Flourish PDF vs Handcast

Flourish PDF is a private PDF editor and scanner for iPhone and iPad. Scan, edit, fill and sign, merge, compress, OCR, redact and password-protect PDFs — all on your device. There is no upload endpoint: your documents are never uploaded. SCAN • Scan paper with the camera, straight into a new or open document • Run OCR on the device and save a searchable PDF • Camera scans are straightened for you; OCR reads rotated and sideways pages • Make a scanned page editable: each line becomes real text in the closest font, size and colour (Pro) • Open a PDF or make it searchable from any app's share sheet EDIT PDF • Edit existing text line by line, matched to its font (Pro) • Rewrite a whole paragraph and it re-wraps; move, crop or replace pictures (Pro) • Add text, notes, links, bookmarks and shapes; Apple Pencil works too • Highlight, underline, squiggly and strike out; callouts and comment replies • Stamp library, plus stamps you save yourself FILL AND SIGN • Fill forms right on the page: text, check boxes, radio buttons and dropdowns • Autofill from My Details (Plus); certificate signatures: sign (Pro) and verify • Detect fields on a flat PDF and create new ones; flatten when done • Sign with a signature you save once ORGANIZE PAGES • Merge PDFs, split by page range, extract, insert, reorder, rotate and crop • Page numbers, headers and footers, watermarks and Bates numbers • Compress one file and see its size before and after, or a whole batch (Pro) • Export pages as PNG, JPG or TIFF; create a PDF from images • Export to Word, Excel and PowerPoint, on your device (Pro) • Create a PDF from a Word, Excel or PowerPoint file or a web page (Plus) PASSWORDS AND REDACTION • Open password-protected PDFs; change or remove a password • Redact by text, area or search, or let Smart Redact find SSNs, card numbers, emails and phone numbers (Pro) • Compare two versions, differences boxed in red; accessibility, PDF/A and preflight reports (Pro) • Save a print-ready PDF/X-4 file and see anything that would fail (Pro) ON-DEVICE AI (Pro, with Apple Intelligence) • Summarize or translate the whole document • Ask questions and get answers with page citations • Rewrite, proofread and define • Make bookmarks, chat across open PDFs and edit by asking ALSO Document tabs, saved workflows (Pro), Shortcuts, measure distance and area (Pro), draft LaTeX on iPad, version history, print, read aloud, reading themes and app lock. PLANS • Free — read, search, print, annotate, sign, scan, organize, merge and split, crop, page numbers, bookmarks, links and passwords; 5 OCR pages a month. The free version shows ads. • Plus ($4.99/month or $39.99/year) — no ads, forms, compress, image export and PDF from images; 250 OCR pages a month. • Pro ($9.99/month or $79.99/year) — everything unlimited, plus text editing, redaction, watermarks, Bates, batch, compare, accessibility, measuring and AI. Plus and Pro each start with a 7-day free trial — the trial is for the plan you choose, so a Plus trial gives you Plus and a Pro trial gives you Pro. Your trial becomes a paid subscription at the price above when it ends, unless you cancel at least 24 hours before that. Plus and Pro are auto-renewable subscriptions charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. A subscription renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the period. Manage or cancel anytime in Settings → Apple ID → Subscriptions. By using Flourish PDF you agree to our Terms of Use at https://softflourish.com/flourishpdf/terms and Privacy Policy at https://softflourish.com/flourishpdf/privacy. © 2026 Soft Flourish

Handcast records first-person video of real, hands-on work. Pick a task, hold or mount your phone so both of your hands are in view, and record yourself doing it: preparing a meal, fixing something, doing the laundry, cleaning a surface. Handcast captures the video together with the phone's motion sensor readings and uploads each recording securely to your account. Recordings are collected as real-world training data for robotics and machine learning. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Choose from tasks grouped by trade, search them, or describe your own; each has a short note on what to record • Start recording automatically once both hands are in view, or turn on Glove mode when gloves make detection unreliable • Follow the angle guide while you record, and stop with a three-second press • Get a warning when the phone dropped frames, so you can record again before uploading • Retry uploads that fail, with the recording kept safely on the device until it lands • See your recordings, their length and upload status in one place YOUR DATA Recordings contain video with no audio, motion sensor data, camera and phone details, and, only if you allow it, the location where you recorded. They are private to your account. You can delete your account and every recording from inside the app at any time. Handcast uses the camera to record and motion data to capture movement. Location is optional.