Tot Pocket vs PDFloki
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Tot Pocket
A minimalist app for collecting and editing text across Apple devices. Organize notes with color-coded dots and enjoy seamless iCloud synchronization. Supports Markdown for web use and offers a convenient keyboard interface with count tracking.
- Cross-device text collection
- Color-coded note organization
- Dark/Light mode support
- iCloud synchronization
- Markdown support
- Keyboard text operations
- Word and character counts
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Tot is an elegant, simple way to collect & edit text across your Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch. It’s your tiny text companion! ⁕ Less Is More Tot’s single window design and simple formatting controls mean no more hunting for that chunk of text. Seven color-coded dots let you organize your notes while keeping them from getting out of hand. ⁕ Dark / Light Mode Designed to look stunning both day and night, Tot takes full advantage of iOS and macOS themes. ⁕ Small Footprint Stays out of the way on the desktop with minimal chrome and can even be controlled via the Menu bar. On mobile, each dot is just a swipe away. ⁕ iCloud Sync Seamlessly syncs your text across iOS and macOS using iCloud so you can capture thoughts wherever you are. ⁕ Markdown Support Full support for rich or plain text and even automatically translates text to Markdown for handy use on the web. Have an RTF file you need marked up? No problem! ⁕ Killer Keyboard Tot puts common text operations on the keyboard and keeps track of word and character counts as you type. Available for iOS, macOS, and watchOS.
PDFloki
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PDFloki is a privacy-first PDF toolkit for iPhone and iPad. Keep your PDF library tidy by syncing titles to filenames, compress and merge documents, make scans searchable with on-device OCR, redact, watermark, sign and fill forms — all on your device, never in the cloud. TITLES & METADATA • Title Manager — see which PDF titles match their filenames and fix them one by one or all at once, with a preview • Batch Edit — set author, subject, keywords and creator across many files • Find & Replace (regex supported), Batch Rename with tokens, bulk date correction OPTIMIZE & SECURE • Compress — six quality levels or a target size; see the estimated saving before you run it • Password — protect PDFs (with printing/copying permissions) or unlock ones you own • Redact — permanently remove sensitive text with black boxes • Flatten — burn annotations and form fields into the page • Electronic signature — draw, type or upload, and place it on any page PAGES & CONTENT • Page Manager — reorder, rotate, duplicate, delete and extract pages • Merge, Split, Crop, Normalize page size • Watermarks and stamps, headers and footers, page backgrounds • Fill PDF forms TEXT & EXPORT • Convert photos, text, Markdown, RTF and HTML to PDF • OCR with Apple Vision — 20+ languages, invisible text layer, original look preserved • Area OCR — recognize just the region you draw • Extract text; export pages as PNG, JPEG or TIFF; export metadata as CSV or JSON • Statistics, metadata validation, PDF/A compliance check, annotation summary, duplicate finder, full-text search across your library PRIVATE BY DESIGN Everything runs locally with Apple's native frameworks. No account, no uploads, no tracking. Your PDFs live in PDFloki's folder in the Files app, where you can add and remove them directly. FREE AND PRO The core tools — titles and metadata, merge, split, search, duplicate finder — are free forever. Every Pro tool is free to try for 7 days; after that PDFloki Pro is a single one-time purchase, no subscription. Works on iPhone and iPad, and on the Mac with the same tools — one Pro purchase unlocks all of them.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: PDFloki at every 10 days against Tot Pocket's every 3 weeks. 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. Tot Pocket sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and PDFloki sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Tot Pocket ships an update every 3 weeks, PDFloki every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tot Pocket | PDFloki |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (235 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 67.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 235 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 43 MB | 15 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | The Iconfactory | Andre Vidal |
Bugs and requests
Tot Pocket
Reported bugs
3 issues- Data loss when using certain features
- Keyboard issues and UI bugs
- Unreliable syncing between devices
Requested features
8 requests- Landscape mode support
- Better share/export options
- Ability to delete entire notes
- More customization options
- Apple Watch app
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- Improved Markdown support
- Timestamp for new notes
- Home screen widget
PDFloki
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Tot Pocket
- Tot for iOS and iPadOS$19.99
PDFloki
- PDFloki Pro$17.99









