Comparison

PDF Editor vs Daopen

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

Head to head
About

PDF Editor

This app allows you to read, edit, and convert PDF files, as well as view other document formats like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. It consolidates everyday document tasks into a single application for work, school, or personal use.

Highlights
  • Edit PDF files
  • Read PDF documents
  • Convert files to PDF
  • View Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and text files
  • All-in-one document management
Features
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Read, edit and convert PDFs, and view Word, Excel, PowerPoint and text documents in one app. PDF Editor: Reader & Converter brings your everyday document tasks together. Review a report, read study materials, edit a PDF or convert a supported file without switching between separate reader and converter apps. EDIT PDF FILES Work on your PDFs with the built-in editor and save your changes. Keep reading and editing together while you review documents for work, school or personal use. READ PDF DOCUMENTS Open PDFs to read reports, notes, manuals and other documents. Browse your files and review the information you need. CONVERT YOUR FILES Use the built-in PDF converter to convert supported files. Prepare documents for your next task while keeping reading, editing and conversion in one place. VIEW MULTIPLE DOCUMENT FORMATS Open Word documents, view Excel spreadsheets, browse PowerPoint presentations and read text files alongside your PDFs. Supported viewing formats include: PDF, DOC, DOCX, XLS, XLSX, PPT, PPTX and TXT. EVERYDAY DOCUMENT TOOLS Bring PDF editing, file conversion and multi-format document viewing into one app. Work with your study materials, business documents and personal files from the same place. Download PDF Editor: Reader & Converter and get started with your documents. PREMIUM SUBSCRIPTION Premium Weekly is a paid auto-renewing subscription with a one-week billing period. The current price is shown in the app before purchase and varies by region. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation. The subscription renews automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the current period ends. Manage or cancel your subscription in your Apple Account settings. Use Restore Purchases to recover an existing subscription. Privacy Policy: https://ihatepdf-app.web.app/privacy Terms of Use: https://ihatepdf-app.web.app/terms Support: https://ihatepdf-app.web.app/support

About

Daopen

Features
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Daopen opens the documents other readers give up on - and converts them to PDF. HWP to PDF, ODT to PDF, Pages to PDF, right on your iPhone. No upload, no account, no subscription. READ ALOUD (NEW) - Daopen reads your document aloud from the page you are on - PDF, HWP, Word, PowerPoint, ODT, Pages and more - 10 natural, high-quality AI voices, generated on your phone (one-time ~380 MB download; your text is never sent anywhere) - Speed 0.75x to 1.5x, previous/next sentence, and a sleep timer (15 minutes to 12 hours) - AI voice languages: Korean, English, Japanese, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Russian, Indonesian, Vietnamese and Turkish. Other languages use your phone's voice - Included in the one-time Remove Ads purchase. Reads while Daopen is open on screen FORMATS OTHER READERS REFUSE - OpenDocument - ODT, ODS and ODP from LibreOffice and OpenOffice. Tables, images and bullet lists stay intact. - Apple - Pages and Keynote with their full text (and Pages to PDF), Numbers tables with values, dates and merged cells. - Hangul - HWP and HWPX, the Korean office format, including old HWP 3.x files from before Hangul 97. - Old Office files - Word .doc, Excel .xls and .xlsb, PowerPoint .ppt, and RTF. EDIT AND ANNOTATE - Long-press a paragraph in an HWP file, a cell in an Excel (.xlsx) or OpenDocument (.ods) sheet, or a text box in PowerPoint (.pptx) to edit it - Word (.docx) and OpenDocument text and slides (.odt, .odp): tap the pencil, then tap a paragraph to edit it - PDF: add pen, highlighter, text boxes and your signature on top of the page (the PDF's original text is not edited) - Your original file stays untouched - the edit is saved as a separate "_edited" copy - Documents with complex formatting may look slightly different after editing SIGNED FILES, E-INVOICES AND EMAILS - .p7m signed files and Italian e-invoices (fattura elettronica, FatturaPA) - opened and summarised - .asice, .bdoc, .edoc, .ddoc signature containers - see the documents inside - .xsig and .xades signatures, Spanish FacturaE invoices - .zfo data box messages (Czech datová schránka) with their attachments - .eml emails and Outlook .msg files - body and attachments - Chinese OFD documents - text view AND EVERYTHING ORDINARY - PDF - Word (.docx) - Excel (.xlsx) - number and date formats, frozen headers, pinch to zoom - PowerPoint (.pptx) - Plain text (.txt) IT LOOKS INSIDE THE FILE, NOT AT THE NAME A file with the wrong extension still opens correctly. And when a format really cannot be opened, Daopen says so plainly and hands the file to another app, instead of showing you an error you cannot act on. NO ADS WHILE YOU READ Other readers put a banner across the page you are trying to read. Daopen does not. The document screen is the document, edge to edge. No ad when you close a file, and no video ads. The free version shows a small banner on the file list, and a short full-screen ad when you open a document - at most every third file, never twice within a minute. A one-time purchase removes all ads for good and unlocks read aloud. No subscription. EVERYTHING HAPPENS ON YOUR DEVICE Your files are never uploaded to a server. Daopen has no login, no cloud account and no sync. Open the app in airplane mode and it still works. CONVERT TO PDF WITHOUT UPLOADING - HWP to PDF, ODT to PDF, Pages to PDF, Word to PDF - any document to PDF - Document pages to images, saved straight to Photos - Text, Markdown or CSV out of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Hangul files - Photos into a single PDF - useful for receipts and paperwork The conversion runs on your iPhone. Nothing is sent anywhere. ONLY THE FILES YOU CHOOSE Daopen opens only the files you pick in the Files app or share to it from another app. No contacts, no location, no analytics profile. Made by Mung Works.

Screenshots

PDF Editor4 screens
Daopen4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Daopen at every 6 days against PDF Editor's every 2 weeks. Daopen also leads on iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.0). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. PDF Editor sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $4.99 per 7 days and Daopen sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

PDF Editor ships an update every 2 weeks, Daopen every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
PDF Editor versus Daopen: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPDF EditorDaopen
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 6 days — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.016.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size32 MB90 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperNikunj AnaghanMeongmungi

In-app purchases

1 purchases

PDF Editor

Subscriptions1
  • Premium Weekly$4.997 Days
1 purchases

Daopen

One-time1
  • Remove Ads Forever$5.99

Questions

Is PDF Editor free?
PDF Editor is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Daopen free?
Daopen is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do PDF Editor or Daopen have ads?
Both PDF Editor and Daopen show ads.
Which is updated more often, PDF Editor or Daopen?
PDF Editor ships an update every 2 weeks, and Daopen every 6 days. Most recently, PDF Editor was updated on October 31, 2026 and Daopen on November 10, 2026.

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