Comparison

QPdf vs Bayran Office

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

Head to head
About

QPdf

Features
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QPdf is a local-first PDF workspace for phone, tablet and desktop. Your documents stay on your device. READ AND SEARCH • Fast page rendering with text selection and in-document search • Open PDFs straight from Files, email or any app that shares them ANNOTATE AND MARK UP • Highlight, underline, strike through and draw freehand • Add sticky notes, shapes, arrows and images to any page FILL AND SIGN • Type text anywhere on a page — it works the same on scanned and flattened forms as on digital ones • Draw a signature, or apply a cryptographic digital signature ORGANISE PAGES • Reorder, rotate, delete, extract and merge pages • Combine several PDFs into one • Add page numbers CREATE AND CONVERT • Build a PDF from photos • Scan paper with the camera • Add a searchable text layer with on-device OCR — pages are never uploaded PROTECT • Secure redaction produces an image-only copy and strips searchable text, interactive content, metadata and existing signatures • PDF/UA and PDF/A accessibility and archiving audits PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No advertising SDK. No analytics SDK. QPdf does not upload the PDFs you open. The only network request is an optional one-time OCR model download, verified against a published checksum. Free, with no subscription and no watermark.

About

Bayran Office

Features
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by BayranLab Software YOUR DOCUMENTS. ONLY YOURS. Bayran Office is the document suite and PDF editor that works with no internet: it makes no network calls, so everything you scan, sign and write stays on your device. No account, no cloud, no ads, no tracking. READ EVERYTHING - PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, EPUB eBooks, images and CSV - Smooth book-like reading, night mode, read aloud - Resume where you left off, bookmarks, full-text search PDF EDITOR: SIGN, ANNOTATE AND FIX - Write text, highlight, underline and annotate right on the PDF - Freehand signature, or from a photo of your paper signature - Office stamps: APPROVED, PAID, RECEIVED, COPY, DRAFT - Secure redaction: hidden data is truly removed from the file, not just covered - Merge, split, reorder, rotate, compress (3 levels) - Password protection (AES-256) and password removal - Fill forms, compare two versions, mail merge from Excel contacts SCAN AND DIGITIZE - NO INTERNET - Scanner with automatic edge detection, deskew and filters - Offline OCR: make any scan searchable - Business card to ready-to-save contact - Printed table to editable Excel sheet - ID document: front and back in a single PDF CONVERT - NO INTERNET - Photos and scans to PDF - Photographed table to Excel sheet - PDF to text (with OCR) WRITE AND CREATE - Real Word (.docx) documents with formatting, images and international fonts - Spreadsheets with formulas (=SUM, =AVERAGE, =VLOOKUP) - 22 ready-made templates: invoice, CV, letters, authorization, minutes, budget DIGITAL SIGNATURES WITH LEGAL VALUE - Open and verify signed documents: P7M/CAdES, PAdES, ASiC, .m7m - See every signer, certificate and timestamp - Remote signing: sign with your qualified provider, then reopen it here - Electronic invoices (XML) shown in a clean, readable view TRANSLATE OFFLINE - Translate text, photos and PDFs without internet - Extra language packs downloaded on demand: Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Arabic, Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu REAL PRIVACY, NOT A PROMISE - The app makes no network calls: your data stays on your device - AES-256 encrypted Vault protected by a PIN - Face ID / Touch ID unlock - Trash with restore, and full backup in a single file IN 22 LANGUAGES Italian, English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Polish, Dutch, Turkish, Romanian, Russian, Ukrainian, Indonesian, Vietnamese, Japanese, Korean, Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Telugu, Tamil, Arabic One-time unlock. No subscription. Try it free.

Screenshots

QPdf2 screens
Bayran Office4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: QPdf at none against Bayran Office's 1. On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Both are free to download. Bayran Office sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. QPdf asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard1 real difference Ā· 5 level
QPdf versus Bayran Office: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterQPdfBayran Office
PriceFreeFree
Update frequency—Every 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size91 MB188 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGaurav NeupaneAndrea Rossi

In-app purchases

None

QPdf

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Bayran Office

One-time1
  • Bayran Office Premium$8.99

Questions

Is QPdf free?
QPdf is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Bayran Office free?
Bayran Office is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do QPdf or Bayran Office have ads?
Neither QPdf nor Bayran Office shows ads.

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