Comparison

QR Safe vs PDF Squeeze

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

Head to head
About

QR Safe

Features
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QR Safe is a secure QR code scanner designed to protect you from phishing, malicious links and online scams. Scan QR codes instantly and analyze URLs before opening them. This QR scanner helps detect dangerous links, suspicious websites and unsafe content hidden inside QR codes. Key features: Fast QR code scanner Secure URL checker and link analyzer Phishing detection and scam protection Malicious link detection before opening WiFi QR code reader with network details Scan QR codes from images and gallery QR scan history with results Lightweight and easy to use interface QR Safe is more than a simple QR reader. It is a security tool designed to prevent QR code scams and protect your data.

About

PDF Squeeze

Reduce PDF file sizes directly on your device without needing an internet connection. This app allows for offline compression, splitting, reordering, and creation of PDFs from photos, ensuring your documents remain private.

Highlights
  • Offline PDF compression
  • Create PDFs from photos
  • Split and reorder pages
  • On-device processing
  • Built-in PDF viewer
  • Share Sheet integration
Features
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PDF Squeeze makes big PDFs small without making them ugly — and it also scans, reads, signs, converts and answers questions about them, without a single byte leaving your iPhone. SCAN PAPER INTO PDF Point the camera at a page and PDF Squeeze finds the edges, squares it up and cleans it: shadows lifted, paper turned white, ink made sharp. Choose Auto, Grayscale or Black & White, then save. Every scan is searchable — the words are read on device, so you can find, copy and ask about them. SEND TO ANY COMPUTER AirDrop doesn't reach a Windows laptop or a Chromebook. Send to Computer does: type the short address it shows into any browser on the same Wi-Fi and download. No cable, no account, nothing uploaded. Sharing stops when you close the screen. ASK YOUR PDF ANYTHING Open a contract, a lease, a manual or a research paper and just ask. "What's the cancellation policy?" "When does this renew?" "What did they agree to pay?" Answers come with page citations you can tap to jump to the source, so you can check the wording yourself. It all runs on your device: iPhones with Apple Intelligence use the system model, and other iPhones can add an optional on-device model. Scanned and photographed pages are read with on-device OCR in more than twenty languages. SIGN WITHOUT PRINTING Sign with your finger, or type your name and pick a handwriting style. Your signature is stored as strokes, never a photo, so it stays crisp at any zoom — and it's baked into the page, so it survives compression and email and nobody can drag it off. MARK UP LIKE PAPER Highlight, draw freehand and add text boxes you can stretch to any shape. Undo anything, all the way back. TEXT STAYS SHARP Most compressors re-encode every page and hand you a blurry file. PDF Squeeze tries a vector-preserving pass first, keeping text crisp and selectable. Pages are only re-rendered when that actually saves space, and your file never comes out larger than it went in. Filled-in forms keep their answers. HIT AN EXACT SIZE Email limit? Upload cap? Pick 1, 2, 5, 10 or 25 MB and PDF Squeeze finds the best quality that fits just under it — or tells you honestly when it can't. SEE THE DIFFERENCE Drag the Before & After slider across any page to compare the original with the compressed version. CONVERT WITHOUT LEAVING THE APP • PDF to Text, with OCR for scanned pages • PDF to Images, in PNG, JPEG, HEIC or TIFF • Images to PDF • Change Image Format between PNG, JPEG, HEIC and TIFF ALSO IN THE BOX • Compress a whole group of documents at once • Four presets: Light, Balanced, Strong, Extreme • Automatic grayscale detection for extra savings on scans • Rearrange, rotate and delete pages by dragging thumbnails • Extract pages into a new PDF, or merge several PDFs into one • Turn photos into a PDF • Full-text search • Compress from the Share sheet in any app • A library that stays where you left it, and a history of everything you've compressed • Built for iPad too: library on the left, document beside it, Apple Pencil for signing PRIVATE BY DESIGN Scanning, compression, conversion, OCR, signatures and AI answers all happen on your iPhone. Your documents are never uploaded to a server. No accounts, no tracking, no ads. PAY ONCE, KEEP FOREVER Your first compression and five questions are free, and scanning, signing, markup, merging, page editing and converting are free for good. One purchase unlocks everything else for life. No subscription, ever.

Screenshots

QR Safe3 screens
PDF Squeeze4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: QR Safe at 13.0 against PDF Squeeze's 18.0. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. QR Safe sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and PDF Squeeze sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

QR Safe ships an update every 4 days, PDF Squeeze every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
QR Safe versus PDF Squeeze: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterQR SafePDF Squeeze
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 daysEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetization—Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS13.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size41 MB22 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperEric FONTENYMOHAMMAD AHMADI SADR

In-app purchases

1 purchases

QR Safe

One-time1
  • QR Safe Premium$2.99
1 purchases

PDF Squeeze

One-time1
  • PDF Squeeze$14.99

Questions

Is QR Safe free?
QR Safe is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is PDF Squeeze free?
PDF Squeeze is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do QR Safe or PDF Squeeze have ads?
Neither QR Safe nor PDF Squeeze shows ads.
Which is updated more often, QR Safe or PDF Squeeze?
QR Safe ships an update every 4 days, and PDF Squeeze every 3 days. Most recently, QR Safe was updated on October 28, 2026 and PDF Squeeze on October 25, 2026.

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