Troutt vs PatchDoc
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Troutt
Connect with people nearby and globally through a proximity-based news feed. Share your digital footprints from other platforms and use a virtual contact card for easy connections. Customize your app experience with unique gradients.
- Proximity-based news feed
- Virtual contact card
- Digital footprint integration
- QR code connections
- App customization with gradients
- No ads
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Troutt Organize your life in one place. Capture notes, track tasks, and finish what you start. Create collections for work, recipes, plans, or anything else. Add notes and to-dos, check them off, and find them later with search. Pick a style that fits you. Switch themes anytime. Stay organized. Stay on it.
PatchDoc
A versatile document editor and viewer for iPhone and iPad. Quickly edit text, code, and CSV files, preview PDFs and Office documents, and extract archives. Streamline your mobile file management.
- Text and code editing with syntax highlighting
- CSV table browsing and editing
- HTML source editing with live preview
- PDF viewing with annotations
- Preview for Office documents and images
- Archive browsing and extraction
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Patchdoc is a local file tool for iPhone and iPad, designed to open, edit, preview, save and organize all common documents. Core Features - Edit TXT, Markdown, JSON, YAML, CSV, XML, HTML, SVG, LaTeX, source code and configuration files - Create new files including TXT, Markdown, Python, C++ and other code documents - Markdown: toggle between source code and preview modes; export as HTML or PDF - HTML: toggle between source code and preview modes; export to PDF - PDF tools: reading, annotation, signature, image/text stickers, page management, cropping, compression and format conversion - Archive support: preview directories and inner files inside ZIP, RAR, 7Z, TAR archives, plus decompression - Image editor: crop, rotate, color adjustment, text overlay, brush drawing and mosaic blur - Video toolkit: playback, frame capture, rotation, mute audio, compressed export and SRT subtitle preview - Built-in local storage: create folders, import files, search, move, rename, delete, compress, pin items, add notes, and transfer files over LAN - WebDAV / FTP access: read-only browsing with file import; mount external folders or single files - Home screen widgets for quick shortcuts
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Troutt at none against PatchDoc's 1. Troutt also leads on ratings volume (18 vs 6). PatchDoc's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 3 weeks). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads 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. PatchDoc sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Troutt asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Troutt against 5.0 for PatchDoc. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 18 and 6 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Troutt ships an update every 3 weeks, PatchDoc every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on September 29, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Troutt | PatchDoc |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (18 ratings) | 5.0 (6 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 18 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 60 MB | 35 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Caelum Mercer LLC | 夏骏 倪 |
Customer experience
Troutt
PatchDoc
In-app purchases
Troutt
No in-app purchases
PatchDoc
- 终身会员$0.99
