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MuPDF

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MuPDF offers a highly versatile PDF, XPS, and eBook interpreter, customizable as a renderer, viewer, or toolkit. Features include digital signatures, redactions, form filling, annotations, and page manipulation, ideal for mobile, eBooks, and embedded apps supporting Java, C++, and Python.

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License model

  • Free • Open Source

Application types

Country of Origin

  • US flagUnited States

Platforms

  • Windows
  • Linux
  • Android
  • F-Droid
  • Xfce
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4.2 / 5 Avg rating (12)
155likes
6comments
89alternatives
0news articles

Features

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Properties

  1.  Lightweight

Features

  1.  Portable
  2.  Ad-free
  3.  Vim Key Mapping
  4.  PDF annotation
  5.  Sign PDF files
  6.  PDF compression
  7.  Combine PDF
  8.  Split PDF files
  9.  Fill PDF Forms

 Tags

  • xps-viewer
  • xps
  • Xfce
  • annotatepdf

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    trertre added MuPDF as alternative to Translator for PDF and EPUB
    9 days ago
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    Danilo_Venom added MuPDF as alternative to PDF4QT
    24 days ago
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    24 days ago
  • thesuncitywitch, nu1iess3, Agibi and pitchenese1204 liked MuPDF
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MuPDF information

  • Developed by

    US flagArtifex Software, Inc.

  • Licensing

    Open Source (AGPL-3.0) and Free product.

  • Written in

  • Rating

    Average rating of 4.2 (12 ratings)

  • Alternatives

    89 alternatives listed

  • Supported Languages

    • English
    • Dutch
    • French
    • German
    • Hebrew
    • Italian
    • Japanese
    • Korean
    • Polish
    • Portuguese
    • Russian
    • Chinese
    • Spanish
    • Thai
    • Turkish

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Our users have written 6 comments and reviews about MuPDF, and it has gotten 155 likes

MuPDF was added to AlternativeTo by Gbeworld on Mar 10, 2012 and this page was last updated Apr 30, 2025.

Comments and Reviews

   
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Top Positive Comment
thebenmix11
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Sep 19, 2020
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The only bad thing about it is that I didn't find it earlier. It is very lightweight and fits perfectly in a phone with small storage.

The rendering is high quality, and though it sacrifices a lot of functionality to be as lightweight as possible, it has everything a casual reader needs.

Top Negative Comment
dkshsat
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Sep 24, 2021
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Features are too simple and the UI is not user-friendly.

Ituaf
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Aug 22, 2023
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Very simplistic. A fantastic no BS option for PDF viewing.

Zweierpotenz
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Jul 7, 2022
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Most of the time I just want to view the content of a pdf and MuPDF does this amazingly fast.

Rodney42
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May 30, 2020
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Best document viewer for Android

Trendle
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Feb 24, 2019
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It failed to open my PDF files.

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I use Pdf Viewer Plus instead (github.com/JavaCafe01/PdfViewer).

What is MuPDF?

Ultra-small, ultra-fast, exceptional PDF rendering solution.

MuPDF is a highly versatile, customizable PDF, XPS, and eBook interpreter solution that can be used across a wide range of applications as a PDF renderer, viewer, or toolkit. A few of our interactive features include digital signatures, PDF redactions, form filling, annotations, and page manipulation.

The MuPDF SDK is designed for easy implementation and immediate productivity for developers, making it a perfect fit for mobile browsers, eBooks, and embedded applications where speed and quality are key. MuPDF supports the widest range of document input and output formats in today's market.

There are several versions of MuPDF consisting of a software library, command-line tools, and viewers for various platforms. The viewers can be downloaded from Google Play and the App Store. The SDK can be licensed from Artifex for commercial use or under the AGPL for open source use.

MuPDF runs on a wide range of operating systems including Android, iOS, Windows, macOS, Linux, and Unix-like systems. We added language bindings for Java, C++, and Python, as well as Web Viewers powered by WebAssembly.

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