Comparison

Feather PDF vs PageKit

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

Head to head
About

Feather PDF

Features
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Feather PDF gives you the full paid-PDF-suite toolbox — completely free, with no sign-ups, no daily limits, and no watermarks stamped on your files. The difference? Everything happens on your iPhone. Other PDF apps upload your documents to their servers to process them. Feather PDF never does. Your contracts, tax forms, medical records, and IDs stay on your device from start to finish — which also makes it fast, and means it works with no internet connection at all. NINE TOOLS IN ONE APP • Merge PDF — combine any number of PDFs into one. Drag to reorder with live page thumbnails. • Split PDF — pull out specific pages ("1, 4-7"), save every page separately, or split into equal chunks. • Compress PDF — shrink files for email with four quality presets, with a live preview of the quality trade-off before you commit. • Organize PDF — see every page as a thumbnail, then reorder, rotate, or delete pages with a tap. • Rotate PDF — fix upside-down scans in seconds. • Images to PDF — turn photos, screenshots, JPG, PNG or WebP images into a clean PDF with your choice of page size and margins. • PDF to Images — export every page as a high-resolution PNG or JPG. • Watermark — stamp "CONFIDENTIAL" (or anything else) across every page, with a live preview on your actual document. Control size, color, opacity, angle, tiled or centered. • Page Numbers — add page numbers in any corner or centered, in formats like "3 of 12", previewed live on your file. WHY PEOPLE SWITCH TO FEATHER PDF • Private by design — files are processed on your device and never uploaded. There is no server to trust, because there is no server. • Actually free — no subscription, no "3 files per day" limit, no watermark ads stamped onto your documents. Supported by a small banner ad instead of your data. • No account needed — open the app and get to work. • Works offline — on a plane, in a basement, anywhere. • Live previews — see exactly what your watermark, page numbers, or compression will look like before you apply them. • Fast — no upload/download round-trip means big files process in seconds. • In your language — available in English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Japanese, and Chinese. PERFECT FOR Combining scanned receipts for expense reports, shrinking attachments that bounce back from email servers, extracting the two pages you actually need from a 90-page manual, watermarking proposals before sending them out, numbering contract pages, and turning photo batches into shareable PDFs. Download Feather PDF and stop paying subscriptions for things your phone can do by itself.

About

PageKit

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Merge, split, sign, redact and scan PDFs — fifteen tools that run entirely on your iPhone, with no account and no upload. FIFTEEN TOOLS, ALL ON YOUR DEVICE • Scan to PDF — use the camera to make a cropped, straightened PDF • Merge PDFs — combine several documents into one • Split PDF — break one document into several • Extract Pages — pull a range into its own PDF • Delete Pages — remove the pages you don't need • Reorder Pages — drag pages into a new order • Rotate Pages — turn pages the right way up • Sign & Fill — add a signature, a date or a tick • Redact PDF — black out words so they are really gone • Protect PDF — add or remove a password • Clean PDF — strip hidden author and app details • Make Searchable — find the text inside a scan • PDF to Images — save pages as JPEG, PNG or HEIC • Images to PDF — turn photos into a document • Batch Process — apply one tool to a whole stack at once PRIVATE BY CONSTRUCTION PageKit contains no networking code at all. This is not a promise not to upload your documents — the app has no way to. There are no analytics, no third-party libraries, no tracking, and no identifiers of any kind. Your documents, scans, signatures and passwords stay in the app's own storage on your device. Redaction genuinely removes the text rather than drawing a black rectangle over it. Cleaning strips the author, creator and keywords that a PDF carries without ever showing you. Every tool writes a new document, so your original is left exactly as it was. BUILT FOR iOS • Works offline, always • Share sheet — send a PDF into PageKit from any app • Home Screen widgets and a Control Centre scan button • Shortcuts and Siri for merging, converting and opening tools • Spotlight — find your documents from the Home Screen, indexed on device and switchable off • Full VoiceOver and Dynamic Type support • A proper iPad layout, not a stretched phone • English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Simplified Chinese and Spanish FREE AND PRO Most of PageKit is free and unlimited. Splitting, extracting, deleting, reordering, rotating, signing, redacting and cleaning have no cap at all. Merging is free up to 3 PDFs at a time, and converting images is free up to 5 at a time. PageKit Pro removes those limits and unlocks scanning, text recognition, password protection, image export and batch processing. • PageKit Pro Lifetime; paid once • PageKit Pro Monthly Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. A monthly subscription renews automatically unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; manage or cancel it in your Apple Account settings. The lifetime option is a one-time purchase and never renews. Privacy Policy: https://olumayhor99.github.io/pagekit-privacy/ Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Feather PDF4 screens
PageKit4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Feather PDF at none against PageKit's 2. Feather PDF also leads on iOS requirement (14.0 vs 17.0). PageKit's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Both are free to download. PageKit sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Feather PDF asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences Ā· 3 level
Feather PDF versus PageKit: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFeather PDFPageKit
PriceFreeFree
Update frequency—Weekly
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS14.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size9 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGraham FieldsAdemola Mayowa Olatunji

In-app purchases

None

Feather PDF

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

PageKit

Subscriptions1
  • PageKit Pro Monthly$3.991 Month
One-time1
  • PageKit Pro Lifetime$9.99

Questions

Is Feather PDF free?
Feather PDF is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is PageKit free?
PageKit is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Feather PDF or PageKit have ads?
Feather PDF shows ads; PageKit does not.

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