PDF Scanner & Editor: Privio

Privio is the offline PDF toolkit for lawyers, accountants, real estate professionals, and anyone who handles documents that should not be uploaded to a stranger's server.

Every operation — scan, OCR, redact, sign, summarise with Apple Intelligence, capture receipts — runs locally on your iPhone. Your PDFs never leave this device. The App Privacy Report shows zero outbound traffic for your files.

THE 23 TOOLS

Document intake

• Scan to PDF — Apple VisionKit edge detection, multi-page capture • OCR PDF — Apple Vision recognizes text on scanned PDFs and adds a searchable text layer • Image to PDF — photos, receipts, screenshots into one PDF • Merge PDFs — combine document-level or hand-pick pages • Compress PDF — shrink for email without visible quality loss • Split PDF — extract page ranges, every Nth page, or N equal parts

Editing

• Rotate pages — fix sideways scans • Delete pages — drop what you don't need • Sign PDF — finger or stylus signature with SHA-256 audit footer • Fill form — IRS, USCIS, court motion forms with flatten-on-save • Page numbers — four formats, five positions, custom start • Bates numbering — legal discovery standard • Password protect — AES-256 encrypt or unlock

Review

• Watermark — CONFIDENTIAL, DRAFT, custom text in three layouts • Extract text — pull clean text out of any born-digital PDF • Compare PDFs — redline two versions, added and removed text • Bookmarks / TOC — jump to any chapter in long briefs and depositions • Find sensitive data — auto-detect SSN, EIN, credit cards (Luhn validated), IBANs, emails, phone numbers • Redact — search words, render-and-flatten removes them from the data stream

AI + receipts + batch

• Summarize PDF — Apple Intelligence on-device summary (iOS 26+) • Live Text view — Apple Live Text + Visual Look Up + Markup • Batch operations — compress, watermark, or rotate a stack of PDFs in one pass • Receipt scanner — auto-extract date / vendor / total / tax → QuickBooks-friendly CSV

iOS INTEGRATION

Home Screen widget (Small + Medium) plus three Lock Screen accessory families. iOS 18 Control Center / Lock Screen scan control. Action Button binding for iPhone 15 Pro and later. Siri, Shortcuts, Files Provider, Share Sheet, Action Extension. iPad Stage Manager + Split View.

PRIVACY POSITIONING

Other PDF apps upload your file to "process" it in the cloud — meaning their staff, their server logs, and their attackers could all see your documents. Privio was built so the lawyer-client privilege, the accountant-client confidentiality, and your personal data stay where they belong: on your phone.

Privio is built with Apple's own frameworks — VisionKit for scanning, Apple Vision for OCR, Apple Intelligence for summarisation, PDFKit for assembly. There are no third-party analytics, no crash-reporting SDK, no advertising SDK, no tracking, no account. The app shows "Data Not Collected" on its App Store privacy page.

PRICING

Try the tools free: open any tool and run it on your own document. Pro is what releases the result — save, share or export it. (Batch and the receipt scanner are Pro from the start.)

• Yearly — the best value • Lifetime — one-off payment; no subscription, no renewal • Monthly — month to month

You'll see your local price in the app. No ads in any tier; Privio contains zero advertising SDKs.

MADE BY EREK STUDIO

Built by an independent developer in Istanbul. No VC, no growth team, no dark patterns. If a feature is missing or a bug bites you, email mustafasalimerek@gmail.com and you'll hear back from a human within a day.

Designed for iPad: native sidebar navigation, 19 tools at a glance on a 5×4 grid, landscape support for Magic Keyboard, and centered reading layouts.

Privacy Policy: https://mustafasalimerek-bit.github.io/pdfprivio/privacy/ Terms of Use: https://mustafasalimerek-bit.github.io/pdfprivio/terms/