Alternatives to Nitro Reader for all platforms with any license

Sumatra PDF

Sumatra PDF is a slim, free, open-source PDF/DjVu/EPUB/XPS/CHM/CBR/CBZ/MOBI viewer for Windows. Why another PDF reader? Sumatra has a minimalistic design. Simplicity...
- Sumatra PDF is fast, light on memory and CPU, and it can handle many open documents without slowing down an old PC. For just reading and viewing PDF documents, nothing beats Sumatra PDF. Yes, there are other good PDF viewers out there, but they're not better, only different. badon • Mar 2018
Free Open Source Windows PortableApps.com
Lightweight Low memory usage Data portability Export to office formats ... Portable Signing PDF Documents Tabbed interface 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...
- Bundleware The installer tries to install McAfee WebAdvisor and PhantomPDF Business. These can be skipped by clicking Decline on each.
Free Personal Mac Windows Linux Android iPhone ... Windows S Android Tablet Windows Phone iPad ReactOS
PDF annotation Fill PDF Forms Sign PDF files Auto scan folder ... Scan documents Email template editor Encrypted email Support for Javascript Modify filesystem timestamps Multiple languages Nearby Scan Edit PDF Portable Scan to PDF Scan to word Spelling check Tabbed interface Tablet support Add a feature

1203 Like
Evince

Evince is a document viewer for multiple document formats: PDF, Postscript, djvu, tiff, dvi, XPS, SyncTex support with gedit, comics books (cbr,cbz,cb7 and cbt). For a...

Free Open Source Windows Linux
Handwriting recognition Lightweight Multiple languages PDF annotation ... Portable Windows Compatible Add a feature

378 Like
Adobe Acrobat Reader DC

Adobe Acrobat Reader DC is a powerful software for viewing, printing, and annotating PDFs. It’s connected to Adobe Document Cloud — so it’s easier than ever to work...

Freemium Mac Windows Android iPhone Chrome OS ... Windows Phone iPad Blackberry 10
PDF annotation Edit PDF Sync between devices Create PDF files ... Multi-tabs Sign PDF files Add a feature

362 Like
PDF-XChange Viewer

The PDF-XChange Viewer has been discontinued and replaced by the PDF-XChange Editor.

Freemium Windows PortableApps.com
PDF annotation PDF OCR Extract annotation Font identifier ... Lightweight Multiple languages Note extraction Portable Side-by-Side View Add a feature

344 Like
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.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD
Tabbed interface Chapter cursor PDF annotation Fill PDF Forms ... Text Highlighting Trim margins Add a feature

181 Like
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 http://alternativeto .

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Chrome Opera ... Firefox
Browser integration Google Chrome extension Firefox extension Support for Javascript ... Opera extension Add a feature

124 Like
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...

Free Open Source Windows Linux Android iPhone iPad ... Xfce
Lightweight Portable Add a feature

73 Like
PDFCreator

PDFCreator allows to create PDFs (and images) from every printable document. The automation features allow you to send mails, upload files via FTP and Dropbox and run...
- Bundleware The installer contains adwares. Be careful during the installation: https://alternativeto.net/discussions/applications/11718/be-careful-in-the-installation/
Freemium $ $ $ Windows
Create PDF files Drawing Board Dropbox integration Multiple languages Add a feature

252 Like
Skim

Skim is a PDF reader and note-taker for OS X. It is designed to help you read and annotate scientific papers in PDF, but is also great for viewing any PDF file.

Free Open Source Mac
PDF annotation Add a feature

73 Like
Document Viewer

A fork of the last GPL version of EBookDroid. Supports the following formats: PDF DjVu XPS (OpenXPS) Comic...

Free Open Source Android Android Tablet F-Droid
No features added Add a feature

23 Like
Xodo

Xodo is the ultimate cross-platform PDF viewer and annotator. And it’s 100% free. Powerful, fast, and optimized for all phones and tablets, Xodo’s mobile app makes it...

Free Android iPhone Windows RT Android Tablet Windows Phone ... iPad Kindle Fire
PDF annotation Online Sharing Real time collaboration Scan to PDF ... Sign PDF files Add a feature

25 Like
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...

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

52 Like
qpdfview

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...

Free Open Source Linux Haiku Qt
PDF annotation Fill PDF Forms Tabbed interface Add a feature

34 Like
zathura

zathura is a highly customizable and functional PDF viewer based on the poppler rendering library and the gtk+ toolkit. The idea behind zathura is an application that...

Free Open Source Mac Linux BSD MacPorts Homebrew
Superb keyboard navigation Add a feature

27 Like

Nitro Reader Comments

Comment by PirateKing42

about Nitro Reader · Apr 2018 · Helpful Not helpful Report as spam

Updating of PDF thumbnails is very slow under Windows 10 Pro.

A warning

Comment by 72dpi

about Nitro Reader and Sumatra PDF · Nov 2011 · Helpful Not helpful Report as spam

This application seems overly heavy and sluggish. The installation takes a long time, it validates itself and such (I prefer installers that just install) and I got the feeling it installs After installation I noticed it had associated the files it reads to itself (so PDFs will by default open in Nitro).

When using Nitro PDF to browse pages in a PDF, I experienced a delay of about 1 second. The same document reads without any delay in both Adobe Reader, Acrobat and Sumatra PDF.

Comment by JonM33

about Nitro Reader · Jun 2011 · Helpful Not helpful Report as spam

Nice, looks like Office 2010 interface. It has a lot of functionality and isn't just a reader. Currently Beta so be aware.

Comment by pipo2003

about Nitro Reader · Jun 2011 · Helpful Not helpful Report as spam

i'm still testing it, so far looks impressive. Perfect replacement for Adobe Reade or Foxit

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Alternatives to Nitro Reader for all platforms with any license

Sumatra PDF

Foxit Reader

Evince

Adobe Acrobat Reader DC

PDF-XChange Viewer

Okular

Firefox PDF Viewer (PDF.js)

MuPDF

PDFCreator

Skim

Document Viewer

Xodo

Chrome PDF Viewer Plug-in

qpdfview

zathura

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