PDFluent
The facts below are what the maker publishes about PDFluent, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From PDFluent's own pricing page, checked 20 Sep 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Editor | Free | Full desktop app · Personal and commercial use · No account or subscription · No watermarks or page limits · Local processing · Free for everyone, including commercial use |
| PDFluent Editor | Free | Full desktop app · commercial use included · no account or subscription · no watermarks, page or file-size limits, or time limit · macOS and Windows |
| SDK Free | Free | Complete SDK under AGPL · commercial production use allowed · source-sharing obligations apply under AGPL |
| SDK Commercial | €999 a year | Closed-source use · unlimited developers, locations, and internal projects · Yearly, per organisation |
| SDK OEM Startup | €2,499 a year | Redistribution or offering PDF functionality as a service · one named product · Yearly, per product; for organisations under €1M revenue |
| Priority support add-on | €4,999 a year | Reply within 1 working day · Yearly, on top of any paid licence |
| SDK OEM | €9,999 a year | Redistribution or offering PDF functionality as a service · one named product · Yearly, per product |
The facts
Each one read from PDFluent's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Annotation tools
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
- Form creation
- Nochecked 20 Sep 2026
- Forms
- AcroForm PDFs are fully supported, while XFA form support is experimental and may not open, render, or save correctly.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Integration formats
- The SDK is published through crates.io, PyPI, npm, NuGet, and Maven Central.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Limits
- The editor does not store documents, capture from scanners or cameras, provide a searchable library across documents, support collaboration, or create PDFs from Word files.checked 11 Oct 2026
- OCR
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
- Offline use
- The editor runs fully offline and requires no internet connection, account, or background service.checked 11 Oct 2026
- PDF conversion
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
- PDF tools
- The editor supports viewing, editing, annotating, merging, splitting, compressing, OCR, PDF/A conversion, redaction, password protection, watermarking, forms, and signing.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Privacy
- The editor runs locally without an account, cloud storage, or telemetry unless crash reports are switched on.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Product
- PDFluent is a native desktop PDF editor that runs locally on macOS and Windows.checked 11 Oct 2026
- SDK
- A separately licensed PDF SDK is available with bindings for Rust, Python, Node.js, Java, C, and WebAssembly.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Security design
- The maker says the PDF engine is written in memory-safe Rust and does not execute document JavaScript or automatic PDF actions.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Support
- For licensing questions, the maker says to email [email protected] and states it responds within one business day.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Text editing
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
The company
- Company
- The site identifies Innovation Trigger BV and describes PDFluent as made in the Netherlands.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Headquarters
- Netherlandschecked 19 Oct 2026
- Maker
- PDFluent says it is built by Jasper de Winter, a Rust engineer based in the Netherlands.checked 11 Oct 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
Where it runs
- Platforms
- The desktop app supports macOS 11 or later on Intel and Apple Silicon, plus Windows 10 or 11 64-bit.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Supported platforms
- macOS,Windowschecked 20 Sep 2026
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