Comparison

DocUpick vs SoloPDF

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

Head to head
About

DocUpick

Features
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DocUpick turns paper into smart notes you can find, read, summarize and reuse — all on your iPhone or iPad, with no account and nothing uploaded. NEW IN 4.0 â€ĸ Import from Files: bring in PDFs and images, or share them to DocUpick from any app. PDFs that already contain text keep it exactly; scanned PDFs and photos are read on-device. â€ĸ Tables to spreadsheet: DocUpick finds tables on your pages and shows them as a grid. Copy the cells straight into your spreadsheet app, or share a CSV file. â€ĸ Read Aloud: listen to any document sentence by sentence, with the current sentence highlighted. Tap a sentence to jump there and set the speed you like. â€ĸ Smart summary: on iPhones and iPads with Apple Intelligence, DocUpick writes a short summary, key points and a suggested title on-device. On other devices it picks the key lines from your document and pulls out merchant, total and date from receipts and invoices. Every summary says how it was made. â€ĸ Search from the Home Screen: scanned text, titles, tags and folders show up in Spotlight, and a tap opens the note. â€ĸ Siri and Shortcuts: "Scan a document with DocUpick", find documents by their text, or pass a document's text to other actions. Quick actions on the app icon start a scan, an import or a search. â€ĸ App Lock: require Face ID, Touch ID or your passcode to open DocUpick, and hide its contents in the app switcher. â€ĸ Add to Calendar: dates found in a document open a pre-filled event you can review and save. â€ĸ Backup & Restore: save your whole library — notes, page images, folders and tags — as one file in Files, iCloud Drive or on a computer. Restoring adds what's missing and never overwrites anything. SCAN ANYTHING WITH TEXT Receipts, invoices, letters, forms, business cards, whiteboards and handwritten notes. Multi-page scanning with edge detection and perspective correction, or import from Photos and Files. Text recognition runs on-device in the languages you choose. SMART NOTES Every scan gets its recognized text, a detected document type, and tap-to-act phone numbers, emails, links, addresses and dates. Receipts and invoices show merchant, total and date. Business cards become a shareable contact card. QR codes and barcodes are detected too. FIND IT FAST Ranked full-text search across titles, recognized text, tags and folders, with the matching words highlighted. Folders with color and icon, tags, pins, filters and sort options. SHARE IT YOUR WAY Image PDFs, searchable PDFs with a hidden text layer, text-only PDFs, adjustable size and watermark, automatic file names from the document's content, CSV export of your library, and Packet Studio for ordered multi-document PDF packets with a cover and contents page. KEEP IT TIDY Page filters, rotation and reordering, merging notes, expiry dates with reminders, an Insights view of your library and a review queue for scans that need attention. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account, no ads, no tracking, no analytics and no servers. Your documents stay in DocUpick on your device until you choose to share or back them up. iPhone and iPad. Works offline. Apple Intelligence summaries require a supported device with Apple Intelligence turned on; everything else works on every supported device.

About

SoloPDF

Features
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SoloPDF is a clean, fast, fully local PDF reader — no ads, no account, nothing ever uploaded. â€ĸ Reading: multiple tabs, outline, page thumbnails, full-text search, fit-width/fit-page zoom. Huge files open instantly thanks to on-demand loading. â€ĸ Highlights become notes: highlight any text and the annotation is saved as a Markdown notes file (.annotations.md) right next to the PDF — open, edit, and version it with any editor (including our SoloMD). solopdf:// links inside the notes jump straight back to the highlighted passage. â€ĸ Forms: fill AcroForm PDFs (text fields, checkboxes, dropdowns) and save the result. â€ĸ Export to Markdown: turn a whole PDF into a Markdown document, outline headings included. â€ĸ Dark mode with smart page inversion for comfortable night reading. â€ĸ Interface in English, įŽ€äŊ“中文, įšéĢ”ä¸­æ–‡, and æ—ĨæœŦčĒž. Everything runs on your device. No network calls, no data collection.

Screenshots

DocUpick4 screens
SoloPDF4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: SoloPDF at Free against DocUpick's $3.99. SoloPDF also leads on device support (4 vs 2) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). DocUpick's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 2 weeks). On 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

SoloPDF is free to download; DocUpick costs $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

DocUpick ships an update every 4 days, SoloPDF every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences ¡ 2 level
DocUpick versus SoloPDF: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDocUpickSoloPDF
Price$3.99Free — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB16 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRobert Corbin向东 李

In-app purchases

None

DocUpick

No in-app purchases

None

SoloPDF

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is DocUpick free?
DocUpick costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is SoloPDF free?
SoloPDF is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do DocUpick or SoloPDF have ads?
Neither DocUpick nor SoloPDF shows ads.
Which is updated more often, DocUpick or SoloPDF?
DocUpick ships an update every 4 days, and SoloPDF every 2 weeks. Most recently, DocUpick was updated on October 7, 2026 and SoloPDF on October 10, 2026.

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