Pushpin for Pinboard vs PDFGenius
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pushpin for Pinboard
This app provides a fast and feature-rich client for managing bookmarks. It allows seamless browsing, searching, editing, and adding of links with a beautiful interface. It also integrates with read-later services and offers offline access to saved content.
- Offline reading of bookmarks
- Fast bookmark search
- Integration with read-later services
- Share extensions for quick saving
- Customizable reader view
- Batch editing of bookmarks
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Pushpin is an open-source, beautiful, blazing fast, and feature-packed Pinboard client for iOS. Designed for both power users and newbies alike, Pushpin lets you browse, search, add, edit, and delete bookmarks seamlessly with a gorgeous interface. It also comes with two easy-to-use share extensions to help you quickly add bookmarks from any app. Pushpin also has a powerful and flexible URL scheme, full support for Pinboard feeds, saved searches, offline reading support, integration with read later services like Instapaper, Readability, and Pocket, and the list goes on. But don't just take our word for it... ~~ Testimonials ~~ "I've said it before and I'll gladly say it again. If you buy only one Pinboard client for iOS, then your best bet would be Pushpin." - Pedro Lobo "I wished hard enough and it came true: the clean, clear, and stable Pinboard iOS app of my dreams was written and released by someone much smarter than me and you should give them your money" - Jim Jazwiecki "This is exactly what I want in a Pinboard app" - Alex Payne ~~ Features ~~ ‣ Download your recent, unread, or all of your bookmarks for offline reading (including full webpages, with HTML, CSS, & JS). ‣ Search bookmarks at ridiculous speeds across titles, descriptions, URLs, and tags. ‣ Easily navigate to unread, starred, private, untagged, or public bookmarks (or custom feeds, such as unread+starred, of your choosing). ‣ Browse Recent, Network, Popular, Wikipedia, Fandom, and Japanese feeds. ‣ Hide, show, and reorder both personal and community feeds to suit your tastes. ‣ Send links to Pocket, Instapaper, or Readability. ‣ Save your searches and set them as your default feeds when you start up Pushpin. ‣ View tag autocompletions when adding or updating bookmarks. ‣ View and save feeds for specific users and tags, or any combination of the two. ‣ Browse and edit your tags, and view the number of times they've been used. ‣ Add a bookmark by switching to Pushpin with a URL on your clipboard. ‣ Customizable fonts. ‣ VoiceOver support. ‣ Share extensions for quick saving to Pinboard from any app that uses that built-in iOS share sheet. ‣ Built-in iOS Spotlight integration. Search your bookmarks from anywhere. ~~ Native Reader View and Fast In-App Browser ~~ ‣ Fully customizable, native reader view (powered by Readability). ‣ Change the font, margin, background color, and line spacing. ‣ Share bookmarks to any app supporting iOS 8 share extensions. ~~ Premium Fonts ~~ New! Enhance your Pushpin reading experience with three beautifully-designed fonts from independent type foundries. ‣ Flex and Brando from Bold Monday. ‣ Lyon from Commercial Type. ~~ Built for Power-Users ~~ ‣ Batch editing! Easily add or remove tags, change privacy, or update unread status for multiple bookmarks at a time. ‣ Keyboard shortcuts. ‣ Native integration with 1Password. ‣ Extensive URL scheme for adding bookmarks on the fly, opening URLs with the in-app browser, or viewing feeds for users or tags. To read more, visit https://lionheartsw.com/software/pushpin/ Two optional, auto-renewing Tip Jar subscriptions are available for $0.49 per month or $4.99 per year (pricing varies by territory). Payments will be charged to your iTunes Account after confirmation. Subscriptions are automatically renewed unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the subscription period. Accounts will be charged for subscription renewals within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. Subscriptions may be managed in your iTunes Account's Settings after purchasing. Pushpin's terms of use: https://lionheartsw.com/software/pushpin/terms.html Pushpin's privacy policy: https://lionheartsw.com/software/pushpin/privacy.html
PDFGenius
This app offers a comprehensive suite of tools for manipulating PDF documents. It allows users to combine, split, compress, convert PDFs to images, extract pages, and edit content like inserting, deleting, and reordering pages. Advanced features include password protection, page cropping, and text extraction.
- Combine multiple PDFs
- Split PDFs by various criteria
- Compress PDF file size
- Convert PDF to images (JPG, PNG, TIFF)
- Extract text from PDFs
- Edit pages (insert, delete, reorder, rotate, crop)
- Add/remove password security
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PDFGenius is an easy-to-use, intuitive and powerful PDF manipulation utility app that you will ever need. PDFGenius offer features like combining PDFs, splitting PDFs into multiple files, PDF compression to reduce file size, convert PDF into images, extract pages from a PDF to create another PDF and extract text from PDF document. * * * PDFGenius for Mac is also available on the Mac App Store. * * * PDF editing features that allows you to insert new pages from images and PDF files, delete, rotate and reorder pages within PDF. In addition, you can crop and divide PDF pages, remove links, modify metadata, add/remove password security. PDFGenius performs all manipulating operations on PDF by preserving contents (i.e. structure of the file, color profiles, fonts, links, bookmarks) without losing document’s integrity and does it very fast. ◆ MERGE : Combine multiple files into single PDF document. Alternate page merge supported. ◆ SPLIT : Split PDF into multiple PDF files. Five divide criteria along with file labelling options 1) Split by number of pages per file. 2) Split by file size. 3) Split by outline level. Use outline titles as PDF filenames. 4) Split by page size. 5) Split by comma separated page range. ◆ CONVERT: - Convert PDF into each page as images (JPG, PNG, TIFF). - Specify JPEG image quality, resolution and color model. - You can save converted images into Photos Album. - Include annotations control to enable display annotations into converted images. ◆ COMPRESSION: - Compress large image and graphics heavy PDF using extensive set of options. - Controls to change JPEG quality, color model, image resolution and Optimise graphics level to decrease the file size dramatically. New Optimize graphics option removes superfluous information to reduce vector graphics heavy PDF. - Inbuilt side-by-side preview to compare original and compressed PDF for iPad. ◆ COPY/PASTE PDF pages between PDF documents. You can duplicate selected pages within PDF. ◆ EXTRACT PAGES: Reuse selected pages from one PDF document to create new PDF document. - Open to extract each PDF page as separate PDF document. ◆ INSERT: Insert new pages into existing PDF by inserting images and pages from another PDF. - Tool to insert blank page. ◆ DELETE: Delete pages from PDF file. Tool to delete blank pages. ◆ PASSWORD SECURITY: - Add or remove password security with file restriction controls. ◆ PAGE BOXES: Set CropBox and other display box margins of the PDF pages. - Options to remove white margins. - Option to divide(cut) PDF pages horizontally and vertically. ◆ REMOVE LINKS: Remove annotations, internal links, external hyperlinks. ◆ PAGE SELECTION: Most helpful page selection variations to speed up page manipulations. ◆ ARRANGE, SHUFFLE, REORDER and ROTATE PAGES ◆ Modify PDF document METADATA. ◆ Extract plain text. Much more… PDF VIEWER: - Very powerful and fast PDF reader with fully selectable and searchable text contents. - Pinch out and Pinch in to ZoomIn and ZoomOut view. - Navigate within PDF using slide over thumbnail view, outlines and Go to page feature. ◆ TRANSFER AND SHARE FILES - You can share new generated files or archive multiple files into zip. You can send file(s) as Mail attachment, Open In… another app and Send to cloud storage. - Use Copy to iTunes to save and share files with your computer. - Fully supports iPad Drag & Drop feature across the app to transfer files and images between apps. Note: PDFGenius is standalone application running natively to manipulate PDF documents securely on your iOS device. *The free version allow you to open, view and work with PDF using various operations and manipulating tools. Get Premium to enable sharing of resultant PDFs, Images and text documents without any restrictions. Privacy Policy: http://rootrisetech.com/app-privacy-policy Terms of Use(EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: PDFGenius at Free against Pushpin for Pinboard's $4.99. Pushpin for Pinboard's advantage is update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 4 months) and chart position (#198 vs unranked). On rating, review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases 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
PDFGenius is free to download; Pushpin for Pinboard costs $4.99 up front. Pushpin for Pinboard sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $0.49 per month and PDFGenius sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
PDFGenius holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pushpin for Pinboard has 220 ratings behind it against 35, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 59% of Pushpin for Pinboard's written reviews are positive against 63% of PDFGenius's.
Pushpin for Pinboard ships an update every 5 weeks, PDFGenius every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pushpin for Pinboard | PDFGenius |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.1 (220 ratings) | 4.3 (35 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 59.0% of reviews | 62.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 220 — better | 35 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | #198 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 12 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Lionheart Software LLC | RootRise Technologies Pvt. Ltd. |
Customer experience
Pushpin for Pinboard
PDFGenius
Bugs and requests
Pushpin for Pinboard
Reported bugs
3 issues- Share sheet freezes or fails to save bookmarks
- App crashes when handling large bookmark collections
- Inconsistent behavior when editing tags and descriptions
Requested features
5 requests- Dark mode option
- Enhanced iPad multitasking support
- Improved tag management and autocomplete
- Offline reading mode enhancements
- Customizable bookmark views and layouts
PDFGenius
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Pushpin for Pinboard
- Monthly Tip$0.491 Month
- Annual Tip$4.991 Year
- Spare Change$0.99
- 2 Buck Chuck$1.99
- The Fiver$4.99
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- The Hamiltonian$9.99
- Moolah-LAH!$19.99
PDFGenius
- Premium : Monthly Access$0.991 Month
- Premium : Yearly Access3 Days trial$6.991 Year
- Premium : Lifetime Access$9.99
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