Comparison

PDFWorldEditor vs FolikPDF

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

Head to head
About

PDFWorldEditor

Features
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PDFWorldEditor opens, reads and transforms your PDF documents right from your phone. WHAT YOU CAN DO Read. Open a PDF, scroll, zoom, jump to any page. Annotate. Highlight, draw, write on a page, add a note. Sign. Draw your signature once, place it wherever you want, and reuse it on your next documents. Assemble. Merge several PDFs into one. Reorder pages, rotate them, delete them. Create a blank document and insert a photo. Compress. Reduce the size of a file too heavy to send by email. Convert. Turn a PDF into an editable Word document, or into images. Scan. Photograph a sheet of paper: the image is straightened, the text is recognised, and you get a PDF you can search for a word in. Edit text. Tap a word in an existing PDF and replace it. Useful for correcting a date, an amount, a name. Print and share. Send the document wherever you want with your iPhone's share sheet. WHAT THERE IS NOT No account required: everything works without signing in. Signing in is optional, with Apple or with Google. It only serves to recognise you: your documents are never attached to an account. No advertising. No subscription, no in-app purchase. No tracker, no analytics. YOUR DOCUMENTS Reading, annotating, signing, merging and reordering pages all happen entirely on your iPhone, offline. Four features need computing power the phone cannot provide on its own: compress, convert, scan and edit text. They send the document to our server in Germany for the time of the computation. We have neither a database nor storage space: the file is not kept after the response. Everything is explained in detail in our privacy policy. App published by HYVRAX, a French company.

About

FolikPDF

Features
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Folik is a private, capable PDF workspace for iPhone and iPad. It is completely free: no ads, no subscription, no account, and no in-app purchases. READ AND FIND • Open PDFs from Files or other apps • Search with contextual results and next/previous navigation • Use continuous, single-page, or two-page layouts • Browse thumbnails, outlines, and bookmarks SCAN ON DEVICE • Capture multi-page documents with automatic edge detection • Recognize text locally so new scans are searchable • Keep scans inside Folik unless you choose to share them FILL AND SIGN • Complete standard PDF text, checkbox, radio, and choice fields • Track required fields and jump to the next unfinished field • Create handwritten or typed signatures and initials ANNOTATE AND ORGANIZE • Highlight, underline, strike through, draw, add notes, shapes, text, and stamps • Move, resize, recolor, undo, and redo annotations • Reorder, rotate, duplicate, delete, extract, or combine pages in a new copy EXPORT YOUR WAY • Share the original • Create an editable copy • Export a flattened copy for consistent appearance PRIVATE BY DESIGN Folik processes documents, scans, text recognition, and edits on your device. It has no backend, analytics SDK, or advertising SDK. Compatibility note: Folik supports standard AcroForm fields exposed by iOS. XFA-only forms, certificate-backed digital signatures, JavaScript calculations, and vendor-specific PDF behavior may not be supported. EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Folik is open source under the MIT License. https://github.com/x3n-network/FolikPDF

Screenshots

PDFWorldEditor4 screens
FolikPDF4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: PDFWorldEditor at 16.0 against FolikPDF's 18.6. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard1 real difference Ā· 5 level
PDFWorldEditor versus FolikPDF: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPDFWorldEditorFolikPDF
PriceFreeFree
Update frequency—Every 2 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS16.0 — better18.6
Further details — not scored
Size81 MB9 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHyvraxJOSEPH AARON SPEARS

In-app purchases

None

PDFWorldEditor

No in-app purchases

None

FolikPDF

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is PDFWorldEditor free?
PDFWorldEditor is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is FolikPDF free?
FolikPDF is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do PDFWorldEditor or FolikPDF have ads?
Neither PDFWorldEditor nor FolikPDF shows ads.

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