PopBoardz vs HLL Pdf Reader
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PopBoardz
Organize, present, and share your ideas with this versatile tool. It allows you to import various content types onto a single screen for instant access during discussions. Perfect for professionals, educators, and anyone who needs to present information effectively.
- Import images, PDFs, websites, notes, and videos
- Organize content into 16 tiles per board
- Nested boards for complex organization
- Customizable thumbnail text options
- Clear tile functionality for a clean look
- Intuitive tap and swipe gestures
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Popboardz is a great tool to Organize, Present and Share your ideas. Whether you are a sales executive, teacher, corporate professional, real estate broker or a day-to-day presenter pitching an idea to your team, classroom or clients - Think of PopBoardz as Your Perfect “Wingman” for Any Discussion. Put all your content types on one screen. Import: Images PDFs Websites Notes Videos PopBoardz gives you instant-access to the perfect example the moment you need it. There are ONLY A FEW THINGS TO REMEMBER 1. Tap and Hold on a Tile to Add Content. 2. Tap and Hold on filled tiles to change Thumbnails or Copy the contents. 3. Swipe on the content inside of the tiles to advance pages. 4. Tap on the “X” to close the tile (or pinch to close as well). 5. Swiping on the home screen of a board will advance PopBoardz to your next board. Other features 1. Thumbnail Text have three different edit options: Text Only, Text & Image and Caption. 2. Nested Boardz allow you import an entire board into a tile (think 16 boardz inside 16 tiles) Look for the blue icon that says “Import Boardz”. 3. Clear Tiles - If you don’t fill all 16 Tiles and want the remainder to disappear, now you can. When “Edit Thumbnail” select “Make Tile Clear” and the “tile disappears” but it actually still functions as a “Tile”. You can fill it with “hidden” information if you like. Think “stealth” tile. Reach out to us if you have any questions at all. Keeping our customers loving PopBoardz is what we live for. Please take a moment to leave a review. It’s super helpful for our other users. Check out PopBoardz for your iPad and MacOS laptop or desktop.
HLL Pdf Reader
This app offers a streamlined PDF reading experience with an iBooks-inspired interface. It provides features like recent reading history, page cropping for larger content views, and an outline for easy navigation. Zooming is simplified with double-tap gestures.
- iBooks-like design
- Reading history
- Page cropping
- Document outline
- Double-tap zoom
- Automatic fit on rotation
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Universal app - Support for iPhone / iPad iBooks-like design - Support your reading experience with simple User Interface. Recently read books - Show your reading histories. Therefore you can find books that you read recently. Cropping - Crop page merging to show contents bigger automatically. Outline - Show current document structure so that you can see your position and move around easily. No more pinch in/out. - Zoom in/out with double tap. - Fit document to device size automatically when rotating.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: HLL Pdf Reader at 5.0 against PopBoardz's 3.9. PopBoardz's advantage is update cadence (monthly vs every 9 months) and ratings volume (16 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
HLL Pdf Reader holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: PopBoardz has 16 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
PopBoardz ships an update monthly, HLL Pdf Reader every 9 months. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PopBoardz | HLL Pdf Reader |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.9 (16 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 54.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 16 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 9 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 117 MB | 15 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Moonbeach, Inc. | hades lade lam |
Customer experience
PopBoardz
HLL Pdf Reader
Bugs and requests
PopBoardz
Reported bugs
82 issues- Registration required to use
- Login/registration for personal use
- Downsampled images and boards in recent versions
- Formatting issues with text boxes
- Cannot see options in edit window
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- App doesn't open
- Crashes every time
- App doesn't work on basic level
- Videos play briefly then end
- Cannot swipe through slides
- Import video failed
- Export failed
- Not usable yet
- Very little works as advertised
- No editing possible
- Background options are off
- Logo placement ridiculous
- Inconsistent syncing between devices
- App crashes on launch
- Broken, crashes when adding anything but text
- App abandoned, not updated
- Useless due to crashes
- Crashes when importing images/files
- Crashes when downloading from cloud services
- No response from customer support
- Horrible piece of trash, app breaks
- Videos play 0.05 seconds before abruptly ending
- Cannot swipe through slides
- App doesn't open
- Crashes every time
- Unusable
- Broken, crashes the moment you try to add anything but plain text
- App no longer works, crashes every time
- Crashes every time you try to import photos from camera roll
- Crashes when trying to download files from Box or Dropbox
- Press the 'X' and the entire app breaks, every single time
- Crashes whenever I do anything with it
- App crashes every single time you attempt to upload an image
- App crashes every time
- Constant Crashes
- Crash on launch
- The intro was so bad I deleted the app
- Loud music and a video that I had no control over
- Poorly designed
- Lousy Performance
- Bad Integration
- iPad app does not sync well with Mac version
- Unable to open PopBoard on iPad that originated on Mac
- PopBoardz won't open Website URLs
- Too buggy for general use between desktop and iOS devices
- Not able to remove the "Powered By" text
- The formatting of some if the boxes is off and cannot be fixed
- Text boxes are the most obvious
- When the box comes up to edit I cannot see the options available to me in the window
- Fatal flaw
- Bug fixes required
- Marred with bugs and issues that hampers it's usefulness
- Not yet great
- Thought you might have boxes containing text written within the app
- Extremely useful to be able to move boxes around on a page
- Potentially Brilliant but Critically Flawed
- Issue of being unable to rearrange tiles on a board remains unaddressed
- FATAL FLAW in what is supposed to be a visual organization tool
- No way to rearrange them non-destructively
- Only option is to overwrite another tile position
- Forces you to re-import whatever was at that tile position
- No drag-and-drop rearrangement of tiles
- No cut and paste
- Truly boggles the mind
- Should have been a feature in the Beta version
- App is incomplete and flawed
- YOU CANNOT DRAG AND REARRANGE TILES
- Near-fatal flaw that must be remedied
- No way to move a tile from one board to another
- No way to drag/copy/paste/export that tile to the second topic's board
- Critical flaws hampering a potentially game-changing presentation tool
- PDF/file viewing is good, but no portrait mode supported
- Text within the viewed document is not selectable
- It would be nice to be able to define the number of tiles you want, for any given board, instead of having it be a fixed layout
- Crashed and will not recover whatever I do
- Wasted hours and hours setting up boards
- For the price and large size (130+ megabytes), I expected more, even in a 1.0 release
Requested features
22 requests- Ability to access all files within a tile
- Voice memos
- Ability to have text show under the image for descriptions
- Printable options
- Dark mode
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- Advanced analytics dashboard
- Ability to shuffle items once imported
- Internet connection not required for uploads
- Import from any album
- Drag and drop rearrangement of tiles
- Cut and paste for tiles
- Move tiles between boards
- User-defined number of tiles per board
- Add subtitles to slides
- Thumbnail type that opens another board
- Font support (size, center, typeface)
- Include more document types (PPTs, Docs)
- Sound and music integration
- Portrait mode support for PDFs
- Selectable text within PDFs
- Ability to create a 'Note Tile' within the app
- Support for more different forms of documents like ppts, docs etc.
HLL Pdf Reader
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
PopBoardz
No in-app purchases
HLL Pdf Reader
No in-app purchases
