PDF Max vs Super PDF
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PDF Max
This app allows you to read, annotate, and sign PDF documents on your mobile device. You can mark up text, add handwritten notes, insert stamps, fill out forms, and manage PDF pages. It also offers robust file management and cloud integration for seamless access to your documents.
- Read and annotate PDFs
- Fill and sign PDF forms
- Handwriting and text markup
- Manage PDF pages
- Cloud storage integration
- Voice annotations
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PDF Max is a complete PDF editor for iPhone, iPad, and Mac, trusted by millions of people since 2012. From signing a form to building research you can verify, PDF Max helps you edit, annotate, organize, understand, study, protect, and deliver PDFs—all in one app. YOUR PDF. NOW A WORKSPACE. Collect important passages, highlights, images, tables, formulas, and notes as Cards beside your PDFs. Every Card remembers where it came from, so you can return to the original page whenever you need the full context. • Search, tag, connect, and arrange your Cards • Gather related Cards into named groups called Frames • Organize evidence from several PDFs without merging them • Compare passages side by side or view your evidence as an Outline or table • Present Frames or export your work to Markdown, PDF, or Word STUDY WHAT MATTERS Turn trusted Cards into Questions, practice a focused topic, or use scheduled Study for long-term review. Track your Progress, study text and visual material, and return to the supporting PDF whenever an answer needs more context. On supported devices, Apple Intelligence can draft Questions for you to review before saving. EDIT, ANNOTATE, FILL, AND SIGN • Edit existing text, typography, images, links, shapes, and tables • Add, replace, crop, align, rotate, and arrange content • Remove image backgrounds and automatically crop subjects • Highlight, underline, strike through, draw, stamp, and comment • Add text boxes, callouts, notes, shapes, and threaded comments • Complete forms, find missing required fields, and add reusable signatures • Create and edit text, checkbox, radio, dropdown, signature, date, and image fields • Permanently redact text, areas, pages, or search results SCAN, READ, AND UNDERSTAND • Scan paper with automatic capture, edge detection, cleanup, crop, filters, and page reordering • Make scans searchable with optional OCR • Turn selected images into polished PDFs • Reflow fixed or scanned pages into a comfortable reading column • Keep figures beside the text they explain • Customize reading theme, typography, spacing, margins, and alignment • Translate supported languages and listen with on-device Read Aloud • Keep selected passages and useful context with Focus View VOICE NOTES THAT STAY ON THE PAGE • Place and play audio notes anywhere in a PDF • Create searchable on-device transcripts when the required speech model is available MAKE FLAT FORMS FILLABLE • Detect likely text, checkbox, and signature fields in flat or printed forms • Review every detected field before applying it • Use Form Assist to review suggested answers from your encrypted profile EVERY PDF TOOL IN ONE PLACE • Reorder, rotate, insert, duplicate, replace, extract, merge, split, or delete pages • Compress PDFs while preserving selectable text and vector graphics • Resize mixed pages to standard paper sizes • Add page numbers, N of M, Roman numerals, letters, or Bates numbering • Add or remove an open password • Create and edit PDF outlines and bookmarks • Recognize text with OCR and convert Word documents to PDF • Create PDFs from paper, journal, planner, graph, and project templates • Present PDF pages or Workspace Frames full screen • Save, print, flatten, share, or export the finished result Join more than 25 million downloads worldwide and move from document to outcome with PDF Max. Some advanced features require PDF Max PREMIUM. PDF MAX PREMIUM SUBSCRIPTION Payment will be charged to your Apple Account when the purchase is confirmed. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current subscription period. You can manage or cancel your subscription in your Apple Account settings. Any unused portion of a free trial will be forfeited when a subscription is purchased, where applicable. Privacy Policy: https://mobeera.ai/privacy Terms: https://mobeera.ai/terms
Super PDF
Manage and edit PDF files with ease. This application offers a comprehensive suite of tools for organizing, editing, merging, signing, and creating PDFs from various sources, including photos and scans. Enhance your documents with custom fonts and tags for improved productivity.
- Organize PDF library
- Edit PDFs with drawings and text
- Merge and combine files
- Add digital signatures
- Create PDFs from photos/scans
- Import custom fonts
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A powerful free pdf editor to help speed up your productivity and manage pdf files seamlessly and effortlessly. Application features: - A superb pdf library to arrange and sort all your pdf files and books. - Ability to edit pdf files and add drawings, sketches, and shapes. - Ability to combine and merge multiple files together. - Ability to add signatures to pdf files, and save them for future uses. - Ability to add texts on pdf files using a variety of beautiful fonts. - Ability to import and download custom fonts, and use them with your pdf files. - Ability to add tags to your pdf files to speed up your reading. - Ability to merge specific pages from one pdf file to another. - Ability to create a pdf file from multiple photos. - Ability to create a blank pdf file and edit it. - Ability to create a pdf file by taking a photo using the camera. - Ability to create a pdf file by scanning papers using the camera. - Ability to import pdf files from URL. Adding support for French, German, Hindi, Indonesian, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Italian, Turkish, and Urdu languages.
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Verdict
PDF Max and Super PDF both sit at 4.5 stars, but that hides the real split: 86% of Super PDF's written reviews are positive against 35% of PDF Max's. Super PDF also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 10) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). PDF Max's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (monthly vs every 2 months). On price, rating, monetization model 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 Max sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days. Super PDF asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for PDF Max against 4.4 for Super PDF. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1.2K and 365 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 35% of PDF Max's written reviews are positive against 86% of Super PDF's.
PDF Max ships an update monthly, Super PDF every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PDF Max | Super PDF |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (1.2K ratings) — better | 4.4 (365 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 35.4% of reviews | 85.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1.2K — better | 365 |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 266 MB | 212 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Mobeera | Gyoom |
Customer experience
PDF Max
Super PDF
Bugs and requests
PDF Max
Reported bugs
4 issues- Disappearing documents and annotations
- Incompatibility with newer devices
- Crashes on launch
- Unreliable file saving
Requested features
5 requests- Dark mode option
- Ability to edit/delete annotations
- Better integration with cloud storage
- Split-screen viewing for PDFs
- Improved handwriting recognition
Super PDF
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
PDF Max
- Premium Subscription (1 week)$1.997 Days
- One year premium$34.991 Year
- Yearly Onboarding Offer7 Days trial$34.991 Year
- Standard Annotating Package$0.99
- Cloud Access Package$1.99
- Advanced Annotating Package$3.99
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- Form Filling Package$3.99
- Pro Package$4.99
- Premium Package (Update)$4.99
- Premium Package (New User)$9.99
Super PDF
No in-app purchases







