Comparison

PDF Reader & Editor | Xodo vs PDF Reader Pro

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

Head to head
About

PDF Reader & Editor | Xodo

Edit, sign, convert, and organize PDF documents with a comprehensive suite of tools. Scan images to PDF, compress files, and integrate with cloud storage for seamless access across devices. Offers advanced annotation and drawing capabilities.

Highlights
  • Edit PDFs
  • Scan to PDF
  • Fill & Sign Forms
  • Convert Files to PDF
  • Annotate & Draw
  • Cloud Integration
  • Compress PDFs
Features
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Transform your PDFs. Get your work done quickly with Xodo's all-in-one PDF editor and reader with 30+ features - all available on your iPhone or iPad. Safely store and sync your files on your iCloud, OneDrive, Google Drive and Dropbox so you can easily view, edit, convert, e-sign and compress your files anytime, anywhere on your device. Edit PDFs: Intuitive, easy-to-use PDF editor for any user in mind. • Compress PDF: Quickly reduce PDF file size for ease of sharing • Flatten PDF: All annotations in PDF like fillable forms will be locked and merged into a single layer for protection • Rotate & crop PDF: Add, remove, rearrange, rotate, crop PDF pages with ease • Split & extract PDF: Instantly split PDF or extract pages to a new PDF file • Create new PDF: Create PDFs from scratch or use one of our ready-made templates and edit file Scan PDFs: Seamlessly scan images and save as PDFs. • PDF scanner: Scan image with your camera or open an existing image or file and save as a new PDF • Edit scanned PDF: Edit, annotate, send your documents to iCloud, share via AirDrop, or any available app on your device Fill & Sign PDF Forms: Fill out, sign, and share your PDF forms. • Create your e-signature: E-sign your documents by hand or type in your signature, and save to reuse for later • Stylus-friendly: Supports Apple Pencil Convert PDFs: Convert files to PDF in seconds. • PDF converter: Convert any MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) to PDF, iWork (Pages, Numbers, Keynote) to PDF • Additional file formats: Convert JPG to PDF, PNG to PDF, PDF to JPG, PDF to PNG View & print PDFs: Quick and convenient PDF reader for e-books, reports, digital planner. • Viewing mode: View in light, dark, and sepia color modes for comfort reading • Bookmark feature: Tag your favorite PDF pages • Multiple tabs: Use tabs to work across multiple PDF documents • Print PDFs directly from your device • Fully searchable text: Search text within PDF to save time Annotate & Draw PDFs: Utilize Xodo's annotation tools configured to you. • Fully-featured mark-up tools: Add images, links, stamp or highlight text directly on PDF documents • Arrange pages: Thumbnail browser for deleting pages, extracting, and inserting pages • Scrolling mode: See all annotations at a glance with the touch of your finger Store & Manage Files Securely: Integrate with popular cloud apps and safely store your important files so you can pick up where you left off. • Built-in file manager: Rename, copy, move, or delete docs and folders locally • Cloud integration: Sync your files directly on iCloud, OneDrive, Google Drive and Dropbox to view in multiple devices • Protected features: Protect your PDF files with password encryption and unlock your protected PDF with PDF password remover tool Upgrade to Xodo Mobile Subscription: Get unlimited access to all 30+ tools with custom toolbar for quick access. • Free trial available in supported regions • Convert PDF to MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) • Remove sensitive content with PDF Redaction tool • High compression file size • Easily merge multiple documents to a single PDF • Create fillable PDF forms to fill out and sign while you're on the go • Support Smart pen to streamline and enhance note taking experience • Annotate in Reader mode - When viewing a PDF in reader mode, you can highlight, underline and strikeout text. • View and manage files with nesting layers - PDFs that include multi-level layers can be viewed individually • Scanned images can save as PDFs with searchable text (OCR) option • Flexible monthly and annual subscription options • Cancel anytime For Support and Feedback: support@xodo.com Visit Homepage: xodo.com Xodo is powered by Apryse | https://apryse.com

About

PDF Reader Pro

This app offers comprehensive tools for managing PDF documents on mobile devices. It allows users to read, edit text and images, annotate, fill forms, convert to various formats, compress files, and perform OCR. Organize, protect, and share your PDFs with ease.

Highlights
  • Read PDFs with multiple viewing options
  • Edit PDF text and images
  • Annotate with highlights, notes, and drawings
  • Fill out PDF forms
  • Convert PDFs to Word, Excel, and other formats
  • Perform OCR on PDFs
  • Compress PDF file sizes
Features
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PDF Reader Pro helps much for anyone who reads, edit, highlights, OCR, signs, converts, creates, protects, compresses and fills out PDFs on their iPhone and iPad. It also makes it easy to organize, annotate and edit your PDFs. Import files from your computer or the cloud, then complete forms, add freehand drawings and audio notes and more. PDF Reader Pro offers even more - merge and combine multiple documents, split your PDFs, insert pages from another PDF, insert photos or hyperlinks to your PDFs, Convert PDF to Word and other Microsoft Office® formats. With support for reading files from popular productivity suites, it’s a convenient way to take the office anywhere you go. PDF Reader Pro Edition for Professional is your last choice of PDF application. READ ・ View PDFs with various themes like night mode to comfort your eyes. ・ Choose vertically/horizontally scroll pages or single pages/two pages/book mode. ・ Support crop mode, tabbed PDF reading, continuous page view, auto scroll and more. ・ Use text-to-speech feature to read selected text with no time limits. ・ Easy content navigation with bookmarks/outlines. ・ Fast files Printing to directly print PDFs from your device. ・ DRM, supports Vitrium* protected PDF files. ANNOTATE ・ Annotate PDFs with highlight, underline, strikethrough, note, freehand, text box, anchored note, rectangle, circle, line etc. ・ Create multiple signatures with trackpad, keyboard or images. ・ Insert pre-designed stamps such as Approved, Confidential and more. ・ Support to link any part of the text to a different page, email or website. ・ Share your annotated PDFs with others via PDF documents/Flattened copy/ Summary/ Original PDF. EDIT PDF ・Edit PDF text. Easily fix typos or other inaccurate content. Fast change the font color, size and style. ・Modify PDF images such as cropping, rotating, deleting, replacing, etc. Easily resize or move images for a better layout. ・Add and edit watermarks to keep your PDFs safe and professional. Watermark tiling is supported. ・Extract images from PDFs. ・Create a Flattened copy to flatten PDF to make the contents static. PAGE EDITOR ・ Merge & Split PDFs available, split documents into multiple documents or combine multiple pages into a new one. ・ Extract the desired pages to create a new PDF. ・ Insert blank pages / another PDF to import specified content. ・ Rotate, rearrange, add, and delete PDF pages. Fill FORMS ・ Work with static PDF forms created in Adobe Acrobat. ・ Fill out any PDF forms with interactive fields such as text fields, checkboxes, radio buttons, combo boxes, list boxes, etc. CONVERT PDF · Export from PDF to Microsoft Word (.docx), PowerPoint (.pptx), Excel (.xlsx), RTF, Text, Image, HTML, CSV, and more Offline. ・ Convert MS Office documents, iWorks, web content, and images to PDFs. ・ Create a new PDF as a blank PDF / from your clipboard content. COMPRESS PDFs ・ Compress large PDFs to reduce file size. PDF size-reduction for easily sharing. OCR · OCR pdfs to convert scanned PDF files or pictures into editable and searchable PDFs or TXT files. 50+ languages supported! PROTECT CONTENT WITH PASSWORD AND ENCRYPTION ・ Passcode to prevent unauthorized use of PDF Reader Pro. ・ Encrypt to protect your PDF files from unauthorized reading with a password. SCANNER ・Make continuous scans and automatically detect edges of scanned objects. Text-to-Speech ・ Support a total of 36 voices for 26 languages. WORK IN THE CLOUD ・ Store and secure files on iCloud Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, Google Drive, Evernote, Box, FTP, WebDav, etc. Backup Files between iOS Devices, Mac and PC ・ Connect your iPhone/iPad with a desktop for transferring files using USB or WiFi connection. Support Various File Types ・ MS Office, iWork, image files ・ Compressed files (zip, rar) ・ audio and video files ・ Other file formats Have any feedback? Please contact us directly at support@pdfreaderpro.com Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

PDF Reader & Editor | Xodo4 screens
PDF Reader Pro4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: PDF Reader & Editor | Xodo at none against PDF Reader Pro's shown. PDF Reader & Editor | Xodo also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 2 months) and ratings volume (1.7K vs 437). PDF Reader Pro's advantage is review sentiment (64% vs 56%) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.0). On price, rating, in-app purchases and monetization model 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 Reader & Editor | Xodo sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $11.99 per month and PDF Reader Pro sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $39.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.4 for PDF Reader & Editor | Xodo against 4.4 for PDF Reader Pro. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1.7K and 437 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 56% of PDF Reader & Editor | Xodo's written reviews are positive against 64% of PDF Reader Pro's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

PDF Reader & Editor | Xodo ships an update every 2 weeks, PDF Reader Pro every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
PDF Reader & Editor | Xodo versus PDF Reader Pro: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPDF Reader & Editor | XodoPDF Reader Pro
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (1.7K ratings)4.4 (437 ratings)
Positive reviews55.5% of reviews63.7% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1.7K — better437
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size101 MB194 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperXodo Technologies Inc.PDF Technologies, Inc.

Customer experience

PDF Reader & Editor | Xodo

All ratings1,685 ratings
Positive83.2%
Neutral4.6%
Negative12.2%
Written reviews1,012 reviews
Positive55.5%
Neutral12.4%
Negative32.1%

PDF Reader Pro

All ratings437 ratings
Positive85.8%
Neutral3.9%
Negative10.3%
Written reviews328 reviews
Positive63.7%
Neutral5.2%
Negative31.1%

User reviews

PDF Reader & Editor | Xodo

From 1.7K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Best PDF reader
  • 👍 Intuitive and easy to use
  • 🚀 Efficient PDF handling
  • 👍 Useful annotation tools
  • 👍 Convenient cloud sync

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Crashes and freezes
  • 🐛 Losing annotations and files
  • 🐛 Buggy updates
  • 🐛 Inconsistent performance
  • 🔒 Subscription model issues

PDF Reader Pro

From 437 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Easy to use
  • 🚀 Fast and efficient
  • 💡 Useful features like highlighting and annotating
  • 👍 Great for reading and studying PDFs

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Crashes and bugs
  • 🔒 Security issues with locked files
  • 💰 Expensive upgrade to unlock full functionality
  • 🤖 Poor customer support and unresponsive developers

Bugs and requests

PDF Reader & Editor | Xodo

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • Disappearing annotations
  • Inability to open saved files
  • Frequent crashes and freezes
  • Syncing issues with cloud storage
  • Incompatibility with iOS 14 updates

Requested features

6 requests
  • Add manual zoom percentage
  • Improve Apple Pencil support
  • Implement better page navigation
  • Allow exporting annotations
  • Add split-screen support on iPad
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  • Improve text editing and alignment

PDF Reader Pro

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Annotations not saving or displaying correctly
  • App crashing when trying to convert or edit PDFs
  • Syncing issues between devices
  • Unexpected password locks on files

Requested features

4 requests
  • Undo/redo functionality for annotations
  • More font and theme options
  • Improved compatibility with cloud storage services
  • Better support for older devices

In-app purchases

6 purchases

PDF Reader & Editor | Xodo

Subscriptions6
  • Xodo Mobile (Monthly)3 Days trial$11.991 Month
  • Xodo PDF Converter & Editor3 Days trial2 variants$11.991 Month
  • Xodo PDF Converter & Editor3 Days trial$39.991 Year
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  • Xodo Mobile (Yearly)1 Year trial$107.991 Year
  • Xodo Mobile (Yearly)7 Days trial$107.991 Year
  • Xodo Pro (Yearly)7 Days trial$107.991 Year
6 purchases

PDF Reader Pro

Subscriptions4
  • Add 2-Device · Advanced Annual$39.991 Year
  • Add Devices · Advanced Annual$49.991 Year
  • PDF Pro · Advanced Annual$79.991 Year
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  • PDF Pro · AI Annual1 Year trial$79.991 Year
One-time2
  • Permanent License$24.99
  • PDF Pro · Advanced Permanent$39.99

Questions

Is PDF Reader & Editor | Xodo free?
PDF Reader & Editor | Xodo is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is PDF Reader Pro free?
PDF Reader Pro is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, PDF Reader & Editor | Xodo or PDF Reader Pro?
PDF Reader & Editor | Xodo and PDF Reader Pro are both rated 4.4 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1.7K and 437 ratings respectively.
Do PDF Reader & Editor | Xodo or PDF Reader Pro have ads?
PDF Reader Pro shows ads; PDF Reader & Editor | Xodo does not.
Which is updated more often, PDF Reader & Editor | Xodo or PDF Reader Pro?
PDF Reader & Editor | Xodo ships an update every 2 weeks, and PDF Reader Pro every 2 months. Most recently, PDF Reader & Editor | Xodo was updated on September 25, 2026 and PDF Reader Pro on September 22, 2026.

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