PDFCreator Alternatives for Mac

PDFCreator is not available for Mac but there are plenty of alternatives that runs on macOS with similar functionality. The best Mac alternative is Stirling-PDF, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to PDFCreator and 19 are available for Mac so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Mac alternatives to PDFCreator are iLovePDF, Elimisoft PDF Creator, RWTS PDFwriter and PDF Reader Pro.

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PDFCreator alternatives are mainly PDF Editors, but if you're looking for PDF Readers or PDF Printers you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Linux, Mac and Open Source. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to PDFCreator.
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  1. iLovePDF icon
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    iLovePDF is an online service to work with PDF files completely free and easy to use. Merge PDF, split PDF, compress PDF, office to PDF, PDF to JPG and more!

    147 iLovePDF alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
     
  2. Elimisoft PDF Creator is a great way to help you create PDF from Word(.docx), PowerPoint(.pptx), Plain Text, RTFD, HTML, EPUB, and Image(.png, .gif, .tif, .jpeg, etc). It also keeps the origin formatting after creating!.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  3. RWTS PDFwriter is an OSX 11.0+ compatible print driver that enables you to “print” your documents directly to a pdf file. It has similar functionality to CutePDF on Windows.

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    • Mac
     
  4. 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.

    79 PDF Reader Pro alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
     
  5. Cisdem PDFCreator for Mac lets you easily create PDF from Word, PowerPoint, EPUB, Text, RTFD, HTML, CHM, JPG, and PNG, etc. It can do both partial conversion of one single file and batch conversion, and even merged conversion with several files.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  6. PDFify icon
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    PDF creation with text recognition and scanner support. Features email and webpage import to PDF. Reduce file size by optimizing PDF.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
     
  7. Edit, convert, annotate, protect, merge, split, compress, and sign PDF files on Mac.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  8. 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.

    92 Infix PDF Editor alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  9. pdfly icon
     1 like

    pdfly (say: PDF-li) is a pure-python CLI application for manipulating PDF files.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Python
    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Windows
    • BSD
     
  10. Save as WWF icon
     6 likes

    The WWF format is a PDF that cannot be printed out. It’s a simple way to avoid unnecessary printing. So here’s your chance to save trees and help the environment. Decide for yourself which documents don't need printing out – then simply save them as WWF.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  11. Spool Pilot makes it possible to convert printouts from arbitrary applications in several popular graphic formats as easily as it is now to save them in a PDF file. From the point of view of the user, the procedure of saving printouts is very much the same.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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