PDF Properties Toolbox vs PDFloki

PDF Properties Toolbox lets you view and edit PDF document metadata such as title, author, and subject. You can also manage document permissions to control how your PDF document can be used or modified. With the Sanitize feature, you can remove all metadata before sharing to help protect your privacy. • View and edit PDF properties • Control viewing and editing permissions • Edit custom properties • Remove all (XMP) metadata for your privacy • Works completely offline, your documents stay on your device

PDFloki is a privacy-first PDF toolkit for iPhone and iPad. Keep your PDF library tidy by syncing titles to filenames, compress and merge documents, make scans searchable with on-device OCR, redact, watermark, sign and fill forms — all on your device, never in the cloud. TITLES & METADATA • Title Manager — see which PDF titles match their filenames and fix them one by one or all at once, with a preview • Batch Edit — set author, subject, keywords and creator across many files • Find & Replace (regex supported), Batch Rename with tokens, bulk date correction OPTIMIZE & SECURE • Compress — six quality levels or a target size; see the estimated saving before you run it • Password — protect PDFs (with printing/copying permissions) or unlock ones you own • Redact — permanently remove sensitive text with black boxes • Flatten — burn annotations and form fields into the page • Electronic signature — draw, type or upload, and place it on any page PAGES & CONTENT • Page Manager — reorder, rotate, duplicate, delete and extract pages • Merge, Split, Crop, Normalize page size • Watermarks and stamps, headers and footers, page backgrounds • Fill PDF forms TEXT & EXPORT • Convert photos, text, Markdown, RTF and HTML to PDF • OCR with Apple Vision — 20+ languages, invisible text layer, original look preserved • Area OCR — recognize just the region you draw • Extract text; export pages as PNG, JPEG or TIFF; export metadata as CSV or JSON • Statistics, metadata validation, PDF/A compliance check, annotation summary, duplicate finder, full-text search across your library PRIVATE BY DESIGN Everything runs locally with Apple's native frameworks. No account, no uploads, no tracking. Your PDFs live in PDFloki's folder in the Files app, where you can add and remove them directly. FREE AND PRO The core tools — titles and metadata, merge, split, search, duplicate finder — are free forever. Every Pro tool is free to try for 7 days; after that PDFloki Pro is a single one-time purchase, no subscription. Works on iPhone and iPad, and on the Mac with the same tools — one Pro purchase unlocks all of them.