Comparison

KyPDF vs Tiho Docs

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

Head to head
About

KyPDF

This app offers over 30 offline PDF tools, including conversion to and from Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, editing, signing, and OCR. It prioritizes user privacy by processing all files on the device without requiring an account or internet connection.

Highlights
  • Convert PDF to Word, Excel, PowerPoint
  • Edit, sign, compress PDFs
  • OCR for searchable PDFs
  • Scan documents with camera
  • Merge, split, reorder pages
  • Password protection and redaction
  • Offline functionality
Features
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KyPDF brings more than 30 PDF tools to your iPhone: convert, edit, sign, compress and organize, all done on the device itself. No file is uploaded to any server. There is no account, no login and no ads, and the app collects no data. CONVERT • PDF to Word, PowerPoint and Excel, and back to PDF • HTML to PowerPoint, with editable slides • PDF to PNG or JPG images • Searchable PDF with text recognition (OCR) done on the device • PDF/A for archiving CAPTURE AND CREATE • Scan documents with the camera • Turn photos into a PDF • Create a PDF from text, with bold, italic, lists and alignment, or from Markdown EDIT AND ORGANIZE • Merge, split, reorder, rotate, duplicate and delete pages, with undo • Review each file before a split is saved • Compress to reduce file size • Sign, watermark, header and footer, page numbers and crop • Extract pages and images, 2 or 4 pages per sheet, booklet and grayscale PROTECT • Add or remove a password • Redact: permanently cover sensitive data • Edit or clear metadata READ • Listen to your PDF read aloud MADE FOR IPHONE • Everything works without an internet connection • Light and dark mode • Text that follows the size you set on your iPhone, VoiceOver and Reduce Motion KYPDF PRO Without a subscription you get unlimited use of the scanner, Text to PDF, metadata, read aloud and history, and 3 uses per week of every other tool. KyPDF Pro unlocks the conversions to and from Word, PowerPoint and Excel, HTML to PowerPoint, searchable PDF and PDF/A, and removes the limit on every tool. Monthly or annual subscription, with 1 week free if you have not used the trial yet, or a lifetime purchase (one-time payment). KyPDF works entirely on your device and never uploads your files. Conversions and text recognition reconstruct content and can differ from the original, and redaction and password protection are tools, not a guarantee: check the result before sharing a document that matters. Keep your own backup of anything you cannot afford to lose. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; manage or cancel in your App Store account settings. Privacy Policy: https://devbertini.github.io/kypdf/privacy/ Terms of Use (EULA): https://devbertini.github.io/kypdf/terms/

About

Tiho Docs

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Tiho Docs is a document editor for Word .docx files. It opens a file from your disk, lets you work on it, and writes it back. Editing needs no account and no network. When you want the same documents on your other devices, or want to share them, there is the Tiho cloud — optional, by subscription. THE FILE ON YOUR DISK IS THE DOCUMENT Open a document, save it without touching anything, and you get back the same bytes you started with. That is not a figure of speech: it is checked against a corpus of more than sixteen hundred real documents on every change to the program. IT SAYS WHAT IT DOES NOT UNDERSTAND A .docx file can hold more than any editor implements — an unusual field, a chart from another program, a form control. Tiho Docs keeps all of it untouched and writes it back exactly as it was, and it tells you on screen which parts those are. Nothing disappears quietly, and nothing is described as supported when it is not. LINES BREAK WHERE WORD BREAKS THEM A document written on Windows asks for fonts your Mac or iPhone does not have. Most editors substitute something close-looking, and the text quietly moves: lines wrap elsewhere, pages end elsewhere, and a contract that was three pages becomes four. Tiho Docs ships metric-compatible faces — different drawings, identical widths — so the page count holds. WHAT IS IN IT • Text, paragraph and character formatting, styles, lists • Tables, images, footnotes, headers and footers, page numbers • Tracked changes and comments: accept, reject, filter by author • Compare with an earlier version of the same file • Find and replace, document outline, word and character counts • Printing and PDF export that agree with what is on screen • Twelve interface languages THE TIHO CLOUD, IF YOU WANT IT Sign in with your email address, and your documents are with you on your Mac, on your iPhone and in any browser at tiho.one. Keep them in folders, star the ones you need often, restore what you deleted from the trash within 30 days, and bring back an earlier version of a document within 30 days. Share a document with a person by email — to view or to edit — or hand out a link that works for up to 30 days. The cloud comes with the Tiho Plus subscription: 5 GB, monthly or yearly, and 20 GB more if you need it. The subscription belongs to your Tiho account, so it works wherever you sign in. If it ends, everything you stored stays yours to open and download. WHAT LEAVES YOUR DEVICE Documents you keep on your disk do not. What you put in the Tiho cloud — the documents and your email address — is kept on Tiho servers so that you can open it elsewhere and share it; nobody else sees it unless you share it. Deleting your account in the app erases all of it within minutes. The app also uses Firebase Analytics, which counts launches and sessions so we know the app is being used. It never sees a document, a file name, or a path. Time seal: put one on a document to show it existed in exactly this form at that moment. Only its SHA-256 fingerprint is sent — never the document — straight from your device to Sectigo, or to DigiCert if Sectigo does not answer. No account needed. Tiho Docs is part of Tiho Office, alongside Tiho Mail. Microsoft and Word are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. Tiho Docs is not affiliated with Microsoft. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://tiho.one/docs-privacy

Screenshots

KyPDF4 screens
Tiho Docs4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: KyPDF at every 4 days against Tiho Docs's every 3 weeks. Tiho Docs's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Both are free to download. KyPDF sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and Tiho Docs sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

KyPDF ships an update every 4 days, Tiho Docs every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

Scorecard2 real differences Ā· 6 level
KyPDF versus Tiho Docs: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterKyPDFTiho Docs
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size10 MB12 MB
Age rating+44+
DeveloperClaudio Bertini BatistaAlan Matviienko

In-app purchases

2 purchases

KyPDF

Subscriptions1
  • Month7 Days trial$0.991 Month
One-time1
  • Lifetime$49.99
3 purchases

Tiho Docs

Subscriptions3
  • 20 GB more space$4.991 Month
  • Tiho Plus$4.991 Month
  • Tiho Plus, a year$49.991 Year

Questions

Is KyPDF free?
KyPDF is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Tiho Docs free?
Tiho Docs is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do KyPDF or Tiho Docs have ads?
Neither KyPDF nor Tiho Docs shows ads.
Which is updated more often, KyPDF or Tiho Docs?
KyPDF ships an update every 4 days, and Tiho Docs every 3 weeks. Most recently, KyPDF was updated on October 31, 2026 and Tiho Docs on October 31, 2026.

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