Comparison

Documents vs PDF Reader Pro

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Documents

This mobile office suite and file manager allows users to edit and manage spreadsheets, text, and image files on their iPhone and iPad. It offers online and offline functionality, with seamless integration for transferring files between cloud storage services and computers.

Highlights
  • Edit spreadsheets, text, and image files
  • File management
  • Cloud storage integration (iCloud, Google Docs, Dropbox)
  • File transfer via USB and WiFi
  • Works online and offline
  • Create, view, and manage photos
Features
Currently charting
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Documents - by SavySoda™ • Take your documents anywhere • • Downloaded by over 50 MILLION iOS users • • Now with full latest iOS, Watch, Widget, iCloud Support • WE ARE MAKING DOCUMENTS THE ABSOLUTE CHEAPEST FULL OFFICE & DOCUMENTS MANAGEMENT SUITE FOR THE IPHONE! now everyone can have full documents functionality on their iPhone and iPad! Introducing the iPhone's only light weight mobile office suite and file manager. This essential application allows you to edit and manage spreadsheet, text, and image files on your iPhone. Works both online and offline. You can transfer files between your iCloud, Google Docs and Dropbox accounts; and you can transfer files to your PC or Mac using USB and WiFi. Created files can be opened using Microsoft Word and Excel, Open Office, Numbers, and all major office suites. Works with Dropbox™ Works with Microsoft OneDrive™ Works with Google Drive™ INCLUDES • iSpreadsheet (a premier spreadsheet app) • Text Editor (to edit basic text) • File Manager (browse and manage your files) • Google Sync (to upload/download documents) • Dropbox (manage dropbox files) • Instant Email (send those files to your boss) BONUS EXTRAS • Photo Album (a easier way to organize photos) FEATURES • Smooth User Interface • Portrait & Landscape mode • Full support for .txt and .csv files • Limited support for .doc, .xls files via Google Docs • Google upload & download • Created files can be opened in Microsoft Excel, Word, Apple Numbers, TextEdit, Notepad, Openoffice & all leading office suites. • Create, View & Manage Photos and Documents • Works anywhere online or offline. • Spreadsheet supports formulas, formatting, resizing, and all basic spreadsheet features. • Beautiful UI. • Free updates SOME USES • Lightweight office work on the run • Backup of documents • Quick access to spreadsheets, notes, memos • Basic word processing • Pocket Spreadsheet COMING SOON - Support for more file types - Additional functions & features iPhone Office Apps http://www.savysoda.com/Documents/

About

PDF Reader Pro

This app offers comprehensive tools for managing PDF documents on mobile devices. It allows users to read, edit text and images, annotate, fill forms, convert to various formats, compress files, and perform OCR. Organize, protect, and share your PDFs with ease.

Highlights
  • Read PDFs with multiple viewing options
  • Edit PDF text and images
  • Annotate with highlights, notes, and drawings
  • Fill out PDF forms
  • Convert PDFs to Word, Excel, and other formats
  • Perform OCR on PDFs
  • Compress PDF file sizes
Features
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PDF Reader Pro helps much for anyone who reads, edit, highlights, OCR, signs, converts, creates, protects, compresses and fills out PDFs on their iPhone and iPad. It also makes it easy to organize, annotate and edit your PDFs. Import files from your computer or the cloud, then complete forms, add freehand drawings and audio notes and more. PDF Reader Pro offers even more - merge and combine multiple documents, split your PDFs, insert pages from another PDF, insert photos or hyperlinks to your PDFs, Convert PDF to Word and other Microsoft Office® formats. With support for reading files from popular productivity suites, it’s a convenient way to take the office anywhere you go. PDF Reader Pro Edition for Professional is your last choice of PDF application. READ ・ View PDFs with various themes like night mode to comfort your eyes. ・ Choose vertically/horizontally scroll pages or single pages/two pages/book mode. ・ Support crop mode, tabbed PDF reading, continuous page view, auto scroll and more. ・ Use text-to-speech feature to read selected text with no time limits. ・ Easy content navigation with bookmarks/outlines. ・ Fast files Printing to directly print PDFs from your device. ・ DRM, supports Vitrium* protected PDF files. ANNOTATE ・ Annotate PDFs with highlight, underline, strikethrough, note, freehand, text box, anchored note, rectangle, circle, line etc. ・ Create multiple signatures with trackpad, keyboard or images. ・ Insert pre-designed stamps such as Approved, Confidential and more. ・ Support to link any part of the text to a different page, email or website. ・ Share your annotated PDFs with others via PDF documents/Flattened copy/ Summary/ Original PDF. EDIT PDF ・Edit PDF text. Easily fix typos or other inaccurate content. Fast change the font color, size and style. ・Modify PDF images such as cropping, rotating, deleting, replacing, etc. Easily resize or move images for a better layout. ・Add and edit watermarks to keep your PDFs safe and professional. Watermark tiling is supported. ・Extract images from PDFs. ・Create a Flattened copy to flatten PDF to make the contents static. PAGE EDITOR ・ Merge & Split PDFs available, split documents into multiple documents or combine multiple pages into a new one. ・ Extract the desired pages to create a new PDF. ・ Insert blank pages / another PDF to import specified content. ・ Rotate, rearrange, add, and delete PDF pages. Fill FORMS ・ Work with static PDF forms created in Adobe Acrobat. ・ Fill out any PDF forms with interactive fields such as text fields, checkboxes, radio buttons, combo boxes, list boxes, etc. CONVERT PDF · Export from PDF to Microsoft Word (.docx), PowerPoint (.pptx), Excel (.xlsx), RTF, Text, Image, HTML, CSV, and more Offline. ・ Convert MS Office documents, iWorks, web content, and images to PDFs. ・ Create a new PDF as a blank PDF / from your clipboard content. COMPRESS PDFs ・ Compress large PDFs to reduce file size. PDF size-reduction for easily sharing. OCR · OCR pdfs to convert scanned PDF files or pictures into editable and searchable PDFs or TXT files. 50+ languages supported! PROTECT CONTENT WITH PASSWORD AND ENCRYPTION ・ Passcode to prevent unauthorized use of PDF Reader Pro. ・ Encrypt to protect your PDF files from unauthorized reading with a password. SCANNER ・Make continuous scans and automatically detect edges of scanned objects. Text-to-Speech ・ Support a total of 36 voices for 26 languages. WORK IN THE CLOUD ・ Store and secure files on iCloud Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, Google Drive, Evernote, Box, FTP, WebDav, etc. Backup Files between iOS Devices, Mac and PC ・ Connect your iPhone/iPad with a desktop for transferring files using USB or WiFi connection. Support Various File Types ・ MS Office, iWork, image files ・ Compressed files (zip, rar) ・ audio and video files ・ Other file formats Have any feedback? Please contact us directly at support@pdfreaderpro.com Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Documents4 screens
PDF Reader Pro4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: PDF Reader Pro at Free against Documents's $4.99. Documents's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 6) and ads (none vs shown). On rating, update cadence, device support and iOS requirement 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

PDF Reader Pro is free to download; Documents costs $4.99 up front. PDF Reader Pro sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $39.99 per year. Documents asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for Documents against 4.4 for PDF Reader Pro. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Documents has 4.5K ratings behind it against 437, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 72% of Documents's written reviews are positive against 64% of PDF Reader Pro's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
Documents versus PDF Reader Pro: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDocumentsPDF Reader Pro
Price$4.99Free — better
Rating4.5 (4.5K ratings) — better4.4 (437 ratings)
Positive reviews71.9% of reviews — better63.7% of reviews
Number of ratings4.5K — better437
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 2 months
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank#140 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better13.0
Further details — not scored
Size41 MB194 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSavy Soda Pty LtdPDF Technologies, Inc.

Customer experience

Documents

All ratings4,487 ratings
Positive88.7%
Neutral3.6%
Negative7.6%
Written reviews1,180 reviews
Positive71.9%
Neutral7.6%
Negative20.5%

PDF Reader Pro

All ratings437 ratings
Positive85.8%
Neutral3.9%
Negative10.3%
Written reviews328 reviews
Positive63.7%
Neutral5.2%
Negative31.1%

User reviews

Documents

From 4.5K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Easy to use
  • 🚀 Efficient document management
  • 🔒 Secure storage of important files
  • 💡 Convenient for on-the-go access to documents
  • 👍 Reliable and dependable app

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Occasional crashes or freezes
  • 🐛 Issues with font/formatting changes
  • 🐛 Problems opening certain file types
  • 🔋 High battery consumption
  • 🐛 Inconsistent behavior after updates

PDF Reader Pro

From 437 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Easy to use
  • 🚀 Fast and efficient
  • 💡 Useful features like highlighting and annotating
  • 👍 Great for reading and studying PDFs

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Crashes and bugs
  • 🔒 Security issues with locked files
  • 💰 Expensive upgrade to unlock full functionality
  • 🤖 Poor customer support and unresponsive developers

Bugs and requests

Documents

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Inability to open or edit certain documents
  • Unexpected loss of data or documents
  • Compatibility issues with newer iOS versions

Requested features

5 requests
  • Auto-save feature
  • Improved file transfer and syncing capabilities
  • Better organization and search tools
  • Enhanced editing and formatting options
  • Support for more file types and cloud services

PDF Reader Pro

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Annotations not saving or displaying correctly
  • App crashing when trying to convert or edit PDFs
  • Syncing issues between devices
  • Unexpected password locks on files

Requested features

4 requests
  • Undo/redo functionality for annotations
  • More font and theme options
  • Improved compatibility with cloud storage services
  • Better support for older devices

In-app purchases

None

Documents

No in-app purchases

6 purchases

PDF Reader Pro

Subscriptions4
  • Add 2-Device · Advanced Annual$39.991 Year
  • Add Devices · Advanced Annual$49.991 Year
  • PDF Pro · Advanced Annual$79.991 Year
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  • PDF Pro · AI Annual1 Year trial$79.991 Year
One-time2
  • Permanent License$24.99
  • PDF Pro · Advanced Permanent$39.99

Questions

Is Documents free?
Documents costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is PDF Reader Pro free?
PDF Reader Pro is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Documents or PDF Reader Pro?
Documents is rated higher. Documents averages 4.5 out of 5 from 4.5K ratings, while PDF Reader Pro averages 4.4 from 437 ratings.
Do Documents or PDF Reader Pro have ads?
PDF Reader Pro shows ads; Documents does not.
Which is updated more often, Documents or PDF Reader Pro?
Documents ships an update every 2 months, and PDF Reader Pro every 2 months. Most recently, Documents was updated on September 24, 2026 and PDF Reader Pro on September 22, 2026.

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