PDF Pro vs PDF Scanner Edit, Write & Sign
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PDF Pro
Edit, annotate, and read PDF documents on your iPhone and iPad. Highlight text, add notes, shapes, voice recordings, and photos. Search your entire PDF library, fill out forms, and sign documents.
- Edit and annotate PDFs
- Highlight text and add notes
- Embed audio and photo annotations
- Full-text search of PDF library
- Fill out and sign PDF forms
- Organize PDFs with folders and tags
- Import from cloud storage
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PDF Pro lets you read, edit and annotate your PDF documents directly on your iPhone and iPad. Highlight text, take notes, embed shapes or draw with your finger. You can even embed voice recordings or photo annotations. Full-text-search your entire PDF library with just a single tap. Above all PDF Pro comes with full-featured PDF form and signature support. Key-Features At A Glance: • POWERFUL SEARCH: ∙ Full-text-search your entire PDF library. ∙ Search inside specific documents with easy navigation through the search results. ∙ Look-up selected text directly on Wikipedia or in the included dictionaries. • FILE-MANAGEMENT: ∙ Group your PDFs in folders and tag them with colorful labels. ∙ Import PDFs from your Dropbox®, Microsoft OneDrive® or Google Drive®. ∙ Add PDFs via USB or WiFi. ∙ Open E-Mail attachments. • CLEAR VIEW: ∙ Easily browse through all your annotations. ∙ Full PDF outline support. You can even search the outline. ∙ Get an overview of all your bookmarked or annotated pages just with a single tap. • SHARE and PRINT: ∙ Easily share your annotated documents with your friends or co-workers. ∙ Print your annotated and edited PDFs. ∙ You can even share or print single pages of a document. • HIGH SPEED and STABILITY: ∙ Rapid viewing of PDF documents. ∙ Smooth display of very large PDF files. • NIGHT MODE: ∙ Makes reading in the dark much easier on the eyes. • SECURITY: ∙ Support for password-protected PDFs • AND MUCH MORE... Premium Features and Premium Offer include: • ANNOTATIONS and NOTES: ∙ Highlight text, take notes or draw with your finger. ∙ Powerful shape editor for arrows, rectangles, circles, lines and much more. ∙ Embed audio and photo annotations into your PDFs. ∙ Use predefined stamps or create your own. • DOCUMENT EDITOR: ∙ Create new pages. ∙ Export pages or merge them into existing documents. ∙ Reorder, rotate and delete pages. • CONTENT EDITOR: • Modify the existing content of PDF documents. • MULTITASKING: ∙ Work with multiple PDFs at a time. ∙ Copy and paste annotations, shapes, images or text from one PDF document into another. • FORM SUPPORT: ∙ Just fill out your PDF form, sign it with your handwritten signature and you are ready to send it via E-Mail or print it via AirPrint®. A monthly or annual subscription is required to get access to all premium features and premium offer. --- Subscriptions automatically renew monthly or yearly depending on your plan unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. Plans are priced at $3.99USD monthly and $24.99USD yearly (pricing may vary in countries other than the U.S.). Payment will be charged to your App Store Account at confirmation of purchase. To avoid automatic renewal, you must turn off auto-renew at least 24 hours before your subscription ends. You can turn off auto-renew at any time from your App Store Account Settings. Terms of Use: https://pdf-pro.net/terms-of-service/ Privacy Policy: https://pdf-pro.net/privacy-policy/
PDF Scanner Edit, Write & Sign
Transform your mobile device into a powerful scanner to capture, edit, and sign documents. Easily add signatures, highlight text, and compile documents with freehand tools. Save and share your work in PDF or PNG formats.
- Scan documents with camera
- Add multiple signatures
- Highlight text with pen marker
- Freehand writing and editing
- Add photos as stickers
- Set resolution and paper format
- Change background paper color
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The most useful and versatile document & photo app that turns your iPhone or iPad into a powerful mobile scanner. Sign documents with your real signature. Easily scan, edit, sign, draw, save and share any document in PDF or PNG image format. Fast, easy to use & intuitive – great for your on-the-go PDF document, editing, signing and printing. PDF SCAN + EDIT, WRITE & SIGN FEATURES: -------------------------------------------------------------- ∎∎∎ SCAN DOCUMENTS WITH YOUR CAMERA: Simple and fast scan document system, auto image crop, resize and perspective adjust image. ∎∎∎ ADD YOUR SIGNATURE (MULTIPLE SIGNATURES ARE SUPPORTED): You can add signature by scan your real signature o by use freehand writing tool). ∎∎∎ HIGHLIGHT TEXT WITH PEN MARKER TOOL: You can highlight text with pen marker, underline, delete or rewrite it. You can regulate pen dimension, color, and transparency of draw. More than just a regular highlighter. ∎∎∎ EDIT OR COMPILE DOCUMENTS WITH THE FREEHAND WRITING PEN TOOL: Draw directly over document to compile it easily and quickly. ∎∎∎ ADD MORE PHOTOS FROM CAMERA OR FROM PHOTO LIBRARY: Easily add more than a photo over the document as a sticker. You can manually resize, rotate and arrange the photo over the document, simply using your fingers. ∎∎∎ SET RESOLUTION AND PAPER FORMAT (YOU CAN EXPORT ALSO FOR HIGH RESOLUTION PRINTING): ∎∎∎BACKGROUND PAPER COLOR: You can change background color of paper, to easily create a flyer or personalized colored document. * THIS APP IS NOT ONLY A SIMPLE PDF DOCUMENT SCANNER With this app you can also compile, write text, add photo, add signature, cancel text, change document background, add multiple photo (for example front and rear of Identity Card or Driving License Card). OTHER IDEAS OF USAGE: ----------------------------------- ∎ Create a fabulous flyer, or to create your business card or to draw a comic over your friend photo... Much MORE than a scan, sign, PDF document editor. ∎ Create a photo collage, and write or draw over it, save in photo library or share to your friends via email or social media. ∎ You want to recover and digitalize old photo? Problem Solved! Simply scan all old printed photos and export them in your photo library. *** We believe we have the most powerful PDF scanner and editor. Try and utilize the powerful document scanner app features (scan, sign edit, draw app) and you’ll never use any other similar app ever again. The solution for your document editing and scanning problems! Download NOW!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: PDF Pro at 4.7 against PDF Scanner Edit, Write & Sign's 3.5. PDF Pro also leads on review sentiment (60% vs 18%) and ratings volume (6.9K vs 28). PDF Scanner Edit, Write & Sign's advantage is monetization model (free vs subscription) and update cadence (every 10 days vs every 2 months). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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 Pro sells 12 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and PDF Scanner Edit, Write & Sign sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
PDF Pro holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: PDF Pro has 6.9K ratings behind it against 28, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 60% of PDF Pro's written reviews are positive against 18% of PDF Scanner Edit, Write & Sign's.
PDF Pro ships an update every 2 months, PDF Scanner Edit, Write & Sign every 10 days. Both last shipped on October 17, 2026.
| Parameter | PDF Pro | PDF Scanner Edit, Write & Sign |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (6.9K ratings) — better | 3.5 (28 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 60.0% of reviews — better | 18.2% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 6.9K — better | 28 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Subscription | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 9.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 97 MB | 15 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Dominic Rodemer | Play Around Code App and Map |
Customer experience
PDF Pro
PDF Scanner Edit, Write & Sign
Bugs and requests
PDF Pro
Reported bugs
5 issues- Annotations and highlights randomly disappearing
- Compatibility issues with newer iOS versions
- Corrupted PDF files after editing
- Slow performance on older devices
- Inconsistent behavior when switching between PDFs
Requested features
5 requests- Improved bookmarking and note-taking
- Seamless iCloud/cloud storage integration
- Customizable keyboard shortcuts
- Advanced text editing and OCR capabilities
- Better organization and folder management
PDF Scanner Edit, Write & Sign
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
PDF Pro
- Offer - Monthly - macOS3 Days trial$1.991 Month
- Offer - Monthly - iOS3 Days trial$2.991 Month
- Premium - Monthly - iOS3 Days trial$3.991 Month
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- Premium - Monthly - macOS3 Days trial$4.991 Month
- Offer - Annual - iOS3 Days trial$12.991 Year
- Offer - Annual - macOS3 Days trial$22.991 Year
- Premium - Annual - iOS3 Days trial$24.991 Year
- Offer - macOS + iOS3 Days trial$24.991 Year
- Offer - iOS + macOS3 Days trial$29.991 Year
- Premium - Annual - macOS3 Days trial$44.991 Year
- Premium - iOS + macOS3 Days trial$49.991 Year
- Premium - macOS + iOS3 Days trial$49.991 Year
PDF Scanner Edit, Write & Sign
- Pro Version$9.99
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