PDF Studio vs LegacySave
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
PDF Studio
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Merge, split, compress and edit PDFs without uploading a single file. Everything runs on your iPhone โ no account, no sign-up, nothing leaves your device. One app instead of ten: MERGE PDF Combine multiple PDF files into a single document. Drag to set the order, merge in one tap. SPLIT PDF Split a PDF into separate files, or extract an exact page range from a large document. COMPRESS PDF Get under the email attachment limit without turning your document into mush. ROTATE & REARRANGE PAGES Fix sideways scans, reorder pages, delete the ones you do not need. WATERMARK PDF Stamp DRAFT or CONFIDENTIAL across any page. PROTECT PDF Lock a file with a password and keep private documents encrypted. EXTRACT TEXT & OCR Pull real, selectable text out of a scan, a photo, or a PDF. SCAN TO PDF Point your camera at any document. Auto edge detection crops and straightens each page. Receipts, contracts, ID cards, notes. IMAGE TO PDF Convert JPG, PNG or any photo to PDF. Pick your images, reorder, export one file. PDF TO IMAGE Export any PDF page as a high quality JPG. SIGN PDF Draw your signature once, then place it on any contract or form. READ & SEARCH A fast PDF viewer with in-document search, so you can find any word in a long file. FILES Everything you have made in one place. Search, rename, share, organise. PRIVACY There is no server. Your documents are processed on your device and stay there. No account required, and it all works in airplane mode. PDF STUDIO PREMIUM Premium removes all ads and unlocks unlimited use, as a monthly or yearly auto-renewing subscription. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless it is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours of the end of that period. You can manage or cancel your subscription in your App Store account settings after purchase. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://iamadeeb.github.io/pdfstudio-legal/?lang=en&doc=privacy
LegacySave
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The passports are in a drawer. A visa copy is somewhere in a chat thread. Your daughter's birth certificate is in a folder back home. And nobody knows which of them expires next. LegacySave puts them in one place and watches the dates for you. SCAN IT, AND IT FILLS ITSELF IN Hold the camera over a passport or an Emirates ID. The number, the name and the expiry date come off the page and into the form. Check them, save, done. A document with four pages stays one document. NOTHING EXPIRES WITHOUT WARNING Six months out, then three months, then one month, one week, and the day before. Add your own reminders for the errands no document knows about, like booking the medical or collecting a new card, and put a name on one so the person who has to do it is the person whose phone buzzes. THE COPY THE BANK ASKED FOR Choose the documents, choose the pages, and stamp FOR BANK USE ONLY across them before anything leaves your phone. Add your signature when a copy has to be self-attested. Send it as a PDF, a JPG or a PNG, and shrink it when the form on the other side has an upload limit. ASK, INSTEAD OF SEARCHING "When does my visa expire?" "Whose passport runs out first?" Type it the way you would say it. Ask how to do something and the app draws a ring around the button to press, then waits for you to press it. THE WHOLE FAMILY, IN ONE PLACE Invite your spouse, your parents, your children. Some can add documents, some can only look, and you decide which. Each document has a name on it: the person responsible, the person who added it, and anyone it is shared with are the people who get told before it expires. Ask a question in the app and it sits next to the document it is about. WHY YOU CAN TRUST US WITH THIS Files, document numbers and names are encrypted in storage. Documents are read on machines we run and are never handed to an outside AI service. Face ID locks the app, and locks it again when you put the phone down. A new phone cannot open your vault until you approve it, and you can cut off any device you no longer hold. Two-factor sign-in is there when you want a second lock. An expiry alert on your lock screen says a passport is expiring, never whose. Export any document whenever you want it back. Delete your account, and everything in it, from inside the app. WHAT FAMILIES KEEP IN HERE Passports, Emirates IDs, residence visas, driving licences, birth and marriage certificates, degree and school certificates, tenancy contracts, insurance policies, vehicle registration, PAN and Aadhaar cards, wills and property papers. If a type is missing, suggest it from inside the app. We read every suggestion, and the good ones turn up for everybody without waiting for an update. Built in Dubai, by someone who kept a family's papers in two countries and got tired of it. Free while we are in early access. Write to support@legacysave.space and a person answers. What's New (1.0) Welcome to LegacySave. Hold the camera over a passport or an Emirates ID and the details fill themselves in. Every expiry date turns into a countdown, and the reminder arrives six months, three months, one month, one week and one day before it. In this first release: - Reminders you set yourself, with a name on them, so the person who has to do the renewal is the one who gets told - Copies you can watermark for the bank or the landlord, with your signature on them when a copy has to be self-attested - A vault you can ask questions, and that will walk you through the app button by button - Family messages that sit next to the documents they are about - Face ID, device approval and two-factor sign-in Free while we are in early access.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: LegacySave at none against PDF Studio's 2. LegacySave also leads on ads (none vs shown). On price, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.
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Both are free to download. PDF Studio sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. LegacySave asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | PDF Studio | LegacySave |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | โ |
| Ads | Yes | No โ better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No โ better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod โ better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.5 | 15.1 โ better |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 94 MB | 64 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Edip Yฤฑlmaz | JMJ Experiences LLC |
In-app purchases
PDF Studio
- Monthly Pro$2.991 Month
- Yearly Pro$19.991 Year
LegacySave
No in-app purchases
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