Comparison

DartPDF vs Kiwi PDF

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

Head to head
About

DartPDF

Edit PDFs directly on your device without uploading. Annotate, fill forms, sign, redact, and rearrange pages. Supports text and image editing, OCR, and password-protected files.

Highlights
  • On-device PDF editing
  • Annotate and mark up PDFs
  • Fill and sign forms
  • Redact sensitive content
  • Edit text and images
  • Rearrange and export pages
  • OCR scanned PDFs
Features
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DartPDF is a PDF editor that runs entirely on your device. Open any PDF to mark it up, fill in forms, sign it, redact content, rearrange pages, or edit the text and images on the page. Changes save back to the original file. Nothing is uploaded. There's no account, no sync, and no ads. Features: • Highlight, underline, strikethrough, and freehand ink • Shapes, arrows, text boxes, notes, and stamps • Edit existing text and add images • Redaction that removes the covered text and images from the file, not just from view • Fill form fields (text, checkboxes, radio buttons, dropdowns), or add your own • Drawn signatures placed anywhere, plus certificate-backed PAdES digital signatures • OCR scanned PDFs so text can be selected and searched • Reorder, delete, and export pages to a new file • Full-text search, text selection, and links • Compare two versions side by side • Open password-protected files Runs on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Opens PDFs from the Files app, share sheets, or drag-and-drop. Light and dark themes.

About

Kiwi PDF

Features
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Sign a contract on the go, fill in a form, mark up a drawing or scan a receipt into a PDF — Kiwi PDF puts a complete PDF toolkit on your iPhone and iPad. Most features are free. Advanced tools are part of Kiwi PDF Premium, an optional subscription — see the PREMIUM section below. ANNOTATE & MARK UP • Pen, calligraphy brush, marker, highlight, underline and strikethrough • 15+ shapes: rectangles, circles, arrows, polygons, callouts, cloud borders • Text boxes, sticky notes, stamps, stickers, voice notes and file attachments • Select multiple annotations at once and undo every step • Annotations are saved as standard PDF markup that other PDF apps can read FILL & SIGN • Fill interactive PDF forms, checkboxes and dropdowns • Draw your signature once, then reuse it on any document SCAN & CONVERT • Scan paper with your camera — edges are detected and perspective corrected automatically • Convert images and text to PDF; export PDF to images, text or Word (text only) • Compress, crop, grayscale, flatten, repair and remove blank pages • Zip and unzip files with optional AES-256 encryption READ & ORGANIZE • Fast reader with table of contents and text search • Reorder, rotate, insert, extract or delete pages • Merge and split files, add page numbers, headers, footers and watermarks • Built-in file manager with folders, search and previews KIWI PDF PREMIUM (auto-renewable subscription) The following features require an active Premium subscription: • Edit Text & Images — rewrite the original text inside a PDF; replace, move or delete embedded images • OCR — recognize text in scanned pages to make them searchable and editable • Measure — distance, perimeter, area and angle, with a custom or calibrated scale • Redact — permanently black out sensitive text and images • Password — set or remove PDF passwords • Remove Metadata — strip hidden document information SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION • Kiwi PDF Premium is offered as a monthly or a yearly auto-renewable subscription. Prices are shown in the app and may vary by country. • Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm the purchase. • The subscription renews automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the end of the current period. • You can manage or cancel your subscription in your Apple Account settings at any time after purchase. • If a free trial is offered, any unused portion of the trial is forfeited when you purchase a subscription. • An account is optional: you can buy and restore Premium without signing in. Sign in with a Kiwi PDF account only if you want to use your Premium on your other devices. You can delete your account in the app at any time. Terms of Use (EULA): https://kiwipdf.org/term Privacy Policy: https://kiwipdf.org/privacy Support: contact@kiwipdf.org — https://kiwipdf.org/help/en/

Screenshots

DartPDF3 screens
Kiwi PDF4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: DartPDF at none against Kiwi PDF's 2. DartPDF also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 2 weeks). On price, ads, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Kiwi PDF sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. DartPDF asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

DartPDF ships an update every 3 days, Kiwi PDF every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
DartPDF versus Kiwi PDF: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDartPDFKiwi PDF
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.0 — better16
Further details — not scored
Size55 MB20 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRailway Engineering Solutions Pty LtdTIMON SOFTWARE CO., LTD

In-app purchases

None

DartPDF

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Kiwi PDF

Subscriptions2
  • 1 Month Subscription$2.991 Month
  • 1 Year Subscription$24.991 Year

Questions

Is DartPDF free?
DartPDF is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Kiwi PDF free?
Kiwi PDF is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do DartPDF or Kiwi PDF have ads?
Neither DartPDF nor Kiwi PDF shows ads.
Which is updated more often, DartPDF or Kiwi PDF?
DartPDF ships an update every 3 days, and Kiwi PDF every 2 weeks. Most recently, DartPDF was updated on November 10, 2026 and Kiwi PDF on November 5, 2026.

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