Ping vs FolikPDF
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Ping
This app ensures you never forget important tasks by repeatedly notifying you until they are marked as complete. It understands natural language for setting reminders and prioritizes privacy with on-device processing.
- Persistent notifications until completion
- Natural language input for reminders
- On-device AI for understanding phrasing
- Customizable re-ping intervals
- Privacy-focused, no account or tracking
- Supports repeating tasks
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Ping is the reminder app for things you actually have to do. Other reminder apps notify you once, you swipe it away, and the task dies in a graveyard of dismissed notifications. Ping doesn't work that way. When something is due, Ping pings you, and keeps pinging on your schedule until you mark it done. There is no dismiss. Only Done. JUST SAY IT Type or dictate a reminder the way you'd say it to a person: "remind me at ten to take my meds", "laundry tomorrow", "trash every monday at 8pm". Ping understands plain language and fills in the what, the when, and the repeat. ON-DEVICE APPLE INTELLIGENCE Ping uses Apple's on-device models to understand messy, human phrasing: spelling mistakes, changes of mind mid-sentence, pasted appointment texts. When something sounds important, like medication, Ping suggests pinging more often. All of it happens on your iPhone. Nothing is ever sent anywhere. RELENTLESS, ON YOUR TERMS You choose how often Ping re-pings (every 5, 15, 30, or 60 minutes) and when it's allowed to give up, or set it to never give up. A live countdown shows the next ping. Repeating tasks roll forward when you complete them. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No server. No analytics. No tracking. Your reminders live in a local database on your device and die there when you delete them. Ping is for medication, deadlines, dishes, laundry, calls you keep postponing, and everything else you've ever swiped away and forgotten. Stop dismissing. Start doing.
FolikPDF
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Folik is a private, capable PDF workspace for iPhone and iPad. It is completely free: no ads, no subscription, no account, and no in-app purchases. READ AND FIND • Open PDFs from Files or other apps • Search with contextual results and next/previous navigation • Use continuous, single-page, or two-page layouts • Browse thumbnails, outlines, and bookmarks SCAN ON DEVICE • Capture multi-page documents with automatic edge detection • Recognize text locally so new scans are searchable • Keep scans inside Folik unless you choose to share them FILL AND SIGN • Complete standard PDF text, checkbox, radio, and choice fields • Track required fields and jump to the next unfinished field • Create handwritten or typed signatures and initials ANNOTATE AND ORGANIZE • Highlight, underline, strike through, draw, add notes, shapes, text, and stamps • Move, resize, recolor, undo, and redo annotations • Reorder, rotate, duplicate, delete, extract, or combine pages in a new copy EXPORT YOUR WAY • Share the original • Create an editable copy • Export a flattened copy for consistent appearance PRIVATE BY DESIGN Folik processes documents, scans, text recognition, and edits on your device. It has no backend, analytics SDK, or advertising SDK. Compatibility note: Folik supports standard AcroForm fields exposed by iOS. XFA-only forms, certificate-backed digital signatures, JavaScript calculations, and vendor-specific PDF behavior may not be supported. EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Folik is open source under the MIT License. https://github.com/x3n-network/FolikPDF
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: FolikPDF at every 4 days against Ping's every 9 days. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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.
Ping ships an update every 9 days, FolikPDF every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Ping | FolikPDF |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 18.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | VG Creative Labs LLC | JOSEPH AARON SPEARS |
In-app purchases
Ping
No in-app purchases
FolikPDF
No in-app purchases









