Comparison

Simple OCR App vs MDacrobat

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

Head to head
About

Simple OCR App

Features
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Simple Picture-to-Text OCR App Turn any image into editable text in seconds. This lightweight and easy-to-use app helps you extract text from photos, screenshots, or documents with just a few taps. How to Use - Tap Upload Image to select a photo from your device. - Choose your preferred OCR Model for recognition. - Press Extract Text to process the image. - View, copy, and share the recognized text instantly. Perfect For - Digitizing printed documents - Extracting text from screenshots - Converting handwritten notes to digital text - Quickly capturing text from any photo Why You’ll Love It - Fast and accurate OCR models - Works offline (depending on model) - Simple, clean interface - Secure — your data stays on your device

About

MDacrobat

This app provides a comprehensive Markdown editing experience for iPhone and iPad, offering live previews, robust export options, and offline functionality. It treats Markdown files as editable documents with advanced features for formatting and organization.

Highlights
  • Live GitHub-Flavored Markdown preview
  • Offline rendering of math, code, and diagrams
  • Markdown editor with syntax highlighting
  • Export to PDF, HTML, DOCX, RTF, and plain text
  • Native document browser integration
  • Hardware keyboard shortcuts on iPad
Features
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MDacrobat is the complete Markdown app for iPhone and iPad — what Acrobat is for PDF, MDacrobat is for Markdown. It treats your .md files as real documents, with a live, reference-quality preview and honest export, and your files stay ordinary Markdown on disk. No account, no sync service, no tracking, no ads. LIVE PREVIEW • GitHub-Flavored Markdown: tables, task lists, footnotes, strikethrough, autolinks • Math with KaTeX, code highlighting, and Mermaid diagrams — all rendered offline • Flicker-free updates and synced scrolling between editor and preview • Tap task checkboxes in the preview to check them off in the source • Five typographic themes, light and dark EDITOR BUILT FOR MARKDOWN • Live syntax highlighting, smart list continuation, and auto-pairing • A formatting bar above the keyboard, and full hardware-keyboard shortcuts on iPad • Front matter shown as a tidy metadata card DESIGNED FOR iPHONE AND iPAD • Native document browser (works with the Files app and iCloud Drive) • Side-by-side editor and preview on iPad; editor / split / preview modes everywhere • Outline sidebar to jump between headings EXPORT & SHARE • PDF, self-contained HTML, Word (.docx), RTF, and plain text • Copy as HTML, print, and share anywhere Your documents never leave your device. MDacrobat works entirely offline.

Screenshots

Simple OCR App3 screens
MDacrobat2 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Simple OCR App at 15.1 against MDacrobat's 17.0. 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 · 8 level
Simple OCR App versus MDacrobat: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSimple OCR AppMDacrobat
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—3 — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS15.1 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size18 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHanpeng YangPrabhjot Singh Sandhu

In-app purchases

None

Simple OCR App

No in-app purchases

None

MDacrobat

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Simple OCR App free?
Simple OCR App is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is MDacrobat free?
MDacrobat is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Simple OCR App or MDacrobat have ads?
Neither Simple OCR App nor MDacrobat shows ads.

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