RePaper Web PDF Highlighter vs eScribo
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
RePaper Web PDF Highlighter
Annotate web pages, PDFs, Word, and PowerPoint documents with customizable highlights and comments. Organize your content into folders and sync across devices using iCloud. Share and export your annotated files to various cloud services and other apps.
- Highlight web pages and PDFs
- Add comments in multiple colors
- Reader View for web and PDF
- Organize content in folders
- iCloud synchronization
- Share and export annotations
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One app to highlight Web pages, PDF, Word and Powerpoint documents, synchronized to iCloud. Our users say: - "Highlight Delight" - Cat North - "Only app that highlights properly" - Sparticle - "Exactly what I was looking for" - Bren With RePaper: - Open web pages and PDF files from anywhere - Add your highlight and comments in several colors - "Reader View" like Safari but works for Web and PDF files (text only) - Organize your articles in folders - Synchronized with iCloud - Share your highlights on social media and email - Export to other apps like iBooks, DropBox, Box, Drive and Evernote
eScribo
A clean and powerful writing tool designed for aspiring authors. It offers a distraction-free environment with features like focus mode and typewriting mode, allowing you to concentrate on your story. Export your work in PDF or ePub formats.
- iCloud Sync
- Unlimited books and chapters
- Focus Mode
- Typewriting Mode
- PDF export
- ePub export
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Let the writer inside you out with this simple and powerful writing tool. eScribo is a powerful tool for all those people who love to write. With a clean, beautiful and simple design you will have a real portable writing studio at your fingertips. Everything you need to focus on what matters, your story. IMPORTANT: an iCloud account is required. eScribo bets on a future in the cloud. That is why eScribo require iCloud enabled and storage available. Main Features • iCloud Sync. • Create unlimited books, with the option to add Introduction and/or prologue independently. • Complete range of colors for your books. • Focus Mode. • Typewriting Mode. • Unlimited chapters, with character count, paragraphs, lines, words, writing time and reading time. • Preview of the book with all its chapters. • PDF export. • ePub export. • And much more to come. Thanks you for use eScribo and stay tuned for new updates! **Public Books is on the way — a new way to share your writing and get feedback from others.**
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: RePaper Web PDF Highlighter at 32% against eScribo's 0%. RePaper Web PDF Highlighter also leads on rating (3.1 vs 2.7) and ratings volume (11 vs 3). eScribo's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs monthly). On 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
RePaper Web PDF Highlighter costs $2.99 and eScribo $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
RePaper Web PDF Highlighter holds the better App Store score, 3.1 against 2.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 11 and 3 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 32% of RePaper Web PDF Highlighter's written reviews are positive against 0% of eScribo's.
RePaper Web PDF Highlighter ships an update monthly, eScribo every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | RePaper Web PDF Highlighter | eScribo |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 — better | $3.99 |
| Rating | 3.1 (11 ratings) — better | 2.7 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 31.9% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 11 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 16.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | AppBlit LLC | Oskar Pacheco |
Customer experience
RePaper Web PDF Highlighter
eScribo
Bugs and requests
RePaper Web PDF Highlighter
Reported bugs
24 issues- Things don’t sync between devices if folders aren't created
- Text in reader font can’t be adjusted
- Deleting a paper seems temporary
- Tutorial video gives code 404 message
- Instruction video is missing, link broken
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- Video tutorial has been removed
- Bookmarklet doesn't work
- App will not find documents
- Won't allow highlighting on iPhone
- Force closes when extracting files
- Cannot use on PDF documents saved in iBook, PDF, and Dropbox directly
- Stubborn highlighting, difficult to adjust selection
- App shuts down after 30 seconds
- Crashes multiple times or does not highlight
- App crashes when hitting save
- Undefined is not an object error
- Doesn't work at all
- No selection made
- Says 'no selection found'
- Does not allow highlighting more than one word at a time in a PDF
- Does not allow highlighting more than one sentence at a time
- Highlights only in its own browser
- No logical segregation in library
- Takes 10 to 20 times to make one highlight
Requested features
10 requests- Cloud support
- More obvious new folder creation
- Consistent stable operation without folders
- IOS 8 extension
- Bookmarklet
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- Shortened link to highlighted article
- Comments pop up automatically
- Ability to comment on highlighting
- Dark mode option
- Advanced analytics dashboard
eScribo
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
RePaper Web PDF Highlighter
No in-app purchases
eScribo
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is RePaper Web PDF Highlighter free?
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