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Adobe Acrobat Pro

Best Alternatives to Adobe Acrobat Pro

The industry-standard PDF solution for creating, editing, signing, and managing documents across desktop, web, and mobile, with advanced features like AI assistance and secure redaction.

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4 alternatives to Adobe Acrobat Pro

Stirling PDF

A self-hosted, open-source PDF editor offering over 50 tools for secure, local PDF manipulation and automation.

Free

Key differentiator

A self-hosted, open-source PDF editor offering over 50 tools for secure, local PDF manipulation and automation

77,044 stars6,687 forksTypeScript

Okular

A versatile, multi-platform document viewer supporting PDF, EPub, comics, images, and Markdown, with annotation and signature features.

Free

Key differentiator

A versatile, multi-platform document viewer supporting PDF, EPub, comics, images, and Markdown, with annotation and signature features

1,341 stars161 forksC++

PDFsam Basic

PDFsam Basic is a desktop tool for splitting, merging, rotating, and reordering PDF pages without uploading files to any cloud service. AGPL-3.0 licensed, runs on Windows, Mac, and Linux.

Free

Key differentiator

PDFsam Basic is a desktop tool for splitting, merging, rotating, and reordering PDF pages without uploading files to any cloud service

4,364 stars393 forksJava

PDF4QT

An open-source PDF editor for Windows/Linux, offering a C++ library, command-line tool, and applications for viewing/editing PDFs.

Free

Key differentiator

An open-source PDF editor for Windows/Linux, offering a C++ library, command-line tool, and applications for viewing/editing PDFs

1,332 stars130 forksC++