Comparison

PDFWorldEditor vs PDF Toolkit

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

PDF Toolkit

Features
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PDF Tools is a set of 13 features for working with PDF documents right on your iPhone. Everything happens on-device: no internet required, no cloud uploads, no tracking of your files. WHAT IT DOES Merging and organizing: • Merge multiple PDFs into one file • Split PDF into parts • Reorder pages by dragging • Delete or duplicate pages • Rotate pages (single or all at once) Compression and optimization: • Three compression levels — Max quality, Balance, Max compression • Live size estimate before applying • Remove metadata, convert to black & white Annotations and signing: • Insert signature or stamp image with drag and pinch-to-resize • Add text over any page • Draw with finger or Apple Pencil (PencilKit) • Apply watermark to all pages at once Conversion: • Photos → PDF: build a document from photos (A4, Letter, or fit-to-photo) • PDF → Photos: extract pages as images to your library Text recognition (OCR): • Extract text from scans and regular PDFs • Russian and English language recognition • Copy to clipboard, export as .txt Password-protected files: • Open password-locked PDFs via the built-in unlock PRIVACY Your documents never leave the device. No servers, no content analytics, no cloud uploads. Every tool works without internet — even on a plane. NO SUBSCRIPTION The app is completely free. No operation limits, no trial period, no "PRO" tier. Download once — use forever. INTERFACE • Russian, English, Spanish • Choose language independent of system • Automatic dark mode • Haptic feedback on actions • Search and sort in the Documents tab • QuickLook preview • Multi-select and bulk share INTEGRATIONS • App Intents for Siri and Shortcuts — "Compress PDF", "Merge PDFs", "Split PDF" • Universal access via the system Share menu The app does one thing and does it well: a full offline PDF toolkit without compromises, subscriptions, or tracking. ``` ## What's New in This Version (Release Notes) *(max 4000 chars, version 1.0)* ``` First release of PDF Tools. We packed 13 features into one app: merging, compression, splitting, page editing, annotations (signature, text, drawing, watermark), Photos↔PDF conversion, OCR text recognition and password-protected file support. Everything works offline and without a subscription.

Screenshots

PDFWorldEditor4 screens
PDF Toolkit3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: PDFWorldEditor at 16.0 against PDF Toolkit's 18.6. 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 · 4 level
PDFWorldEditor versus PDF Toolkit: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPDFWorldEditorPDF Toolkit
PriceFreeFree
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS16.0 — better18.6
Further details — not scored
Size81 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHyvraxOleg Grinevich

In-app purchases

None

PDFWorldEditor

No in-app purchases

None

PDF Toolkit

No in-app purchases

Questions

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

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