PDFWorldEditor vs Leaf
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side ā with what reviewers say about each.
PDFWorldEditor
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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.
Leaf
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Leaf is a document scanner and a PDF editor in one app. Scan, edit and send documents right on your phone ā no subscription and no ads. EDIT A DOCUMENT LIKE PAPER ⢠Fix a date, an amount or a name on a scan ā the new letters are taken from the document itself, so the edit looks native ⢠Move a line somewhere else or erase it ⢠Add a stamp and a signature at their real size. Take a photo of a stamp or sign with your finger ā the background is removed automatically ⢠Add text, a date, a check mark, a cross, a highlighter, an arrow or a box ⢠Pinch to zoom the page ā small text is edited precisely PDF WITHOUT QUALITY LOSS ⢠Open PDFs you receive: text stays text and remains searchable, the file does not turn into a picture ⢠Fill in forms ā fields, check boxes and lists ⢠Send with the values filled in, or keep the fields fillable for the recipient ⢠Password-protect the file, forbid printing and copying A FILE OF THE RIGHT SIZE Choose where you are sending it ā a government portal, email, a bank, a visa application ā or set your own limit. The app picks the quality by itself and shows the final size before saving. If the file does not fit, it tells you how to make it lighter. LIKE A REAL SCANNER ⢠Automatic page edge detection and batch scanning ⢠Two-sided documents: scan the fronts, flip the stack, scan the backs ā the pages are put in order automatically ⢠Hand shadows, yellowed paper and uneven light are removed ⢠Colour, grey and black-and-white looks ā you see the difference on your own document REAL REDACTION What you cover is destroyed, not hidden under a black box: in the file you send there is neither image nor text left under the redaction. The app finds card, passport and phone numbers by itself and offers to cover them with a single tap. ORDER IN YOUR DOCUMENTS ⢠Search the text of all documents, PDFs included ⢠Sort by date, name or page count; list, grid or compact view ⢠Folders, merging and splitting documents, page order ⢠The title is picked up from the page heading ⢠Import from Photos and Files, share and print YOUR DOCUMENTS STAY WITH YOU Documents are stored only on your phone: no sign-up and no cloud. Text recognition runs right on the device. Face ID lock. Free, with no ads and no limit on the number of documents. 11 languages, light and dark themes.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: PDFWorldEditor at 16.0 against Leaf's 26.0. 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | PDFWorldEditor | Leaf |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | ā | Every 3 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 ā better | 26.0 |
| Further details ā not scored | ||
| Size | 81 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Hyvrax | Ivan Kotlyar |
In-app purchases
PDFWorldEditor
No in-app purchases
Leaf
No in-app purchases








