Modo vs PDF Mind
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Modo
A fast, aesthetic notepad and calendar planner designed for instant thought capture without clutter or ads. Offers a clean interface with customizable notes, a smart camera scanner, and on-device voice recording. Syncs with Google Drive for seamless data backup and migration.
- Instant quick capture and offline speed
- Aesthetic sticky notes with customization
- Dual home views: Feed vs. Quick View Grid
- On-device camera scanner for documents
- Crystal-clear voice memos with on-device cleaning
- Google Drive cloud sync
- Hardware AES-256 vault and biometric lock
- Markdown support and bi-directional WikiLinks
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Tired of bloated note apps with complex menus and ads? Modo is a fast, aesthetic notepad, calendar planner, and widget companion built to capture thoughts with zero delay. No sign-ups, no tracking, zero clutter. Pure, intuitive productivity for daily elegance. === WHY YOU'LL LOVE MODO === 1. Instant Quick Capture & Offline Speed Open and write immediately. Powered by an instant offline-first engine with zero lag, Modo ensures you never lose sudden inspiration. 2. Aesthetic Sticky Notes & Memo Studio - Beautiful sticky card views with versatile typography and customizable card frames. - Versatile formats: Post-it notes, square memo cards, structured lists, and aesthetic styles. - Customize background tones, opacity, borders, and font scale (70%-200%) in Memo Studio. 3. Dual Home Views: Feed vs. Quick View Grid - Standard Feed: Clean masonry feed with greeting headers, search, and pin. - Quick View Grid: 2-column card layout with floating Speed Dial and quick filters. - Batch Actions: Long-press to color, pin, lock, share, or delete multiple notes. 4. Smart Camera Scanner for Books & Receipts (On-Device) - Complete Privacy: Runs locally on-device with zero data sent to external servers. - All-in-One Viewfinder: Capture books, documents, receipts, and book ISBN barcodes. - Smart Formatting: Reconnects broken line wraps into smooth paragraphs. - Scan-to-Note: Formats receipts and expenses into clean Markdown tables. 5. Crystal-Clear Voice Memos & Voice Clean - On-Device Voice Clean: Cuts background rumble & boosts vocals for crisp speech. - Live Equalizer Wings: Dynamic audio wave visualization dancing to your voice. - 2-Row Wide Waveform Player: Dedicated scrubbing controls and separate timing. - Multi-Audio Sync: Attach multiple recordings with lossless cloud streaming. 6. Google Drive Cloud Sync & Media Streaming - Zero Lock-in: Sync directly to your private Google Drive app storage. - Lossless Audio & Image Sync: Complete bidirectional sync for notes & media. - Background Session Recovery: Smooth, automatic session reconnects after restarts. - 1-Tap Device Migration: Seamlessly transfer your entire notebook to a new phone. 7. Hardware AES-256 Vault & Biometric Lock - On-device AES-256 encryption backed by hardware KeyStore / Keychain. - Biometric Security: Lock private notes with Fingerprint, Face ID, or PIN. - 100% Offline: Full security with zero internet connection required. 8. Markdown Power, Caret Popover & WikiLinks - Caret Popover (/): Type "/" to insert headings, checklists, quotes, or timestamps. - Bi-directional WikiLinks ([[ ]]): Interlink notes to build your knowledge web. - Smart Paste: Turns copied links into rich cards and table data into Markdown. 9. Integrated Calendar, Checklist & D-Day Milestones - Unified Calendar: Browse notes and tasks organized neatly by date. - Interactive Checklists: Strike through completed to-dos with a tap. - D-Day Countdowns: Track exams, birthdays, and deadlines with widget badges. 10. Daily Inspiration & Mindful Wellness Cards - Daily Inspiring Quote: Fresh curated wisdom delivered midnight with 1-tap save. - Health & Mind Advice: Practical lifestyle tips to bring calm to your day. 11. 8 Curated Background Tones & True Dark Mode - Paper White, Warm Kraft, Calming Sage, Deep Indigo, E-Ink Monochrome, etc. - Eye-friendly True Dark Mode crafted for comfortable night reading. === IDEAL FOR === - Thinkers & writers wanting a clean, distraction-free markdown scratchpad. - Professionals organizing meetings, daily agendas, and receipts. - Students needing voice memos, camera scanning, and exam countdowns. - Aesthetic enthusiasts who appreciate clean, beautifully styled minimalist apps. - Privacy-conscious users valuing 100% offline data ownership. Download Modo today and experience the purest, fastest way to organize your world!
PDF Mind
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Sign it, mark it up, and change the words that are already on the page. PDF Mind is a document editor first and a toolbox second. Draw or type a signature and place it exactly where it belongs. Highlight, underline, strike through, draw freehand, add shapes, drop in a text box. Then do the thing most PDF apps on this store cannot: select a line of text that was already printed in the document and rewrite it, in place, the way you would in a word processor. MOST OF IT NEVER LEAVES YOUR PHONE Twenty-four of the thirty-five tools run entirely on your device. Merging, splitting, compressing, signing, watermarking, password-locking, scanning, converting from Excel, PowerPoint, Pages, Numbers, Keynote, HTML and e-mail — all of it happens locally, in the same engines iOS already uses. Your contract, your medical record and your tax return are not uploaded so that a page can be rotated. Where a tool genuinely needs a server, the app says so before you start, on the tool itself, rather than after you have handed over the file. ASK A QUESTION ABOUT THE DOCUMENT Ask AI reads the PDF and answers in plain language: what does this clause commit me to, what is the total on this invoice, summarize these forty pages. It cites where in the document the answer came from, so you can check it. THE EDITOR - Signatures: draw, type, or reuse a saved one; resize and place anywhere - Text: select existing text by dragging and replace it, or add new text boxes - Markup: highlight, underline, strikeout, freehand ink, shapes, eraser - Every change is one undo step, including a twelve-frame drag THE TOOLS Organize: merge, split, remove pages, reorder and rotate pages Secure: password-protect, remove a password, watermark, flatten, ZIP Convert to PDF: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Pages, Numbers, Keynote, HTML, a web page, an e-mail, photos Convert from PDF: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, images, plain text, Markdown, EPUB, RTF, HTML, CSV, grayscale, PDF/A, PDF/X Scan: use the camera to capture pages, with OCR to make them searchable Compress: make a file small enough to e-mail, and see the size before you commit WORKS WITH THE REST OF THE PHONE Open a PDF from Files, Mail, Safari or any app through the share sheet. Save back to Files or iCloud Drive. Nothing is locked inside the app. PRO A subscription unlocks the server-backed tools and removes limits. Price, billing period and renewal terms are shown in full before you buy, and you can restore a purchase at any time without unlocking a tool first. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the period ends; manage or cancel in your Apple Account settings. Terms: https://pdfmind.app/terms Privacy: https://pdfmind.app/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: PDF Mind at none against Modo's shown. On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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. Modo sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and PDF Mind sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | Modo | PDF Mind |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days | — |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 89 MB | 34 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | EUNGJIN KIM | D-bug Station Limited |
In-app purchases
Modo
- Modo Pro Lifetime$3.99
PDF Mind
- One Month Premium$7.991 Month
- One Year Premium7 Days trial$59.991 Year









