Comparison

Minaret vs PDF Squeeze

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

Head to head
About

Minaret

This app provides accurate, location-based prayer times with a beautiful, minimalist design. It features a Qibla compass, customizable widgets for home and lock screens, and gentle reminders to help users stay on track with their prayers, even offline.

Highlights
  • Accurate offline prayer times
  • Qibla compass
  • Customizable home and lock screen widgets
  • Apple Watch companion app
  • Gentle prayer reminders
  • Ad-free experience
  • Clean, native iOS design
Features
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Discover Minaret - A beautifully designed prayer companion built for simplicity, accuracy, and peace of mind. Whether you’re at home, traveling, or offline, Minaret automatically shows precise daily prayer times based on your location. The app includes an aesthetic design for viewing prayer times, a stunning Qibla compass, customizable widgets for your home and lock screen, and gentle reminders to help you stay on track throughout the day. Features • Accurate Prayer Times - Automatically calculated for your exact location, even offline. • Qibla Compass - Always know the direction of Makkah, wherever you are. • Beautiful Widgets - View upcoming prayer times right from your Home or Lock Screen. • Apple Watch Companion App - Minaret looks beautiful on your Apple Watch with lock and home screen widgets. • Notifications - Get subtle, timely alerts for each prayer. • Advertisement Free - You will never wait for an advertisement on Minaret. • Clean Design - Inspired by Apple’s design language for a calm, modern experience. Unlike other apps cluttered with ads or unnecessary features, Minaret focuses on what matters - clarity, accuracy, and peace. It’s designed to feel effortless, reliable, and truly native to iOS.

About

PDF Squeeze

This app helps you reduce the size of PDF files while preserving their quality. It also offers scanning, text extraction, signing, and conversion features, all processed locally on your device for enhanced privacy.

Highlights
  • Compress PDFs while preserving quality
  • Scan paper documents into searchable PDFs
  • Convert PDFs to text or images
  • Sign and markup PDF documents
  • Ask questions about PDF content
  • Transfer files to any computer via Wi-Fi
Features
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PDF Squeeze makes big PDFs small without making them ugly — and it also scans, reads, signs, converts and answers questions about them, without a single byte leaving your iPhone. SCAN PAPER INTO PDF Point the camera at a page and PDF Squeeze finds the edges, squares it up and cleans it: shadows lifted, paper turned white, ink made sharp. Choose Auto, Grayscale or Black & White, then save. Every scan is searchable — the words are read on device, so you can find, copy and ask about them. SEND TO ANY COMPUTER AirDrop doesn't reach a Windows laptop or a Chromebook. Send to Computer does: type the short address it shows into any browser on the same Wi-Fi and download. No cable, no account, nothing uploaded. Sharing stops when you close the screen. ASK YOUR PDF ANYTHING Open a contract, a lease, a manual or a research paper and just ask. "What's the cancellation policy?" "When does this renew?" "What did they agree to pay?" Answers come with page citations you can tap to jump to the source, so you can check the wording yourself. It all runs on your device: iPhones with Apple Intelligence use the system model, and other iPhones can add an optional on-device model. Scanned and photographed pages are read with on-device OCR in more than twenty languages. SIGN WITHOUT PRINTING Sign with your finger, or type your name and pick a handwriting style. Your signature is stored as strokes, never a photo, so it stays crisp at any zoom — and it's baked into the page, so it survives compression and email and nobody can drag it off. MARK UP LIKE PAPER Highlight, draw freehand and add text boxes you can stretch to any shape. Undo anything, all the way back. TEXT STAYS SHARP Most compressors re-encode every page and hand you a blurry file. PDF Squeeze tries a vector-preserving pass first, keeping text crisp and selectable. Pages are only re-rendered when that actually saves space, and your file never comes out larger than it went in. Filled-in forms keep their answers. HIT AN EXACT SIZE Email limit? Upload cap? Pick 1, 2, 5, 10 or 25 MB and PDF Squeeze finds the best quality that fits just under it — or tells you honestly when it can't. SEE THE DIFFERENCE Drag the Before & After slider across any page to compare the original with the compressed version. CONVERT WITHOUT LEAVING THE APP • PDF to Text, with OCR for scanned pages • PDF to Images, in PNG, JPEG, HEIC or TIFF • Images to PDF • Change Image Format between PNG, JPEG, HEIC and TIFF ALSO IN THE BOX • Compress a whole group of documents at once • Four presets: Light, Balanced, Strong, Extreme • Automatic grayscale detection for extra savings on scans • Rearrange, rotate and delete pages by dragging thumbnails • Extract pages into a new PDF, or merge several PDFs into one • Turn photos into a PDF • Full-text search • Compress from the Share sheet in any app • A library that stays where you left it, and a history of everything you've compressed • Built for iPad too: library on the left, document beside it, Apple Pencil for signing PRIVATE BY DESIGN Scanning, compression, conversion, OCR, signatures and AI answers all happen on your iPhone. Your documents are never uploaded to a server. No accounts, no tracking, no ads. PAY ONCE, KEEP FOREVER Your first compression and five questions are free, and scanning, signing, markup, merging, page editing and converting are free for good. One purchase unlocks everything else for life. No subscription, ever.

Screenshots

Minaret3 screens
PDF Squeeze4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Minaret at none against PDF Squeeze's 1. Minaret also leads on ratings volume (12 vs 1). PDF Squeeze's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs fortnightly). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads 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. PDF Squeeze sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Minaret asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Minaret against 5.0 for PDF Squeeze. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Minaret has 12 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Minaret ships an update fortnightly, PDF Squeeze every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Minaret versus PDF Squeeze: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMinaretPDF Squeeze
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (12 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings12 — better1
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS18.018.0
Further details — not scored
Size22 MB23 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHumayun ChaudhryMOHAMMAD AHMADI SADR

Customer experience

Minaret

All ratings12 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

PDF Squeeze

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Minaret

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

PDF Squeeze

One-time1
  • PDF Squeeze$14.99

Questions

Is Minaret free?
Minaret is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is PDF Squeeze free?
PDF Squeeze is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Minaret or PDF Squeeze?
Minaret and PDF Squeeze are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 12 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Minaret or PDF Squeeze have ads?
Neither Minaret nor PDF Squeeze shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Minaret or PDF Squeeze?
Minaret ships an update fortnightly, and PDF Squeeze every 4 days. Most recently, Minaret was updated on November 5, 2026 and PDF Squeeze on November 6, 2026.

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