Comparison

PDF Reader Pro vs QlearBee

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

Head to head
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/

About

QlearBee

This real estate tool offers a smart CRM, calculators, and features designed to streamline your business. Manage properties, client documents, and commissions with interconnected data for enhanced visibility and ease of use.

Highlights
  • Smart CRM
  • Property comparison
  • Integrated payment schedules
  • Client e-signing portal
  • Commission management
Features
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QlearBee is your go-to real estate tool! With built-in smart CRM, calculators and features, QlearBee is molded around how you do business and do what you do best -- sell real estate. All data is interconnected for ease of use, visibility and transparency. Smart features include: instantly compare properties across key metrics, integrated payment schedules for new developments, signing portal for your clients to eSign and fill documents, manage commission structures by deal or organization and so much more.

Screenshots

PDF Reader Pro4 screens
QlearBee4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: QlearBee at 5.0 against PDF Reader Pro's 4.4. QlearBee also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 6) and ads (none vs shown). PDF Reader Pro's advantage is ratings volume (437 vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.6). On price 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

Both are free to download. PDF Reader Pro sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $39.99 per year. QlearBee asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

QlearBee holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: PDF Reader Pro has 437 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

PDF Reader Pro ships an update every 2 months, QlearBee every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
PDF Reader Pro versus QlearBee: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPDF Reader ProQlearBee
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (437 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews63.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings437 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.6
Further details — not scored
Size194 MB59 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPDF Technologies, Inc.Max Koffler

Customer experience

PDF Reader Pro

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

QlearBee

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

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

QlearBee

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

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
None

QlearBee

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is PDF Reader Pro free?
PDF Reader Pro is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is QlearBee free?
QlearBee is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, PDF Reader Pro or QlearBee?
QlearBee is rated higher. PDF Reader Pro averages 4.4 out of 5 from 437 ratings, while QlearBee averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do PDF Reader Pro or QlearBee have ads?
PDF Reader Pro shows ads; QlearBee does not.
Which is updated more often, PDF Reader Pro or QlearBee?
PDF Reader Pro ships an update every 2 months, and QlearBee every 3 weeks. Most recently, PDF Reader Pro was updated on October 11, 2026 and QlearBee on October 3, 2026.

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