Comparison

DartPDF vs PDF Editor

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

PDF Editor

Features
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A complete PDF editor built for Hebrew and Arabic as well as English, and it works entirely on your device. Your files never leave your phone. EDIT • Edit the existing text inside the file, in the same font and place, in Hebrew, Arabic and English • Add text anywhere, and find and replace across the whole document • Works with files made by other programs, and with scanned documents FILL & SIGN • Fill forms: real form fields, and the lines and tables of printed forms • Sign (draw, type or from a photo), initials, date, tick marks and stamps • Autofill from the details you keep MARK UP • Highlight, underline and strikethrough that snap to the text, arrows, frames and freehand drawing • Notes, white-out, and redaction that deletes the content permanently • Links to web addresses and to pages PAGES & SCANNING • Reorder, rotate, delete, duplicate, crop, merge and split • Page numbers, headers, watermarks and more • Scan documents with the camera, and text recognition (OCR) in Hebrew, Arabic and English, even offline EXPORT • PDF, Word, Excel and images • Compressed files and password-protected PDFs PRIVACY • Everything is done on your device. No account, no ads, no tracking • Works without an internet connection Free. Every tool, with no subscription and no sign-up.

Screenshots

DartPDF3 screens
PDF Editor4 screens

Verdict

The call

DartPDF and PDF Editor are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
DartPDF versus PDF Editor: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDartPDFPDF Editor
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size55 MB57 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRailway Engineering Solutions Pty Ltdhaim indyk

In-app purchases

None

DartPDF

No in-app purchases

None

PDF Editor

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is DartPDF free?
DartPDF is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is PDF Editor free?
PDF Editor is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do DartPDF or PDF Editor have ads?
Neither DartPDF nor PDF Editor shows ads.

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