Comparison

Tiny Docs vs visualOS

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

Head to head
About

Tiny Docs

This app offers a comprehensive suite of tools for managing PDF documents, including scanning, editing, annotating, and signing. It leverages AI for summarization, question answering, and information extraction. Easily create, merge, split, and compress PDFs for efficient workflow.

Highlights
  • AI-powered summarization and Q&A
  • Scan documents with camera
  • Edit and annotate PDFs
  • Sign and secure documents
  • Merge, split, and compress files
  • Convert images to PDF
  • Extract text from PDFs
Features
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Tiny Docs is a fast, well-designed PDF editor built for everyday work. View, annotate, sign, merge, split, and compress your documents in just a couple of taps. Thoughtfully designed to be the best PDF viewer for iOS and iPad OS. Mark up documents with a full set of annotation tools: highlight, underline, add notes, draw, and sign directly on the page. Combine multiple files into one, split a document into parts, or shrink file sizes for easy sharing. Tiny Docs also brings AI into your workflow when you need it. AI Summarise gives you an instant overview of any document. Ask Document lets you ask a question and get an answer pulled straight from the file, without scrolling through pages to find it. Extract Key Info automatically surfaces the names, dates, and numbers that matter most. Whether you're reviewing contracts, marking up lecture notes, or clearing out a backlog of scanned paperwork, Tiny Docs keeps things simple and gets you through your documents faster. Tiny Docs is the best PDF toolkit in your pocket. INTELLIGENCE (AI) • Summarise — Summarise a PDF with AI • Extract Key Info — Pull out dates, names, and key facts from a document using AI • Ask Document — Ask questions about a PDF and get answers powered by AI CREATE • Scan — Scan a document with your camera and save it as a PDF instantly. • Recognise Text (OCR) — Extract searchable text from a scanned PDF using optical character recognition. • Image to PDF — Convert one or more photos into a single PDF document. • Create PDF — Build a PDF from scratch by adding blank pages. Plain | Lined | Isometric | Graph • Merge — Combine multiple PDFs into one seamless document. • Extract Pages — Pull specific pages out of a PDF and save them as a new file, or as individual files. • PDF to Text — Export the text content of a PDF as a plain .txt file. • Inspect Structure — View the raw PDF document structure tree. EDIT • Watermark — Add images or text as watermarks to your documents. • Page Numbers — Add custom page numbers to a PDF. • Delete Pages — Remove unwanted pages from a PDF. • Duplicate Pages — Copy pages within a PDF. • Rearrange Pages — Drag and drop to reorder the pages of a PDF. • Rotate Pages — Rotate one or more pages to the correct orientation. • Reverse Pages — Flip the entire page order of a PDF in one tap. • Compress — Reduce the file size of a PDF while preserving quality. • Flatten — Burn annotations and form fields permanently into the PDF. • Edit Metadata — Edit the title, author, and subject of a PDF document. • Add Blank Pages — Insert blank pages anywhere in a PDF. • Resize Pages — Scale pages to a different standard paper size. SECURITY • Sign Document — Add your signature or initials to a PDF as a moveable annotation. • Lock Document — Password-protect a PDF to restrict access. • Remove Password — Remove an existing password from a PDF. IMAGE • PDF to Image — Export PDF pages as high-quality image files. (JPG, PNG) EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

visualOS

This app offers an infinite canvas for visual thinkers, organizing notes, folders, images, and to-do lists. It works entirely offline, saving your data as real files in a folder on your device, which can then sync via your cloud service.

Highlights
  • Infinite canvas for visual thinking
  • Offline access and real file saving
  • Syncs with your own cloud storage
  • Organize notes, images, and to-dos
  • Hierarchical boards within boards
  • Markdown file support
  • Freehand drawing and magnetic arrows
Features
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visualOS is an infinite canvas for people who think visually. It is an infinite canvas for notes, folders, images, to-do’s and sketches. It works fully offline and saves to real files in a folder on your device. YOUR DATA IS A FOLDER YOU CAN OPEN Connect any folder on your disk and visualOS mirrors your canvas into it — every folder on the canvas is a real folder, every document a Markdown file, every image an image. Put the folder in iCloud or Dropbox and it syncs through your cloud, not ours. If you ever leave, everything stays readable. Forever. OFFLINE ISN'T A MODE. IT'S THE ARCHITECTURE. On a flight, on the train, in a studio with no signal — visualOS doesn’t care. There is no server to reach, so there is no spinner, no sync wheel, no login wall. Your canvas opens instantly because everything is already here. BOARDS WITHIN BOARDS Any board can hold more boards. A project becomes a world: moodboards inside client boards inside your studio. Drag elements into a board to file them away; breadcrumbs keep you oriented; a double-tap takes you deeper. NO ACCOUNT. NO SUBSCRIPTION. Open it and work. There's nothing to sign up for, nothing to verify, nothing to cancel. Pay once and it's yours forever — one purchase unlocks every Apple device. FREE IN THE BROWSER BUT THE APP GOES FURTHER Try visualOS free in your browser at visualos.app. When you're ready for it everywhere, the app adds what a browser can't: true offline access on the train or a plane, native pan-and-zoom gestures, Apple Pencil drawing, and your boards saved as real files that sync across iPhone, iPad and Mac through your own iCloud. EVERYTHING ELSE • Notes & rich text • Long-form documents stored as plain Markdown • Interactive to-do lists on the canvas • Images & PDFs — drag, paste or drop them in • Freehand drawing • Magnetic arrows that snap and bend • Search every board at once • Groups, locking and a snap grid Your ideas. Your files. ABOUT US As creatives, we’ve always relied on visual canvas tools to organize our thoughts, plan projects, and make sense of ideas. But one thing kept bothering us: our files and knowledge were always tied to cloud-based services. We wanted the freedom to access everything offline, without worrying about losing our work or giving up our privacy. So why can’t our own files on our device be visualized in the same intuitive way? And that’s how the idea for visualOS was born: a visual representation of your internal folder structure — offline, private, and secure. Your data stays on your device, where it belongs. We’re Sarah and Gerald, a husband-and-wife team who have been living, loving, and building things together for more than 20 years. Creating visualOS has been a ton of fun and thanks to AI we were able to push it further than we initially imagined. Now we’d love to hear what you think. If visualOS helps you work a little more creatively or makes your files easier to navigate, we’d be grateful if you shared it with others.

Screenshots

Tiny Docs4 screens
visualOS4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Tiny Docs at Free against visualOS's $12.99. Tiny Docs also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.4). visualOS's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and update cadence (every 6 days vs every 2 weeks). On 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

Tiny Docs is free to download; visualOS costs $12.99 up front. Tiny Docs sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.49 per month. visualOS asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Tiny Docs holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: visualOS has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Tiny Docs ships an update every 2 weeks, visualOS every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Tiny Docs versus visualOS: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTiny DocsvisualOS
PriceFree — better$12.99
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better4.4 (5 ratings)
Positive reviews—80.0% of reviews
Number of ratings15 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 6 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS26.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size59 MB21 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJames DassoulasDorweiler & Reimertz GbR

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Tiny Docs

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly3 Days trial$1.491 Month
  • Yearly7 Days trial$9.991 Year
None

visualOS

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Tiny Docs free?
Tiny Docs is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is visualOS free?
visualOS costs $12.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Tiny Docs or visualOS?
Tiny Docs is rated higher. Tiny Docs averages 5.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while visualOS averages 4.4 from 5 ratings.
Do Tiny Docs or visualOS have ads?
Neither Tiny Docs nor visualOS shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Tiny Docs or visualOS?
Tiny Docs ships an update every 2 weeks, and visualOS every 6 days. Most recently, Tiny Docs was updated on October 28, 2026 and visualOS on October 31, 2026.

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