Notate PDF for Citrix vs PDF Reader Pro
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Notate PDF for Citrix
This secure mobile workspace allows enterprise teams to edit, annotate, and collaborate on PDF and Office documents online or offline. It integrates with corporate networks and supports digital signatures, OCR scanning, and Apple Pencil for comprehensive document management.
- Edit PDFs and Office documents
- Sign and approve documents digitally
- Collaborate with threaded comments
- OCR scanning for digitizing documents
- Handwrite, type, or draw with Apple Pencil
- Integrates with enterprise systems
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NOTATE PDF - THE SECURE MOBILE WORKSPACE FOR REGULATED TEAMS IMPORTANT NOTE: Notate is designed for enterprise deployment via Citrix XenMobile MDM, or MAM platforms. The app will not function without backend configuration by your organization. WHY NOTATE PDF? Edit and Annotate Securely - Online or Offline Work with PDFs and Microsoft Office files using advanced editing, annotation, and collaboration tools — all within a fully managed, secure mobile workspace. Built for Enterprise Workflows Seamlessly access, edit, and organize files from Exchange, Teams, SharePoint, SMB, and more. Notate is used by leading organizations in finance, healthcare, and government. Secure by Design All data remains encrypted and contained within your corporate network. No third-party cloud. No data leakage. Full support for XenMobile security policies. KEY FEATURES • Edit PDFs and Office Documents Modify text, add comments, split or merge pages, and redact sensitive data. Create new documents or annotate existing ones in one unified experience. • Sign and Approve Documents Add legally binding digital signatures to contracts, forms, and compliance documents. • Collaborate in Context Share annotated documents and use threaded comments for feedback. Eliminate the back-and-forth of scattered reviews. • Scan, Search, and Capture Digitize paper documents with OCR scanning. Convert to searchable PDFs and attach to secure repositories or email. • Take Notes Your Way Handwrite, type, or draw with full Apple Pencil support. Organize content with rich formatting, embedded media, and folders. • Deploy with Confidence Direct integration with BlackBerry UEM enforces security, compliance, and access policies — ensuring data containment and enterprise control. TRUSTED ACROSS INDUSTRIES • 8 of the top 20 global banks • Top-tier insurance providers • Multibillion-dollar healthcare networks • Government and public sector agencies EXPERIENCE THE FUTURE OF SECURE MOBILE PRODUCTIVITY Download Notate PDF and empower your mobile teams to collaborate with confidence — no matter where they work.
PDF Reader Pro
This app allows users to read, edit, annotate, sign, convert, and fill out PDF documents on their mobile devices. It offers features like text editing, image modification, page management, and OCR capabilities, making it a comprehensive tool for PDF management.
- Edit PDF text and images
- Annotate with highlights, notes, and drawings
- Sign PDFs with custom signatures
- Convert PDFs to Word, Excel, and more
- Fill out interactive PDF forms
- OCR scanned documents
- Merge, split, and reorder PDF pages
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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/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&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 or 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 & searchable PDFs/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 & 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/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Notate PDF for Citrix at Free against PDF Reader Pro's $19.99. Notate PDF for Citrix also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 4) and ads (none vs shown). PDF Reader Pro's advantage is ratings volume (222 vs 6) and chart position (#24 vs unranked). On rating, update cadence 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
Notate PDF for Citrix is free to download; PDF Reader Pro costs $19.99 up front. PDF Reader Pro sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $39.99 per year. Notate PDF for Citrix asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.2 for Notate PDF for Citrix against 4.3 for PDF Reader Pro. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: PDF Reader Pro has 222 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Notate PDF for Citrix ships an update every 4 months, PDF Reader Pro every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on August 19, 2026 and September 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Notate PDF for Citrix | PDF Reader Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $19.99 |
| Rating | 4.2 (6 ratings) | 4.3 (222 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 68.8% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 6 | 222 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | — | #24 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 217 MB | 180 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Shafer Systems LLC | PDF Technologies, Inc. |
Customer experience
Notate PDF for Citrix
PDF Reader Pro
Bugs and requests
Notate PDF for Citrix
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
PDF Reader Pro
Reported bugs
5 issues- Corrupted PDF files after updates
- Disappearing files and loss of organization
- Compatibility issues with newer iOS versions
- Unreliable PDF form filling
- Unexpected app crashes
Requested features
5 requests- Add undo/redo functionality
- Improve OCR accuracy
- Introduce password protection for PDFs
- Allow custom folder colors
- Enhance browser integration (history, new tabs)
In-app purchases
Notate PDF for Citrix
No in-app purchases
PDF Reader Pro
- Add 2-Device · Advanced Annual$39.991 Year
- Add Devices · Advanced Annual$49.991 Year
- PDF Pro · AI Annual1 Year trial$79.991 Year
- Convert PDF to Office Pack$9.99
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