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Pricing model Free One-time purchase Subscription

Key features Edit PDFs Annotation & signing Combine PDFs OCR (paid tools) Transcription & subtitles Read later

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An Apple-device article library with clean reading, tagging and annotation tools.

Best forAn Apple-only article reading queueResearch shortlist

$9.99 app · optional $4.99 annual feature upgradePaid

Article Sync and newer annotation capabilities can depend on feature entitlement.
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Apple’s built-in PDF and image tool; mobile and Mac versions must be documented separately.

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