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PDFgear

Read, edit, convert, merge, and sign PDF files across devices, for completely free and without signing up.

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Cost / License

  • Free
  • Proprietary

Application types

Platforms

  • Mac
  • Windows
  • Online
  • Android
  • iPhone
  • Android Tablet
  • iPad
4.4
Very Good16 reviews
62likes
16comments

Features

Properties

  1.  Lightweight
  2.  Support for Themes
  3.  Distraction-free

Features

  1.  Combine PDF
  2.  Ad-free
  3.  Split PDF files
  4.  No registration required
  5.  Works Offline
  6.  OCR
  7.  PDF annotation
  8.  PDF compression
  9.  Dark Mode
  10.  Sign PDF files
  11.  Fill PDF Forms
  12.  Full-Text Search
  13.  PDF encryption
  14.  E-signature
  15.  Text to Speech
  16.  AI-Powered
  17.  No Tracking
  18.  AI Chatbot
  19.  Crop PDF

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  • Sequester3480 replied to a comment / review on PDFgear
  • Sequester3480 reviewed PDFgear  

    Best free PDF editor, converter, manager, etc. I use it on macOS and while the UI looks like a 1990s Windows app, the feature set is amazing and just plain works. Stop trying to search everywhere for alternatives, I am so freaking satisfied with this, it’s a lifesaver. Would be nice if it had some new macOS Liquid Glass type UI polish but if you’ve used MS Office on Windows you’ll feel right at home.

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Comments and Reviews

   
Comment summary: PDFgear is praised for being a robust alternative to Adobe Acrobat, offering a modern UI, being ad-free, and not requiring subscriptions. Users appreciate its broad functionality, such as not resetting zoom settings when clicking bookmarks. However, it lacks a tabbed interface and its AI is criticized for inaccuracies in document interactions. The compression feature is also noted as being slow and CPU-intensive. Overall, it is considered an excellent free option for Windows.
Top Positive Comment
Farrukh
4

One great feature I immediately appreciated about it is that it doesn't reset its zoom setting when you click on a bookmark. This was an issue I encountered with Acrobat, PDF-Xchange, and Foxit Reader, where setting the zoom level to page width would reset to full page view when clicking on another bookmark.

Negatives: So far, I have only found two drawbacks:

  1. It opens each document in a separate window instead of supporting multi-tab functionality.
  2. Some users have criticized its AI.

Overall, it is an excellent free PDF software and a top alternative to popular PDF readers like Acrobat, Foxit Reader, and PDF-Xchange.

Top Negative Comment
Sam Lander
1

The AI or the way it interacts with the document is horrible. It makes things up constantly. I will read a page and then ask it to summarize it, and it will summarize something completely different.

Sequester3480
0

Best free PDF editor, converter, manager, etc. I use it on macOS and while the UI looks like a 1990s Windows app, the feature set is amazing and just plain works. Stop trying to search everywhere for alternatives, I am so freaking satisfied with this, it’s a lifesaver. Would be nice if it had some new macOS Liquid Glass type UI polish but if you’ve used MS Office on Windows you’ll feel right at home.

KimiBCN
1

It's the closest thing I've found to Acrobat Pro. However, it lacks OCR functionality for PDF documents. It's also not open source and doesn't have a Linux version. But it's feature-rich and allows you to get by with PDF editing.

Sequester3480

I’ve used its OCR on many PDFs. Works fine for me. I can choose which pages of the PDF to run OCR on and it gives me the plain text from those pages with extremely few errors (like a comma for a period sometimes). Big praises from me. Hope you can get it working.

Mark
3

make sure to block the app in the firewall

shadyfox2004
0

I love this app, saving me so much time and money. Its wonderful. One thing that i whish it had is linux support. That, adding a little competition to Foxit and Acrobat is great.

Review by a new / low-activity user.
Guest
1

Great editing abilities on the mac!

Review by a new / low-activity user.
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What is PDFgear?

A Comprehensive Solution of PDF Issues. Directly solve the problems when you are working on PDF anywhere any time.

Covers PDF overall Whether editing, reading, converting, splitting, merging, or encrypting pdfs, PDFgear covers all.

No installation signup Free to use without any subscription and software installation using PDFgear online toolkit.

100% no purchase-in-app Non-profile for paperless workflows.

AI Features First ever PDF application that allows you to interact through AI. Summarise documents, find data and do a lot more using the inbuilt AI Assistant, at no cost.

Free from files limit PDFgear provides the best free-to-use experience with no file size and number limit.

Support team Any problems while using PDFgear would be handled immediately with our support team.

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PDFgear information

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    SG flagPDF GEAR TECH PTE. LTD.
  • Licensing

    Proprietary and Free product.
  • Rating

    Average rating of 4.4 (16 ratings)
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  • Supported Languages

    • English
    • German
    • Dutch
    • French
    • Italian
    • Japanese
    • Korean
    • Portuguese
    • Russian
    • Chinese
    • Spanish

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Our users have written 16 comments and reviews about PDFgear, and it has gotten 62 likes

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