Comparison

PDFMaker Lite vs Genius Search

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

Head to head
About

PDFMaker Lite

Easily convert webpages into PDF files for sharing. Browse, delete, and print your PDFs, or share them via email and cloud services. It even monitors your clipboard for URLs to simplify conversion.

Highlights
  • Convert webpage to PDF
  • Browse, delete, and print PDFs
  • Share PDFs via email and cloud storage
  • Clipboard monitoring for URL detection
  • iTunes file sharing
  • Supports iPhone/iPad modes
Features
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PDFMaker is a app which can convert webpage into PDF file easily. When you want to share a webpage to your friend, may your friends can't open you the webpage (for example, the internal network, firewall,network, and so on), this time you can use PDFMaker to convert webpage to PDF file,and send it by email or the other application A list of functions 1, Convert webpage to PDF file 2, PDF browse, delete and printing 3, share or send to other app, such as mail, iBooks, Dropbox, SkyDrive, GoogleDriver etc.. 4, Monitoring the clipboard ,When it found a URL, It would automatically mention you.In order to convert webpage to PDF file by a easy way. 5, iTunes file sharing to PC 6, supported iPhone/iPad vertical Mode and horizontal Mode. 7, Share file with internal web server. By downloading or using this app, you agree to Apple's standard Terms of Use. https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Genius Search

This app helps users search through large text files and document libraries using sophisticated regular expression tools. It allows you to import your library via iTunes and explore text content with advanced search grammar.

Highlights
  • Advanced text searching
  • Regular expression support
  • Import library via iTunes
  • Supports .txt files
  • Custom search grammar
Features
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Genius was built to help those who need to search in immense txt files, and who need some sophisticated tool to search among many books or documents. As you may know or you need to know, regular expression is horribly helpful for text searching, and that's exactly the main character of Genius search. You can copy your library into Genius via iTunes, and explore the ocean of text freely. Currently only .txt files of any encoding and 4-level directory specifying are supported, more are coming. Special search grammar: searching ///abc/def/.{0,10}/// will get the results for searching .{0,10}abcdef and abc.{0,10}def and abcdef.{0,10} and .{0,10}defabc and def.{0,10}abc and defabc.{0,10}. et cetera.

Screenshots

PDFMaker Lite4 screens
Genius Search4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: PDFMaker Lite at Free against Genius Search's $9.99. Genius Search's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 56%) and rating (5.0 vs 2.0). On ratings volume, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

PDFMaker Lite is free to download; Genius Search costs $9.99 up front. PDFMaker Lite sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $0.99 per month. Genius Search asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Genius Search holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 56% of PDFMaker Lite's written reviews are positive against 100% of Genius Search's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

PDFMaker Lite ships an update every 6 months, Genius Search every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
PDFMaker Lite versus Genius Search: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPDFMaker LiteGenius Search
PriceFree — better$9.99
Rating2.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews56.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 6 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.012.0
Further details — not scored
Size16 MB16 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperEJing志明 丁

Customer experience

PDFMaker Lite

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%
Written reviews25 reviews
Positive56.0%
Neutral4.0%
Negative40.0%

Genius Search

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

PDFMaker Lite

Subscriptions1
  • Remove Ads$0.991 Month
None

Genius Search

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is PDFMaker Lite free?
PDFMaker Lite is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Genius Search free?
Genius Search costs $9.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, PDFMaker Lite or Genius Search?
Genius Search is rated higher. PDFMaker Lite averages 2.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Genius Search averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do PDFMaker Lite or Genius Search have ads?
PDFMaker Lite shows ads; Genius Search does not.
Which is updated more often, PDFMaker Lite or Genius Search?
PDFMaker Lite ships an update every 6 months, and Genius Search every 2 months. Most recently, PDFMaker Lite was updated on October 12, 2026 and Genius Search on October 5, 2026.

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