Adobe Acrobat Reader DC Alternatives for Windows

Alternatives to Adobe Acrobat Reader DC for Windows with any license

SumatraPDF

Sumatra PDF is a slim, free, open-source PDF/DjVu/EPUB/XPS/CHM/CBR/CBZ/MOBI/FB2 viewer for Windows. Why another PDF reader? Sumatra has a minimalistic design. Simplicity has a higher priority than a lot of features. Its small and starts up very fast. Its designed for portable use: its just one file with no external dependencies so you can easily run it from external USB drive.
- Sumatra does not support editing forms and adding annotations. Guest • Nov 2019 • 31 agrees and 4 disagrees
- The only FOSS PDF reader on Windows. Very fast, responsive and straight forward. No useless features or complicated UI. miromarvel • Aug 2020
- Free, quick to install, quick to uninstall, loads fast. pbfranon • Jun 2016 • 45 agrees and 2 disagrees
- Lightweight, separate windows, loads fast. However, no form fills Guest • Apr 2018 • 3 agrees and 0 disagrees
- Very lightweight, always works well, better performance Guest • Sep 2017 • 27 agrees and 3 disagrees
- Better performance and lower memory footprint make it faster to load. Can run from a USB drive. Guest • Sep 2020 • 0 agrees and 1 disagrees
- Small program, excessively-fast to open .pdf files: Just pdf viewer you want. Guest • Sep 2019 • 3 agrees and 0 disagrees
- Lightweight and fast. No crapware bundled. Guest • Sep 2019 • 3 agrees and 1 disagrees
- Fast and free. He doesn't support adding annotations :( Guest • Apr 2020
- Sumatra PDF is lightweight, stable and user-friendly, as well as being completely free. It doesn't include the entire feature set of some of the other popular PDF readers, such as form fill, but does have some features that others don't, such as a tabbed interface. I highly recommend. I personally use Sumatra for reading and FoxIt for writing/major reading. Szubxero • Jan 2020
- lightweight, fast, unclattered UI Guest • Mar 2019
- Super fast. Instant in fact, whereas DC crawls and hangs and crawls and hangs. Wish I'd found this sooner. Guest • Dec 2018 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees
- It's nowhere as vulnerable to attacks as Adobe Reader, doesn't execute embedded JS, and renders documents blazingly fast Atoshi • Nov 2016 • 15 agrees and 5 disagrees
- Lightweight, effective, an can be run from a USB. Guest • Sep 2018 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees
- lightweight, fast to open/close, render document very fast. rickysantoso • Jul 2018 • 2 agrees and 1 disagrees
- It is light, fast, free, multilingual, and open source. It is more user-friendly than Adobe Acrobat Reader DC. Guest • Jun 2018 • 2 agrees and 1 disagrees
- Very light (a few MB) and great compatibility. Guest • May 2017 • 6 agrees and 3 disagrees
- Sumatra is perfect, lightweight, does what is useful and does it well. Guest • Aug 2016 • 8 agrees and 5 disagrees
- Small, powerful, fast and very configurable. 01101001b • Oct 2017 • 2 agrees and 0 disagrees
- Small, fast, light, libre, delightful. Guest • Feb 2017 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees
Free Open Source Windows PortableApps.com
Lightweight Low memory usage Tabbed interface AzW Reader ... Highlighter Multi Format Reader Optimal performance OXPS File Reader Portable PRC File Reader XOD File Reader Data portability Export to office formats Global bookmarks Quick search Signing PDF Documents Add a feature

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Foxit Reader

Foxit Reader is a free and light-weight multi-platform PDF document viewer. Its core function is compatible with PDF Standard 1.7. Whether you're a consumer, business, government agency, or educational organization, you need to read, create, sign, and annotate (comment on) PDF documents and fill out PDF forms. Foxit Reader is a small, lightning fast, and feature rich PDF viewer which allows you to open, view, sign, and print any PDF file.
- Bundleware
  The installer tries to install McAfee WebAdvisor and PhantomPDF Business. These can be skipped by clicking Decline on each.
- Excellent interface and qucik and easy to use. Guest • Aug 2020
- The accessibility of the commands is great, the most important features are free. I haven't felt the need to change to a third pdf viewer. Plus, you can print to PDF when many other software started eliminating this option. Guest • Jul 2019 • 2 agrees and 1 disagrees
- The UI is kludgy and looks like it belongs in the 1990's. Also, basic functionality now included in Adobe isn't (or at least not easily) found in Foxit. I love Foxit's products and have a Business user of theirs for years - so, this is really disappointing. Guest • Dec 2018 • 5 agrees and 6 disagrees
- fast, complete, and a similar interface Guest • Oct 2018 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees
- Multi tabs, stable, and very clean design. Guest • Jan 2017 • 3 agrees and 1 disagrees
- Not as light as Sumatra PDF because have another feature. It's a great alternative to Acrobat Reader. rickysantoso • Jul 2018 • 1 agrees and 2 disagrees
- Typewriter function can make any form a fillable form. Skip the printing and associated cost. Did this with lengthy government forms and docs. Seamless. Guest • Jul 2017 • 5 agrees and 4 disagrees
- This one has the ability to mark PDFs for highlighting books and etc. Guest • Jun 2016 • 7 agrees and 4 disagrees
Free Personal Mac Windows Linux Android iPhone ... Windows S Android Tablet Windows Phone iPad ReactOS
PDF annotation Fill PDF Forms Easy scripting language Highlighter ... Lightweight Edit PDF Sign PDF files Auto scan folder Scan documents Email template editor Support for Javascript Modify filesystem timestamps Multiple languages Nearby Scan Print to PDF Portable Scan to PDF Scan to word Spell checking Tabbed interface Tablet support Text Highlighting Text to Speech Add a feature

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Okular

Okular is a universal document viewer based developed by KDE. Okular works on multiple platforms, including but not limited to Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, *BSD, etc. Okular combines the excellent functionalities with the versatility of supporting different kind of documents, like PDF, Postscript, DjVu, CHM, XPS, ePub and others. Okular is a Free Software PDF reader.
- Okular is a highly functional .pdf reader provided as a default with KDE and KDE's Plasma desktop environments. Open source, flexible and fast. What's not to like? JohnFastman • Dec 2016 • 1 agrees and 1 disagrees
- editing text, colour highlighter escobartopex • Jul 2020 • 1 agrees and 1 disagrees
- It's very fast free pdf reader with some useful editing functions. karlossss1996 • Oct 2019 • 2 agrees and 0 disagrees
- Lightweight, highly functional, and aesthetic. Guest • Oct 2017 • 2 agrees and 2 disagrees
- Lightweight, can read many document fomats like cbz or cbr, can even merge pdfs Guest • Sep 2017 • 2 agrees and 3 disagrees
Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD
PDF annotation Lightweight Document reader Low memory usage ... Compatible with Microsoft Office Export to PDF Tabbed interface Text editing Text Highlighting Text to Speech Chapter cursor Fill PDF Forms Trim margins Add a feature

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PDF Reader

PDF Reader is the ideal app for anyone who works with PDFs in the office or at home. PDF Reader allows you to organize all annotated information with a few taps. You can quickly backup and send documents to your friends, classmates and colleagues via email and cloud storage services (share via Android). Optimizing your work quality and productivity couldn’t be easier! Key Features - FILE MANGER & VIEWING MODE.
- The free version provides all functions needed for the regular user. charlesjones86 • Feb 2019 • 17 agrees and 0 disagrees
- More versatile than the Adobe Reader. daynabarber3 • Aug 2020
Freemium $ $ $ Mac Windows Android iPhone Android Tablet ... iPad
Scan documents File transfer Freehand Writing Multiple languages ... Pdf-creation Edit PDF Sign PDF files Tabbed interface Built-in File Manager Digital fax Document reader Watermark images PDF annotation PDF Editor Print to PDF Convert PDF to Word document Add a feature

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Firefox PDF Viewer (PDF.js)

PDF Viewer (aka pdf.js) is a new revolutionary extension using web standard technologies that allows you to display within Mozilla Firefox almost all PDF files found on the web without a plugin. Also available for Google Chrome and Opera
- Firefox can also be used as a PDF viewer. braky • Apr 2020 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees
Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Chrome Opera ... Firefox
Add/remove pages Browser integration Lightweight Browser extension ... Google Chrome Extensions Firefox Extensions Support for Javascript Opera extension Add a feature

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MuPDF

MuPDF is a lightweight PDF and XPS viewer. The renderer in MuPDF is tailored for high quality anti-aliased graphics. It renders text with metrics and spacing accurate to within fractions of a pixel for the highest fidelity in reproducing the look of a printed page on screen. MuPDF is also small, fast, and yet complete. It supports PDF 1.7 with transparency, encryption, hyperlinks, annotations, searching and more. It also reads OpenXPS documents.
- It doesn't have several major features that adobe reader has. MuPDF just open files that's all. no options at all, no resizing, no editing, no change in view, there is nothing. theannymspro • Nov 2019 • 0 agrees and 2 disagrees
Free Open Source Windows Linux Android iPhone iPad ... Xfce
Lightweight Cross-platform Portable Vim key mapping Add a feature

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Nitro Reader

Nitro Reader offers features and functionality far beyond typical PDF readers, and makes working with PDF easier than ever before. Create PDF files, comment and review, save PDF forms, extract text and images, type text directly onto the page, and more. Start working with PDF files the way you always wanted. There is also a printer driver included, which you can use to create PDFs from any application.
- You can create pdfs from other documents and even from pics. It has OCR so you can edit and change what is written even in a picture... plus other stuff. Guest • Mar 2017 • 5 agrees and 0 disagrees
Freemium Windows
PDF annotation Create PDF files PDF OCR Print to PDF ... Sign PDF files Add a feature

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Chrome PDF Viewer Plug-in

In version 8, Google Chrome introduced a free PDF viewer, installed by default. While this plug-in lacks many features of the Adobe Acrobat Plug-in, it is much faster and lighter, and updates with the browser rather than an external utility.

Free Mac Windows Linux Chrome
Google Chrome Extensions Convert PDF to Word document Add a feature

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STDU Viewer

Are you tired from many viewers one for each document? Do you want to have, one program for all your technical documentations, scientific books and so on? Do you want to have program, which fast opens files, fast loads pages and fast renders page to screen? And all of this in free software? STDU Viewer is a document viewer for multiple file formats. The goal of this software is to replace the multiple document viewers with a single simple application.
- Discontinued
  The program is no longer updated. Last version, 1.6.375, released in April 2015, can be still downloaded from the official website
Free Personal Windows
Portable Support for regular expressions Tabbed interface Add a feature

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Lector - PDF Reader

v1.1.0 - PDF file association. - New PDF file icons. v1.0.0 - First release. - Tabbed View to easily switch between multiple documents. - Document Navigation Tools. - Thumbnail and Outline Panes. - Find, Go to, Zoom and Print.

Free Open Source Windows
Lightweight Electron based Add a feature

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