Comparison

PDF Max vs WalkPlease

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

PDF Max

This app offers a comprehensive suite of tools for editing, annotating, and organizing PDF documents. It allows users to extract key information, create study materials, and fill out forms. Advanced features include OCR scanning, voice notes, and PDF page management.

Highlights
  • Edit text, images, and links in PDFs
  • Annotate with highlights, stamps, and comments
  • Scan documents with OCR capabilities
  • Create and fill PDF forms
  • Organize and study content with Cards
  • Export work to Markdown, PDF, or Word
Features
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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

About

WalkPlease

Features
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WalkPlease is the minimalist focus habit that keeps your most distracting apps locked until your personal step goal gives you back access. Connect Apple Health → grant Family Controls → pick the apps, categories, or web domains that trigger doomscrolling → set a daily step goal. Until you reach that goal, the shield created with Screen Time stays active and the selected distractions stay blocked. Every step, distance meter, calorie burn, and chart you see is a prompt to move, not a guilt trip. Features you can feel: • Step-based blocking powered by Apple Health + FamilyControls/ManagedSettings • Progress ring showing steps, distance, calories, and how close you are to your goal • Weekly/monthly charts, recent history, and a clean calendar view • Configurable notifications for midday reminders, “final stretch,” and goal completion • Settings to change your blocked apps or adjust your goal whenever you like • Shield-status card that explains whether the shield is engaged and lets you reopen the settings flow WalkPlease is not a parental control tool, nor an enterprise MDM or a medical app. It’s a self-led focus aid: you choose the rule (move first, unlock later) and let the system enforce it. Because all data stays on-device, the experience is private, calm, and premium. Privacy Policy: https://mousy-lillipilli-6ef.notion.site/PRIVACY-POLICY-WalkPlease-329cdf749f43803bb95bcc6ce3f9c60a?pvs=74 Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

PDF Max4 screens
WalkPlease4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: WalkPlease at none against PDF Max's 10. PDF Max's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.2). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. PDF Max sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days. WalkPlease asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
PDF Max versus WalkPlease: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPDF MaxWalkPlease
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (1.2K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews35.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings1.2K — better—
Update frequencyMonthly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.0 — better26.2
Further details — not scored
Size301 MB4 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperMobeeraMatteo Fauchon

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

WalkPlease

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

10 purchases

PDF Max

Subscriptions3
  • Premium Subscription (1 week)$1.997 Days
  • One year premium$34.991 Year
  • Yearly Onboarding Offer7 Days trial$34.991 Year
One-time7
  • 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
None

WalkPlease

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is PDF Max free?
PDF Max is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is WalkPlease free?
WalkPlease is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do PDF Max or WalkPlease have ads?
Neither PDF Max nor WalkPlease shows ads.

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