Comparison

PDF Cabinet vs Green Thumbometer

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

Head to head
About

PDF Cabinet

This application offers a streamlined PDF experience for reading and annotating documents. It focuses on essential features with an intuitive interface, making it easy to mark up PDFs, share annotations, and collaborate in real-time with others. Optimized for performance, it handles large documents efficiently.

Highlights
  • Effortless PDF annotation
  • Intuitive user interface
  • Fast document review with thumbnails
  • Annotations sharing
  • Real-time collaboration
  • Quick note taking
Features
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THINGS WE ARE PROUD OF - Really effortless PDF annotation - Only the most essential functionality - don't lose yourself in hundreds of buttons - Intuitive user interface that allows you to do exactly what you want - Fast and easy document skimming and review with thumbnails sidebar - Ultimate performance – optimized for really large documents (within reason, of course) - Annotations sharing - send annotated documents to anyone, and mark up will show up in any other reader - Interaction with other Cabinet users - send annotations only to your friends or colleagues using Cabinet – much faster, less traffic - Real-time collaboration with your friends or colleagues – annotate the same document together from several iPads EVEN MORE GREAT THINGS IN CABINET - Amazing and intuitive dynamic annotation menu - Empty notebooks for quick note taking or doodling - Pen and Paper Games for relaxing during non-working hours - Sending multiple documents attached in a single e-mail - Easy work with various document formats - such as .doc, .xls, .ppt and others Did we tell you already that Cabinet is really easy to use? Try it out yourself!

About

Green Thumbometer

This app helps gardeners plan and track their tasks with customizable monthly checklists, a gardening journal, and a shopping list. It provides seasonal task guidance based on hemisphere and includes a map to find local gardening stores.

Highlights
  • Customizable monthly gardening checklists
  • Gardening journal with notes and photos
  • In-app shopping list
  • Gardening store locator map
  • Seasonal task customization by hemisphere
  • Task sharing and integration with other apps
Features
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Green Thumbometer The Gardening App Not sure what to do when to keep your yard and garden beautiful? Enter Green Thumbometer, the combination gardening to-do list, calendar, journal and information source that helps you know what to do when to achieve green thumb status. With a few swipes of your thumb, Green Thumbometer gives you simple monthly gardening checklists that you can customize to meet your own garden’s needs. This app is for gardeners who: Want a beautiful yard and fruitful garden but aren’t sure what to do and when to do it to make that happen. Green Thumbometer takes out a ton of the guesswork. Want to combine a gardening calendar and to-do list with an on-going record of their gardening complete with notes, photos and handy links to YouTube videos and other gardening information. Don’t want to waste time figuring out what they need to do on Saturday morning to maintain their yard and garden. They just want a handy list they can plow through before going on with the weekend. Want to keep all of the information about their garden handy in their smartphones so they can consult it while they’re out working in the yard. Green Thumbometer has these features: MONTHLY LISTS OF EASY GARDENING TASKS Each month has a standard checklist of easy seasonal gardening tasks as well as tasks needed to grow specific vegetables and fruits. You can customize the tasks by adding, deleting and editing them. Add handy notes, links and photos for your future reference. For tasks specific to particular plants, you can add one of our custom icons so it’s simple to spot that task in your checklists. Your checklists are a gardening journal that you can continue to use and customize from year to year. They are a rich customizable source of gardening information about growing the plants you love. SHARE TASKS WITH OTHERS, SET REMINDERS, ADD TO OTHER PRODUCTIVITY APPS You can share your tasks with other people via email, text messages and social media. You can add tasks to your Reminders and to other productivity apps. SHOPPING LIST You can add plants, gardening tools and supplies that you need to buy to an in-app shopping list. FIND A GARDENING STORE NEAR YOU ON A MAP Green Thumbometer’s map is customized to show the locations of gardening stores near you so you can pick up the items you need. CUSTOMIZED FOR SEASONAL TASKS Most gardening tasks are seasonal. Green Thumbometer allows you to designate in the settings whether you live in the northern or southern hemisphere so that seasonal tasks will appear during the appropriate months for your location. STATS Green Thumbometer’s Stats section helps you track over a year’s time how you are doing in maintaining your yard and garden. It’s your own Green Thumbometer. Green Thumbometer was invented by busy amateur gardeners who get it that you want to keep your yard and garden in good shape, not spend your time frustrated because you don’t want to do next. We’ve tried to get gardening down to the simplest level possible so you can enjoy it and your yard. We’re committed to providing you with a reliable app that you can use on an on-going basis and can depend on to be updated as needed to meet your needs.

Screenshots

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Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: PDF Cabinet at 66% against Green Thumbometer's 0%. PDF Cabinet also leads on price (Free vs $2.99) and rating (3.8 vs 2.0). On 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

PDF Cabinet is free to download; Green Thumbometer costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

PDF Cabinet holds the better App Store score, 3.8 against 2.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: PDF Cabinet has 56 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 66% of PDF Cabinet's written reviews are positive against 0% of Green Thumbometer's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

PDF Cabinet ships an update every 5 weeks, Green Thumbometer every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and September 27, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
PDF Cabinet versus Green Thumbometer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPDF CabinetGreen Thumbometer
PriceFree — better$2.99
Rating3.8 (56 ratings) — better2.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews66.1% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings56 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeks — betterEvery 3 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.6
Further details — not scored
Size75 MB11 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBright Nine SIAForrest Anderson

Customer experience

PDF Cabinet

All ratings55 ratings
Positive67.3%
Neutral10.9%
Negative21.8%
Written reviews127 reviews
Positive66.1%
Neutral14.2%
Negative19.7%

Green Thumbometer

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Bugs and requests

PDF Cabinet

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • Randomly deleting files
  • Sync issues causing loss of annotations
  • Crashing when opening large documents
  • Navigation problems when zoomed in
  • Annotations not exporting properly

Requested features

7 requests
  • Add more highlighter and pen color options
  • Implement palm rejection for Apple Pencil
  • Add ability to resize and move annotation tools
  • Improve cloud/sync functionality (iCloud, Dropbox, etc.)
  • Implement vertical scrolling for continuous reading
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  • Add text box annotation feature
  • Improve export/sharing options for annotated documents

Green Thumbometer

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

PDF Cabinet

No in-app purchases

None

Green Thumbometer

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is PDF Cabinet free?
PDF Cabinet is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Green Thumbometer free?
Green Thumbometer costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, PDF Cabinet or Green Thumbometer?
PDF Cabinet is rated higher. PDF Cabinet averages 3.8 out of 5 from 56 ratings, while Green Thumbometer averages 2.0 from 1 ratings.
Do PDF Cabinet or Green Thumbometer have ads?
Neither PDF Cabinet nor Green Thumbometer shows ads.
Which is updated more often, PDF Cabinet or Green Thumbometer?
PDF Cabinet ships an update every 5 weeks, and Green Thumbometer every 3 months. Most recently, PDF Cabinet was updated on October 22, 2026 and Green Thumbometer on September 27, 2026.

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