PDF Reader vs DocumentUltimate
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PDF Reader
Easily scan, read, edit, and manage PDF documents on your iPhone and iPad. Convert images to PDF, extract text with OCR, and sign your documents. Organize files with merging, splitting, and password protection.
- Scan documents with camera
- Convert photos to PDF
- Extract text with OCR
- Edit and annotate PDFs
- Sign documents
- Merge and split PDFs
- Password protection
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PDF Reader is your all-in-one app to read, scan, edit, and manage PDF documents on iPhone and iPad. SCAN & CREATE • Scan paper documents with your camera and save them as crisp PDFs • Convert photos and images into PDF files • Extract text from scans and PDFs with OCR READ & VIEW • Smooth, fast PDF viewer with page thumbnails and search • Open PDFs from Files, email, and other apps EDIT & ANNOTATE • Highlight, draw, and add text to any PDF • Add your signature to sign documents • Rotate, delete, and reorder pages ORGANIZE YOUR TOOLS • Merge multiple PDFs into one • Split a PDF into separate files • Lock and unlock PDFs with a password • Manage files with search and a recycle bin PDF READER PREMIUM Upgrade to Premium to remove ads and unlock the full toolset: • OCR text recognition • Edit & sign without limits • Unlimited access to all PDF tools • An ad-free experience Subscription details: • PDF Reader Premium is a weekly auto-renewable subscription. • Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. • The subscription renews automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. • Manage or cancel anytime in your App Store account settings. • Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ • Privacy Policy: https://goldenboat.io/policy
DocumentUltimate
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DocumentUltimate converts PDFs into editable Word documents entirely on your device. No upload, no server, no account. Turn on Airplane Mode and everything still works. WHY IT IS DIFFERENT Most PDF converters send your file to a server. Contracts, payslips, medical records, ID scans — they all leave your phone. DocumentUltimate never does that. Conversion, text recognition, compression and signing all run locally on your iPhone or iPad. PDF TO WORD • Text, lists, simple tables and images rebuilt into a real .docx you can edit • Scanned pages handled by on-device text recognition, in 16 languages including Arabic • An honest report: when a region cannot be rebuilt faithfully it is inserted as an image and you are told — nothing disappears silently SCAN • Camera scanning with automatic edge detection • Multi-page documents, straight to PDF or Word PDF TOOLS • Split by page or range, reorder, rotate, delete pages • Merge several documents into one • Compress — and it tells you when compressing would not actually help • Sign with your finger or Apple Pencil • Protect with a password, add a watermark YOUR LIBRARY • Tags, search, sorting, multi-select • Home screen widgets for the actions you use most DOCUMENTULTIMATE PRO Free: three Word conversions per week, plus unlimited scanning, viewing and merging. Pro: unlimited conversions and every tool — a single purchase, for life. No subscription. PRIVACY No data collected. No account. No analytics. No ads. Passwords you set on a PDF are stored nowhere — if you lose one, the document stays unreadable, including to us.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: DocumentUltimate at none against PDF Reader's shown. PDF Reader's advantage is chart position (#106 vs unranked). On price, in-app purchases, device support 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
Both are free to download. PDF Reader sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $14.99 per 7 days and DocumentUltimate sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | PDF Reader | DocumentUltimate |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (41 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 41 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | — |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Best chart rank | #106 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 21 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Duc Duong Tran | Aymen Balghouthi |
In-app purchases
PDF Reader
- Premium Weekly$14.997 Days
DocumentUltimate
- DocumentUltimate Pro$17.99









