Chrome PDF Viewer Plug-in Alternatives

Chrome PDF Viewer Plug-in is described as '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' and is a popular PDF Reader in the web browsers category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Chrome PDF Viewer Plug-in for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Android and Web-based apps. The best Chrome PDF Viewer Plug-in alternative is SumatraPDF, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Chrome PDF Viewer Plug-in are Okular, Foxit PDF Reader, Evince and MuPDF.

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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.

    54 PDF X alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once or Subscription)
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    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.

    76 Ashampoo PDF Free alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    Do more than just view your PDF files online. With the Acrobat extension, you can mark up proposals, leave sticky note comments, and use your favorite PDF tools without leaving your browser.

    2 Adobe Acrobat PDF Extension alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Google Chrome
    • Microsoft Edge
     
  4. qpdfview icon
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    qpdfview is a Qt-based tabbed document viewer using the Poppler library for PDF rendering and CUPS for printing. Support for the DjVu and PostScript formats can be added via plugins.

    77 qpdfview alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Haiku
    • Qt
     
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    The simplest PDF viewer. Safe (doesn't require permissions), lightweight (just 6,9MB) and modern.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android
    • HUAWEI AppGallery
    • F-Droid
    • Kindle Fire
     
  6. Xpdf icon
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    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.

    62 Xpdf alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  7. ePDFView icon
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    A simple PDF document viewer, in the lines of Evince but without using the Gnome libraries. ePDFView is a free lightweight PDF document viewer using Poppler and GTK+ libraries.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  8. Apryse  icon
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    Apryse, previously known as PDFTron, takes document solutions to the next level, making work better and life simpler.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
    • Apryse is the most popular SaaS alternative to Chrome PDF Viewer Plug-in.

    • Apryse is Paid and Open SourceChrome PDF Viewer Plug-in is Free and Proprietary
  9. PDFTool icon
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    Edit your PDF files quickly and intuitively. Open, edit, save or convert PDF files with PDFTool – it’s up to you.

    67 PDFTool alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  10. RAD PDF icon
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    RAD PDF is a website component and online interface for editing, filling, signing, and viewing PDF documents. This ASP.NET technology offers your users a free PDF editor, ready for integration with your web application.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
    • RAD PDF is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to Chrome PDF Viewer Plug-in.

    • RAD PDF is Freemium and ProprietaryChrome PDF Viewer Plug-in is Free and Proprietary
    • RAD PDF is LightweightChrome PDF Viewer Plug-in is not according to our users
  11. Jumpdf icon
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    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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
     
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