PDF to slides! vs MDReader
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
PDF to slides!
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EXTRACT REAL TEXT FROM ANY IMAGE PDF. A scanned PDF is just pixels. A photo of a slide is just pixels. An AI-generated deck is just pixels. SlideEdit reads those pixels the way you do โ and gives back real text, real fonts, and a layout you can edit. WHAT YOU GET OUT โข Editable PPTX โ opens in PowerPoint, Keynote, and Google Slides โข Searchable PDF โ selectable text, real fonts, vector layout โข Plain text and Markdown exports WHAT IT READS โข Scanned PDFs, printed documents, receipts, contracts โข Photos of slides, whiteboards, books, notes โข AI-generated PDFs (NotebookLM, ChatGPT, Gamma, and others) โข Old PowerPoint files exported as PDF โข Screenshots and print-to-PDF output EDIT IT YOUR WAY โข Output PPTX slides are fully editable โ change text, fonts, colors โข Output PDFs keep selectable text and vector graphics โข Built-in preview lets you check before exporting HOW IT WORKS โข On-device OCR plus layout reconstruction โข 10 seconds for a typical deck. No upload, no account, no waiting โข Works offline. Airplane mode is fine โข Files never leave your Mac, iPhone, or iPad Mac ยท iPhone ยท iPad Privacy first. No account. No upload. No cloud. Free to try. Pro unlocks everything. Terms of Use (EULA): https://frankali480449.github.io/SlideEdit---PDF-to-PPT-support/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://frankali480449.github.io/SlideEdit---PDF-to-PPT-support/privacy.html
MDReader
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MDReader opens your Markdown files and folders and renders them properly. There is no library to import into, no account to create and no sync service in the middle. Your .md files stay exactly where you put them, and MDReader reads and writes them in place. FAST, EVEN ON BIG FILES A two-tier parser scans a document in a single pass and only fully parses the blocks you can actually see. A 10 MB file opens before other editors have finished showing a spinner, and scrolling stays smooth all the way down. RENDERS THE WHOLE OF MARKDOWN GitHub-flavoured Markdown with tables, task lists you can tick straight from reading mode, footnotes that jump both ways, YAML front matter shown as a card, LaTeX math inline and display, fenced code with syntax highlighting, and Mermaid diagrams rendered offline. AN EDITOR THAT STAYS OUT OF THE WAY Live syntax highlighting, lists that continue and renumber themselves, bold/italic/link shortcuts, find and replace, table and formula inserters, and paste an image to save it next to the document. Autosave goes through the system file coordinator, so editing alongside Obsidian, git or iCloud is safe. PICKS UP WHERE YOU LEFT OFF Reading position is restored to the pixel, per document, across relaunches, rotation and window resizes. FOLDER WORKSPACES (PRO) Open a whole folder: a repository's docs, an Obsidian vault, a Zettelkasten. Fuzzy quick-open, full-text search across every file in the folder, [[wiki-links]] with a backlinks panel, a front-matter tag browser, and read-only git status per file. Changes made by other apps are picked up in place, without losing your position. MORE IN PRO PDF export and print, publishing to GitHub Gist and Telegraph, presentation mode for slides, a custom theme editor with imported fonts, focus and typewriter modes, word-count goals, reading statistics, text-to-speech with follow-along highlighting, local version history with diffs, snippets, Vim keybindings, and an AI pack that summarises and rewrites entirely on device. BUILT FOR APPLE PLATFORMS One purchase covers iPhone, iPad and Mac. Keyboard shortcuts throughout, multiple windows, menu bar commands, a Share extension, Shortcuts actions, widgets, a URL scheme, Spotlight indexing, VoiceOver labels and Dynamic Type. PRIVACY MDReader collects nothing. No analytics SDK, no account, no server of ours to talk to. The only network traffic is what your own documents ask for, such as remote images, plus the publishing integrations you set up yourself. FREE AND PRO The reader and the single-file editor are free forever: all rendering including math and syntax highlighting, the base themes, table of contents, in-file search, HTML, Markdown and plain-text export, and position restore. Pro unlocks folder workspaces and the power features above, as a one-time purchase or as a yearly subscription with a free trial. SUBSCRIPTION AND PURCHASE DETAILS MDReader Pro (Yearly) - auto-renewable subscription, 1 year, USD 9.99 per year, including a 7-day free trial for new subscribers. MDReader Pro (Lifetime) - one-time purchase, USD 24.99, not a subscription. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. A yearly subscription renews automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the period ends. You can manage or cancel the subscription in your Apple Account settings after purchase. Any unused portion of a free trial is forfeited when a subscription is purchased. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ App Terms of Service: https://gelfand.dev/mdreader/terms Privacy Policy: https://gelfand.dev/mdreader/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: PDF to slides! at every 4 days against MDReader's every 2 weeks. PDF to slides! also leads on iOS requirement (16.6 vs 26.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
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Both are free to download. PDF to slides! sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and MDReader sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
PDF to slides! ships an update every 4 days, MDReader every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PDF to slides! | MDReader |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days โ better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 โ better | 26.0 |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 40 MB | 22 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | ็ณ ๆ | Daniil Nuzhdin |
In-app purchases
PDF to slides!
- Pro Monthly$1.991 Month
- Pro Yearly3 Days trial$8.991 Year
- Pro Unlock$19.99
MDReader
- MDReader Pro Yearly7 Days trial$9.991 Year
- MDReader Pro$24.99









