Hubdoc vs. Nitro PDF Pro

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Hubdoc
Score 8.7 out of 10
N/A
Hubdoc, a Xero company since the 2018 acquisition, is a bill management software solution, allowing users to capture and sync bills, receipts, bank statements and related documents to the user's preferred accounting software (e.g. Quickbooks, Xero, etc.).
$12
per month
Nitro PDF Pro
Score 7.9 out of 10
N/A
Nitro PDF Pro is a document management platform that supports PDF creation, modification, conversion, organization, review, and protection across Windows, Mac, and iOS environments. Key Capabilities Document Authoring & Modification: Native editing capabilities for PDF creation and content updates. Format Conversion: Conversion between PDF and standard office document formats. Document Organization & Management: File organization and management…
$7.50
Billed every 3 years. This is a subscription product with a 3-year fee of $270.00 per license. per seat
Pricing
HubdocNitro PDF Pro
Editions & Modules
Starting Price
$12.00
per month
Nitro PDF Classic
$7.5/month
Billed every 3 years. This is a subscription product with a 3-year fee of $270.00 per license. per seat
Nitro PDF Standard
$15/month
This is a subscription product with a yearly fee of $180.00 per license. per seat
Nitro PDF Plus
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
HubdocNitro PDF Pro
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
HubdocNitro PDF Pro
Considered Both Products
Hubdoc
Chose Hubdoc
We find Hubdoc to be much easier. It has very good AI even remembering which CC has been used prior for particular receipts.
Chose Hubdoc
Have only used Freshbooks otherwise, not comparable
Chose Hubdoc
We did not get far into evaluating other solutions we were looking at because Hubdoc came highly recommended from peers, coupled with Xero and Gusto. The cost for Thompson-Reuters is high. We quickly honed in on Hubdoc due to cost and recommendation and are very glad that we …
Chose Hubdoc
Receipt Bank essentially does the same thing as Hubdoc but while we were evaluating both products we found Receipt Banks data extraction a lot slower (sometimes 24-48hrs) compared to Hubdoc which was in minutes. Also, Hubdoc had a large library of direct feeds which was a plus …
Chose Hubdoc
I have tried other competing software that offers similar benefits and I have been very disappointed. Other software in this space charge more, promise more and offer benefits that do not deliver. Hubdoc is definitely not the biggest voice on this block, but they are …
Chose Hubdoc
QBO and Bill.com do not have a mobile interface dedicated to uploading receipts from employees. The Hubdoc interface is more intuitive and has a better flow than Bill.com.
Chose Hubdoc
I don't have hands-on experience with any of the other software I mentioned. I have done a good deal of research with them, but did not find any particularly compelling reasons why they were better. The real reason I selected Hubdoc was because they offered a free, …
Chose Hubdoc
I had been using bill.com for paying bills, for storing invoices and receipts, and for recording credit card payments. We did this to digitize all receipts for a business and get the accounting done at the same time. But bill.com has a number of quirks, including a long sync …
Chose Hubdoc
Receipt Bank is similar, but does not retrieve documents, it focuses on collecting documents that are submitted by the clients (which Hubdoc also does). Receipt Bank's platform for CPAs is significantly more advanced and robust (Hubdoc's is basically non-existent), but the most …
Chose Hubdoc
I don't have any knowledge on the app.
Nitro PDF Pro
Chose Nitro PDF Pro
You need a subscription to use Adobe Acrobat. You can pay a one-off license fee to use Nitro.
Chose Nitro PDF Pro
Nitro Productivity Suite is able to perform just as well as Adobe. It uses less resources on my machine than Adobe. I think it is much easier to use than Tungsten as well.
Chose Nitro PDF Pro
[I feel] Nitro doesn't have near the functionality of Adobe but it is significantly cheaper. I'm not sure the savings is worth the frustration.
Chose Nitro PDF Pro
Every 1-2 years will do a check on current PDF options to include trialing the software. Have tried Foxit and several that seem to have failed in the marketplace. Over the last 4 years, I have always stuck with Nitro. Unfortunately, we still need to keep Adobe Acrobat (free …
Chose Nitro PDF Pro
I think Adobe is probably the best PDF solution since they essentially developed and own the PDF format, but Nitro is a very good alternative and is more competitively priced.

If our clients didn't use PDF documents or sent us everything in MS Word, then our Office 365 would be …
Chose Nitro PDF Pro
Nitro Productivity Suite allows a user to accomplish all of the things you would want to do to a document that Adobe does not. Much easier to find the operation you are looking for in Nitro Productivity Suite compared to Adobe
Chose Nitro PDF Pro
Nitro is a more specified app with simple pdf editing use and a low cost.
Chose Nitro PDF Pro
Nitro has probably 10x the features that Adobe does and just does it so much better. Ease of use is profoundly different. I won't ever go back!!
Chose Nitro PDF Pro
At the time, we evaluated Adobe Professional to help with some of the PDF modifications we were needing to accomplish. I didn't see any further options besides Nitro and Adobe that were worth evaluating. When looking at costs and feature comparisons it was a no-brainer.
Chose Nitro PDF Pro
Nitro was more simplistic than Adobe and a much better price
Chose Nitro PDF Pro
I downloaded the trial versions of both Acrobat DC and Nitro PDF, and found Nitro to be superior in price, while Acrobat was superior in software features and user-friendliness. I knew I would be using Nitro for basic publishing and editing of PDFs, which both programs do well, …
Chose Nitro PDF Pro
We selected Nitro PDF because the features that the organization needed were comparable and the annual cost for the on-premises version of the application was considerably less expensive at the time. When we selected, Adobe was not yet in the cloud. At that time, there were …
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User Ratings
HubdocNitro PDF Pro
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
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9.3
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Likelihood to Renew
-
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10.0
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Usability
10.0
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9.0
(0 ratings)
Performance
-
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8.0
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
3.0
(0 ratings)
9.2
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
5.0
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
HubdocNitro PDF Pro
Likelihood to Recommend
When I am out purchasing items for my business I can quickly take photos of receipts and upload via the app and not have to worry if I lose or damage a receipt. This is very handy for me. Hubdoc also allows me to get all my invoices, payments and statements to my bookkeeper very easily which saves me money and time. I only use Hubdoc for business purposes which is where I feel it is most suitable. I probably wouldn't use it for personal stuff as I don't track personal that strictly.
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I run a professional services business from home. I need to edit documents quickly and easily and with minimal subscriptions to minimize overheads. I love that Nitro is a one-off payment to get a license to the software, and you can simply upgrade to the latest version if that's what you want, but you're not obligated to. I've been using the same version of Nitro for 7-8 years now. Despite the fact the upgraded versions have a lot of great, nice-to-have features, the version I'm on still does the job.
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Pros
  • Extracts data from documents both from a feed and a scan really quick.
  • Availability of automated feeds directly from the supplier.
  • Integration with accounting software e.g. Xero (now owned by them) and QBO.
  • Ability to auto-archive to many different cloud storage locations such as Google Drive and ShareFile.
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  • Ability to combine files SEAMLESSLY and order them around as necessary (so underrated)
  • Signing not only for yourself but for others. Helpful for those who have been granted the authority to sign for VPs and directors
  • Much easier to use than some other PDF viewing services
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Cons
  • Although it is great that they can automatically get bank statements and transactions once linked, these links have been very unreliable historically.
  • Figuring out how to set up the automatic feed is cumbersome. You can land up being inundated with useless transaction data.
  • you have to upload each document separately. The program cannot differentiate/split PDFs.
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  • Converting from PDF to Microsoft Word can be complicated at times. Some parts of a document such as tables are not converted properly.
  • Sometimes it appears to be easier to save MS Word documents to PDF rather than using NPS to convert. It can be a bit slow to convert at times.
  • In my view, it wasn't user friendly at the beginning.
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Likelihood to Renew
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We will definitely be renewing the Nitro Productivity Suite. Saves the company a lot of money for something we use everyday
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Usability
I think this is one of the easiest apps to use on both mobile and desktop. Once it was all set up by my bookkeeper all I needed to do was upload things. I recall the set up being quite simple and we've only made a few small changes over the years.
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For the most part, the entire software is extremely easy to navigate and use. You won't need to follow tutorials or anything for the bulk of the core features, as it's all pretty seamlessly designed.
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Performance
No answers on this topic
It works as advertised.
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Support Rating
At the time we implemented Hubdoc (more than 2 years ago) it was quite cutting edge and did have strong advances from the competition plus its pricing was definitely more competitive (flat rate vs price per data extraction model). However, currently the competition has caught up and now many of Hubdoc's core features are being built into online accounting software natively.
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Nitro checks all the boxes for what we need. It is fairly priced, it allows us to read and edit PDF documents, convert PDF to MS Word and convert MS Word to PDF. It allows us to combine multiple files and do all the post processing like adding page numbers and adding headers and footers
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Alternatives Considered
We did not get far into evaluating other solutions we were looking at because Hubdoc came highly recommended from peers, coupled with Xero and Gusto. The cost for Thompson-Reuters is high. We quickly honed in on Hubdoc due to cost and recommendation and are very glad that we did.
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Every 1-2 years will do a check on current PDF options to include trialing the software. Have tried Foxit and several that seem to have failed in the marketplace. Over the last 4 years, I have always stuck with Nitro. Unfortunately, we still need to keep Adobe Acrobat (free version) installed to view a small percentage of some PDFs we receive.
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Return on Investment
  • We are processing much faster than expected
  • Clients are getting receipts in faster and allowing us not to stalk them to process their banking
  • It is a file for us besides attaching to the invoice we also have the history of bills/receipts in Hubdoc
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  • Positive - Cheaper than Adobe
  • Positive - Allows us to modify PDF documents from our clients to submit our proposals.
  • Positive - Allows us to convert PDF documents to MS Word to share with our consultants and others without a PDF editor who contributes to our proposals.
  • Negative - Need to upgrade to get the latest features/versions unlike something like MS/Office 365 where we just get updates automatically and free for the monthly fee. Maybe they will or need to move to a subscription solution versus a product price.
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ScreenShots

Nitro PDF Pro Screenshots

Screenshot of Version 26 (Nitro's latest version) introduces a new dedicated home for every AI-powered capability, giving you everything you need in one place to analyze content in any language, extract critical data, and protect sensitive information.Screenshot of Data-clearing capabilities like Redact and Remove Metadata now live together in one place, so the tool you need is where you'd expect it.Screenshot of Keep every document, and everything inside it, safe with advanced security features such as password protection, encryption, permission controls, and audit trails.Screenshot of Work together securely with Nitro's built-in collaboration tools. Gather and manage feedback across teams and devices with comments, highlights, and markup tools.Screenshot of Update, restructure, and optimize any PDF into exactly the document you want, organized the way you need, without switching back to the original file.Screenshot of Create and convert PDFs to and from popular formats like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and image files while preserving layout and quality.