MDacrobat vs PDF Pro AI Editor
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MDacrobat
This app provides a comprehensive Markdown editing experience for iPhone and iPad, offering live previews, robust export options, and offline functionality. It treats Markdown files as editable documents with advanced features for formatting and organization.
- Live GitHub-Flavored Markdown preview
- Offline rendering of math, code, and diagrams
- Markdown editor with syntax highlighting
- Export to PDF, HTML, DOCX, RTF, and plain text
- Native document browser integration
- Hardware keyboard shortcuts on iPad
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MDacrobat is the complete Markdown app for iPhone and iPad — what Acrobat is for PDF, MDacrobat is for Markdown. It treats your .md files as real documents, with a live, reference-quality preview and honest export, and your files stay ordinary Markdown on disk. No account, no sync service, no tracking, no ads. LIVE PREVIEW • GitHub-Flavored Markdown: tables, task lists, footnotes, strikethrough, autolinks • Math with KaTeX, code highlighting, and Mermaid diagrams — all rendered offline • Flicker-free updates and synced scrolling between editor and preview • Tap task checkboxes in the preview to check them off in the source • Five typographic themes, light and dark EDITOR BUILT FOR MARKDOWN • Live syntax highlighting, smart list continuation, and auto-pairing • A formatting bar above the keyboard, and full hardware-keyboard shortcuts on iPad • Front matter shown as a tidy metadata card DESIGNED FOR iPHONE AND iPAD • Native document browser (works with the Files app and iCloud Drive) • Side-by-side editor and preview on iPad; editor / split / preview modes everywhere • Outline sidebar to jump between headings EXPORT & SHARE • PDF, self-contained HTML, Word (.docx), RTF, and plain text • Copy as HTML, print, and share anywhere Your documents never leave your device. MDacrobat works entirely offline.
PDF Pro AI Editor
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PDF Pro AI gives you 28 practical PDF tools in a private, iOS-native workspace. Open a document from Files, Mail, Safari, or another app, make the changes you need, and save a new copy while the original stays unchanged. EDIT AND REVIEW • Read, search, print, share, and listen to PDFs • Fill compatible AcroForm fields • Add text, signatures, highlights, opaque covers, stamps, and watermarks • Move, resize, edit, or delete app-created document blocks • Ask questions about extractable PDF text on device CREATE AND ORGANIZE • Scan paper documents with Apple's document scanner • Turn selected photos into a PDF • Merge PDFs and extract, rotate, delete, reorder, or number pages • Export rendered pages as PNG images CONVERT AND ENHANCE • Export extractable text as a Word-compatible RTF document • Recognize page text on device and export it as TXT • Enhance scanned pages into a clearer grayscale PDF copy COMPRESS AND PROTECT • Compress one PDF or a batch of PDFs into measured new copies • Choose high-quality, balanced, or small-file output • Protect a compatible PDF copy with a new password • Unlock a compatible PDF using its known password PRIVATE DOCUMENT ASSISTANT Ask questions or summarize extractable PDF text without uploading the document. Eligible devices can use Apple's on-device language model. Other supported devices use a clearly labeled local extractive result with source excerpts. BUILT FOR YOUR CONTROL • No account • No subscription or feature paywall • No advertising or tracking • No app-initiated document upload • Files, camera, photos, printing, and sharing are used only when you choose them Compatibility varies for malformed PDFs, XFA or JavaScript forms, certificate signatures, uncommon encryption, image-only search, and third-party PDF features. Word-compatible export contains extractable text rather than recreating the original layout. OCR and assistant results should be checked before relying on important details.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: MDacrobat at none against PDF Pro AI Editor's shown. On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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.
| Parameter | MDacrobat | PDF Pro AI Editor |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | — |
| Update frequency | — | Daily |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Prabhjot Singh Sandhu | MathArena |
In-app purchases
MDacrobat
No in-app purchases
PDF Pro AI Editor
No in-app purchases
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