Platforms
- Windows
- Linux
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Adobe Acrobat Reader Alternatives
One of the most popular alternatives to Adobe Acrobat Reader is SumatraPDF, which is free and open source. Other popular alternatives are Okular, Foxit PDF Reader, Xournal++ and PDFgear. You're spoiled for choice with PDF Readers like Adobe Acrobat Reader: we list more than 100 alternatives for Windows, Mac, the web, Linux and Android.
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Alternatives list
Free, open-source desktop app for legally binding PDF digital signatures. Sign with PKCS#11 hardware tokens, USB dongles, smart cards, PFX certificates, or Windows keystore. Adobe-compatible, RFC 3161 timestamped, fully offline — no cloud, no subscription.
Cost / License
- Free Personal
- Open Source (AGPL-3.0)
Platforms
- Windows
- Linux
- Mac
India
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BePDF is a PDF viewer for the BeOS, Haiku & Zeta. Besides viewing, it supports annotating and user-defined bookmarking for unencrypted PDFs. It's fully localized for 20 languages at the moment with additional languages being easily added via text files.
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Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Haiku
Jumpdf is a keyboard-focused PDF viewer for documents where one needs to jump between different sections of the document frequently.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
Application type
Platforms
- Linux
- Flathub
- Flatpak
DjVu & PDF reader for Symbian OS 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4 The program is based on Poppler, DjvuLibre.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Symbian S60
Fileloupe is a lightweight, incredibly high performance media browser for macOS. You can quickly browse photos, watch videos, read PDFs and preview documents all within the same window. It's like the Finder's Quick Look window, only better.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Mac
United States
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Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (BSD-3-Clause)
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Mac
- Linux
P
There is no PDF document that cannot be opened for viewing with a reader or viewer. There are many PDF readers to choose from, and more and more are paid now. If you want to avoid paying for software, Speedpdf Reader is a good free PDF reader for you.
Platforms
- Windows
China
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An attorney who deals with a lot of PDFs set himself with the task of finding a way to preview the PDFs in Windows Explorer (much like Cover Flow view already does in Mac OS X) without actually opening them.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Windows
- Windows Explorer
P
An elegant PDF tool for editing, filling, annotating, and sharing documents from any device. Add text, shapes, images, and signatures, with flexible workflows that work naturally across Mac, Windows, Linux, the web, iOS, and Android.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- iPad
- Android Tablet
- United States
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The Flipping PDF Reader allows to read PDF documents in user friendly interface with flipping book effect. Good looking and convenient alternative for Adobe PDF Reader.
Platforms
- Windows
modern computer flatboat is a mobile pdf viewer written in Qt and using MuPDF's libfitz.
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Android
