Open Source iLovePDF Alternatives

The best open source alternative to iLovePDF is Stirling-PDF. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to iLovePDF and 12 is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to iLovePDF are PDFCreator, BentoPDF, Signature PDF and Qpdf Tools.

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iLovePDF alternatives are mainly PDF Editors, but if you're looking for PDF Readers or E-signature Tools you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Open Source and Free. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to iLovePDF.
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  1. PDFCreator icon
     262 likes

    PDFCreator is a virtual PDF printer that converts any printable document into a PDF file. It works with all Windows applications, including Word, Excel, browsers, and design tools.

    110 PDFCreator alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Bundleware

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  2. BentoPDF icon
     12 likes

    BentoPDF is a PDF Toolkit that works fully offline with no sign ups. It's fast, secure and forever free. In an era where data is a commodity, we take a different approach. All processing for BentoPDF tools happens locally in your browser.

    68 BentoPDF alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  3. Signature PDF icon
     9 likes

    Free open-source web software for signing (alone or with others), organizing (merge, sort, rotate, delete, extract pages, ...), editing metadatas or compressing PDFs.

    69 Signature PDF alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • WebApps
    • Docker Hub
     
  4. Qpdf Tools icon
     2 likes

    Qpdf Tools is an easy-to-use Qt interface for Ghostscript and QPDF.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
     
  5. LuxPDF icon
     3 likes

    Offers more than 15 free, open-source web-based PDF tools for editing, conversion, merging, splitting, compressing, metadata removal, and password removal, with all client-side processing, no ads, no file size or batch limits, and no registration required.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  6. pdfly icon
     1 like

    pdfly (say: PDF-li) is a pure-python CLI application for manipulating PDF files.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Python
    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Windows
    • BSD
     
  7. CubePDF Utility allows you to intuitively perform editing tasks such as merging, extracting, splitting, deleting, reordering, and rotating PDF pages via thumbnails.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  8. DocDocGoose icon
     2 likes

    Edit documents directly in your browser.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  9. PDF Merge Tool is a simple, fast and easy tool for merging PDF files. It runs on the .NET framework v2 and uses the PDFSharp library.

    83 PDF Merge tool alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  10. Secure, local-first PDF editor. Edit, merge, split, OCR text extraction, and manage PDFs offline. No cloud.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Google Chrome
     
  11. THEJORD icon
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    Free, privacy-first developer tools that run 100% in your browser. JSON Formatter, PDF Tools (merge, split, compress), Base64, Hash Generator, Regex Tester, and more. No server uploads, no tracking.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
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