Comparison

PDF View vs Paradoc

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

Head to head
About

PDF View

Features
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Create PDFs from photos, scan documents with your camera, and manage PDF pages in one place. PDF View-Picture Create helps you turn images into PDFs and handle everyday document tasks on your iPhone. CREATE AND SCAN • Convert one or more photos into a PDF • Capture documents, receipts, and notes with your camera VIEW AND ORGANIZE • Open and read PDF files • Merge multiple PDFs into one file • Extract selected pages into a new PDF PROTECT YOUR FILES • Add a password to a PDF • Remove password protection from a PDF when you know its password Whether you're preparing work documents, organizing study materials, or saving household paperwork, PDF View-Picture Create keeps these common PDF tasks together.

About

Paradoc

This app transforms photos of documents into high-quality PDFs, offering a suite of tools for editing, organizing, and securing your files. It handles complex PDF types, including encrypted and form-filled documents, all processed locally on your device without needing an internet connection.

Highlights
  • On-device AI-powered scanning
  • Merge, split, compress PDFs
  • Convert PDFs to images
  • Encrypt and unlock PDFs
  • Handle encrypted and restricted PDFs
  • Fillable form support
  • Organize and reorder pages
Features
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Scan paper into a clean PDF, then merge, split, compress, reorder, lock or unlock it. Seven tools, free, all running on your iPhone. Nothing is uploaded, ever. No account, no subscription, no ads. Your documents stay exactly where they already are. EVERYDAY JOBS Shrink a PDF until it fits an email limit. Lock a tax return before you share it. Pull the one page you need out of a long contract. Turn a school form on the kitchen table into a PDF you can send in a minute. Combine a stack of statements into a single file. SCAN Point the camera at a page, or pick photos from your library. Paradoc finds the edges, squares up the perspective and cleans up the page. An on-device neural model lifts shadows and uneven lighting, so a page shot under a desk lamp comes out clean and legible. Up to 20 pages per document. MERGE Combine up to 20 PDFs in the order you choose. Password-protected files are handled one by one, each with its own password. SPLIT Pull a page range out into its own PDF. If the source was encrypted, the result stays encrypted. COMPRESS Three presets: Light, Balanced and Maximum. Paradoc re-encodes images, subsets fonts and repacks object streams, the same techniques desktop tools use. Text stays text. Bookmarks, form values, annotations and document metadata stay intact. ORGANIZE Reorder, delete and rotate pages from a thumbnail grid. PDF TO IMAGE Export pages as JPEG images, from 75 to 600 DPI, up to 20 pages per export. PROTECT AND UNLOCK Lock a PDF with AES-256, the strongest encryption the PDF standard defines. Unlock removes a password you know, or clears owner-only restrictions on printing and copying. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Paradoc makes no network requests. None. There is no server, no sign-in, nothing quietly phoning home. Switch on airplane mode and every feature keeps working, on a plane, in a basement, anywhere. Your contract, your tax return, your medical letter: none of it needs to visit someone else's computer to be scanned, merged, shrunk or locked. The work happens where the file already is. BUILT FOR THE PDFs THAT USUALLY BREAK THINGS Password-protected files, including older RC4 and AES-128 ones, open and stay encrypted through Split, Organize and Compress. Files locked against printing or copying are detected and explained before you continue. Digitally signed PDFs are checked before anything is touched, and you are warned when an edit would invalidate a signature; certified documents are left alone. PDF/A archives are flagged before you change them. Merge two forms with the same field names and the result still works. Files up to 100 MB. A PDF comes out the way it went in. Text that was selectable stays selectable, and pages stay as sharp as they were at any zoom, because Paradoc works on the file itself instead of turning pages into pictures. Available in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Hindi, Chinese, Russian, Arabic and Hebrew, with full right-to-left layout.

Screenshots

PDF View4 screens
Paradoc4 screens

Verdict

The call

PDF View and Paradoc are too close to call on the numbers: across 8 compared parameters — price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for PDF View against 5.0 for Paradoc. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

PDF View ships an update every 2 weeks, Paradoc weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
PDF View versus Paradoc: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPDF ViewParadoc
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Number of ratings12 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size136 MB109 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperAis Business Mexico S.A. de C.V.Vaibhav Teli

Customer experience

PDF View

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Paradoc

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

PDF View

No in-app purchases

None

Paradoc

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is PDF View free?
PDF View is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Paradoc free?
Paradoc is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, PDF View or Paradoc?
PDF View and Paradoc are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do PDF View or Paradoc have ads?
Neither PDF View nor Paradoc shows ads.
Which is updated more often, PDF View or Paradoc?
PDF View ships an update every 2 weeks, and Paradoc weekly. Most recently, PDF View was updated on November 9, 2026 and Paradoc on November 6, 2026.

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