Comparison

DocSetu vs Paradoc

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

Head to head
About

DocSetu

Features
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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

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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Scan paper into a clean PDF, then merge, split, compress, reorder, lock or unlock it. Seven tools, free, all running on your iPhone. Nothing is uploaded, ever. No account, no subscription, no ads. Your documents stay exactly where they already are. EVERYDAY JOBS Shrink a PDF until it fits an email limit. Lock a tax return before you share it. Pull the one page you need out of a long contract. Turn a school form on the kitchen table into a PDF you can send in a minute. Combine a stack of statements into a single file. SCAN Point the camera at a page, or pick photos from your library. Paradoc finds the edges, squares up the perspective and cleans up the page. An on-device neural model lifts shadows and uneven lighting, so a page shot under a desk lamp comes out clean and legible. Up to 20 pages per document. MERGE Combine up to 20 PDFs in the order you choose. Password-protected files are handled one by one, each with its own password. SPLIT Pull a page range out into its own PDF. If the source was encrypted, the result stays encrypted. COMPRESS Three presets: Light, Balanced and Maximum. Paradoc re-encodes images, subsets fonts and repacks object streams, the same techniques desktop tools use. Text stays text. Bookmarks, form values, annotations and document metadata stay intact. ORGANIZE Reorder, delete and rotate pages from a thumbnail grid. PDF TO IMAGE Export pages as JPEG images, from 75 to 600 DPI, up to 20 pages per export. PROTECT AND 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 on printing and copying. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Paradoc makes no network requests. None. There is no server, no sign-in, nothing quietly phoning home. Switch on airplane mode and every feature keeps working, on a plane, in a basement, anywhere. Your contract, your tax return, your medical letter: none of it needs to visit someone else's computer to be scanned, merged, shrunk or locked. The work happens where the file already is. BUILT FOR THE PDFs THAT USUALLY BREAK THINGS Password-protected files, including older RC4 and AES-128 ones, open and stay encrypted through Split, Organize and Compress. Files locked against printing or copying are detected and explained before you continue. Digitally signed PDFs are checked before anything is touched, and you are warned when an edit would invalidate a signature; certified documents are left alone. PDF/A archives are flagged before you change them. Merge two forms with the same field names and the result still works. Files up to 100 MB. A PDF comes out the way it went in. Text that was selectable stays selectable, and pages stay as sharp as they were at any zoom, because Paradoc works on the file itself instead of turning pages into pictures. Available in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Hindi, Chinese, Russian, Arabic and Hebrew, with full right-to-left layout.

Screenshots

DocSetu4 screens
Paradoc4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Paradoc at none against DocSetu's shown. DocSetu's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs weekly) and device support (3 vs 1). On price 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

DocSetu ships an update every 2 days, Paradoc weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 5 level
DocSetu versus Paradoc: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDocSetuParadoc
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—2 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 days — betterWeekly
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size53 MB109 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKushal BhavsarVaibhav Teli

In-app purchases

None

DocSetu

No in-app purchases

None

Paradoc

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is DocSetu free?
DocSetu is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Paradoc free?
Paradoc is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do DocSetu or Paradoc have ads?
DocSetu shows ads; Paradoc does not.
Which is updated more often, DocSetu or Paradoc?
DocSetu ships an update every 2 days, and Paradoc weekly. Most recently, DocSetu was updated on October 31, 2026 and Paradoc on November 6, 2026.

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