Comparison

PDF Max Pro vs Handwritten Quick Notes

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

Head to head
About

PDF Max Pro

This app provides comprehensive tools for reading, annotating, and editing PDF documents on mobile devices. Users can highlight, add text and voice notes, fill out forms, manage pages, and organize files with cloud integration.

Highlights
  • Read and annotate PDFs
  • Highlight, underline, strike out text
  • Add text, voice, and custom stamps
  • Fill and sign PDF forms
  • Manage PDF pages and outlines
  • Cloud storage integration (Dropbox, Google Drive)
  • Organize files with color tags and favorites
Features
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PDF Max Pro 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 Pro 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 Pro. 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

Handwritten Quick Notes

Capture your thoughts naturally with digital convenience. This app allows you to create handwritten notes or convert typed text into realistic handwriting, perfect for studying, working, or planning.

Highlights
  • Natural handwriting experience
  • Convert typed text to handwriting
  • Multiple handwriting styles
  • Organize and preview notes
  • Export notes as images
  • Share notes across apps
Features
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Handwritten Quick Notes - Write Naturally, Save Digitally Turn your ideas into beautiful handwritten notes with the comfort of digital convenience. Handwritten Quick Notes lets you create natural-looking handwritten content or instantly convert typed text into handwriting-perfect for study, work, and everyday planning. Whether you’re a student, professional, or creative thinker, this app helps you capture thoughts in a way that feels personal and authentic-just like writing on paper. Key Features Write Naturally • Smooth and distraction-free handwriting experience • Feels like writing on real paper • Perfect for quick notes, journaling, and ideas Text to Handwriting • Convert typed text into realistic handwritten notes • Multiple handwriting styles for a natural look • Great for assignments, notes, and aesthetic content Smart & Simple • Preview notes before saving • Organize notes for quick and easy access • Minimal, clean interface for better focus Export & Share • Save notes as images • Easy to share across apps • Create clean, printable handwritten notes Privacy policy: https://digitalhole.github.io/Handwritten%20Digital%20Notes.html Standard Apple Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

PDF Max Pro4 screens
Handwritten Quick Notes4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Handwritten Quick Notes at Free against PDF Max Pro's $9.99. Handwritten Quick Notes also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 4) and iOS requirement (16.6 vs 18.0). PDF Max Pro's advantage is review sentiment (41% vs 0%) and ads (none vs shown). On 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Handwritten Quick Notes is free to download; PDF Max Pro costs $9.99 up front. PDF Max Pro sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days. Handwritten Quick Notes asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

PDF Max Pro ships an update monthly, Handwritten Quick Notes every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
PDF Max Pro versus Handwritten Quick Notes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPDF Max ProHandwritten Quick Notes
Price$9.99Free — better
Rating4.5 (1.5K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews41.2% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings1.5K — better—
Update frequencyMonthly — betterEvery 6 months
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.016.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size266 MB15 MB
Age rating+44+
DeveloperMobeeraDigital Hole Pvt. Ltd.

Customer experience

PDF Max Pro

All ratings1,458 ratings
Positive88.3%
Neutral2.3%
Negative9.3%
Written reviews245 reviews
Positive41.2%
Neutral7.3%
Negative51.4%

Handwritten Quick Notes

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Bugs and requests

PDF Max Pro

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • App crashes when opening certain PDF files
  • Annotations and edits not saving properly
  • Inability to restore previous in-app purchases
  • Syncing issues with Dropbox and Google Drive

Requested features

4 requests
  • Add text-to-speech and speech-to-text functionality
  • Improve integration with cloud storage services
  • Enhance annotation tools and responsiveness
  • Provide better documentation and support

Handwritten Quick Notes

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

4 purchases

PDF Max Pro

Subscriptions3
  • Premium Subscription (1 week)$2.997 Days
  • One year Premium$34.991 Year
  • Onboarding Yearly Offer7 Days trial$34.991 Year
One-time1
  • Premium Package$4.99
None

Handwritten Quick Notes

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is PDF Max Pro free?
PDF Max Pro costs $9.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Handwritten Quick Notes free?
Handwritten Quick Notes is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do PDF Max Pro or Handwritten Quick Notes have ads?
Handwritten Quick Notes shows ads; PDF Max Pro does not.
Which is updated more often, PDF Max Pro or Handwritten Quick Notes?
PDF Max Pro ships an update monthly, and Handwritten Quick Notes every 6 months. Most recently, PDF Max Pro was updated on October 26, 2026 and Handwritten Quick Notes on October 18, 2026.

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