Comparison

Document Reader & PDF View vs Scrappy

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

Head to head
About

Document Reader & PDF View

Features
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Read almost any document on your iPhone or iPad — fully offline. Fexo Files Reader turns your device into a clean, private library for every file you own. Bring in PDFs, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, EPUB books, text, images and more, and open them in a calm, distraction-free reader that quietly remembers exactly where you left off. Everything happens on your device: no account, no cloud upload, and no internet needed for the core features. Fexo organizes your files automatically into tidy shelves by type, with live counts and sizes, so the document you need is always one tap away. And when a PDF needs work, the built-in Fexo toolkit handles it right on the device. KEY FEATURES •⁠ ⁠Read almost any format: PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, EPUB, text, RTF, CSV, HTML, XML, JSON, Markdown and images •⁠ ⁠Library auto-sorted by file type, with search and sorting by date, name, size or type in list or grid view •⁠ ⁠Import from the Files app or connect a whole folder that re-scans itself automatically •⁠ ⁠Open in Fexo from any app's share sheet or Open With •⁠ ⁠Distraction-free PDF reader with full-text search, password unlock and silent resume to your last page •⁠ ⁠Native Office preview for Word, Excel and PowerPoint, including legacy .doc, .xls and .ppt •⁠ ⁠EPUB reader with chapters, table of contents, in-book search and typography controls •⁠ ⁠Merge, split, compress and password-protect PDFs on-device with AES-256 encryption •⁠ ⁠OCR text extraction from images and PDF pages across Latin, Arabic, Chinese, Devanagari and Japanese or Korean scripts •⁠ ⁠Print any document through the native iOS print dialog •⁠ ⁠Six reading themes, keep-screen-on, recents and favourites •⁠ ⁠Five languages with full right-to-left support: English, Chinese, Hindi, Spanish and Arabic Why choose Fexo? Because your documents stay yours. Fexo keeps every file on your device, with no sign-up and nothing sent to a server. From the Fexo team, built for people who just want to open a file and read. Download Fexo Files Reader today and keep your whole library in one private place. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Scrappy

This app helps you regain control of your screen time by acting as a digital guard dog. It blocks distracting apps with escalating resistance and rewards you with treats earned through real-world activity for temporary access.

Highlights
  • App blocking with escalating resistance
  • Quiet hours and daily time limits
  • Treats earned through walking for access
  • Emergency pass for essential needs
  • Always-allowed list
  • Removal lock to prevent deletion loopholes
Features
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Scrappy is a screen-time app with a very good boy standing in front of it. He's small. He's scruffy. He takes his job extremely seriously. His job is standing between you and the apps that eat your evenings. WHO'S GUARDING THE DOOR? HE IS. Pick the apps that always swallow your night. Scrappy plants himself in front of them. First knock, he's polite about it. Fourth knock, he's standing on the doorknob barking his little head off. Swiping away a reminder is easy. Getting past a dog is not. FIRST, THE SNIFF TEST Before he takes the job, Scrappy shows you your own Screen Time: your real week, what it costs in hours (and, gulp, years), and the deal he proposes. Apple draws the numbers right on your phone. Nothing is uploaded, ever. He's a dog. THREE TRICKS, NO FOURTH He knows exactly three tricks, because three is all anyone needs: • Quiet hours: the door is shut between two times. Evenings, work, Sunday. • Daily limit: so many minutes a day, then that's it. • Open limit: six looks a day is plenty. Or grab a ready-made rule off the shelf: The morning shift, Sunday off, Six looks, After midnight. TREATS ARE EARNED, NEVER SOLD Want in anyway? That'll be one treat. Treats come from real life: about 2,000 steps of walking earns one. Throw it, and you get five honest minutes before the guard is back up. We will never, ever sell you treats. His affection cannot be bought. Only walked for. SIT. STAY. Every guarded app gets a resistance level. Negotiable apps open for a treat. Firm apps make you sit for ten seconds first, just long enough to notice you didn't really want to open it. Absolute apps? He will not take the treat. Don't make it weird. HE'S A QUICK LEARNER After a week of watching, he might nudge a ceiling down, but only when your real worst day sits far below it, only ever as an offer, one tap to accept. Nothing tightens on its own. He proposes. You decide. He's a professional. WALKIES Heading out? Start a walk: a named session where he guards everything while you're gone, Live Activity on your lock screen and all. Finish it, and yes, obviously: that's a treat. BUILT TO BE LIVED WITH • Emergency pass: one a month, for boarding passes and genuine emergencies. He doesn't scold. He just... looks at you. • Always-allowed list, so the important stuff never gets caught in the crossfire. • Removal lock (optional, ships off): closes the 11pm delete-and-reinstall loophole. Turning it off takes a day, long enough to outlast an urge, and you're never truly stuck. • Honest stats: what he blocked, what you got back. The numbers never lie and never tease. PRIVATE, BECAUSE HE'S A DOG No account. No sign-up. No server of ours, and no analytics. Your Screen Time is drawn by a sandboxed Apple extension that can't phone home, so not one of those numbers ever leaves your phone. The only thing that does is your purchase, under an anonymous id, so he knows you're subscribed. The rest he buries in the yard. Good boys don't gossip. FREE SCRAPPY, PRO SCRAPPY Free Scrappy guards your worst hour: any one rule, whole and uncrippled, plus every safety rail above. Pro Scrappy runs your whole week: unlimited rules, rules per app, longer walks, weekly reports, and full control of the treat economy for the strict of heart. ONE MORE THING You can pet him. Twelve reactions. One of them is a 1-in-200. People say it's worth it. Privacy Policy: https://scrappy-app.com/privacy Terms of Use: https://scrappy-app.com/terms

Screenshots

Document Reader & PDF View4 screens
Scrappy4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Document Reader & PDF View at 15.5 against Scrappy's 17.0. 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Document Reader & PDF View versus Scrappy: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDocument Reader & PDF ViewScrappy
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—2 — better
Update frequency—Every 6 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.5 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size106 MB64 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFexo FZC LLCShrenik Choudhary

In-app purchases

None

Document Reader & PDF View

No in-app purchases

None

Scrappy

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Document Reader & PDF View free?
Document Reader & PDF View is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Scrappy free?
Scrappy is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Document Reader & PDF View or Scrappy have ads?
Neither Document Reader & PDF View nor Scrappy shows ads.

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