Comparison

PDF Gear vs MobStaff

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

Head to head
About

PDF Gear

This app offers a comprehensive suite of tools for managing PDF documents on mobile devices. Users can easily view, annotate, edit pages, fill out forms, and digitally sign documents. It provides a free and unlimited experience for all its powerful PDF manipulation features.

Highlights
  • View and print PDFs
  • Annotate with highlights, text, and drawings
  • Organize pages (add, delete, rotate, extract)
  • Fill out forms and sign documents
  • Manage PDF files (duplicate, rename, move, share)
  • Open and save to device & iCloud
Features
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Want a well-featured and easy-to-access PDF solution for mobile use? PDFgear for iOS could achieve this! With PDFgear for iOS, users could handle their PDFs with ease, including viewing, printing, annotating, page editing, signing, etc. The abundant features will let you fill out forms, sign contracts, finish works, review documents, and make more possibilities in PDF! PDFgear for iOS provides free use for all functions without any limits like trial watermark, page count, etc. The concise design brings users a satisfying experience, and the powerful performance makes the perfect document. PDFgear will make your study and work easier to carry out PDFs! Try it on your own! View and Print PDF • Open and view PDFs with easy touch • Zoom in or out for better details • Jump to the appointed page directly • Print PDF from your phone Annotate PDF • Markup texts in PDF with highlight, underline and strike-through • Input texts with the color and font size you need • Draw shapes like rectangles, circles, lines, and arrows easily • Write on PDFs with the Ink tool, and erase the ink freely Organize Pages • Add, delete, and rotate pages supported • Extract pages from the PDF file with the aimed page range Fill out Forms & Sign PDFs • Insert text to the form at the place you need • Put common symbols like checkmarks and crossmarks in the document • Add built-in or customized stamps to the form • Sign the PDF with the signature created from image, keyboard, or drawing Manage PDFs • Manage PDF files with duplicate, rename, copy, move, share, etc. • Open and save PDFs in the device & iCloud

About

MobStaff

Features
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MobStaff turns a tablet or phone at your workplace into a time clock that still works when the internet does not. Staff enter a PIN, the camera takes a verification photo, and the record is queued on the device and uploaded when there is a connection. Nothing on the screen waits for a network reply, so a dropped line at 6am does not stop a shift starting. WHAT IT DOES • PIN entry with a verification photo at clock-in, clock-out and breaks — each one switchable by the employer • Paid and unpaid breaks • Today's roster on the screen: who is on shift, who is on a break, and for how long • A running clock that reads server time, not the device's • Honest sync status: it tells you how many records are still waiting rather than pretending they have been sent • Works as a shared iPad at a door, as several iPads across a site, or as a personal iPhone bound to one named worker BUILT FOR THE AWKWARD PARTS Time comes from the server. Every sync anchors server time against a counter that ticks since the device booted and cannot be set by anyone, so moving the device clock forward to manufacture overtime does not move the recorded time. The tampered clock travels with the record as evidence. Records are queued locally in an encrypted database and uploaded later, so hours without a connection cost nothing. A photo that fails to upload never blocks the attendance record itself. Location and workplace WiFi checks are optional, off by default, and read only at the moment of a punch. There is no background location tracking of any kind, and no face recognition: the photo is stored for a human to look at. YOU NEED AN EMPLOYER ACCOUNT MobStaff is sold to businesses. This app is the worker-facing half and has to be paired to an employer's MobStaff account with a code from their management panel. Without that code there is nothing to see. Employers manage staff, sites, devices, roster, leave, attendance review and hourly payroll in a browser at mobstaff.com. Privacy policy: https://mobstaff.com/app-privacy Questions: support@mobstaff.com

Screenshots

PDF Gear4 screens
MobStaff4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: MobStaff at 13.0 against PDF Gear's 15.0. On price, ads, 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
PDF Gear versus MobStaff: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPDF GearMobStaff
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (8.9K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews85.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings8.9K — better—
Update frequencyMonthly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size45 MB32 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPDF GEAR TECH PTE. LTD.Ameet Aujla

Bugs and requests

PDF Gear

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Crashes when opening certain PDF files
  • Inability to edit text in forms on iPad
  • Corrupted PDFs after repeated editing and saving

Requested features

6 requests
  • Add password protection and encryption
  • Improve undo/redo functionality
  • Enhance text editing capabilities
  • Implement better auto-save and file recovery
  • Provide more customization options
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  • Integrate with more cloud storage services

MobStaff

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

PDF Gear

No in-app purchases

None

MobStaff

No in-app purchases

Questions

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

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