document types (voter ID, APAAR ID, state-specific certificates)
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- PDF file upload support
- Document sharing/transfer between devices
- Offline document access
- Touch ID/Face ID integration
- Name change support for married women
- International accessibility for NRIs
- Integration with banks and property registration databases
- Shareable document links for applications
- Handicap documentation section
- Vehicle insurance and PUC certificate support
- Passport digital option
- Disable button after single tap to prevent multiple requests
- Allow paste functionality for Aadhaar entry
- Rectangular document upload format support
Paradoc
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
DigiLocker
No in-app purchases
Paradoc
No in-app purchases









