DartPDF vs PDF Editor
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Edit text and images
- Fill forms and add signatures
- Redact sensitive content
- Rearrange and export pages
- OCR scanned PDFs
- Full-text search
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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.
PDF Editor
Edit existing text, fill forms, and sign documents directly on your device. Scan paper documents with advanced image correction and make them searchable. Organize, merge, and split PDF pages, and protect your files with redaction and watermarks.
- Edit existing text in PDFs
- Fill and sign forms
- Scan paper documents with image correction
- Make scanned documents searchable
- Reorder, merge, and split pages
- Redact sensitive information
- Add custom watermarks
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A complete PDF editor that runs entirely on your device. No account and no sign-in. The app ships without network access at all, so nothing you open can be uploaded — not by us, not by anyone. Nothing it produces is branded or stamped. EDIT WHAT IS ALREADY THERE • Change words in an existing PDF. Tap a line, retype it, and the layout stays where it was. • Fill in forms, or type anywhere on a printed form that has no fields. • Sign by drawing or typing. Your signature stays in this app's own storage on this device, is left out of backups, and never leaves it. SCAN AND READ PAPER • Photograph pages with edge detection, auto-capture, perspective correction and shadow removal. • Read the text on a photographed page, then copy it, export it, or retype a line in place. • Make a scan searchable by adding an invisible text layer — the page still looks exactly the same. PAGES AND FILES • Reorder, rotate, delete, duplicate, insert and extract pages by dragging. • Correct page orientation: one page at a time, at full size, or turn a whole document at once. • Combine several PDFs, choosing which file goes first and rearranging pages afterwards. • Split a document, export pages as images, or export the text as a Word file. • Compress by re-encoding oversized images only — text and drawings are left untouched, so the file stays sharp and searchable. MARK UP AND PROTECT • Draw, highlight, underline, strike through, add notes, shapes and text boxes. • Redact properly. The content is removed from the file, not hidden under a black box that copy-and-paste defeats. • Add your own watermark — text or an image, tiled, centred or dragged anywhere. BUILT TO BE HONEST • Your changes are written to a draft as you work, so a crash loses nothing. • Undo and redo everything, including page changes. • Saving asks before it overwrites, and validates the file before it replaces yours. • Where a tool has a limit worth knowing, the app says so in the app — not after it has cost you something. WHAT THIS APP DOES NOT DO It does not convert to Word or Excel with the original layout. Doing that faithfully needs a server, and this app has no network access. It exports the document's text instead, and says so before you use it.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is device support: DartPDF at 4 against PDF Editor's 2. DartPDF also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.0). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for DartPDF against 5.0 for PDF Editor. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
| Parameter | DartPDF | PDF Editor |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 53 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Railway Engineering Solutions Pty Ltd | Prabhat Pedagandham |
Customer experience
DartPDF
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In-app purchases
DartPDF
No in-app purchases
PDF Editor
No in-app purchases









