Comparison

Recall 9 vs evPDF

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

Head to head
About

Recall 9

Capture and instantly recall any information, from text and audio notes to images and links. Utilize AI-powered search and smart organization to manage your memories. Transcribe audio and images for enhanced searchability.

Highlights
  • Save notes, audio, images, and links
  • AI-powered natural language search
  • Smart organization with Collections
  • Audio and image transcription
  • Dark and light modes
  • Home screen widgets
Features
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Recall 9 is a simple place to keep things you don't want to forget. With just one tap you can save bookmarks, recipes, videos, articles, notes and products using your phone's share sheet. Everything stays in one place. No need to tag it, file it or label it. No keywords to remember. No folders to dig through. Just ask in plain english. "Where was that pizza place in Brooklyn?" "Find the watch I saved last month." Recall 9 finds it in seconds. *** BUILT FOR EVERYDAY LIFE Use Recall 9 to save: • Restaurants and places to visit • Articles and websites • Products to buy later • Recipes and videos • Meeting notes • Ideas and inspiration • Voice memos • Screenshots and photos • Anything you don't want to forget Free to start — 9 collections, 19 saves a month. Go unlimited when you're ready. Terms of Service: https://recall9.com/terms-of-service

About

evPDF

This comprehensive PDF toolkit offers 16 essential functions for managing your documents on mobile devices. It allows for reading, scanning, organizing, annotating, converting, and signing PDFs, all while prioritizing user privacy by processing data locally.

Highlights
  • PDF Reader with search and navigation
  • Document scanner with OCR
  • PDF organizer (reorder, remove, rotate pages)
  • Merge and split PDF files
  • Compress PDF size
  • Convert images and text to PDF
  • Annotate PDFs with text and images
  • Convert Word and Excel to PDF
  • Sign and watermark PDFs
Features
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Meet evPDF, a private 16-in-1 PDF toolkit for reading, scanning, creating, organizing, annotating and converting documents on your phone or tablet. Your documents are processed directly on your device. PDF content, OCR text, search queries and passwords are not uploaded to our servers. 16 PDF TOOLS IN ONE APP 1.⁠ PDF READER Open and read PDF files with smooth navigation, zoom, page thumbnails and quick page selection. • Search text inside compatible PDF documents • Open password-protected PDF files • Print and share documents • Navigate quickly between pages 2.⁠ ORGANIZE PDF • Reorder individual pages • Remove unnecessary pages • Rotate selected pages 3.⁠ MERGE PDF Combine multiple PDF documents into one file and arrange them in the order you need. 4.⁠ SPLIT PDF Extract selected pages or divide a document into separate PDF files. 5.⁠ COMPRESS PDF Reduce PDF file size using selectable quality levels. 6.⁠ IMAGES TO PDF Turn photos and images into a PDF document. 7.⁠ PDF TO IMAGES Export PDF pages as image files. 8.⁠ TEXT TO PDF Create formatted PDF documents with: • Headings and paragraphs • Bold, italic and underlined text • Bulleted and numbered lists • Text alignment • Fonts and colors • Adjustable text size and line spacing • Images 9.⁠ DOCUMENT SCANNER Scan multi-page documents with automatic edge detection, cropping and correction. You can also create scanned PDFs from images in your gallery. 10.⁠ ROTATE PDF Rotate every page in a PDF by 90, 180 or 270 degrees. 11.⁠ ANNOTATE PDF Add new visual elements over PDF pages: • Text • Images • Arrows • Lines • Rectangles • Ellipses Move, resize and rotate added elements directly on the page. Format added text with different fonts, sizes, colors, alignment and backgrounds. Annotations are added as a new visual layer and do not modify the original text inside the source PDF. 12.⁠ OCR SCANNER Recognize text from scanned documents and images directly on your device. • Edit recognized text • Copy text to the clipboard • Share extracted text through other apps 13.⁠ DOCX TO PDF Convert Word documents to PDF with configurable settings: • A4 or Letter page size • Portrait or landscape orientation • Adjustable margins • Configurable text size • Image scaling options 14.⁠ XLSX TO PDF Convert Excel spreadsheets to PDF. • Convert the first sheet or all sheets • Choose page size and orientation • Adjust margins and text size • Fit spreadsheets to page width • Repeat the first row as a header • Preserve supported cell colors, borders and formatting • Use workbook print areas when available 15.⁠ SIGN PDF Draw your signature and place it on selected PDF pages. • Move the signature directly on the page • Resize it while preserving proportions • Add it only to the pages you choose 16.⁠ WATERMARK AND PROTECT PDF Add a text or image watermark with adjustable: • Position • Size • Rotation angle • Transparency Protect PDF documents with a password to prevent unauthorized opening. FILE MANAGEMENT Keep your documents in the local evPDF library. • Access recent files • Add documents to favorites • Search by file name • Rename documents • Delete documents • Import files from your device • Use saved PDFs in other tools without importing them again PRIVATE ON-DEVICE PROCESSING Your documents are processed directly on your device. evPDF does not upload the following data to our servers: • PDF content • OCR text • File names and paths • Search queries • Document passwords No account or cloud upload is required for document processing. FREE AND PREMIUM PDF reading and file management are unlimited. The free version includes daily access to PDF tools. evPDF Premium removes daily limits across the complete toolkit. Use evPDF for work, study, forms, receipts, contracts, notes, reports and everyday document tasks, all in one private PDF app. Privacy Policy: https://evsi.store/en/app/evpdf/privacy Terms of Use: https://evsi.store/en/app/evpdf/terms

Screenshots

Recall 94 screens
evPDF4 screens

Verdict

The call

Recall 9 and evPDF are too close to call on the numbers: across 9 compared parameters — price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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. Recall 9 sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month and evPDF sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Recall 9 against 5.0 for evPDF. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 3 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Recall 9 ships an update weekly, evPDF every 4 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Recall 9 versus evPDF: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRecall 9evPDF
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings)
Number of ratings23 — better
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.1 — better15.5
Further details — not scored
Size155 MB51 MB
Age rating4++4
DeveloperDotX LLCEvgenii Evsiukov

Customer experience

Recall 9

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

evPDF

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Recall 9

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Pro$5.991 Month
  • Yearly Pro$56.991 Year
2 purchases

evPDF

Subscriptions2
  • PRO Monthly$3.991 Month
  • PRO Annual$24.991 Year

Questions

Is Recall 9 free?
Recall 9 is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is evPDF free?
evPDF is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Recall 9 or evPDF?
Recall 9 and evPDF are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 3 ratings respectively.
Do Recall 9 or evPDF have ads?
Neither Recall 9 nor evPDF shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Recall 9 or evPDF?
Recall 9 ships an update weekly, and evPDF every 4 days. Most recently, Recall 9 was updated on October 31, 2026 and evPDF on October 31, 2026.

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