Comparison

PlanRe vs PDF OCR

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

Head to head
About

PlanRe

Organize your day with a minimalist planner that combines task management with personalized motivation. Set priorities, track deadlines, and receive timely reminders. Customize your workspace with personal wallpapers for a more inspiring routine.

Highlights
  • Priority task organization
  • Comprehensive personal and work management
  • Customizable time formats
  • 10-minute task reminders
  • Customizable wallpapers
  • Local data storage for maximum security
Features
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Your plans. Your phone. Your privacy. No clouds. No tracking. No guilt. Just a calm, simple daily planner where everything stays offline and completely private. Why PlanRe? - Complete privacy — all data stored only on your phone - Works 100% offline — no internet required, ever - Zero distractions — just planning, nothing more - No guilt, no pressure — gentle reminders, no toxic streaks - Beautiful customization — themes, colors, order your days What you get: - Simple task planning with time, repetitions, daily tasks - Gentle local notifications (not pushy) - Calm analytics and insights (including chronotype detection) - Widgets for quick planning on your home screen - The "thread of the day" philosophy — steady progress, not perfection Built for: Professional planners, freelancers, entrepreneurs, and anyone tired of Todoist, Notion, TickTick complexity, apps that collect your data, cloud subscriptions and paywalls, and guilt-driven streak systems. Pro Features (Optional Subscription): Advanced analytics, custom background, monthly vibes mail One simple truth: Your plan is yours. Everything else is noise. Download PlanRe and take back control. Subscriptions PlanRe Pro offers auto-renewable subscriptions. Terms of Use (EULA): https://teur.work/planre/terms Privacy Policy: https://teur.work/planre/privacy

About

PDF OCR

This app transforms your iPhone or iPad into a powerful PDF tool. Scan documents, recognize and edit text, convert files, and sign PDFs all on your device. It offers advanced features for annotation, measurement, and protection.

Highlights
  • Document scanning and text recognition (OCR)
  • Edit text and images directly on the page
  • Convert between PDF, Word, and Office formats
  • Annotate with pens, highlighters, and shapes
  • Fill and sign PDF forms
  • Measure drawings to scale
  • Password protection and redaction
Features
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PDF OCR is the all-in-one PDF app for iPhone and iPad. Scan paper into searchable PDFs, read and mark up any document, edit text right on the page, measure drawings to scale, and convert between PDF, Word and Office files. Everything runs on your device, with no account and no uploads. SCAN & RECOGNIZE TEXT (OCR) • Document scanner: edges are found and pages are straightened for you • Text recognition: scans become searchable, selectable PDFs • Recognize text in scanned PDFs you already have • Scan many pages at once, then reorder, rotate or remove them • Read QR codes • Put two pages on one, like both sides of an ID card • Smart file names suggested from what was scanned (Pro) READ IN COMFORT • Fast viewer with search, contents and bookmarks • Continuous scroll, single page or two-page spread • Reading View: the text reflowed to fit your screen, in your size, font and theme • Night mode and read aloud • Opens where you left off; recent documents appear in Spotlight ANNOTATE & MARK UP • Pen and highlighter, smooth with Apple Pencil • Highlight, underline and strike through text • Notes, shapes, arrows, polygons and stamps • Select anything you added to move or resize it, with undo EDIT PDF LIKE A DOCUMENT (PRO) • Edit text right where it is, in the document's own fonts • Move, delete and add text and images • Redaction removes sensitive text and images for good MEASURE DRAWINGS (PRO) • Distance, perimeter, area and count on plans and drawings • Drawing scales such as 1:100, or calibrate to a length you know • Snaps to corners; totals and CSV export FILL & SIGN • Fill in PDF forms • Draw your signature once and place it on any document • Sign contracts, invoices and applications without a printer CONVERT • PDF to Word (Pro), images, text and RTF • Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Pages and Keynote files to PDF • Photos and web pages to PDF ORGANIZE & OPTIMIZE • Merge PDFs and images; split by selected pages, ranges or every N pages • Reorder, rotate, insert, crop and delete pages • Compress PDFs to make them smaller • Flatten annotations and forms, and print PROTECT • Protect PDFs with a password • Change permissions or remove security (Pro) • Watermarks and page numbers (Pro) • Lock the app with Face ID (Pro) SMART TOOLS, ON YOUR DEVICE • Summaries with Apple Intelligence (Pro; iOS 26 on supported devices) • Page translation (Pro) • Shortcuts actions for OCR, compression and merging (Pro) PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your documents never leave your device. Scanning, text recognition, editing, conversion and summaries all happen on the device. No account, and no watermark on your files. PDF OCR PRO Reading, markup, signatures, scanning and most tools are free, and OCR is free for up to 30 pages per document. Pro adds OCR without page limits, editing text and images, PDF to Word, measuring, advanced split, redaction, watermarks and page numbers, Face ID lock, smart file names, summaries and translation, and Shortcuts actions. Choose monthly, yearly with a 7-day free trial, or a one-time lifetime purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and can be managed in Settings › Apple Account › Subscriptions. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://layerz.app/pdfocr/privacy

Screenshots

PlanRe4 screens
PDF OCR4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: PlanRe at free against PDF OCR's freemium. PlanRe also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). PDF OCR's advantage is ratings volume (7 vs 2). On price, rating, review sentiment and update cadence 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. PlanRe sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and PDF OCR sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for PlanRe against 4.4 for PDF OCR. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 7 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and November 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
PlanRe versus PDF OCR: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPlanRePDF OCR
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (2 ratings) — better4.4 (7 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings27 — better
Update frequencyMonthlyMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size45 MB9 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperIvan ShauchenkaLayerz Corp.

Customer experience

PlanRe

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

PDF OCR

All ratings7 ratings
Positive85.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative14.3%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

4 purchases

PlanRe

Subscriptions4
  • 1 Month$2.991 Month
  • 1 Month$4.991 Month
  • 1 Year$19.991 Year
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  • 1 Year$34.991 Year
3 purchases

PDF OCR

Subscriptions2
  • PDF OCR Pro Monthly$3.991 Month
  • PDF OCR Pro Yearly7 Days trial$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • PDF OCR Pro Lifetime$49.99

Questions

Is PlanRe free?
PlanRe is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is PDF OCR free?
PDF OCR is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, PlanRe or PDF OCR?
PlanRe is rated higher. PlanRe averages 4.5 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while PDF OCR averages 4.4 from 7 ratings.
Do PlanRe or PDF OCR have ads?
Neither PlanRe nor PDF OCR shows ads.
Which is updated more often, PlanRe or PDF OCR?
PlanRe ships an update monthly, and PDF OCR monthly. Most recently, PlanRe was updated on November 4, 2026 and PDF OCR on November 8, 2026.

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