DocSetu vs Paradoc
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
DocSetu
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Your Documents. Your Device. Your Privacy. DocSetu is a privacy-first offline PDF toolkit for iPhone and iPad. Create, convert, scan, secure, and organize documents entirely on your device — with no login and no cloud upload to DocSetu servers. WHY DOCSETU? Most PDF apps send your files to the cloud. DocSetu does not. Scans, conversions, merges, splits, compression, and password tools run locally so your documents stay on your phone or tablet. CREATE • Image to PDF — turn photos into a PDF • Notes to PDF — write or paste notes and export • Multiple Files — combine images and files into one PDF CONVERT • PDF to Image — export pages as images • Text to PDF — paste text into a PDF • Word to PDF — convert DOCX locally • Excel to PDF — convert XLSX locally SECURE • Add Password — lock a PDF • Remove Password — unlock a PDF you own • Watermark — stamp text on pages SCAN • Government ID — Aadhaar, PAN & more • A4 Document — letters, forms & exam pages • Receipt / Bill — slips, invoices & bills • Book & Notes — books & handwritten pages ORGANIZE • Merge PDF • Split PDF • Rotate Pages • Compress PDF FILES HUB Browse recent work by type, reopen files from a 7-day on-device cache, share or save copies, Export all as ZIP, or Clear all storage anytime. PRIVACY BY DESIGN • No account or sign-up • No document upload to DocSetu servers • PDF passwords never stored or uploaded • Camera & photos requested only when a tool needs them • Core PDF tools work offline (ads may need internet) FREE APP DocSetu is free and supported by Google Mobile Ads. Made in India · Ahmedabad Privacy policy: https://sanand-maa-vihat-s3.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/docsetu/privacy-policy.html Support: vihatraminfotech@gmail.com
Paradoc
This app transforms photos of documents into high-quality PDFs, offering a suite of tools for editing, organizing, and securing your files. It handles complex PDF types, including encrypted and form-filled documents, all processed locally on your device without needing an internet connection.
- On-device AI-powered scanning
- Merge, split, compress PDFs
- Convert PDFs to images
- Encrypt and unlock PDFs
- Handle encrypted and restricted PDFs
- Fillable form support
- Organize and reorder pages
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Paradoc turns a photo of paper into a clean PDF, then does everything else a PDF needs: merge, split, compress, organize, convert, lock, unlock. All of it on your iPhone. No account. No subscription. No ads. Nothing is uploaded. Put your iPhone in airplane mode and every feature still works. A SCANNER THAT UNDERSTANDS PAPER Point the camera at a page. Paradoc finds the edges, squares up the perspective and runs an on-device neural network that lifts shadows and uneven lighting out of the photo, so a page shot on a desk under a lamp comes out looking like it went through a flatbed. It was built and tested on the things people actually scan, not just clean white sheets: receipts, ID cards, book pages, whiteboards, coloured paper. BUILT FOR THE PDFs THAT USUALLY BREAK THINGS Plenty of apps handle the easy files. Paradoc was engineered for the rest: • Encrypted PDFs. Opens password-protected files, including legacy RC4 and AES-128 ones, and keeps them encrypted through Split, Organize and Compress, upgraded to AES-256 on output. • Owner-restricted PDFs. Files locked against printing or copying are detected and handled, no password required. • Digitally signed PDFs. Paradoc checks for signatures before touching a file and warns you when an edit would invalidate one. Certified documents are left untouched. • PDF/A archives. The conformance claim is detected and flagged before you change the file. • Fillable forms. Merge two forms with the same field names and the result still works: clashing fields are renamed, radio groups and nested fields survive, and filled-in values are preserved through Compress. • Rotated pages, PDF 1.4 through 2.0, linearized files, object streams, files up to 100 MB. • Compress keeps what matters: annotations, form values, bookmarks, tagged structure, page labels, named destinations, attachments, CMYK and ICC colour, and the title and author metadata. • Damaged or truncated files get a clear error, never a crash. SEVEN TOOLS SCAN: Camera or photo library, up to 20 pages per document, saved as Auto, Grayscale or Original. MERGE: Up to 20 files in the order you choose, with per-file passwords for encrypted inputs. SPLIT: Pull a page range out into its own file. Encryption is preserved. COMPRESS: Three presets (Light, Balanced, Maximum). Image re-encoding, font subsetting and object-stream repacking, the same techniques desktop tools use. Document metadata is kept. ORGANIZE: Reorder, delete and rotate pages from a thumbnail grid. Rotation composes correctly with pages that were already rotated. PDF TO IMAGE: Export pages as JPEG at up to 600 DPI with selectable quality, up to 20 pages per export. PROTECT / UNLOCK: Lock a PDF with AES-256, the strongest encryption the PDF standard defines. Unlock removes a password you know or clears owner-only restrictions. The scanner runs on neural networks that ship inside the app and never leave it. The six PDF tools run on Paradoc's own extended build of the open-source PDFium engine, rewriting files at the byte level rather than re-rendering them, so text stays text and vectors stay vectors. PRIVATE BY ARCHITECTURE Paradoc makes no network requests. There is no server, so there is nothing to breach and nothing to retain. Your tax return, your contract, your passport scan: none of it needs to visit someone else's computer to be merged, shrunk or locked. The work happens where the file already is. Available in English, Hindi, Spanish, Chinese, Arabic, Portuguese, Russian and Hebrew, with full right-to-left layout.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Paradoc at none against DocSetu's shown. DocSetu's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, update cadence and in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | DocSetu | Paradoc |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days | Every 2 days |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 53 MB | 108 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kushal Bhavsar | Vaibhav Teli |
In-app purchases
DocSetu
No in-app purchases
Paradoc
No in-app purchases





