Most used01 - compress
Shrink a heavy PDF
Drop a PDF, get a lighter one back. Runs entirely in your browser - strips redundant data and compresses image streams without touching a server.
8.4 MB
beforeafter
1.1 MBsaved 87%
quality preserved
For freelancers
Everything you need
to work with PDFs.
Merge, compress, sign, OCR, and convert PDF to Word - 28 PDF tools that run in your browser, not on someone else's servers. The offline, private Adobe Acrobat alternative for freelancers.
7-day trial, no card needed
Files never leave your device
Installs offline as a PWA
pdfsuite.co/tools/merge
Merge PDFs
3 files · 4.2 MB- 1Add files
- 2Merge locally
- 3Download
3 files queued · ready to merge
starting…
Used by freelancers from
The thesis
A PDF editor built like a web app should be.
01
A tab. Not a subscription.
No installs, no downloads, no accounts to manage. Open pdfsuite.co and every PDF tool is there - same as any other website.
02
Your files, your device.
Every tool runs in your browser using WebAssembly. We literally cannot see your documents because they never reach our servers.
03
Made for working solo.
Sign a contract, compress a pitch deck, redact a client address - the things freelancers do every week, handled in the fewest clicks.
A few favourites
The PDF tools you'll open every week.
Saves hours02 - ocr
OCR a scanned lease
Drop a scan. Get a searchable, copy-pasteable PDF back - run locally with Tesseract in WebAssembly. 14 languages.
SCAN
→
LEASE AGREEMENT
Dated March 04, 2026,
between Landlord and…
Dated March 04, 2026,
between Landlord and…
Fan favorite03 - merge
Merge & split in seconds
Combine dozens of PDFs into one - or tear a single file into chapters. Drag to reorder pages before you export. Everything stays local.
merged
combined.pdf
10 pages
Privacy essential04 - redact
Redact sensitive data
Permanently black out names, numbers, and addresses before you share. Ink burns into the file - no hidden layer, no recover, no trace.
redacted
permanent - no hidden layerEvery PDF tool
28PDF tools, organized by what you're trying to do.
Merge PDF, compress PDF, sign PDF, convert PDF to Word, OCR a scan, redact client data - click anything to jump straight into that tool. No onboarding, no popup, no upload. Just the thing you came to do.
Core pdf ops
01 - 08- 01mergemerge multiple PDF files into one
- 01splitsplit PDF by page range, download zip
- 01compresscompress PDF file size - web, print presets
- 01rotaterotate PDF pages 90, 180, or 270 degrees
- 01reorderreorder PDF pages with drag and drop
- 01extractextract PDF pages into a new file
- 01deletedelete pages from PDF - select and remove
- 01cropcrop PDF margins and page boundaries
Format conversion
09 - 15- 09pdf→imgconvert PDF to JPG or PNG images
- 09img→pdfconvert images to PDF - JPG, PNG, and more
- 09pdf→docxconvert PDF to editable Word DOCX
- 09docx→pdfconvert Word DOCX to PDF - no upload
- 09pptx→pdfconvert PowerPoint PPTX to PDF in browser
- 09html→pdfconvert HTML or URL to PDF
- 09md→pdfconvert Markdown to styled PDF
Security & redaction
16 - 20Annotation & editing
21 - 24Privacy
“Your files never leave your browser.”
Not a privacy policy you have to read. Not a setting you can toggle. It's how the app is built. There is no “upload” step because there is no server on the other end. This is what “offline PDF editor” actually means: the tool lives in your browser, not on our infrastructure.
How it works
Runs in your browser
Every tool uses WebAssembly libraries (pdf-lib, pdf.js, Tesseract) that process files directly on your device. No upload button, because there’s no server to upload to.
What that means
Unlimited file size
Competitors gate big files behind paid tiers because every byte costs them bandwidth. Ours costs us nothing - so there’s no limit. Merge a 2 GB set of scans if you want.
How to verify
Open DevTools
Right-click → Inspect → Network tab. Process a PDF. Watch the Network tab stay completely silent. The only request we ever make is your one-time license check.
The Adobe Acrobat alternative
The honest side-by-side.
No cherry-picked metrics. These are the things that matter when you're working with real client documents.
PDFsuite is the private, offline-capable alternative to Adobe Acrobat, iLovePDF, Smallpdf, and Sejda. Same 28 tools; none of them upload your files. One price, no per-tool paywalls, no watermarks.
PDFsuite | Adobe Acrobat | Sejda | iLovePDF | Smallpdf | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Files stay on your device | Always | Uploaded to cloud | Uploaded to servers | Uploaded to servers | Uploaded to servers |
| Price | $29 / year | $239 / year | $63 / year | $48 / year | $108 / year |
| Works offline | Yes - installs as app | Desktop app only | No | No | No |
| File size limits | None | 100 MB on web | 50 MB free | 25 MB free | 5 GB paid only |
| Free forever tier | No - 7-day trial instead | No free tier | Yes, with watermarks | Yes, with watermarks | Yes, with watermarks |
| AI chat with your PDFs | BYOK · coming soon | Paid add-on | No | No | No |
| Number of tools | 28 tools | 20+ (desktop) | 25 tools | 25 tools | 20 tools |
Prices as of April 2026. Competitor data from public pricing pages.
From the people using it
Made for freelancers who ship.
I cancelled SmallPDF the day after I found this. It does more and I stopped worrying about where my client contracts were sitting.
Priya Menon
brand consultant
The OCR alone is worth it. I scan leases, drop them in, get searchable PDFs back in seconds - without sending a client doc to a stranger.
Daniel Ortega
paralegal · solo practice
Finally, a PDF tool that doesn’t treat me like a churn number. One price, every tool, runs offline. It’s the platonic ideal of a small app.
Emma Larsson
freelance illustrator
Pricing
One plan. Every tool.
Pro
The full PDF workspace
$29/ year
billed yearly · cancel anytime
- All 28 tools, updated forever
- No file size limits, no daily caps
- Works offline as an installable app (PWA)
- BYOK AI chat with your PDFsComing soon
- Cancel anytime, keep your files forever
Full access for 14 days. No card required. $29/yr after, or cancel and walk away.
PDF tools FAQ
The honest
answers.
Nothing buried in a help centre. If you have a question we haven't covered, email hi@pdfsuite.co.
Do I need to download or install anything?
No. It’s a website. Open pdfsuite.co and every tool is there. If you want offline access, hit "Install" in your browser and it becomes a standalone app - but you don’t have to.
Can it really do all 28 things in a browser?
Yes. Modern browsers run WebAssembly fast enough that a 200-page merge takes about a second. OCR a scanned lease in under 10 seconds. We didn’t cheat - every tool is truly local.
Is there a free trial?
Yes - sign up with an email and get full access to all tools for 7 days, no card required. After that it's $29/yr. No watermarks, no feature limits, no surprises.
What about AI - where do my files go?
Only if you opt in to the AI chat feature. You bring your own OpenAI/Claude/Gemini key (stored in your browser). When you ask a question, your browser talks directly to the AI provider - we are never in the middle.
What if pdfsuite.co goes down?
If you installed the PWA, nothing happens - it keeps working offline forever. If you didn’t, you’d need to wait until it’s back up. Either way, your files are never stuck on our servers because they were never on our servers.
Is PDFsuite an Adobe Acrobat alternative?
Yes - PDFsuite covers the 28 most-used Acrobat features (merge, split, compress, sign, redact, OCR, convert PDF to Word, add watermarks, password-protect) for $29 per year instead of $239. It runs entirely in your browser, so files never leave your device - which Acrobat on the web can't match. If you need Acrobat's advanced prepress features (PDF/X, preflight), stick with Acrobat. For everyday freelancer PDF work, PDFsuite is the private, offline-capable alternative.
Your PDFs.
Finally private.
28 private PDF tools. No servers. No uploads. All on device, in your browser.