Comparison

Power PDF vs PDF Tools & Utilities

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

Head to head
About

Power PDF

Create, modify, and secure PDF documents on your mobile device. Convert various file types and photos to PDF, scan documents with your camera, and manage files with a built-in file manager. View, annotate, and search within PDF documents with ease.

Highlights
  • Create PDFs from DOC, XLS, PPT, TXT, and photos
  • Scan to PDF using camera
  • Combine, split, delete, and reorder PDF pages
  • Add password protection to PDFs
  • View, search, and annotate PDFs
  • File management: rename, delete, move, create folders
  • Import files from Camera Roll, Email, and other apps
Features
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Power PDF is a powerful tool to create, secure and view PDF documents on iPad/iPhone. Power PDF lets you create PDF documents on your iPhone/iPad with ease. It supports: - Create PDF documents from many file types, including: DOC, XLS, PPT, TXT, RTF, XML, HTML and all text files. - Convert photos to a PDF document. - Scan to a PDF document using your Camera. Power PDF lets you modify PDF documents on your iPhone/iPad with ease. It supports: - Combine PDF documents. - Split a PDF document into two or more documents. - Delete pages in a PDF document. - Re-arrange pages in a PDF document. - Add password protection to a PDF document. Power PDF lets you view PDF documents with ease. It supports: - View PDF documents in thumbnail or full screen modes. - Extract text from a PDF document. - Add bookmarks on a PDF document. - Search within a PDF document. - Fast Navigate within a PDF document. - Zooms in/Zooms out on a PDF document. - Annotate in a PDF document. Power PDF also has a File Manager, which supports the following features: - Import files from your Camera Roll, Email or another App through “Open In”. - Manage Files including: rename, delete, move, create folder and sort. - Search file name in Local Files and Camera Roll. - Open many document types, including: DOC, EXCEL, PPT, TXT, image files, and audio files. With its simple interfaces, Power PDF provides the easiest way to manage PDF documents on iPhone and iPad. If you have more questions, please visit: http://www.comcsoft.com/Portfolio/our_apps/PowerPDF/PowerPDF_overview.php.

About

PDF Tools & Utilities

Easily manage PDF files with tools to merge, split, delete, extract, lock, unlock, and rotate pages. Add watermarks and organize your documents with advanced file management features.

Highlights
  • Merge multiple PDFs
  • Split PDFs into multiple files
  • Delete and extract PDF pages
  • Lock and unlock PDFs with passwords
  • Rotate PDF pages
  • Add text or image watermarks
  • Organize and manage PDF files
Features
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Merge PDF | Split PDF | Delete page | Extract Page | Lock PDF | Unlock PDF | Rotate Pages| | Add Watermark| Merger Multiple PDF Files | PDF Tools – PDF Utilities You can also see generated PDF list in organized manner. You can see list order by name, modified date, or size of file. You can see file information like name, location, last modified date, and size. You can also perform actions like rename file name, delete file, or share file. PDF Tools & Utilities App Feature: - You can pick PDF file from iCloud Drive, On My phone and Google Drive. - Easy to share, delete and rename generated PDF Files - Rotate PDF pages - Add Text or Image watermarks to PDF - Remove write protection from PDF - Encrypt or Lock PDF - Split PDF into multiple PDFs - Remove any PDF page and recreate the PDF - Extract images from PDF - Merge PDF or Images into a single PDF This app contains following PDF Tools & Utilities: Merge PDF: It combines/joins multiple PDF files into one PDF File. Split PDF: Splits PDF file into two PDF files. You can give page numbers or specific range to split PDF file. Delete Page: Deletes pages from PDF file. You have to give page numbers that you want delete from file. Extract Page: Extracts pages from PDF file. Give page numbers you want to extract and new file will created of that pages only. Lock PDF: You can add password lock to PDF file for security purpose. Unlock PDF: You can also unlock PDF file if you wish to. Rotate Page: You can rotate pages by 0, 90, 180, or 270 degree. You can rotate all page or specific pages. Add Watermark: You can add watermark to all pages or specific pages. You can set font, font size, font-color and font style of watermark too.

Screenshots

Power PDF4 screens
PDF Tools & Utilities4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Power PDF at 4.8 against PDF Tools & Utilities's 4.3. Power PDF also leads on ratings volume (1K vs 11). PDF Tools & Utilities's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). On price, review sentiment, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Power PDF sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and PDF Tools & Utilities sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Power PDF holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Power PDF has 1K ratings behind it against 11, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 65% of Power PDF's written reviews are positive against 67% of PDF Tools & Utilities's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Power PDF versus PDF Tools & Utilities: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPower PDFPDF Tools & Utilities
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (1K ratings) — better4.3 (11 ratings)
Positive reviews65.0% of reviews66.7% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1K — better11
Update frequencyEvery 3 months—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.611.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size75 MB26 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperComcSoft Corporationsandip paghadar

Customer experience

Power PDF

All ratings1,006 ratings
Positive95.0%
Neutral2.2%
Negative2.8%
Written reviews266 reviews
Positive65.0%
Neutral6.4%
Negative28.6%

PDF Tools & Utilities

All ratings11 ratings
Positive81.8%
Neutral9.1%
Negative9.1%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%

Bugs and requests

Power PDF

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Landscape-only mode
  • Text recognition produces gibberish
  • Inability to undo annotations
  • Issues with converting photos to PDF

Requested features

4 requests
  • Auto-rotate PDF pages to fit screen
  • Batch conversion of photos to PDF
  • Integration with cloud storage services like Dropbox
  • Ability to edit and annotate PDF files

PDF Tools & Utilities

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Power PDF

One-time1
  • Premium$4.99
1 purchases

PDF Tools & Utilities

One-time1
  • Ads Free version$2.99

Questions

Is Power PDF free?
Power PDF is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is PDF Tools & Utilities free?
PDF Tools & Utilities is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Power PDF or PDF Tools & Utilities?
Power PDF is rated higher. Power PDF averages 4.8 out of 5 from 1K ratings, while PDF Tools & Utilities averages 4.3 from 11 ratings.
Do Power PDF or PDF Tools & Utilities have ads?
Power PDF shows ads; PDF Tools & Utilities does not.

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