PDForms vs One Tool Box
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
PDForms
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Now you can have your new patients fill out their paperwork from the iPad. Handover your iPad to have your patients sign their treatment consent forms electronically when in office.
One Tool Box
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One Tool Box brings together the everyday utilities you'd otherwise need a dozen separate apps for โ documents, PDFs, photos, audio, and more โ in one fast, focused app that never leaves your device. DOCUMENTS & PDF - Scan documents with auto-straightening and clean output - Sign PDFs by hand, place and flatten your signature - Merge, organize, reorder, and page-number PDFs - Compress PDFs while keeping text sharp - Password-protect PDFs and add watermarks - Convert PDFs to images and images to PDF - Copy IDs and passports to a print-ready sheet PHOTOS & IMAGES - Retouch: heal blemishes, censor, adjust, apply filters and crop - Remove backgrounds automatically - Compress and convert between image formats - Add watermarks, stitch panoramas, compare images side by side - Crop to circles, split into grids, read EXIF data - Pick colors from any photo - Passport and ID photos sized to spec AUDIO & FILES - Transcribe recordings to text, fully on-device - Convert audio and video between common formats - Encrypt and decrypt files and folders, interoperable with your computer - A private vault for sensitive documents - OCR: pull text out of scanned pages and images - Translate text between languages - Word count and text utilities FOR LIFE IN FRANCE - Income tax and mileage allowance calculators - VAT calculator - IBAN checker - Administrative letters and attestations, ready to send - Notaire and calendar helpers Everything happens locally on your device: no accounts, no ads, no analytics, no data collection of any kind. One Tool Box contains no networking code whatsoever, so nothing you scan, sign, encrypt, or transcribe can ever leave your device. One purchase. Every tool. Nothing else needed.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: PDForms at none against One Tool Box's 1. PDForms also leads on iOS requirement (14.0 vs 18.4). One Tool Box's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 2 months). On price, ads and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS
Both are free to download. One Tool Box sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. PDForms asks for nothing beyond the download.
PDForms ships an update every 2 months, One Tool Box fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on September 17, 2026 and September 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PDForms | One Tool Box |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Fortnightly โ better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No โ better | Yes |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad โ better |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 โ better | 18.4 |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 11 MB | 15 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Pavan Chakka | ๅ ๆฑค |
In-app purchases
PDForms
No in-app purchases
One Tool Box
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