Comparison

PDF to Books vs leaf

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

Head to head
About

PDF to Books

Transform your PDFs into a beautiful, organized digital library with realistic page-turning animations and a comfortable reading experience. Features include smart annotation tools, advanced reading modes, and cross-device syncing. Your documents are stored locally for maximum privacy.

Highlights
  • Realistic page curl animation
  • Comfortable dark mode
  • Cross-device syncing
  • Automatic book cover generation
  • Smart annotation suite
  • Advanced reading modes
Features
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*** A Reading Experience You'll Love Realistic Page Curl Animation: Swipe through pages with our signature, fluid animation. It feels like reading a real book, making studying or leisure reading more enjoyable and engaging. Designed for Comfort: Read for hours with our carefully crafted Dark Mode and elegant gold accents. Every detail is optimized to reduce eye strain and enhance your focus. Seamless on All Devices: A perfectly optimized experience for both iPhone and iPad. Your library and reading progress sync beautifully across all your iOS devices. *** Powerful Organization & Tools Your Beautiful Digital Library: Automatically generated book covers and a clean layout turn your cluttered PDF folder into a collection you're proud to browse. Smart Annotation Suite: Highlight key passages with precision and add custom-named bookmarks to jump back to important pages instantly. Advanced Reading Modes: Pinch-to-zoom for fine details, full-screen immersion, and an auto-lock disable so the screen stays on while you read. *** Privacy You Can Trust We believe your documents are your business. All your PDFs and reading data are stored locally on your device, never on our servers. Your privacy is our default setting. Perfect For: • Students managing textbooks and research papers. • Professionals reviewing reports, contracts, and presentations. • Book Lovers building and organizing their digital collection. • Anyone who wants a beautiful, distraction-free reading experience. Download Books now and fall in love with reading your PDFs again.

About

leaf

This app offers a natural reading experience with customizable scroll options and an integrated read-aloud feature. Access a vast library of free classics or import your own documents. Enjoy a distraction-free environment with no ads or intrusive elements.

Highlights
  • Natural vertical scroll and page curl
  • Read-aloud narration with line highlighting
  • Access to 70,000+ free classic books
  • Import EPUB, PDF, and Markdown files
  • Customizable themes, fonts, and spacing
  • Organized library with shelves and filters
  • Ad-free and distraction-free reading experience
Features
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Scroll naturally. Read deeply. leaf is a reading app built for your phone. Read on your own, or let leaf read to you. Read with a natural vertical scroll, or turn pages with a page curl when you want a more traditional feel. leaf flows through your book the way your thumb already moves. When your attention keeps sliding off the page, tap play. leaf sets a gentle pace and lights up each line as you go. Turn on the voice and it reads the page aloud while you follow along, or lock your phone and keep listening. Narration uses the voices built into your iPhone, so it's free and unlimited, works offline, and your books never leave your phone. Browse and download over 70,000 free books from Project Gutenberg and Standard Ebooks: classic literature, philosophy, fiction, and more. Import your own EPUB, PDF, and Markdown files too. No reading streaks. No goals. No ads. No noise. Just you and the book. READ ALONG AND NARRATION - Tap play and leaf sets the pace, lighting each line as you read - Turn on the voice and leaf reads the page aloud as the highlight follows - Free and unlimited: no hours to count, no account to make - Runs on your iPhone, works offline, and never uploads your books - Keeps reading with the screen locked. Pause, play, or skip back 15 seconds from the lock screen or your headphones - Picks a voice in your book's language. Apple's Enhanced and Premium voices are a free download and sound the most natural - Change the speed any time, pause with a tap, or step back a sentence - Works with every reading flow - Also works for PDFs READER - Three reading flows: Page Curl, Slide, or Continuous scroll - Vertical or horizontal page turns - Light, Dark, System, and E-Ink themes - Bookmarks, highlights, and notes - Multi-paragraph highlighting and sharing - Search within any book - Typefaces including Classic, Modern, Lexend, and Atkinson Hyperlegible - Adjust font size, spacing, and text density - Set a reading intention for each book - An exportable Reading Journal is created automatically when you highlight text or write a note PDFs - Read PDFs with the same reading flows as books - Pages follow your theme automatically, in light or dark - Columns are detected and shown one at a time, so the text is bigger and you never scroll sideways to read a line LIBRARY - Organise books into shelves, grouped into sections you can collapse - Filter by shelf, intention, or reading status - Sort by title, author, last opened, or shelf - View books as Grid or List - Search your entire library - Drop supported book files into the leaf folder and they'll appear in your library automatically - Use iCloud to share books between devices - Continue reading from your current book with the Home Screen widget FREE BOOKS - Browse and download from Project Gutenberg and Standard Ebooks - Over 70,000 free classic and public domain titles - The Call of the Wild is included, so you can start reading straight away - Import your own EPUB, PDF, and Markdown files - Supports multiple file and folder import LEAF PRO - Six more themes: Sepia, Ivory, Mist, Forest, Midnight, and Amber Night - Design up to six custom themes of your own - Three more typefaces (Literata, Spectral, and Merriweather) or import your own - Line, paragraph, and letter spacing - Sync your library across devices - Sync reading progress, highlights, notes, bookmarks, shelves, and Reading Journal entries Privacy Policy: https://readleaf.co/legal Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

PDF to Books4 screens
leaf4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: PDF to Books at 4.3 against leaf's 3.4. PDF to Books also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 2) and review sentiment (50% vs 33%). On price, ratings volume, ads 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. leaf sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. PDF to Books asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

PDF to Books holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 3.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 7 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of PDF to Books's written reviews are positive against 33% of leaf's.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
PDF to Books versus leaf: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPDF to Booksleaf
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (3 ratings) — better3.4 (7 ratings)
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews — better33.3% of reviews
Number of ratings37 — better
Update frequency—Weekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.6 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB85 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMichael FahimAbraham Jesri

Customer experience

PDF to Books

All ratings3 ratings
Positive66.7%
Neutral33.3%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral50.0%
Negative0.0%

leaf

All ratings7 ratings
Positive57.1%
Neutral0.0%
Negative42.9%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive33.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative66.7%

In-app purchases

None

PDF to Books

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

leaf

Subscriptions2
  • Leaf Pro7 Days trial$1.991 Month
  • Leaf Pro7 Days trial$12.991 Year

Questions

Is PDF to Books free?
PDF to Books is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is leaf free?
leaf is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, PDF to Books or leaf?
PDF to Books is rated higher. PDF to Books averages 4.3 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while leaf averages 3.4 from 7 ratings.
Do PDF to Books or leaf have ads?
Neither PDF to Books nor leaf shows ads.

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