Comparison

TouchPDF vs PDFWorldEditor

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

Head to head
About

TouchPDF

Features
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Transform your device into a powerhouse offline PDF workspace. TouchPDF gives you complete freedom to view, edit, scan, and manage your documents anywhere, anytime—with absolutely zero internet required. Your data belongs to you. TouchPDF is built on a strict privacy-first architecture, ensuring all your sensitive documents stay securely on your device, with optional, seamless cloud backup when you choose. Why Choose TouchPDF? 100% Offline-First: No connection? No problem. Access your entire library, annotate files, and scan new documents completely offline. Privacy By Design: No mandatory cloud sign-ups, no tracking. Your local files stay local until you decide otherwise. Key Features Advanced Document Scanning & OCR: Powered by state-of-the-art ML Kit technology. Snap a photo to auto-detect edges, straighten skewed pages, and extract sharp, readable text instantly. Complete PDF Editing & Annotation: Read smoothly, highlight critical text, add personal notes, and organize pages with an intuitive, lag-free viewer. Local File Management: Keep your digital workspace clutter-free. Create folders, rename files, sort by date, and find what you need in seconds with lightning-fast local search. Smart Google Drive Integration: Want a backup? Securely link your Google Drive to sync your documents across devices. It only uploads when you tell it to. Perfect For: Students: Organize lecture notes, highlight textbooks, and digitize physical handouts on the go. Professionals: Review contracts, sign paperwork, and manage business documents securely. Digital Nomads & Travelers: Work seamlessly on flights, trains, or in remote areas without relying on spotty Wi-Fi. Privacy Advocates: Keep financial records, legal papers, and personal IDs safe from third-party servers. Experience a hassle-free, lightning-fast PDF workspace. Download TouchPDF today and take control of your documents!

About

PDFWorldEditor

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PDFWorldEditor opens, reads and transforms your PDF documents right from your phone. WHAT YOU CAN DO Read. Open a PDF, scroll, zoom, jump to any page. Annotate. Highlight, draw, write on a page, add a note. Sign. Draw your signature once, place it wherever you want, and reuse it on your next documents. Assemble. Merge several PDFs into one. Reorder pages, rotate them, delete them. Create a blank document and insert a photo. Compress. Reduce the size of a file too heavy to send by email. Convert. Turn a PDF into an editable Word document, or into images. Scan. Photograph a sheet of paper: the image is straightened, the text is recognised, and you get a PDF you can search for a word in. Edit text. Tap a word in an existing PDF and replace it. Useful for correcting a date, an amount, a name. Print and share. Send the document wherever you want with your iPhone's share sheet. WHAT THERE IS NOT No account required: everything works without signing in. Signing in is optional, with Apple or with Google. It only serves to recognise you: your documents are never attached to an account. No advertising. No subscription, no in-app purchase. No tracker, no analytics. YOUR DOCUMENTS Reading, annotating, signing, merging and reordering pages all happen entirely on your iPhone, offline. Four features need computing power the phone cannot provide on its own: compress, convert, scan and edit text. They send the document to our server in Germany for the time of the computation. We have neither a database nor storage space: the file is not kept after the response. Everything is explained in detail in our privacy policy. App published by HYVRAX, a French company.

Screenshots

TouchPDF4 screens
PDFWorldEditor4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: TouchPDF at 3 against PDFWorldEditor's 1. On price, ads, in-app purchases and iOS requirement 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 · 5 level
TouchPDF versus PDFWorldEditor: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTouchPDFPDFWorldEditor
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 4 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.5 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size89 MB81 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTouchQubeHyvrax

In-app purchases

None

TouchPDF

No in-app purchases

None

PDFWorldEditor

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is TouchPDF free?
TouchPDF is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is PDFWorldEditor free?
PDFWorldEditor is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do TouchPDF or PDFWorldEditor have ads?
Neither TouchPDF nor PDFWorldEditor shows ads.

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