Comparison

PDF Notes Pro vs Assembly

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

Head to head
About

PDF Notes Pro

Transform your iOS device into a digital notebook for annotating and managing PDF documents. Easily add handwritten notes, highlights, and drawings directly onto PDFs, and organize your files with a built-in management system. Share, print, and search your documents and notes with ease.

Highlights
  • Handwritten notes with audio recording
  • PDF annotation (highlight, underline, strikeout)
  • Freehand drawing and signing
  • Full-text search within PDFs and notes
  • Built-in file management
  • PDF sharing and printing
Features
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PdfNotes Pro is a notes-taking iOS universal app which provides the capability to make notes on PDF documents. It gives you the ability to take notes by handwriting and make your iOS device a magic notebook. It also enable you to read, annotate, print, manage, and share your notes and PDF files. Using PDF Notes Pro, it is simple to take notes and browse notes, sign a PDF document, annotate PDF documents, add bookmarks, highlight text, search text over all the pages, draw anything with a touch pen or just your finger. PdfNotes Pro has a simple but powerful built-in file management system, so it is very easy to import notes and PDF files into PDF Notes Pro or export them from PDF Notes Pro. Features: 1. Take handwriting notes 1) You can take handwriting notes directly on your iOS device with finger or stylus. 2) You can record audio while you are taking notes by handwriting. 3) The audio recorded is stored together with your handwriting notes so you can review your notes later against the audio. 4) You can zoom in to make more room for your handwriting. 5) You can erase any handwriting notes with the Eraser tool. 6) You can change color or line width of your handwriting. 7) Paper-like smooth and comfortable experience and process of notes-taking. 8) You can add handwriting notes into a PDF document. 9) You can access handwriting notes directly from a PDF document. 10) You can print handwriting notes onto paper via AirPlay-compatible printers. 11) You can turn handwriting notes into a PDF document. 12) Free style drawing 2. Annotate PDF documents 1) Write down notes on your PDF documents and browse them later. 2) Highlight text with different colors, and link text notes with it. 3) Underline text with different colors, and link text notes with it. 4) Squiggly text with different colors, and link text notes with it. 5) Strikeout text with different colors, and link text notes with it. 6) Add sticky notes. 7) Draw anything with a touch pen or just your finger, and link text notes with it. 8) Sign PDF documents. 9) Add bookmarks to remember the important pages. 10) Powerful full text search for your notes on the PDF document. 3. Read PDF Documents 1) Browse a PDF Document using its outlines and bookmarks. 2) Browse a PDF Document using its links. 3) Powerful but simple to use full text search helps you find any text in your PDF document quickly and easily. 4) Browse a PDF Document using the notes you have taken. 5) Open password-protected PDF documents with a valid password. 6) Browse a PDF Document using thumbnail view. 4. PDF document sharing 1) Open PDF files directly from your email. 2) Send out PDF documents by email. 3) Print PDF document with your notes via AirPrint. 4) Print PDF document without your notes via AirPrint. 5) Open PDF files directly from any other apps which provide the ability to open a PDF file in another app. 6) Provide the ability to open a PDF file in another app. 7) Download from Dropbox or upload into Dropbox. 8) Download from GoogleDrive or upload into GoogleDrive. 9) Download from Sky Drive or upload into Sky Drive. 10) Download from Box or upload into Box. 11) Send and receive PDF files via AirDrop from iOS Device nearby made in 2013 or later. 5. File Management 1) Create folder or delete folder. 2) Copy, move, and delete a PDF or notes file. 3) Rename a folder. 4) Rename a notes or PDF file. 5) Display number of files in a folder. 6) Display file size and last modified date for a file. 7) Display statistics of a notes or PDF document, such as last open time, current page, etc. 8) Provide unlimited depth for folders(you can create subfolder of unlimited sub level).

About

Assembly

This no-code tool centralizes team management, project workflows, and employee engagement. It offers customizable templates and integrations to boost productivity and foster a positive company culture. Automate tasks, gather insights, and manage your entire team's operations from one flexible platform.

Highlights
  • No-code workflow automation
  • Employee engagement and retention
  • Customizable workflow templates
  • Recognition and rewards catalog
  • Performance management tools
  • Integrations with Slack and Microsoft Teams
  • Actionable insights and analytics
Features
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Assembly is a fully customizable no-code workflow automation tool that drives employee productivity, engagement, and retention while elevating internal culture. With Assembly, you can integrate all your work into one flexible, centralized source of truth. Assembly has helped thousands of companies achieve 95% employee engagement through fun and seamless workflows. Assembly works great for teams of all sizes and industries. Assembly workflows empower HR to build a culture of recognition, to run insightful surveys, and to foster collaboration within their teams. With Assembly, you can easily automate and create your own workflow or choose from over 100+ workflow templates. Get your employee engagement covered from A to Z with powerful engagement features such as recognition and rewards, 1:1’s, standup, games and icebreakers, employee nominations, company announcements, team awards and more. Keep your communication organized and efficient, no matter your position on the org chart, with agendas, notes, tasks, retrospectives and more. Enjoy full customization, flexibility, and automation of all your work, no matter your use case. Connect your teams, projects, and workflows in Assembly - so you can remove silos and move as one. Stop wasting precious time switching between tools to get work done. Create a single source of truth and gather actionable insights to achieve your goals. All your people in one place - people are the heart of your team and Assembly gives team members context and understanding to work together effectively through individual profiles. All workflows in one place- whether it's a one-on-one, team standup, employee recognition, icebreakers, and more - don't skip a beat. Connect your teams, projects, and workflows in Assembly - so you can remove silos and move as one. Endless uses for any team - no matter how your team or business grows, Assembly’s workflows are customizable and adaptable to change with your company's changing needs. Unify and analyze - stop wasting precious time switching between tools to get work done. Create a single source of truth and gather actionable insights to achieve your goals. Personalized rewards catalog - an extensive catalog of rewards with gift cards, custom swag, culture rewards, and charity donations. Performance management features- achieve your organization’s goals by improving the performance of individuals, departments, and the company as a whole with templates for surveys, reviews, feedback, retrospectives and more. Automated birthday and anniversary celebrations - never miss a celebration again with our automated birthday and anniversary bot. Vast integrations & actionable insights - seamless integration into Slack and Microsoft teams as well as 40+ HRIS integrations. With Assembly's actionable insights, get consistent data that lets you track change over time, analyze by departments, manager status, and more. Improve employee engagement with CEO & executive updates, employee engagement surveys, employee recognition, employee nominations, employee pulse surveys, employee recognition surveys, weekly check-in templates, weekly template updates, and employee satisfaction surveys. Improve internal communications workflows with the ask me anything (AMA) template, general news feed, get help template, group feed, icebreaker template, idea management template, internal wiki tool, knowledge base, daily standup meeting, team retrospective and weekly updates. Boost team productivity with daily recap template, daily agenda template, idea management template, meeting notes template, product feedback template, wins list, and a lightweight sales CRM template. Simplify HR & Recruiting with templates such as employee benefits survey, contractor time tracking, employee exit interview survey, employee satisfaction survey, eNPS score, internal referral program, interview questions template and new hire survey.

Screenshots

PDF Notes Pro4 screens
Assembly4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Assembly at Free against PDF Notes Pro's $4.99. Assembly also leads on rating (4.5 vs 1.7) and review sentiment (50% vs 13%). PDF Notes Pro's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.1). On update cadence, 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

Assembly is free to download; PDF Notes Pro costs $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Assembly holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 1.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Assembly has 106 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 13% of PDF Notes Pro's written reviews are positive against 50% of Assembly's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

PDF Notes Pro ships an update every 3 weeks, Assembly every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
PDF Notes Pro versus Assembly: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPDF Notes ProAssembly
Price$4.99Free — better
Rating1.7 (6 ratings)4.5 (106 ratings) — better
Positive reviews12.5% of reviews50.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings6106 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 4 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size40 MB38 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperUMateYQuantum Workplace

Customer experience

PDF Notes Pro

All ratings6 ratings
Positive16.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative83.3%
Written reviews8 reviews
Positive12.5%
Neutral0.0%
Negative87.5%

Assembly

All ratings106 ratings
Positive86.8%
Neutral5.7%
Negative7.5%
Written reviews20 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral15.0%
Negative35.0%

In-app purchases

None

PDF Notes Pro

No in-app purchases

None

Assembly

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is PDF Notes Pro free?
PDF Notes Pro costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Assembly free?
Assembly is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, PDF Notes Pro or Assembly?
Assembly is rated higher. PDF Notes Pro averages 1.7 out of 5 from 6 ratings, while Assembly averages 4.5 from 106 ratings.
Do PDF Notes Pro or Assembly have ads?
Neither PDF Notes Pro nor Assembly shows ads.
Which is updated more often, PDF Notes Pro or Assembly?
PDF Notes Pro ships an update every 3 weeks, and Assembly every 4 weeks. Most recently, PDF Notes Pro was updated on October 16, 2026 and Assembly on October 18, 2026.

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