Okular Alternatives for Linux

There are many alternatives to Okular for Linux if you are looking for a replacement. The best Linux alternative is PdfCraft, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to Okular and many of them are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to Okular are LibreOffice - Draw, KOReader, Koodo Reader and Evince.

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  1. 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.

    79 Xpdf alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Since

    • Since 2011

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
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  2. Xreader icon
     1 like

    Xreader is a document viewer capable of displaying multiple and single page document formats like PDF and Postscript.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Since

    • Since 2024

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  3. ePDFView icon
     13 likes

    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

    Since

    • Since 2009

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  4. modern computer flatboat is a mobile pdf viewer written in Qt and using MuPDF's libfitz.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Since

    • Since 2013

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Android
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  5. Bookworm icon
     16 likes

    Read the books you love without having to worry about different format complexities like epub, pdf, mobi, cbr, etc.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Since

    • Since 2017

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  6. Innovative open source JavaFX PDF Viewer that combines the power of JavaFX with IDRsolutions industry leading PDF library to deliver a complete cross-platform PDF Reader/Viewer.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Since

    • Since 2017

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  7. ASAPDF icon
     1 like

    An elegant PDF tool for editing, filling, annotating, and sharing documents from any device. Add text, shapes, images, and signatures, with flexible workflows that work naturally across Mac, Windows, Linux, the web, iOS, and Android.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Since

    • Since 2026

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • iPad
    • Android Tablet
    • US flagUnited States
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  8. Jumpdf icon
     1 like

    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 (MIT)

    Application type

    Since

    • Since 2024

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
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  9.  1 like

    A small .pdf management tool with a command-line UI.

    Cost / License

    Since

    • Since 2019

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
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  10. SourcePDF icon
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    SourcePDF is a completely free to use PDF editor.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Since

    • Since 2021

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
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  11. Free desktop PDF reader and word processor for Windows and Linux: read, annotate, fill in and redact PDFs, and write documents saved as PDF or Word, offline.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Since

    • New

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
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