Papers Alternatives

Papers is described as 'A document viewer for the GNOME desktop. You can view, search or annotate documents in many different formats' and is a PDF Reader in the news & books category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Papers for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Android, Mac and Android Tablet apps. The best Papers alternative is SumatraPDF, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Papers are Okular, Foxit PDF Reader, Evince and KOReader.

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  1. Universal Viewer is an advanced file viewer for wide range of formats. Supported file formats are:

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  2. zathura icon
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    Zathura is a highly customizable and functional document viewer. It provides a minimalistic and space saving interface as well as an easy usage that mainly focuses on keyboard interaction.

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    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (Zlib)

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • MacPorts
    • Homebrew
     
  3. Blazing fast PDF and portable eReader built on muPDF. Including the ability to save "highlights" and notes like on Kindle.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  4. A privacy-first, client-side PDF editor that runs in your browser. Edit, annotate, merge/split, compress to target sizes, OCR scanned PDFs, and convert files—no signup, no watermark.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  5. 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 and lighter, and updates with the browser rather than an external utility.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Google Chrome
     
  6. 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

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  7. The simplest PDF viewer. Safe (doesn't require permissions), lightweight (just 6,9MB) and modern.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android
    • HUAWEI AppGallery
    • F-Droid
    • Kindle Fire
     
  8. 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

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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