Google Docs Viewer Alternatives

Google Docs Viewer is described as 'With Google Docs Viewer, you can quickly view many file types online, including PDFs, Microsoft Office files, and many image file types' and is a PDF Reader in the office & productivity category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Google Docs Viewer, not only websites but also apps for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Android, Mac, Linux and Android Tablet apps. The best Google Docs Viewer alternative is SumatraPDF, which is both free and Open Source. Other great sites and apps similar to Google Docs Viewer are Okular, Foxit PDF Reader, Evince and MuPDF.

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  1. 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
     
  2. 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
     
  3. Kami icon
     17 likes

    Cloud-based PDF viewer and annotation tool for your browser. Perfect for Chromebook 1:1 schools. View, export, print and share your PDF files straight from your browser. Kami works on all browsers and works best with Google Chrome.

    86 Kami alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Google Chrome
     
  4. Hyphen icon
     3 likes

    Take control of the way your ePubs display. Hyphen comes packed with a ton of options for custom colors, fonts, font sizes, line heights, paragraph indentations, margins - ...well, you get the idea. You can even use styling on a per-book basis.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
  5. SlimPDF Reader is a high quality PDF viewer that is only 1.5MB in size. Features and benefits:

    • Eliminate bloatware and help your computer run faster;
    • View any PDF File just like Adobe Reader;
    • 100% Free;
    • The smallest desktop PDF Reader in the World.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  6. A simple PDF document viewer.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Android
    • F-Droid
     
  7. BePDF icon
     7 likes

    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
     
  8. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  9. DBook icon
     4 likes

    DBook is a online service and solution to write large documents in a structured, collaborative and secure way.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  10. Altarsoft PDF Reader is a program for viewing and editing PDF files.

    Main Features:

    • open / save pdf files
    • zoom in / zoom out
    • rotate page
    • encrypt pdf file
    • decrypt pdf file
    • add annotations
    • add bookmarks
    • add watermarks
    • add attachments
    • convert images to pdf file.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  11. 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
     
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