Comparison

PDF Compressor Offline vs OffPDF

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

Head to head
About

PDF Compressor Offline

Features
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PDF Compressor Offline helps reduce PDF file size directly on your device. Your PDF files are not uploaded to our servers, and the original document is not modified. Choose one PDF or several PDFs, compress them, review the result, then save or share the new compressed copy. Before compression, the app also checks whether there is enough available storage to create the output safely. Highlights: • On-device PDF compression • PDF files are not uploaded to our servers • Original files remain unchanged • Save to Files, share, or preview compressed PDFs • Batch PDF compression support • Free users can process 2 PDFs per day • Free limits: up to 50 MB for one PDF, or 2 PDFs / 100 MB total per batch • Premium unlock: larger PDFs up to 1.5 GB, batches up to 75 PDFs, and no daily PDF limit • No account, no ads, no ad tracking PDF processing works offline. Privacy Policy: https://akifacet.github.io/info/pdf-compress/en/privacy/ Apple Standard EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

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OffPDF

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Your phone can scan. Every PDF app scans. Three things it normally cannot do without sending your file to a server: change a sentence inside a PDF, get a real Word file back out of one, and answer a question about a forty-page document. OffPDF does all three on the device. EDIT THE TEXT ALREADY IN A PDF Open a document and every line you can retype is outlined. Tap one and it becomes a field where the words are, at the size they are drawn. Change the words, the size, bold, italic, the colour, the letter spacing. Bold and italic use the document's own typeface, not a substitute. Nothing outside the line you changed moves. Not "roughly" — the page is read back after every edit, and every other letter has to land within a hundredth of a point of where it was. Checked against poppler over twenty real documents: nothing failed, no word lost, worst movement zero. An edit that fails is thrown away and you are told. CONVERT OFFICE FILES, BOTH WAYS, ON THE PHONE • Word, Excel and PowerPoint into PDF • PDF back to Word, with paragraphs, columns and pictures rebuilt • PDF back to Excel, with rows and columns detected • PDF back to PowerPoint, one slide per page Six converters, no server and no desktop — the part most apps put behind a subscription and most websites behind an upload. SCAN, AND MAKE A SCAN SEARCHABLE The camera turns a page into a clean PDF, with edge detection and a review step. The words are read on the device and written into the page invisibly, so the scan is searchable and its text selectable — in the language the page is actually in, so a Turkish or Arabic scan gets Turkish or Arabic letters, not empty boxes. A scan somebody else sent you can be made searchable the same way. ASK A DOCUMENT, AND SEE WHICH PAGE ANSWERED Ask a question, get a summary, or pull out the dates and amounts. Every answer names the page it came from, and that page is checked — a citation that does not match the document is removed rather than shown. The question and the document never leave the phone. Optional: nothing is downloaded until you ask. AND FOURTEEN MORE — 24 TOOLS IN TOTAL • Merge, split, extract pages, reorder, rotate • Crop — reversible; nothing is cut away • Compress, by quality or down to a size you pick • Fill and sign: type into a form, add a date, place a saved signature • Watermark, page numbers, and a metadata cleaner • Images to PDF • Add a password (AES-256), with separate switches for printing and copying • Remove a password from a document you can already open • Read: continuous scroll, in-document search, and a screen reader that reads the document itself • Open a password-protected file — it asks for the password once WHY NOTHING IS UPLOADED No account, nothing to sign in to, no setting to switch off. No analytics, no crash reporting, no ads. Airplane mode changes nothing above. The app makes one kind of network request, and only if you ask: downloading the optional AI model. No document, page, scan or question travels with it. ONE PAYMENT. NO SUBSCRIPTION. The core is free and stays free: scanning, merging, splitting, organising, rotating, cropping, compressing by quality, filling and signing, passwords, watermarks, page numbers, metadata and images to PDF. One payment — once, not monthly — unlocks the five that took the most building: editing the text inside a PDF, Office conversion both ways, asking a document, making a received scan searchable, and compressing to a size you choose. OffPDF for the web and the desktop is free and open source. On a phone there is no LibreOffice to call and no system recogniser to lean on, so those engines were written from scratch to run inside the app. That is what the one payment is for. 21 LANGUAGES, INCLUDING RIGHT-TO-LEFT Arabic, Hebrew and Persian mirror properly. Turkish, Greek, Cyrillic, Thai, Devanagari, Chinese, Japanese and Korean write into a PDF, not dropped. No account. No subscription. No analytics. No crash reporting. No ads.

Screenshots

PDF Compressor Offline4 screens
OffPDF4 screens

Verdict

The call

PDF Compressor Offline and OffPDF are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. PDF Compressor Offline sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and OffPDF sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
PDF Compressor Offline versus OffPDF: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPDF Compressor OfflineOffPDF
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequency—Every 6 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB94 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAkif AcetMehmetcan Kul

In-app purchases

1 purchases

PDF Compressor Offline

One-time1
  • Lifetime Premium$9.99
1 purchases

OffPDF

One-time1
  • OffPDF Pro Lifetime$49.99

Questions

Is PDF Compressor Offline free?
PDF Compressor Offline is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is OffPDF free?
OffPDF is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do PDF Compressor Offline or OffPDF have ads?
Neither PDF Compressor Offline nor OffPDF shows ads.

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