Adobe Acrobat Reader Alternatives

Adobe Acrobat Reader is described as 'View, annotate, and collaborate on PDFs, utilize cloud storage and freehand tools. Upgrade for editing and converting to other formats' and is a very popular PDF Reader in the office & productivity category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Adobe Acrobat Reader for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Web-based, Linux and Android apps. The best Adobe Acrobat Reader alternative is SumatraPDF, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Adobe Acrobat Reader are Okular, Foxit PDF Reader, Evince and Firefox PDF Viewer (PDF.js).

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Adobe Acrobat Reader alternatives are mainly PDF Readers, but if you're looking for PDF Editors or Ebook Readers you can filter on that. Other popular filters include PDF Editor, Open Source, Windows, Linux, Android, Free and Windows + Open Source. You can also filter by region, for example EU-based alternatives if you prefer software developed in the European Union. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to Adobe Acrobat Reader.
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  1. PDF X icon
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    PDF X is a productive PDF reader & editor for Windows. It's powerful for users to view, print, edit, and annotate Adobe Acrobat PDFs.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  2. PDF Max is a desktop class PDF app for reading, annotating or signing PDF documents on your iPhone/iPad. Mark up documents with highlights and handwriting, insert texts and stamps, fill out, sign PDFs and even manipulate PDF pages.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
  3. Xpdf icon
     12 likes

    Xpdf is a free PDF viewer and toolkit, including a text extractor, image converter, HTML converter, and more. Most of the tools are available as open source.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  4. Ashampoo PDF Free is a software for opening, reading, and creating PDF files. It includes a built-in printer driver for generating PDFs from any Windows application, a compact and fast PDF reader, and the ability to fill out interactive and static forms.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  5. PDF4QT icon
     12 likes

    Open-source PDF viewer and editor using Qt framework, featuring hardware-accelerated rendering, encryption, multithreading, text-to-speech, annotation tools, form filling, high-res monitor support, document compression, audio book conversion, and signature validation.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
     
  6. pdfDocs icon
     30 likes

    pdfDocs integrates with business systems to efficiently assemble, secure and distribute documents in PDF and PDF/A format.

    52 pdfDocs alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Microsoft SharePoint
    • Worldox
     
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    pdfDocs vs Adobe Acrobat Reader Comments
    barrydawson
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    The pdfDocs UI is intuitive, the whole application has the same feel as Microsoft Office.

    • pdfDocs is Paid and ProprietaryAdobe Acrobat Reader is Freemium and Proprietary
  7. Universal Viewer is an advanced file viewer for wide range of formats. Supported file formats are:

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  8. PDFLiner icon
     Like

    PDFLiner is the all-in-one online platform for working with PDF documents. Here, you can upload any PDF or Image and edit it in just a few seconds. With PDFLiner you edit your PDF files as well as sign them electronically and protect them with password and watermark if needed.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  9. Blazing fast PDF and portable eReader built on muPDF. Including the ability to save "highlights" and notes like on Kindle.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  10. EBookDroid icon
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    EBookDroid is an open source (GPL'ed) document viewer for Android based on the VuDroid code base.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Android
     
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