PDFApps
The facts below are what the maker publishes about PDFApps, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From PDFApps's own pricing page, checked 11 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | 15 PDF tools · MIT licensed · no premium tier, upsells, or ads · Forever |
The facts
Each one read from PDFApps's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Annotation tools
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
- Data collection
- The maker says the app collects no personal information, file contents, telemetry, analytics, or automatic crash reports.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Dependencies
- OCR requires Tesseract, and the extreme compression level requires Ghostscript; the Microsoft Store package bundles both.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Digital signatures
- The signature tool adds a visual signature and does not perform cryptographic signing.checked 11 Oct 2026
- File conversions
- PDFs can be exported to PNG, JPG, DOCX, TXT, PPTX, XLSX, HTML, or EPUB, and several of those formats can also be imported to PDF.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Form creation
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
- Local processing
- The maker says PDF processing runs locally and files are never uploaded to a server.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Network requests
- Direct installs check GitHub Releases for updates at launch, while system-managed installs skip the in-app update check.checked 11 Oct 2026
- OCR
- OCR uses Tesseract and supports English, Portuguese, Spanish, French, and German.checked 11 Oct 2026
- PDF conversion
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
- PDF operations
- Tools include splitting, merging, rotating, extracting, reordering, compressing, encrypting, watermarking, OCR, conversion, import, N-up layout, page numbering, and document information.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Product
- PDFApps is an offline desktop PDF editor with 15 tools and an integrated viewer.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Support
- The documentation directs users to report bugs through the GitHub issue tracker.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Text editing
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
- Visual editor
- The visual editor supports redaction, text and image insertion, highlighting, notes, form filling, editing existing text, signatures, and selection.checked 11 Oct 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
Where it runs
- Platforms
- The download page lists Windows 10/11 64-bit, macOS 10.14 or later, and Linux packages including AppImage.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Supported platforms
- Windows,macOS,Linuxchecked 20 Sep 2026
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