Clew vs OCR, Read & Convert Documents
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Clew
Capture and organize quotes, notes, and highlights from books, articles, films, and podcasts. Discover connections between your saved content through powerful tagging and intelligent recommendations. This app acts as a digital commonplace book, synced across all your devices.
- Save highlights from books, web, film, TV, and podcasts
- Organize and search saved content
- Discover connections between saved items
- Tagging and intelligent recommendations
- Syncs across all devices
- Camera scanning for book pages
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Clew is the fastest, easiest way to save passages, quotes, and notes from the things you read, watch, and listen to, so you can start discovering connections between everything you save. Remember the last time you wrote in the margin of a novel, only to finish the book and never see that thought again? How many times have you clipped parts of articles, songs, and podcasts and saved them to a note somewhere, hidden and forgotten? Clew is a single place for all your highlights, clips, and favorite lines—stored, organized, and searchable in one place. It's a commonplace book that you'll always have with you, easily searchable and synced between all your devices. Clew helps you connect thoughts across sources, centuries, and media types through powerful tagging and intelligent recommendations. Start discovering connections between everything you've saved from: - Books and poems you read - Movies and TV shows you watch - Podcasts and audiobooks you listen to - Songs you love - Articles you read online or on paper Simply copy-and-paste text into the app, use the Share extension, or scan book pages and documents with your device's camera to save a new highlight. Clew makes it easy to sort and search your highlights by source (author, website, etc.), date saved, publication year, genre, keywords, and more. Build your collection, and watch as you start finding connections and patterns across books, artists, decades, genres, languages, and more. This is your new favorite place to store, sort, and share clippings from all your favorite media, whether it's a mind-blowing plot twist in a novel, a hilarious quote in a movie or play, a devastating song lyric, a grand discovery in an article, or simply a quirky adjective you can't wait to use in your own writing. This is Clew. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
OCR, Read & Convert Documents
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LibreDoc Reader is a private, local-first document toolbox. READ AND ORGANIZE - Open PDFs, text files, images, office documents, presentations, spreadsheets, EPUB books, and other formats supported by iOS Quick Look. - Search your local library and recognized text. - Import explicitly from Files, Photos, the camera scanner, or the clipboard. EDIT AND ANNOTATE - Highlight, add notes, rotate, and remove PDF pages. - Try one recognized PDF text change free, then save and open the edited copy automatically. - With PDF Editor or Full Pro, replace recognized visible text in ordinary and scanned PDFs and save a new flattened copy. - Edit DOCX, ODT, RTF, and a broad range of plain/source-text formats directly. Legacy DOC changes are saved safely to a new DOCX copy. - Export a copy whenever you choose. SCAN AND CONVERT - Scan paper pages with automatic edge detection. - Run automatic OCR on the device across recognition languages supported by iOS, with an additional Belarusian Cyrillic fallback. - Convert supported content locally between PDF, TXT, DOCX, RTF, HTML, CSV, JPEG, and PNG. - Extract text from DOCX, XLSX, PPTX, unencrypted EPUB, PDFs, and images; Office/EPUB “text layout” exports do not preserve complex layout, formulas, charts, animation, macros, or embedded objects. - Export the first supported PDF page as JPEG or PNG. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT - No account is required. - Documents remain on the device unless you explicitly share or export them. - Document content is never sent to the advertising provider. LibreDoc does not promise to open or edit every possible file. Availability depends on the format, file integrity, encryption or DRM, and capabilities provided by the installed iOS version. See the in-app Format Support page for the exact matrix.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Clew at none against OCR, Read & Convert Documents's shown. OCR, Read & Convert Documents's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 3 weeks). On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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. Clew sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and OCR, Read & Convert Documents sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Clew ships an update every 3 weeks, OCR, Read & Convert Documents every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Clew | OCR, Read & Convert Documents |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 36 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Thomas Twardzik | Anatol Radzko |
In-app purchases
Clew
- Small Tip - $0.99$0.99
- Generous Tip - $2.99$2.99
- Super Tip - $9.99$9.99
OCR, Read & Convert Documents
- PDF Editor Monthly$1.991 Month
- LibreDoc Full Pro$3.991 Month
- PDF Editor Annual$12.991 Year
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- Full Pro Annual$22.991 Year
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