HonestPDF vs PageKit
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side ā with what reviewers say about each.
HonestPDF
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Compress, redact, sign and edit PDFs on your iPhone and iPad without sending them anywhere. All 45 tools run on the device itself, and the app keeps working in airplane mode. There is no upload, no account, no subscription and no advertising. No server does the work, because the tools ship inside the app. WHAT IS INSIDE Compress: shrink a PDF to a size you choose, such as 1 MB or 200 KB, for email and upload forms. Scanned documents shrink too. Edit: change the document's own text, find and replace, and add text, highlights, drawings, images and notes. Sign and protect: fill and sign, digital signature, redact, password protection with AES-256, unlock. Redacted text is removed from the file, not hidden under a box. Convert to PDF: images, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, HTML, Markdown, plain text and EPUB ebooks, plus WhatsApp and AI chat transcripts. Convert from PDF: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, JPG, PNG and text, plus pulling out the images embedded in a file. Organize: merge, split, extract pages, delete pages, rotate, reorder and crop, remove the blank pages from a scan, and put several pages on one sheet. Clean up and mark: flatten, repair a damaged file, strip scripts and hidden actions, remove metadata, remove watermark, add page numbers, add a watermark, change the title and author a file carries, OCR scanned documents. Check: a privacy scanner that reports what a file gives away about you. Build: invoice generator, resume builder, cover letter generator, certificate maker. WORKS WITH YOUR FILES Open any PDF from Files, Mail or Safari with Share, choose HonestPDF, and the app opens with your document already loaded into a tool that can take it. Finished files save through the system Files picker, so they land wherever you keep your documents. PRIVACY BY ARCHITECTURE, NOT BY PROMISE Your documents never leave the device, because there is nowhere for them to go. The app collects no data at all, contains no analytics, and has no in-app browser. One caveat, stated plainly rather than buried: OCR in a language other than English or Turkish downloads that language's recognition model the first time you use it. The model comes down, your document never goes up. TWENTY LANGUAGES The interface is available in 20 languages. FREE Every tool, with no in-app purchases, no trial and no advertising. Open a PDF and try the tool you came for. Your document stays on your phone.
PageKit
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Merge, split, sign, redact and scan PDFs ā fifteen tools that run entirely on your iPhone, with no account and no upload. FIFTEEN TOOLS, ALL ON YOUR DEVICE ⢠Scan to PDF ā use the camera to make a cropped, straightened PDF ⢠Merge PDFs ā combine several documents into one ⢠Split PDF ā break one document into several ⢠Extract Pages ā pull a range into its own PDF ⢠Delete Pages ā remove the pages you don't need ⢠Reorder Pages ā drag pages into a new order ⢠Rotate Pages ā turn pages the right way up ⢠Sign & Fill ā add a signature, a date or a tick ⢠Redact PDF ā black out words so they are really gone ⢠Protect PDF ā add or remove a password ⢠Clean PDF ā strip hidden author and app details ⢠Make Searchable ā find the text inside a scan ⢠PDF to Images ā save pages as JPEG, PNG or HEIC ⢠Images to PDF ā turn photos into a document ⢠Batch Process ā apply one tool to a whole stack at once PRIVATE BY CONSTRUCTION PageKit contains no networking code at all. This is not a promise not to upload your documents ā the app has no way to. There are no analytics, no third-party libraries, no tracking, and no identifiers of any kind. Your documents, scans, signatures and passwords stay in the app's own storage on your device. Redaction genuinely removes the text rather than drawing a black rectangle over it. Cleaning strips the author, creator and keywords that a PDF carries without ever showing you. Every tool writes a new document, so your original is left exactly as it was. BUILT FOR iOS ⢠Works offline, always ⢠Share sheet ā send a PDF into PageKit from any app ⢠Home Screen widgets and a Control Centre scan button ⢠Shortcuts and Siri for merging, converting and opening tools ⢠Spotlight ā find your documents from the Home Screen, indexed on device and switchable off ⢠Full VoiceOver and Dynamic Type support ⢠A proper iPad layout, not a stretched phone ⢠English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Simplified Chinese and Spanish FREE AND PRO Most of PageKit is free and unlimited. Splitting, extracting, deleting, reordering, rotating, signing, redacting and cleaning have no cap at all. Merging is free up to 3 PDFs at a time, and converting images is free up to 5 at a time. PageKit Pro removes those limits and unlocks scanning, text recognition, password protection, image export and batch processing. ⢠PageKit Pro Lifetime; paid once ⢠PageKit Pro Monthly Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. A monthly subscription renews automatically unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; manage or cancel it in your Apple Account settings. The lifetime option is a one-time purchase and never renews. Privacy Policy: https://olumayhor99.github.io/pagekit-privacy/ Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: HonestPDF at none against PageKit's 2. PageKit's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 2 months). 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
Both are free to download. PageKit sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. HonestPDF asks for nothing beyond the download.
HonestPDF ships an update every 2 months, PageKit weekly. Both last shipped on October 29, 2026.
| Parameter | HonestPDF | PageKit |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Weekly ā better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No ā better | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.4 | 17.0 ā better |
| Further details ā not scored | ||
| Size | 64 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Oguzhan Eksi | Ademola Mayowa Olatunji |
In-app purchases
HonestPDF
No in-app purchases
PageKit
- PageKit Pro Monthly$3.991 Month
- PageKit Pro Lifetime$9.99









