Comparison

PDFWise vs Bayran Office

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

Head to head
About

PDFWise

This app offers a comprehensive suite of PDF tools that operate entirely on your device, ensuring complete privacy. It allows you to read, scan, edit, sign, and organize your documents without uploading them to any cloud service. Generate professional PDFs from templates and perform batch operations for efficiency.

Highlights
  • 100% on-device processing
  • Built-in scanner with OCR
  • PDF editing and annotation tools
  • Handwritten signature support
  • Professional PDF template generation
  • Batch processing for files
  • On-device full-text search
Features
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PDFWise – PDF Reader & Tools The privacy-first PDF app for people who never wanted to upload their documents in the first place. PDFWise is a fast, complete PDF reader, scanner, editor and signer built for iPhone and iPad. Every feature runs 100% on your device. No accounts, no cloud, no analytics on your documents — your PDFs never leave your iPhone. 100% PRIVATE BY DESIGN OCR, search indexing, compression, encryption — all happen locally on your device. PDFWise has zero servers and zero network calls for any document operation. No tracking, no profiling, no ads. SCAN ANY DOCUMENT Use the built-in scanner to capture pages with auto edge detection and perspective correction. Pages are OCR'd on device so you can search inside scanned documents instantly. Works for contracts, receipts, notes, books and handwritten pages. POWERFUL READER & ANNOTATIONS Smooth PDF viewer with thumbnails, outline (TOC) sidebar, night mode tint and continuous scroll. Add sticky notes, drawings, highlights, shapes and rubber stamps. Search inside the file with a Safari-style find bar. SIGN ANY PDF Save handwritten signatures in a library and apply them to any PDF with full control over position, size, ink color and which pages. Signatures bake permanently into the page so the result holds up in any reader. 14 PROFESSIONAL TEMPLATES Generate Invoice, Receipt, Quotation, Meeting Minutes, Agenda, Letterhead, Sign-In Sheet, Resume, Cover Letter, To-Do List, Travel Itinerary, Certificate, Class Schedule and Flyer in seconds — fill a form, get a polished PDF. ALL THE TOOLS YOU NEED Merge, split, compress, watermark, encrypt with password, add page numbers, convert TXT/Markdown/HTML to PDF, import from URL, combine photos into PDF — every common PDF task in one place. BATCH PROCESSING Compress, watermark or encrypt many PDFs at once with one tap. Perfect for accountants, lawyers, students and freelancers handling stacks of files. POWERFUL ON-DEVICE SEARCH Find any word across your entire library — including scanned documents — in milliseconds. FTS5 full-text search with boolean operators and exact-phrase queries. iOS Spotlight integration so you can search from the home screen. FACE ID / TOUCH ID PASSWORDS Opt in to remember PDF passwords with Face ID or Touch ID. Stored in the iOS keychain under biometric access control — only your face or fingerprint unlocks. SHORTCUTS & SIRI 10 Siri shortcuts: "Hey Siri, scan a document", "Compress a PDF", "Merge PDFs" and more. Automate your PDF workflow without opening the app. 14 LANGUAGES Fully translated to English, Vietnamese, Spanish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, French, German, Russian, Arabic, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese. WHY CHOOSE PDFWISE? - 100% on-device — your PDFs never leave your iPhone - No accounts, no cloud, no tracking, no ads - Fast, native, battery-friendly - Free of subscription paywalls - Built for iPhone and iPad with iOS native design - 14 languages, RTL support for Arabic Download PDFWise today and take back control of your documents. We read every review. If something feels off or you want a feature, tell us — we ship updates fast.

About

Bayran Office

Features
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by BayranLab Software YOUR DOCUMENTS. ONLY YOURS. Bayran Office is the document suite and PDF editor that works with no internet: it makes no network calls, so everything you scan, sign and write stays on your device. No account, no cloud, no ads, no tracking. READ EVERYTHING - PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, EPUB eBooks, images and CSV - Smooth book-like reading, night mode, read aloud - Resume where you left off, bookmarks, full-text search PDF EDITOR: SIGN, ANNOTATE AND FIX - Write text, highlight, underline and annotate right on the PDF - Freehand signature, or from a photo of your paper signature - Office stamps: APPROVED, PAID, RECEIVED, COPY, DRAFT - Secure redaction: hidden data is truly removed from the file, not just covered - Merge, split, reorder, rotate, compress (3 levels) - Password protection (AES-256) and password removal - Fill forms, compare two versions, mail merge from Excel contacts SCAN AND DIGITIZE - NO INTERNET - Scanner with automatic edge detection, deskew and filters - Offline OCR: make any scan searchable - Business card to ready-to-save contact - Printed table to editable Excel sheet - ID document: front and back in a single PDF CONVERT - NO INTERNET - Photos and scans to PDF - Photographed table to Excel sheet - PDF to text (with OCR) WRITE AND CREATE - Real Word (.docx) documents with formatting, images and international fonts - Spreadsheets with formulas (=SUM, =AVERAGE, =VLOOKUP) - 22 ready-made templates: invoice, CV, letters, authorization, minutes, budget DIGITAL SIGNATURES WITH LEGAL VALUE - Open and verify signed documents: P7M/CAdES, PAdES, ASiC, .m7m - See every signer, certificate and timestamp - Remote signing: sign with your qualified provider, then reopen it here - Electronic invoices (XML) shown in a clean, readable view TRANSLATE OFFLINE - Translate text, photos and PDFs without internet - Extra language packs downloaded on demand: Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Arabic, Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu REAL PRIVACY, NOT A PROMISE - The app makes no network calls: your data stays on your device - AES-256 encrypted Vault protected by a PIN - Face ID / Touch ID unlock - Trash with restore, and full backup in a single file IN 22 LANGUAGES Italian, English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Polish, Dutch, Turkish, Romanian, Russian, Ukrainian, Indonesian, Vietnamese, Japanese, Korean, Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Telugu, Tamil, Arabic One-time unlock. No subscription. Try it free.

Screenshots

PDFWise4 screens
Bayran Office4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: PDFWise at none against Bayran Office's 1. Bayran Office's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.6). On price, 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

Both are free to download. Bayran Office sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. PDFWise asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
PDFWise versus Bayran Office: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPDFWiseBayran Office
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (7 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings7 — better—
Update frequency—Every 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.615.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB188 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTHI HUE MAIAndrea Rossi

In-app purchases

None

PDFWise

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Bayran Office

One-time1
  • Bayran Office Premium$8.99

Questions

Is PDFWise free?
PDFWise is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Bayran Office free?
Bayran Office is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do PDFWise or Bayran Office have ads?
Neither PDFWise nor Bayran Office shows ads.

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