Comparison

PDF nano vs Jeejee

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

Head to head
About

PDF nano

Edit, translate, and manage PDF documents with a focus on on-device privacy. This app offers tools for scanning, converting, annotating, and organizing your files locally.

Highlights
  • Read, organize, and manage PDFs
  • Offline PDF translation with layout preservation
  • Scan documents and create PDFs
  • Convert PDFs to Word, Excel, or images
  • OCR for Arabic and English text
  • Add signatures and annotations
  • Remove hidden metadata for privacy
Features
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PDF nano is a comprehensive, professional PDF reader, editor, translator, and manager engineered for speed and privacy. Combining powerful on-device tools with Apple Intelligence, PDF nano delivers a unified workflow tailored for iPhone, foldable iPhone Duo, and iPad—handling your contracts, reports, and paperwork with top-tier security. Key Features: 1. Foldable iPhone Duo & iPad Experience: • Seven Postures Adaptation: Automatic layout across foldable and dual-display devices. • Dual-Screen Book Mode: Side-by-side reading with automatic hinge isolation to prevent content clipping. • Tabletop Mode: Bottom screen transforms into a control deck for drawing, signing, and scrubbing without covering the document. • Dynamic iPad Sidebar: Instant browsing of thumbnails, outlines, and bookmarks beside your canvas. • High-Contrast Navigation Pill: Prominent back button for effortless touch accessibility and zero status-bar overlap. 2. AI Document Assistant (Beta): • Instant executive summaries of lengthy reports, extracting decisions and action items. • Precision risk analysis and contractual obligation detection. • Verifiable Q&A with answers grounded in direct textual citations from your document. • Encrypted Cloud Privacy: Powered by Apple Intelligence and Private Cloud Compute (PCC) to process documents securely without logging or storing data. *Note: AI features require Apple Intelligence-compatible devices. 3. Offline Document Translation (Beta): • Full-document PDF translation entirely offline while preserving layouts, fonts, and tables. • Batch approval to accelerate processing for files up to 100 pages. • Granular paragraph review with selective editing for each translated block. *Note: Translation operates fully on-device. Machine translations may contain errors. 4. Advanced Reading & Viewing: • Dual-Page Continuous View: True book-like reading with native RTL Arabic and LTR layout. • Distraction-Free Guard: Locks editing overlays during reading mode to prevent accidental markups. • Fast-Scrub Vertical Scroll: High-velocity thumb scrubber for jumping through hundreds of pages. • Full Interface Adaptation: Precision safe-area integration around the Dynamic Island and status bar. • Smart Double-Tap Zoom: Rapid focus scaling with an intuitive floating navigation capsule. • OCR Visual Search: Direct in-document search across scanned PDFs with fuzzy and multi-word query support. 5. Conversion & Smart Scanning: • High-Fidelity PDF to Word (.docx) conversion preserving tables and formatting. • Accurate Table Extraction to Excel (.xlsx) with automatic data type inference. • Camera Document Scanner to digitize receipts and paperwork into clean PDFs. • High-quality PDF-to-Image and multi-image-to-PDF conversion pipelines. 6. Editing, Signing & Organization: • Digital signatures: Create, position, and cryptographically sign contracts and forms. • Complete markup suite: Freehand drawing, highlighters, custom text boxes, and annotations. • Page management: Reorder, rotate, extract, or delete pages with fluid drag-and-drop. • Merge & Split: Combine multiple PDFs into one or split large documents into individual files. • Smart PDF Compression: Reduce file size for rapid sharing via email and messaging apps. 7. Industry-Leading Privacy & Security: • 100% On-Device Processing: Reading, editing, translation, OCR, and conversion run locally without uploading files to external servers. • Cryptographic Apple Privacy: AI Assistant requests are strictly restricted to Apple Private Cloud Compute (PCC). • Visual face and sensitive data blurring with hidden metadata sanitization. • Password encryption, native AirPrint support, and Home Screen widgets. Free tier includes daily tool quotas. Unlock unlimited access via in-app purchase. Standard Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/sla/

About

Jeejee

This app combines Markdown, LaTeX, and handwriting for note-taking and document creation. It supports structured notes, mathematical typesetting, and annotation on PDFs with Apple Pencil. Documents can be exported in various formats and stored locally or in the cloud.

Highlights
  • Markdown editor with live preview
  • LaTeX typesetting engine
  • Handwriting with Apple Pencil
  • PDF annotation
  • Multiple export formats
  • Cloud and local file storage
  • Sticker store
Features
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Jeejee is a note-taking and document editor that combines Markdown, LaTeX and handwriting in a single app: Markdown for structured notes, LaTeX for mathematical typesetting and formal reports, and handwriting with Apple Pencil, including annotation directly on lecture PDFs. Documents are stored in the location the user selects. Markdown, LaTeX, HTML, CSV, plain text and PDF remain compatible with other tools that support these formats; handwritten notes are saved as editable .jeejee files. Designed for students, researchers and professionals in science and engineering: class notes, lab reports, theses, derivations and exam preparation. Markdown • Side-by-side editor and preview, synchronized while typing and scrolling • Headings, lists, to-do items, tables, code, quotes and images • Inline and display math • Syntax coloring for code blocks, with optional line wrapping • Function plots that mark zeros, extrema and intersections • Mind maps built from indented lists, viewable in full screen • Heading outline in View mode for long documents • Format bar with common formatting and templates for code, plots and mind maps • Export to PDF or Markdown LaTeX • Built-in typesetting engine that compiles to PDF in the app, offline, with no separate TeX installation • XeLaTeX typesetting with full support for Chinese and Unicode • Automatic recompilation, with error lines clearly indicated • Source and PDF side by side • Export to PDF or LaTeX source Handwriting • Apple Pencil on iPad: pen, pencil, highlighter, eraser, lasso and shape recognition • Three colors and three stroke widths in the toolbar • Blank, ruled, grid and dotted paper in white or black, with multipage notes and page thumbnails • Strokes that continue across page boundaries • Text boxes, images with cropping, and function graphs • Copy, cut and paste for text, images and strokes; up to 100 undo steps • Annotation copies of PDFs, leaving the original unchanged • Export as .jeejee files, PDF or page images; save page images to Photos on iPhone and iPad Stickers • Sticker store with four free packs of 100 stickers each and five paid packs • Insertion from the sticker panel in the handwriting toolbar • Packs linked to the Jeejee account and available on other signed-in devices • Pack updates applied at the user's discretion • The sticker store requires a Jeejee account (Apple or Google sign-in); all other features work without an account Files • Markdown, LaTeX, HTML, CSV, plain text and handwritten notes; HTML with live preview, CSS and JavaScript • Code files such as .js, .css, .py and .json with syntax coloring • Local, iCloud and System Folder storage, including external folders supported by the system and file providers • List, card and icon views; icons display document content • Recents, Favorites, drag and drop, and Recently Deleted • Configurable file types for the New menu Designed for iPhone, iPad and Mac • Resizable, docked sidebar on iPad, with a full-screen editor for open documents • Multiple windows, a native sidebar and keyboard shortcuts on Mac • Seven editor themes with Dark Mode • Built-in illustrated user guide Pricing Core features are free, with no advertising. Paid sticker packs are offered as in-app purchases. Optional tips in Settings > Support Jeejee do not unlock features and support ongoing development. Privacy • Jeejee does not track users. • Document contents and file names stay in the selected storage location and are not sent to the developer. • Crash reports and usage statistics are collected to improve the app. They exclude document contents, file names and account information, and are not linked to the user's identity. • A Jeejee account is used only for the sticker store. When signed in, Jeejee stores the account name, email address, user ID, acquired sticker packs and purchase records to provide and restore sticker content. • Payments are processed by Apple; Jeejee does not receive payment information.

Screenshots

PDF nano4 screens
Jeejee4 screens

Verdict

The call

PDF nano and Jeejee are too close to call on the numbers: across 9 compared parameters — price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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. PDF nano sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Jeejee sells 6 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for PDF nano against 5.0 for Jeejee. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
PDF nano versus Jeejee: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPDF nanoJeejee
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 4 daysEvery 4 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS18.617.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size25 MB91 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperThamer MohammedYouci Huang

Customer experience

PDF nano

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Jeejee

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

PDF nano

One-time1
  • PDFnano Pro Lifetime$4.99
6 purchases

Jeejee

One-time6
  • Small Tip$0.29
  • Sticker pack (tier NT$30)$0.99
  • Sticker pack (tier NT$60)$1.99
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  • Medium Tip$2.99
  • Sticker pack (tier NT$90)$2.99
  • Large Tip$11.99

Questions

Is PDF nano free?
PDF nano is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Jeejee free?
Jeejee is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, PDF nano or Jeejee?
PDF nano and Jeejee are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do PDF nano or Jeejee have ads?
Neither PDF nano nor Jeejee shows ads.
Which is updated more often, PDF nano or Jeejee?
PDF nano ships an update every 4 days, and Jeejee every 4 days. Most recently, PDF nano was updated on October 28, 2026 and Jeejee on October 29, 2026.

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