Comparison

Eve vs PDF On

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

Head to head
About

Eve

Features
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Eve is a calm, offline PDF reader and annotator for iPhone and iPad. Open your documents, mark them up, and pick up right where you left off — with no accounts, ads, or tracking. YOUR LIBRARY, LIKE A SHELF • Real first-page cover previews turn your files into a bookshelf • See reading progress at a glance • Filter by unread or favorites, and sort your way A FOCUSED READER • Smooth continuous or page-by-page reading • Search across the whole document • Outline and bookmarks to jump anywhere • Go to any page instantly, with a live thumbnail scrubber • Fit width or whole page; light, dark, and sepia modes ANNOTATE WITH EASE • Highlight, underline, strikethrough, and squiggly marks • Sticky notes, free text, and freehand ink • Saved per document and redrawn when you reopen MADE FOR READING • Reading stats and a daily streak • Reading timer, auto-scroll, and read-aloud • Brightness swipe and an immersive, distraction-free mode PRIVATE BY DESIGN Eve works fully offline. Your PDFs, annotations, bookmarks, and settings stay on your device — never uploaded, never shared. No account required. Eve is a companion to Eve for Mac. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.gladve.com/privacy

About

PDF On

Features
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PDF On turns paper into clean PDFs and lets you finish them right away: fill in, sign, highlight, share. Everything happens on your iPhone. No account, no upload, no tracking. SCAN AND CREATE • Scan documents with automatic edge detection • Take a photo and crop it: the edges are found and straightened for you • Build PDFs from photos, files and other PDFs • Convert Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Pages, Numbers, Keynote, text and HTML files to PDF • Choose page size, layout (1, 2 or 4 per page) and quality • Optional date and time stamps • Make PDFs searchable with on-device text recognition • Protect PDFs with a password FILL IN AND SIGN • Tap a form field and type: the text lands inside the box, on the line • Return jumps to the next field • Checkmarks snap into checkboxes, dates follow the format of the form • Your name, address and phone number appear as suggestions above the keyboard • Sign by drawing, or photograph your signature on paper • Place a passport photo on an application form: the photo frame is found automatically • Typefaces, sizes, bold and colors for every language MARK UP • Highlighter, pen with thickness and opacity, lines, arrows, rectangles and circles • Undo and redo READING MODE • Full screen with trimmed margins, so the text is larger • Highlight with one swipe, in four colors of your choice • Name your colors, for example "Important" or "Question", and add notes • A list of all highlights with page jump; share them as text • The app remembers where you stopped reading ID CARD AND PASSPORT COPY • Front and back on one sheet in true original size • Optional enlargement, grayscale, cut lines and a watermark such as "Copy for landlord" PAGES • Reorder, rotate, crop, straighten and delete pages • Merge PDFs, insert scans, photos or other PDFs • Export the text as a Word document (.docx), copy text, search in the document PRIVATE BY DESIGN • Works fully offline • No account, no ads, no tracking, no data collection • Optional app lock with Face ID • Share extension: send photos and PDFs from other apps to PDF On LANGUAGES English, Spanish, German, French, Arabic, Persian, Urdu and more than 40 other languages, with full right-to-left layout.

Screenshots

Eve4 screens
PDF On4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: PDF On at none against Eve's 2. 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. Eve sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. PDF On asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard1 real difference Ā· 5 level
Eve versus PDF On: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEvePDF On
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.4 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size48 MB11 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKAAN DONMEZAbbas Hoseiny

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Eve

Subscriptions2
  • Eve Pro Monthly$3.991 Month
  • Eve Pro — Annual$24.991 Year
None

PDF On

No in-app purchases

Questions

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

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