Pagira vs PDF Document Scanner
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pagira
This app displays standalone HTML sites, individual HTML pages, PDFs, and EPUB books and comics offline. It renders HTML content like a browser, supporting CSS, JavaScript, and WebAssembly. Users can highlight, take notes, and search across files and even scanned PDFs.
- Full HTML rendering with CSS, JavaScript, and WebAssembly
- Built-in PDF reader with continuous scrolling and scaling
- EPUB and comic support (CBZ, CBR, etc.) with various reading modes
- Highlighting, notes, and bookmarks
- Offline access to all content
- Search across folders and scanned PDFs
- iCloud sync for reading progress and notes
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Pagira displays your standalone HTML sites, individual HTML pages and your PDFs directly on your iPhone and iPad, even without a connection, and also reads your EPUB books and comics. Where most readers settle for a rough rendering, Pagira opens a real, complete web folder (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, images, subfolders) and renders it like a browser, locally. WHO IS IT FOR? Pagira is for anyone who needs to read standalone HTML sites, individual HTML pages, PDFs, books or comics directly on their device, especially offline. Typical uses: - Students whose courses are exported as HTML (medicine, law and other fields), or delivered as e-learning modules. - Technical documentation shipped as a website: electronics, mechanics, engineering manuals, datasheets and reference guides. - Developers and writers previewing static sites and generated documentation (Doxygen, Sphinx, MkDocs, Docusaurus, Storybook, Javadoc). - Reports and exports such as Jupyter notebooks, R Markdown or test reports saved as HTML. - Web pages and articles you want to keep and read later, offline. If your content is an HTML folder, a single page, a PDF, a book or a comic, Pagira is built to open it cleanly. FEATURES - Full HTML rendering: CSS, JavaScript, images and subfolders genuinely work. fetch/XHR, ES modules and even WebAssembly are supported, because the content is served through a real local web origin, not a simple file preview. A site in a .zip is uncompressed and opened in one go. - Built-in PDF reader: continuous scrolling and automatic scaling, go to page, contents and thumbnails, for your local or iCloud PDFs. - EPUB books (light, sepia and dark themes) and comics in CBZ, CBR, CB7 and CBT: two-page spreads on iPad, manga, vertical scrolling, and Panel by Panel reading, made for iPhone. Word, Markdown, RTF and text too. - Highlights, notes and bookmarks in your books and PDFs. - Search a whole folder, even scanned PDFs (text recognized on the device), and by file name. Ask: ask a question, Pagira opens the page that answers it. Nothing made up. - 100% offline: once the content is on your device, everything opens without a connection. Perfect on a plane, while travelling or in areas with no network. - Local files and iCloud Drive: open from the Files app, your local storage or iCloud Drive, and also via "Open in Pagira" from other apps. - iCloud on demand: iCloud files are streamed as you go (without downloading everything), or downloaded in one tap for a permanent offline copy. Automatic resume after an interruption. - Home: Currently Reading, Favorites, Recent and Offline, with their covers. - iCloud sync: page, highlights, notes and favorites follow you between iPhone and iPad. - History: find every page you have viewed, including navigation within a site, grouped by day, and reopen it exactly where you left off. - Auto-reopen: pick up your last reading as soon as you launch the app (can be turned off). - Web archives: open a saved .webarchive file, rendered offline as is. - Universal: built for iPhone and iPad, in both orientations. - Multilingual: available in French, English, German, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Polish and Portuguese. PRIVACY Pagira collects nothing, tracks no one and requires no account. Your files stay on your device and in your iCloud: nothing is sent to a server. No ads, no tracking. TRIAL AND PURCHASE Try Pagira for free with all its features (up to 20 document openings, opening a folder doesn't count). After that, a single purchase, with no subscription, unlocks the app for good: Pagira Pro, or Pagira Pro Supporter, shared with your whole family.
PDF Document Scanner
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Scan it, file it, send it. Paper in front of you becomes a clean, straight PDF in your own iCloud in seconds — no account, no ads, no subscription, and nothing collected about you. SCAN, OR BRING PHOTOS YOU ALREADY HAVE Point the camera at any paper — letters, contracts, receipts, handwritten notes. Pages are straightened and cleaned up automatically, in color, grayscale or crisp black & white. Already photographed it? Import JPG, HEIC or PNG from your photo library, or an existing PDF. Imported photos are straightened automatically, and you can crop any page by hand when a photo needs it. YOURS, IN YOUR ICLOUD Every scan is a normal PDF in your own iCloud Drive — in the Files app, on your other devices, and still yours if you ever delete the app. Pageora has no server. FIND ANYTHING Every PDF is searchable. Search finds words inside your documents, not just titles — including from your iPhone's Home Screen. Where Apple Intelligence is available, scans name and tag themselves on your device, and you can browse your library by tag. REDACTION THAT MEANS IT Draw a box over anything sensitive and the text underneath is deleted from the PDF, not covered. Copy, extraction and search find nothing — because nothing is there. EDIT PAGES, SEND IT HOW YOU LIKE Crop, rotate, reorder, retake or delete a page. Export at the size you need, and password-protect a PDF before you send it. PAGEORA UNLIMITED, IF YOU WANT MORE Your scans tag themselves — rules sort every new scan by what it is, and you can find duplicates and back up the whole library. Due dates Pageora spots go straight to Calendar. Receipts become spreadsheets — where Apple Intelligence is available, Pageora reads the shop, date and total off the page, ready for your accountant. Tables, text, archive PDF/A and email-sized PDFs too. Finish documents here — sign and date, merge and split, black out a word everywhere at once, and keep private pages behind Face ID. ONE PAYMENT, OR NONE The free app is the full scanner for up to 25 documents — full quality, no watermarks, no ads. Pageora Unlimited removes the limit and turns everything above on, for a single one-time purchase. No subscription, ever. Privacy: Pageora collects no data — no analytics, no tracking, no account. The App Store privacy label says "Data Not Collected" because that is the truth.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Pagira at weekly against PDF Document Scanner's every 2 weeks. Pagira also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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. Pagira sells 5 one-off in-app purchases and PDF Document Scanner sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Pagira ships an update weekly, PDF Document Scanner every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pagira | PDF Document Scanner |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 14 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jimmy DE BRUYNE | Nikola Sretenovic |
In-app purchases
Pagira
- Buy Me a Coffee$2.99
- Buy Me a Dessert$4.99
- Buy Me a Meal$8.99
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- Pagira Pro$11.99
- Pagira Pro Supporter$22.99
PDF Document Scanner
- Pageora Unlimited$14.99









