Comparison

DartPDF vs Folio

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

Head to head
About

DartPDF

Edit, annotate, and sign PDF documents directly on your device. This app allows you to fill forms, redact sensitive information, rearrange pages, and even edit text and images within PDFs. All changes are saved locally, ensuring your data remains private.

Highlights
  • Edit text and images
  • Fill forms and add signatures
  • Redact sensitive content
  • Rearrange and export pages
  • OCR scanned PDFs
  • Full-text search
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

Folio

Features
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Scan a document, edit the PDF, sign it and share it — without creating an account, and without a single page ever leaving your iPhone. Point your camera and Folio finds the page edges, straightens it, and captures automatically. Every scan is read on your device, so you can search your documents by the words inside them, and new scans even name themselves. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Most scanner apps make you sign in before you can scan a single page, then quietly sync your documents to their servers. Folio has no servers. • Your documents never leave your iPhone • No account, no sign-up, nothing to upload • Even the text recognition runs on-device • Lock the whole app behind Face ID SCAN ANYTHING • Automatic edge detection, perspective correction and auto-capture • Multi-page scanning in one go • Import photos or existing PDFs — crop and straighten them with adjustable corners FIND IT INSTANTLY • On-device text recognition makes every scan searchable • Search across titles AND the text inside your documents • Scans auto-name themselves from their contents A REAL PDF EDITOR (without wrecking the file) Most editors mangle a PDF the moment you touch it. Folio doesn't. Your original pages stay untouched — edits are layered only where you tap. • Edit text in place, matched to the original font, size and colour • Add text anywhere, highlight, and whiteout • Sign and draw with your finger • Everything stays sharp and true to the original ORGANISE EFFORTLESSLY • Colour-tinted folders — just drag a document in to file it • Favourites, rename, reorder and delete pages • A clean, beautiful library SHARE YOUR WAY • Export as a PDF, as images, or as plain text • Send to any app in a tap MADE FOR Receipts and expense claims. Contracts you need to sign and send back today. ID cards and passports. Whiteboards before someone wipes them. Book pages, lecture notes, forms and homework. Anything you would rather not hand to a cloud service you have never heard of. Beautifully designed for the latest iPhone, Folio feels fast, light and effortless. Free to download. Scan smarter today.

Screenshots

DartPDF3 screens
Folio4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: DartPDF at none against Folio's shown. DartPDF also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 2 weeks) and device support (4 vs 2). On price and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

DartPDF ships an update every 3 days, Folio every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 5 level
DartPDF versus Folio: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDartPDFFolio
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size55 MB8 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRailway Engineering Solutions Pty Ltdali tavakolbakhoda

In-app purchases

None

DartPDF

No in-app purchases

None

Folio

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is DartPDF free?
DartPDF is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Folio free?
Folio is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do DartPDF or Folio have ads?
Folio shows ads; DartPDF does not.
Which is updated more often, DartPDF or Folio?
DartPDF ships an update every 3 days, and Folio every 2 weeks. Most recently, DartPDF was updated on October 31, 2026 and Folio on October 6, 2026.

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