Yojimbo for iPad vs PDF Vault
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Yojimbo for iPad
Access and manage your Yojimbo data on your iPad. This companion app syncs wirelessly with Yojimbo for macOS, allowing you to view articles, lists, documents, and sensitive information offline.
- Syncs with Yojimbo for macOS
- Offline data access
- Handles encrypted entries
- View articles and documents
- Access passwords and receipts
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Take your Yojimbo data with you, anywhere, right on your iPad. Yojimbo for iPad is a companion app that syncs effortlessly over WiFi from Yojimbo for macOS (version 4.0 or later required; sold separately), letting you take all of your Yojimbo data anywhere. Yojimbo for iPad even handles your encrypted entries. Imagine catching up on articles, reviewing shopping lists, traveling with digital confirmation documents, and having all your passwords and receipts safely at hand, no matter where you are, whether or not you have network access. If you use Yojimbo, you'll want Yojimbo for iPad.
PDF Vault
This ultra-lightweight application offers a comprehensive suite of PDF tools, including text-to-speech functionality, digital signing, document scanning, organization, and instant translation. It's designed for efficiency and ease of use, saving device space while enhancing productivity for work, study, or personal tasks.
- Text-to-speech for PDFs
- Digital document signing
- Scan paper documents to PDF
- Organize and manage PDF files
- Instant document translation
- Ultra-lightweight and fast
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Your private PDF workspace, built for people who take their documents seriously. Ask your PDFs questions, understand complex documents, translate, scan, sign, listen, and manage your files in one lightweight app. PDF Vault combines powerful PDF tools with a privacy-first approach: your documents stay on your device. ASK YOUR PDF ANYTHING Have a long report, contract, research paper, manual, or other document? Just ask. Ask PDF lets you ask questions about the content of your document and get answers based on the information inside it. Find important details, understand complex sections, summarize information, and explore your documents without searching through page after page. Your documents stay private and are processed on your device. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your documents are personal. PDF Vault is designed with privacy at its core. Your PDF data never leaves your device. No document uploads are required for the core PDF experience. Your files remain under your control while you work with them. ALL THE PDF TOOLS YOU NEED Listen to PDFs Turn your documents into spoken audio with built-in text-to-speech. Listen while working, commuting, studying, or simply when you prefer to hear rather than read. Translate PDFs Translate documents and understand content in other languages without leaving your PDF workspace. Scan documents Turn paper documents into digital PDFs using your device camera. Built-in OCR helps make scanned documents searchable and usable. Sign PDFs Sign documents quickly and conveniently. Add your signature and complete documents without printing them. Read and organize Open, read, manage, and organize your PDF files in a clean, focused workspace designed to stay out of your way. LIGHTWEIGHT AND FOCUSED PDF Vault is built to give you the tools you actually need without turning your device into a document-management maze. Whether you are working with contracts, invoices, academic papers, reports, forms, manuals, or personal documents, PDF Vault keeps everything you need close at hand. FOR WORK, STUDY, AND EVERYDAY DOCUMENTS Use PDF Vault at work to understand reports and contracts. Use it at university to explore research papers and study materials. Use it at home to manage forms, manuals, receipts, and other important documents. ONE PRIVATE WORKSPACE FOR YOUR PDFs Read. Ask. Translate. Scan. Sign. Listen. Organize. PDF Vault brings essential PDF tools together while keeping privacy at the center of the experience. PDF Vault Unlimited gives you unlimited access to all PDF Vault features while directly supporting our mission to provide the best privacy-first PDF tool where your data never leaves your device. Terms of Service: https://macmonsters.com/pdf-reader-terms-of-service.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: PDF Vault at 5.0 against Yojimbo for iPad's 3.3. PDF Vault also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 10 months) and review sentiment (50% vs 21%). Yojimbo for iPad's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and ratings volume (20 vs 4). On price 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. PDF Vault sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Yojimbo for iPad asks for nothing beyond the download.
PDF Vault holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Yojimbo for iPad has 20 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 21% of Yojimbo for iPad's written reviews are positive against 50% of PDF Vault's.
Yojimbo for iPad ships an update every 10 months, PDF Vault every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Yojimbo for iPad | PDF Vault |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.3 (20 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 20.8% of reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 20 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 10 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 18.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Bare Bones Software, Inc. | Dmytro Skorokhod |
Customer experience
Yojimbo for iPad
PDF Vault
Bugs and requests
Yojimbo for iPad
Reported bugs
26 issues- Sync fails to complete
- App crashes on sync
- App crashes frequently
- Email sharing window stays open
- Sync breaks after iOS updates
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- App crashes on Library icon tap
- Menu animation choppy
- Password display formatting issues
- Items take forever to load
- Sync issues after updates
- Sync errors (unreadable)
- App quits on launch
- Sync doesn't work after first time
- Email page dead (cannot cancel/send)
- Sync issues with Mac pairing
- App not finding Mac on network
- Syncing only new notes, not modified
- Unencrypted notes on iPad when encrypted on Mac
- Syncing issues with Bonjour/corporate networks
- PDFs not rendering on iPad
- Interface bugs on rotation
- Search field layout in Landscape
- Syncing only when Mac is running and on same network
- App is sluggish
- Files copied over are empty
- App quits within seconds of launch
Requested features
20 requests- iPad/iPhone app functionality
- Ability to add/edit content on iPad
- Cloud sync (iCloud, Dropbox)
- iPhone version
- Retina screen update
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- Password protection for the app
- Add computers by IP# for pairing
- Ability to change sorting
- Universal app
- Content search
- Open in other apps
- Email sharing fix
- iCloud sync support
- Search field layout fix in Landscape
- Visible tags and basic info in a bar
- Create new text notes
- Cloud Sync (Dropbox preferred)
- Add/change database from within the app
- Add new items on iPad
- UI kinks worked out
PDF Vault
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Yojimbo for iPad
No in-app purchases
PDF Vault
- Mox PDF Tool Unlimited Monthly7 Days trial$4.991 Month
- Mox PDF Tool Unlimited Annually7 Days trial$19.991 Year
Questions
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