Comparison

Document Reader & PDF View vs PDFtoEPUB

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

PDFtoEPUB

Transform PDF files into reflowable EPUB ebooks for comfortable reading on any device. Features include OCR for scanned documents, intelligent structure preservation, and private, deterministic conversion.

Highlights
  • True reflowable EPUB conversion
  • Built-in OCR with multilingual support
  • Intelligent document structure preservation
  • 100% deterministic and private processing
  • Direct export to Files or Apple Books
Features
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Convert your PDF documents and books into beautifully formatted, reflowable EPUB3 ebooks that adapt seamlessly to any screen size. Key Features: - True Reflowable EPUB: Read comfortably without horizontal scrolling or zooming. Adjust font size, themes, and margins directly in your favorite reader app. - Built-in OCR: Extracts text cleanly from scanned PDFs and books with multilingual support (including Turkish and English). - Intelligent Document Structure: Automatically preserves chapters, tables of contents, footnotes, and headings. - 100% Deterministic & Private: No third-party AI APIs are used. Your documents are processed directly by our server pipeline and permanently deleted immediately after conversion. - Easy Export: Save directly to Files or open in Apple Books with a single tap.

Screenshots

Document Reader & PDF View4 screens
PDFtoEPUB4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: Document Reader & PDF View at 3 against PDFtoEPUB's 1. Document Reader & PDF View also leads on iOS requirement (15.5 vs 17.0). On price, ads and in-app purchases 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.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Document Reader & PDF View versus PDFtoEPUB: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDocument Reader & PDF ViewPDFtoEPUB
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequency—Monthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.5 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size106 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFexo FZC LLCSafiye Ebrar Etiz

In-app purchases

None

Document Reader & PDF View

No in-app purchases

None

PDFtoEPUB

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

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