WidgetPack vs PDF Search PRO
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
WidgetPack
Design custom widgets for your device's home screen using powerful shortcut integration. Utilize a variety of built-in elements and effects to personalize your widgets with any information.
- Create custom widgets
- Utilize Shortcuts integration
- Modify built-in examples
- Design from scratch
- Add images and symbols
- Apply text effects and shadows
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Create your own Widgets with Shortcuts. With WidgetPack you can use the power of Shortcuts to design your own widgets. Use and modify the built-in examples to get started, or create a widget from scratch and unleash your creativity. WidgetPack has many elements built-in including images, symbols, text and more. All the elements can be transformed with shadow, colors and effects to create exactly the widgets you want. Shortcuts integration means you can take any kind of information and display it on your homescreen.
PDF Search PRO
This app offers a powerful solution for searching through multiple documents quickly using AI and NLP. It includes features like OCR for text recognition in scanned documents and images, and allows for unified searching across devices.
- AI-powered document search
- Natural Language Processing (NLP)
- Built-in OCR for text recognition
- Document scanning to PDF
- Exportable search results
- Cross-device syncing
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PDF Search PRO turns everything you own into a library you can search in the time it takes to type. Books, textbooks, lecture notes, contracts, papers and manuals, all ranked by how well they answer you. Ask a question in plain words and get an answer, with the exact pages it came from. Everything is included from the first launch. No subscription, no in-app purchases, no ads. Built for people who live in documents: students, lawyers and researchers. ASK YOUR LIBRARY ANYTHING AI Chat answers questions about your library in plain language. Ask "can I end my lease early?" and it searches your documents, reads the pages that matter, and answers, citing the page each fact came from so you can check it yourself. • Chat about your whole library, or the one document you are reading • Every answer carries page references you can tap • Conversations are saved, so you can pick one up later • Runs on your device, or on Apple's Private Cloud Compute AI Chat needs Apple Intelligence: an iPhone 15 Pro or later, or an iPad with an M-series chip, running iOS 26 or later. A FINDER THAT RANKS, NOT JUST MATCHES Ordinary search tells you a word exists somewhere. PDF Search PRO scores every page on how well it answers you: where the words appear, how close together they are, whether they land in a heading. The strongest pages come first. • Every ranked result, grouped by book or document • Jump straight to the page, your words highlighted in context • Search everything at once, or narrow to a folder or tag • Search only the table of contents, match case, skip duplicates • Export and share results LANGUAGE, NOT JUST LETTERS The indexer understands the shape of a word. Look for "hike" and find "hiking"; look for "children" and find "child". Plurals, stems and near matches are covered too. WORDS LOCKED IN IMAGES Text recognition reads photographed pages, scanned contracts and screenshots of slides, and adds every word to your index. A photo of a page becomes as searchable as the page itself, in every language your device supports. The built-in scanner turns paper, notes and cards into PDFs and files them with everything else, searchable from the moment they land. NOTES, HIGHLIGHTS AND MARKUP • Highlight, underline and strike through while you read • Bookmarks with notes, gathered in one place across every book • A document's table of contents, for moving around a long textbook quickly AN ORGANIZER FOR A LARGE LIBRARY • Folders on device or in iCloud, plus any folder or file you point it at • Tags, to cut across folders however you think • Index status at a glance: what is indexed and what is queued • PDFs alongside Word and PowerPoint, Pages and Keynote, rich text, plain text, source code and saved web pages YOUR MAC, IN YOUR POCKET Run PDF Search on your Mac and sync over Wi-Fi with a single click. Documents come across with their index intact, so your iPhone or iPad does not have to do the work twice. OFFLINE AND PRIVATE Indexing and search happen entirely on your device and work without a connection. No account and no tracking. Your documents stay yours. PAY ONCE PDF Search PRO is a one-time purchase. Every feature above is yours on every iPhone and iPad signed in to your Apple Account, with no renewals. Privacy Policy: https://pdfsearch.mozkan.com/privacy.html Terms of Use: https://pdfsearch.mozkan.com/terms.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: WidgetPack at $4.99 against PDF Search PRO's $44.99. WidgetPack also leads on update cadence (weekly vs monthly). PDF Search PRO's advantage is rating (4.6 vs 3.4) and review sentiment (80% vs 50%). On ratings volume, 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
WidgetPack costs $4.99 and PDF Search PRO $44.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
PDF Search PRO holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 17 and 9 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of WidgetPack's written reviews are positive against 80% of PDF Search PRO's.
WidgetPack ships an update weekly, PDF Search PRO monthly. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.
| Parameter | WidgetPack | PDF Search PRO |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 — better | $44.99 |
| Rating | 3.4 (17 ratings) | 4.6 (9 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 80.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 17 — better | 9 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 15 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Bouke van der Bijl | Muharrem Ozkan |
Customer experience
WidgetPack
PDF Search PRO
In-app purchases
WidgetPack
No in-app purchases
PDF Search PRO
No in-app purchases
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