WordOne vs PDF Editor
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
WordOne
This app helps writers track their daily word count progress towards project goals. It provides detailed statistics, visual progress indicators, and social sharing options to foster dedication and discipline. Ideal for personal writing projects and goal-based challenges.
- Daily word count tracking
- Project goal setting
- Detailed statistics and progress analysis
- Visual progress indicators and color-coding
- Social media sharing of progress
- History of word counts
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Created by a writer for other writers, WordOne lets writers track their daily writing progress. As most successful writers have noted, becoming a successful author requires dedication and discipline. WordOne aims to provide this dedication and discipline by allowing you to set a goal for your writing project(s) and then letting you track your progress in reaching your goal by entering daily (or multiple times a day) word counts. The app calculates detailed statistics based on your entered data and provides you with useful information such as your current average words per day and the number of words a day you'd need to write in order to reach your set goal. This will allow you to plan your writing and to gain the necessary dedication and mindset necessary for writing daily by setting a word count goal that you'd need to achieve. WordOne also provides you with visual indications of progress on each of your projects. The main project listing not only provides a progress meter which is updated as you add new session word counts, but it also colour codes the items in the project listing based on how close (or far) you are from achieving your set targets. But that's not all! WordOne also lets you share your writing progress with other writers via social media so that you can encourage them by showing how much you'd achieved :) WordOne has full support for iOS 8's share extensions and will allow you to share via any supported extensions/applications. On older iOS versions, WordOne supports the standard sharing options provided by iOS itself. WordOne is also great for NaNoWriMo and other such goal-based writing challenges and contests. Note: The pro version of the app allows you to track as many projects as you want. The Lite version only allows tracking one project - if you want to track more than that, then you need to purchase the Pro version. Features: - Support for as many writing projects as you want (in the Pro version). - Color-coded projects listing to easily indicate current overall progress for each project. - Progress bar indicating percentage completed for each project. - View history for word counts on individual days and be able to see the total word count at that point as well as the session word count. - Ability to share session word counts with others via social media such as Facebook or Twitter. - Built-in feedback for bugs and feature requests.
PDF Editor
Easily scan paper documents, merge PDFs, and organize your files offline on iPhone and iPad. Convert various file types to PDF, annotate documents, and add signatures. Keep your paperwork tidy with nested folders and iCloud sync.
- Scan documents to PDF
- Merge and split PDFs
- Convert Office files to PDF
- Annotate and sign documents
- Organize files with folders
- iCloud sync
- Local network transfer
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Scan paper documents, merge PDFs and organize everyday paperwork on iPhone and iPad. One-time purchase. No subscriptions, in-app purchases or ads. SCAN AND CONVERT • Scan paper documents with your camera and turn photos into PDFs. • Create PDFs from plain text and Markdown. • Convert supported Word, Excel and PowerPoint files to PDF on your device. MERGE, SPLIT AND ORGANIZE • Combine multiple PDFs into one document. • Split a PDF while keeping the original. • Reorder pages with previews and delete pages you do not need. • Import from Files or compatible apps, then rename and share your PDFs. READ, ANNOTATE AND SIGN • Highlight and underline selectable text, add comments and manage supported annotations. • Draw a handwritten signature or reuse a signature saved on this device. • Insert images and image-based stamps; preview stamp background removal and save templates for reuse. • Position and resize signatures, images and stamps before saving. Image stamps are not certificate-based digital signatures. KEEP DOCUMENTS ORGANIZED • Create nested folders and move multiple PDFs at once. • Sync PDFs and folders with iCloud. Sync is on by default when iCloud is available and can be turned off in Settings. Saved signature and stamp templates stay on this device. • When you enable local network transfer, use a computer browser on the same network to upload, download and manage supported files. PROCESS ON YOUR DEVICE Scanning and file conversion happen on your device. Source files are not uploaded for conversion. PDFs in your library follow your iCloud sync setting; sharing and local network transfer happen when you choose to use them. No separate app account is required.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: PDF Editor at 100% against WordOne's 40%. PDF Editor also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and update cadence (every 10 days vs every 11 months). WordOne's advantage is price (Free vs $0.99) and rating (5.0 vs 4.0). On ads, monetization model, 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
WordOne is free to download; PDF Editor costs $0.99 up front. WordOne sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. PDF Editor asks for nothing beyond the download.
WordOne holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: PDF Editor has 8 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 40% of WordOne's written reviews are positive against 100% of PDF Editor's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
WordOne ships an update every 11 months, PDF Editor every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | WordOne | PDF Editor |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $0.99 |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.0 (8 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 40.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 8 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 11 months | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 21 MB | 218 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Pink Zombie Studios Inc. | 大鹏 张 |
Customer experience
WordOne
PDF Editor
In-app purchases
WordOne
- Pro Upgrade$3.99
PDF Editor
No in-app purchases









