PDF Squeeze vs PDF Compressor
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PDF Squeeze
Reduce PDF file sizes directly on your device without needing an internet connection. This app allows for offline compression, splitting, reordering, and creation of PDFs from photos, ensuring your documents remain private.
- Offline PDF compression
- Create PDFs from photos
- Split and reorder pages
- On-device processing
- Built-in PDF viewer
- Share Sheet integration
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PDF Squeeze makes big PDFs small without making them ugly — and it also scans, reads, signs, converts and answers questions about them, without a single byte leaving your iPhone. SCAN PAPER INTO PDF Point the camera at a page and PDF Squeeze finds the edges, squares it up and cleans it: shadows lifted, paper turned white, ink made sharp. Choose Auto, Grayscale or Black & White, then save. Every scan is searchable — the words are read on device, so you can find, copy and ask about them. SEND TO ANY COMPUTER AirDrop doesn't reach a Windows laptop or a Chromebook. Send to Computer does: type the short address it shows into any browser on the same Wi-Fi and download. No cable, no account, nothing uploaded. Sharing stops when you close the screen. ASK YOUR PDF ANYTHING Open a contract, a lease, a manual or a research paper and just ask. "What's the cancellation policy?" "When does this renew?" "What did they agree to pay?" Answers come with page citations you can tap to jump to the source, so you can check the wording yourself. It all runs on your device: iPhones with Apple Intelligence use the system model, and other iPhones can add an optional on-device model. Scanned and photographed pages are read with on-device OCR in more than twenty languages. SIGN WITHOUT PRINTING Sign with your finger, or type your name and pick a handwriting style. Your signature is stored as strokes, never a photo, so it stays crisp at any zoom — and it's baked into the page, so it survives compression and email and nobody can drag it off. MARK UP LIKE PAPER Highlight, draw freehand and add text boxes you can stretch to any shape. Undo anything, all the way back. TEXT STAYS SHARP Most compressors re-encode every page and hand you a blurry file. PDF Squeeze tries a vector-preserving pass first, keeping text crisp and selectable. Pages are only re-rendered when that actually saves space, and your file never comes out larger than it went in. Filled-in forms keep their answers. HIT AN EXACT SIZE Email limit? Upload cap? Pick 1, 2, 5, 10 or 25 MB and PDF Squeeze finds the best quality that fits just under it — or tells you honestly when it can't. SEE THE DIFFERENCE Drag the Before & After slider across any page to compare the original with the compressed version. CONVERT WITHOUT LEAVING THE APP • PDF to Text, with OCR for scanned pages • PDF to Images, in PNG, JPEG, HEIC or TIFF • Images to PDF • Change Image Format between PNG, JPEG, HEIC and TIFF ALSO IN THE BOX • Compress a whole group of documents at once • Four presets: Light, Balanced, Strong, Extreme • Automatic grayscale detection for extra savings on scans • Rearrange, rotate and delete pages by dragging thumbnails • Extract pages into a new PDF, or merge several PDFs into one • Turn photos into a PDF • Full-text search • Compress from the Share sheet in any app • A library that stays where you left it, and a history of everything you've compressed • Built for iPad too: library on the left, document beside it, Apple Pencil for signing PRIVATE BY DESIGN Scanning, compression, conversion, OCR, signatures and AI answers all happen on your iPhone. Your documents are never uploaded to a server. No accounts, no tracking, no ads. PAY ONCE, KEEP FOREVER Your first compression and five questions are free, and scanning, signing, markup, merging, page editing and converting are free for good. One purchase unlocks everything else for life. No subscription, ever.
PDF Compressor
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Compress PDF files quickly, reduce file size, and keep your documents private with PDF Compressor: Reduce PDF. Need to make a PDF smaller for email, work, school, online forms, or document uploads? PDF Compressor helps you reduce PDF file size directly on your iPhone or iPad — with no account required and no document uploads to our servers. SMART PDF COMPRESSION Reduce PDF size while preserving text, links, and document structure whenever possible. Smart Compression is ideal for documents where readability and selectable text matter. MULTIPLE COMPRESSION OPTIONS Choose the compression method that fits your needs: • Smart Compression — Reduce file size while preserving text and links • Maximum Compression — Get a smaller file using stronger compression • Target Size — Try to compress your PDF toward 500 KB, 1 MB, 2 MB, 5 MB, or a custom size • Multiple quality options for stronger compression BUILT FOR REAL-WORLD FILE SIZE LIMITS Trying to upload a PDF but the file is too large? Choose a target size and let PDF Compressor reduce the document as much as possible while protecting its structure. Some PDFs are already highly optimized, so the exact target size cannot always be reached. The app clearly tells you when further compression would reduce document quality or make the file larger. PRIVATE — YOUR PDFs STAY ON YOUR DEVICE Your PDF documents are processed locally on your device. • No PDF uploads to our servers • No account required • No sign-in required • Your original PDF is never overwritten • Save or share the compressed copy only when you choose PREVIEW BEFORE AND AFTER Preview your PDF before compression and check the compressed version when processing is complete. CLEAR COMPRESSION RESULTS See exactly what happened to your document: • Original file size • Compressed file size • Percentage of space saved • Compression method used • Whether text and links were preserved SAVE AND SHARE EASILY Save your compressed PDF to Files or share it directly using the standard iOS sharing options. PDF Compressor: Reduce PDF is designed to make reducing PDF file sizes simple, fast, and private. Choose a PDF, select your compression method, reduce its size, and save the result.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: PDF Compressor at none against PDF Squeeze's 1. PDF Compressor also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). PDF Squeeze's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 3 days vs every 8 days). On price 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
Both are free to download. PDF Squeeze sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. PDF Compressor asks for nothing beyond the download.
PDF Squeeze ships an update every 3 days, PDF Compressor every 8 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.
| Parameter | PDF Squeeze | PDF Compressor |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Every 8 days |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 22 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | MOHAMMAD AHMADI SADR | TAREQ ALHUSAINI |
In-app purchases
PDF Squeeze
- PDF Squeeze$14.99
PDF Compressor
No in-app purchases
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