PDFCreator AlternativesOnly apps categorised as PDF Readers

The best PDF Reader alternative to PDFCreator is PDF-XChange Editor, which is free. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to PDFCreator and 14 are PDF Readers so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting PDF Reader alternatives to PDFCreator are PDF24 Creator, Stirling-PDF, Soda PDF and Acrobat.com - Create PDF.

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  1. PDF-XChange Editor icon

    PDF-XChange Editor

     170 likes

    Feature-rich PDF editor offering direct content editing, ABBYY OCR, viewing, annotation, form filling, PDF merging, compression, and encryption. Operates efficiently offline, requiring no registration and no ads, while providing privacy-focused features and convenient portability.

    145 PDF-XChange Editor alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
    • Wine
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    Comments about PDF-XChange Editor as an Alternative to PDFCreator
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    Leaves free version watermark

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • PDF-XChange Editor is the most popular Windows alternative to PDFCreator.

    • PDF-XChange Editor is the most popular free alternative to PDFCreator.

    • PDF-XChange Editor is Freemium and ProprietaryPDFCreator is Free Personal and Open Source
    • PDF-XChange Editor is Customizable and Privacy focusedPDFCreator is not according to our users
  2. PDF24 Creator icon

    PDF24 Creator

     146 likes

    PDF24 Creator is free and feature-filled PDF creation, merging and conversion tool for Windows. Its unique feature among the free PDF printer tools is an editor, which allows to easily assemble, create and modify PDF files with Drag & Drop.

    172 PDF24 Creator alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
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    I'm producing 25 x 10.65 inch pages with lots of images on them for a book. PDFCreator produces the pdfs but creates some fuzz around black text. Marginally visible at 100% zoom, very obvious at 200%. PDF24 Creators pdfs are perfect ..... as are 300 dpi jpegs! It's nice to be able to generate pdfs or jpegs from same program! Thanks you. - John M

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Almost everyone thinks PDF24 Creator is a great PDFCreator alternative.

    • PDF24 Creator is Free and ProprietaryPDFCreator is Free Personal and Open Source
  4. Stirling-PDF icon

    Stirling-PDF

     49 likes

    locally hosted web application that allows you to perform various operations on PDF files.

    86 Stirling-PDF alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker Hub
    • Cloudron
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    • Stirling-PDF is the most popular Web-based, Mac & Self-Hosted alternative to PDFCreator.

    • Stirling-PDF is the most popular Open Source alternative to PDFCreator.

    • Stirling-PDF is Freemium and Open SourcePDFCreator is Free Personal and Open Source
    • Stirling-PDF is Privacy focusedPDFCreator is not according to our users
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  6. Soda PDF icon

    Soda PDF

     10 likes

    Soda PDF was created with the user in mind. Smart, reliable, and accessible, our software is designed with a focus on giving you the most useful features in an easy-to-use package.

    60 Soda PDF alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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    • Soda PDF is the most popular SaaS alternative to PDFCreator.

    • Soda PDF is the most popular commercial alternative to PDFCreator.

    • Soda PDF is Paid and ProprietaryPDFCreator is Free Personal and Open Source
    • Soda PDF is Privacy focusedPDFCreator is not according to our users
  7. Acrobat.com - Create PDF icon

    Acrobat.com - Create PDF

     2 likes

    Acrobat.com is a set of online services — file sharing and storage, a PDF converter, an online word processor, and web conferencing — you can use to create and share documents, communicate in real time, and simplify working with others.

    95 Acrobat.com - Create PDF alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  8. pdfDocs icon

    pdfDocs

     30 likes

    pdfDocs integrates with business systems to efficiently assemble, secure and distribute documents in PDF and PDF/A format.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Microsoft SharePoint
    • Worldox
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  10. PDFescape icon

    PDFescape

     17 likes

    PDFescape is your free, online PDF reader, editor, form filler, & form designer. Without required downloads or installations! Without watermarks! Without required registration!

    92 PDFescape alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Online
    PDFescape PDF Editor Interface
     
  11. PDF-Suite icon

    PDF-Suite

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    The easy-to-use all-in-one PDF software that gives you the power to Read, Create, Edit, Secure, Convert and Print PDF files.

    40 PDF-Suite alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  12. PDF Reader Pro icon

    PDF Reader Pro

     7 likes

    Read, edit, annotate, and sign PDF documents with built-in AI features like summarize and translate, OCR in 50+ languages, fill forms, export to major formats offline, apply watermarks, compress files, secure with passwords, and use text-to-speech on all major platforms.

    76 PDF Reader Pro alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once or Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
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  13. CIB PDF Brewer icon

    CIB PDF Brewer

     2 likes

    The free and easy to use CIB pdf brewer creates PDFs from any filetype on windows. Merge PDFs, remove PDF-pages, highly compress your PDFs, re-edit Word documents converted to PDF, create ZUGFeRD-PDFs and much more in a very easy to use manner.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  14. Gotomaxx PDFMAILER icon

    Gotomaxx PDFMAILER

     1 like

    Create and send PDFs as a business or as an individual. As easily as you have never done before!

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  15. Infix PDF Editor icon

    Infix PDF Editor

     4 likes

    Infix PDF editor lets you open, edit and save PDF files. It’s easy and quick – you can change text, fonts, images and more. And, unlike other PDF editors, it works like normal word processing software, so it’s really easy to use.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
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