Comparison

PDF Editor vs MDReader

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

Head to head
About

PDF Editor

Features
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Edit, scan, sign, fill, and convert PDFs — all in one fast, focused app. Turn your phone into a full PDF editor, document scanner with OCR, form filler, and e-signature tool. Read, annotate, merge, and protect any document in seconds. EDIT LIKE A PRO • Edit PDF text directly with automatic font matching • Highlight, add notes, insert images, and stamps • Merge, split, reorder, rotate, and add blank pages SCAN & OCR • Scan documents with your camera into crisp, searchable PDFs • OCR turns scans into editable, selectable text • AI cleanup: deskew, erase fingers, sharpen, auto-crop, and filters FILL & SIGN • Fill out tax forms, contracts, and applications • Autofill saves repeat fields for next time • Draw or type a signature and e-sign any document CONVERT ANYTHING • PDF to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, JPG, and TXT • Convert photos and files back to PDF • Compress large files without losing quality AI ASSISTANT • Summarize long contracts in seconds • Rewrite, proofread, translate, and change tone • Draft emails, cover letters, invoices, and resumes from templates PROTECT & SYNC • Lock files with PIN and Face ID, plus a private Safe folder • Redact, blur, or watermark sensitive information • Password-protect exports and share expiring links • Secure cloud sync across iPhone, iPad, and web (QR pairing) Subscription auto-renews unless canceled at least 24 hours before the period ends; manage or cancel in your Account Settings. Privacy Policy and Terms of Use are available in the app. Privacy Policy: https://sites.google.com/view/pdfeditorx/privacy-policy Terms of Use: https://sites.google.com/view/pdfeditorx/terms-of-use

About

MDReader

Features
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MDReader opens your Markdown files and folders and renders them properly. There is no library to import into, no account to create and no sync service in the middle. Your .md files stay exactly where you put them, and MDReader reads and writes them in place. FAST, EVEN ON BIG FILES A two-tier parser scans a document in a single pass and only fully parses the blocks you can actually see. A 10 MB file opens before other editors have finished showing a spinner, and scrolling stays smooth all the way down. RENDERS THE WHOLE OF MARKDOWN GitHub-flavoured Markdown with tables, task lists you can tick straight from reading mode, footnotes that jump both ways, YAML front matter shown as a card, LaTeX math inline and display, fenced code with syntax highlighting, and Mermaid diagrams rendered offline. AN EDITOR THAT STAYS OUT OF THE WAY Live syntax highlighting, lists that continue and renumber themselves, bold/italic/link shortcuts, find and replace, table and formula inserters, and paste an image to save it next to the document. Autosave goes through the system file coordinator, so editing alongside Obsidian, git or iCloud is safe. PICKS UP WHERE YOU LEFT OFF Reading position is restored to the pixel, per document, across relaunches, rotation and window resizes. FOLDER WORKSPACES (PRO) Open a whole folder: a repository's docs, an Obsidian vault, a Zettelkasten. Fuzzy quick-open, full-text search across every file in the folder, [[wiki-links]] with a backlinks panel, a front-matter tag browser, and read-only git status per file. Changes made by other apps are picked up in place, without losing your position. MORE IN PRO PDF export and print, publishing to GitHub Gist and Telegraph, presentation mode for slides, a custom theme editor with imported fonts, focus and typewriter modes, word-count goals, reading statistics, text-to-speech with follow-along highlighting, local version history with diffs, snippets, Vim keybindings, and an AI pack that summarises and rewrites entirely on device. BUILT FOR APPLE PLATFORMS One purchase covers iPhone, iPad and Mac. Keyboard shortcuts throughout, multiple windows, menu bar commands, a Share extension, Shortcuts actions, widgets, a URL scheme, Spotlight indexing, VoiceOver labels and Dynamic Type. PRIVACY MDReader collects nothing. No analytics SDK, no account, no server of ours to talk to. The only network traffic is what your own documents ask for, such as remote images, plus the publishing integrations you set up yourself. FREE AND PRO The reader and the single-file editor are free forever: all rendering including math and syntax highlighting, the base themes, table of contents, in-file search, HTML, Markdown and plain-text export, and position restore. Pro unlocks folder workspaces and the power features above, as a one-time purchase or as a yearly subscription with a free trial. SUBSCRIPTION AND PURCHASE DETAILS MDReader Pro (Yearly) - auto-renewable subscription, 1 year, USD 9.99 per year, including a 7-day free trial for new subscribers. MDReader Pro (Lifetime) - one-time purchase, USD 24.99, not a subscription. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. A yearly subscription renews automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the period ends. You can manage or cancel the subscription in your Apple Account settings after purchase. Any unused portion of a free trial is forfeited when a subscription is purchased. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ App Terms of Service: https://gelfand.dev/mdreader/terms Privacy Policy: https://gelfand.dev/mdreader/privacy

Screenshots

PDF Editor4 screens
MDReader4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: PDF Editor at 17.0 against MDReader's 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. PDF Editor sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per 7 days and MDReader sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard1 real difference · 5 level
PDF Editor versus MDReader: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPDF EditorMDReader
PriceFreeFree
Update frequency—Every 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS17.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size45 MB22 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAPPMERGE TEKNOLOJI LIMITED SIRKETIDaniil Nuzhdin

In-app purchases

2 purchases

PDF Editor

Subscriptions2
  • PDF Editor Pro3 Days trial$6.997 Days
  • PDF Editor Pro3 Days trial$39.991 Year
2 purchases

MDReader

Subscriptions1
  • MDReader Pro Yearly7 Days trial$9.991 Year
One-time1
  • MDReader Pro$24.99

Questions

Is PDF Editor free?
PDF Editor is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is MDReader free?
MDReader is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do PDF Editor or MDReader have ads?
Neither PDF Editor nor MDReader shows ads.

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