Alpha Neuron vs Documents
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Alpha Neuron
This app is a comprehensive PDF tool for iOS, iPadOS, and macOS. It allows you to navigate local and cloud documents, create new PDFs, merge, rearrange, and extract pages from existing PDFs. It also offers document scanning, resizing, and compression with adjustable quality settings.
- Navigate local and drive documents
- Create and merge PDF documents
- Rearrange, rotate, and extract PDF pages
- Scan documents with automatic detection
- Resize and compress PDFs with adjustable settings
- Annotate PDFs with Apple's Markup feature
- View and share other document formats
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Documents turns your iPhone, iPad, or Mac into a simple PDF workbench. Open or scan a PDF, reshape it, then send it on its way — no subscription, no account, no clutter. Work on one document at a time. Give it pages, edit them, and share the result. Your edits are non-destructive within a session, and Undo and Redo let you step back and forth through your changes. FIVE WAYS TO EDIT • Merge — Append other PDFs or images to your document. Reorder, preview, and crop photos of pages before they're added. • Structure — Reorder pages by dragging, remove pages, add blank pages, and rotate individual pages. • Extract — Keep only the pages you choose and discard the rest. • Compress — Shrink file size with Low, Medium, or High compression, and see exactly how much space you saved. • Resize — Reshape pages to A4, Letter, Legal, or a custom size, in portrait or landscape. SCAN PAPER Use your device camera and Apple's built-in document scanner to capture pages straight into your document. EXPORT YOUR WAY Optionally password-protect your PDF, then Share it via AirDrop, Messages, and Mail — or Save to Files. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Nothing leaves your device unless you send it. No cloud sync, no accounts. Your files stay on your device while you work. ONE-TIME PURCHASE Try every feature free for 30 days. When you're ready, a single purchase unlocks the app for good — tied to your Apple ID, so it restores automatically across all your devices. No subscriptions, ever.
Documents
This app acts as a central hub for managing all your files and media on your iOS device. It offers robust features for organizing, viewing, and sharing various file types, including documents, videos, and music, all within a single, intuitive interface.
- Quick file search and organization
- File moving, deletion, and renaming
- Unzipping and copy-pasting
- Support for over 100 file formats
- Built-in web browser with private browsing
- VLC-powered video and audio player
- PDF reader and editor
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Documents: Media File Browser is a free and secure tool that allows you to find files faster, manage them easily, and share them with others offline. It includes a plethora of useful features such as quick search, file moving, deletion, opening, and sharing, as well as renaming, unzipping, and copy-pasting. The Documents - Media File Browser also supports a variety of file formats, including music, videos, images, documents, and zip files. The ultimate iPhone and iPad app. On your iPad and iPhone, you can read, listen, watch, and annotate almost anything. Files, documents, books, and any other type of content can be found in Documents - Media File Browser. It's the iOS Finder you've been waiting for. Documents are unlike any other app on the iPhone or iPad because of their incredible attention to detail, unrivaled stability, and design. Every day, you will use it at home, at the office, at university, or on the road. Take a look at the list of things Documents allows you to do. It's an app that makes your iPad and iPhone valuable! The Documents app is the most powerful app on your iOS device. It's the central location for all your files, as it replaces a document viewer, PDF reader, read it later, music and video player, file downloader, cloud integrator, and a slew of other apps in a single elegant app. => A WEB BROWSER LIKE SAFARI WITH BOOKMARKS. - Private browsing by default. - Multiple tabs custom search engine and user-agent, favorites grid. => FILE MANAGER - Edit files and organize files in folders. - Extract ZIP archives. - Work with a doc, Xls, pdf, ppt, txt, HTML, RTF, and 100+ formats. => VIDEO PLAYER - Built-in VLC video playback engine supports almost all audio and video formats, supports up to 4 times speed playback, rich audio, and video configuration - Minimal playback interface, help high-quality entertainment, Support live broadcast of global network TV stations: M3U, M3UA, RSTP, HTTP, HLS, MMS => IMPORT and SAVE FILES - Import files from your computer - Save web pages to read them later => MANAGE FILES - Search and share files - Manage your files and create folders - Zip/ unzip, rename, sort, show file information, etc => LISTEN and WATCH - Listen to music online and offline. - Watch movies by importing them from your computer or online sources - Great and easy access to your photo library => READ AND EDIT PDFs - Open Office files and eBooks, XLS, Doc, PPT, PDF - View and mark up PDFs XLS, Doc, PPT, PDF - Manage pages in your PDFs
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Alpha Neuron at none against Documents's shown. Alpha Neuron also leads on update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 50 months). Documents's advantage is review sentiment (43% vs 25%) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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. Alpha Neuron sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and Documents sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Alpha Neuron ships an update every 5 weeks, Documents every 50 months. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and September 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Alpha Neuron | Documents |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 4.5 (286 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 25.0% of reviews | 42.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 286 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks — better | Every 50 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 37 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Franco Swarts | Stephan Cullmann |
Customer experience
Alpha Neuron
Documents
In-app purchases
Alpha Neuron
- Month Membership$2.99
- License$14.99
- Year Membership$31.99
Documents
- Remove Ads$0.99
Questions
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