Comparison

PDF Search Kit vs Folio

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

Head to head
About

PDF Search Kit

Instantly find information within all your PDF documents. This app allows you to scan physical documents and make them searchable using OCR, all while keeping your files private and offline. Its clean interface delivers fast, highlighted results.

Highlights
  • Instant search across all PDFs
  • Scan documents with OCR
  • Fully offline functionality
  • Private file storage
  • Fast, highlighted results
  • Clean and simple interface
Features
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PDF Search Kit lets you search instantly across all your PDF files. No more scrolling through long documents — find exactly what you need in seconds. KEY FEATURES: • Instant search across all PDFs • Scan documents and make them searchable (OCR) • Fully offline — your files stay private • Fast results with highlighted matches • Clean and simple interface Perfect for: • Manuals • Documents • Contracts • Study materials • Work files Whether you're a student, professional, or everyday user, PDF Search Kit helps you find information faster and easier. Download now and take control of your PDFs.

About

Folio

Features
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Every PDF tool you need — and not one byte of your document ever leaves your device. Online PDF tools are convenient until you read the fine print. Your contract, your payslip, your client's financial statement — uploaded to a server you don't control, retained for purposes you didn't agree to, mined for data you didn't consent to share. Folio makes that trade-off unnecessary. Folio is a full-featured PDF toolkit that runs entirely on your iPhone and iPad. No network connection. No account. No cloud sync. No analytics. Your files go in, your files come out — nothing in between. WHAT YOU CAN DO Organise — Merge multiple PDFs into one document — Split a PDF into separate files by page range — Reorder, rotate, or delete individual pages Reduce & Prepare — Compress PDFs to shrink file size without rebuilding content — Add watermarks or page numbers — Flatten form fields and annotations into a fixed document Convert (best-effort, on-device) — PDF to images: export pages as JPG or PNG — Images to PDF: combine photos into a single document — PDF to Word, Excel, or PowerPoint — conversion is handled entirely on-device using Apple's document frameworks; complex layouts may not reproduce with pixel-perfect fidelity, but no file is ever sent to a remote service to achieve it Protect — Password-protect a PDF with your chosen password — Remove password protection from a document you own Fill & Sign — Fill text fields in PDFs — Add your signature to any document Extract & Search — OCR: turn a scanned or photographed document into searchable, selectable text using Apple's on-device Vision framework — Extract all text from a PDF for copying or reference ZERO NETWORK DESIGN Folio ships with no networking capability. It cannot phone home. It cannot upload a file even if it wanted to. Every operation — compression, conversion, OCR, signing — runs on your device's own processor using Apple's built-in frameworks. This is not a marketing claim; it is a technical constraint we built in by design. This matters most when you are handling documents that should never leave your hands: NDAs, medical records, legal filings, HR documents, financial statements, tax returns. NO ACCOUNT REQUIRED Open the app. Use every feature. Close the app. No sign-up screen. No email address. No subscription prompt. No paywall on any v1.0 feature. BUILT FOR PEOPLE WHO HANDLE SENSITIVE DOCUMENTS Folio is built for lawyers, accountants, HR professionals, and anyone else who regularly works with documents that are nobody else's business — and for anyone who is simply tired of feeding their files to free websites that profit from what they read. Your documents are yours. Folio keeps them that way.

Screenshots

PDF Search Kit4 screens
Folio3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Folio at 17.0 against PDF Search Kit's 26.4. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
PDF Search Kit versus Folio: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPDF Search KitFolio
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (5 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings5 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 10 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.417.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developergokalp pacinVuyo Nkadimeng

In-app purchases

None

PDF Search Kit

No in-app purchases

None

Folio

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is PDF Search Kit free?
PDF Search Kit is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Folio free?
Folio is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do PDF Search Kit or Folio have ads?
Neither PDF Search Kit nor Folio shows ads.

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