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Free Adobe Acrobat Pro alternatives

Merge, split, sign, fill and convert PDFs without Acrobat Pro.

5 free alternatives

Rated by how safe they are to install. Established tools have years of use behind them; early alpha means brand-new.

PDF24 Creator

Free for private and commercial use, works offline on Windows; web tools for everyone else.

WindowsBrowser
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PDFgear

Free desktop PDF editor with no watermark and no advertised file limits.

WindowsMacMobile
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Stirling PDF

Open-source PDF toolkit you can self-host: merge, split, OCR, convert.

BrowserSelf-hostOpen source
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PDFsam Basic

Open-source split, merge and rotate with no watermark.

WindowsMacLinuxOpen source
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Apple Preview

Built into every Mac: sign, fill forms, annotate and reorder pages.

Mac
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