Alternatives to PDFTools for all platforms with any license

PDFsam

Free and open source desktop application to split, merge, extract pages, rotate and mix PDF files.

Freemium $ $ $ Open Source Mac Windows Linux
Split PDF files Document Merging Merge Files Multiple languages ... Edit PDF Convert PDF to Word document Portable Sign PDF files Split and merge PDF files Add a feature

158 Like
Adobe Acrobat DC

Adobe Acrobat is a family of application software and web services developed by Adobe Systems to view, create, manipulate, print and manage files in Portable Document...

Commercial $ $ $ Mac Windows
Edit PDF PDF OCR Built-in viewer Scan documents ... Extract images PDF annotation PDF Redaction Sign PDF files Sync between devices Add a feature

129 Like
PDF-XChange Editor

The smallest, fastest, most feature-rich PDF editor/viewer available * Full Direct Content Editing (text based PDFs, not scanned/image based PDFs) * Includes OCR...

Freemium $ $ $ Windows
Convert images to PDF Integrated Search PDF annotation Edit PDF ... PDF OCR Split and merge PDF files Visual bookmarks Add a feature

54 Like
PDFTK Builder

PDFTK Builder is a free graphical interface to for PDFtk, making it much easier to use.

Free Open Source Windows PortableApps.com
Lightweight Portable Reorder pages Split and merge PDF files Add a feature

44 Like
Master PDF Editor

Master PDF Editor is complete solution for editing PDF and XPS files. You can insert, edit, remove, copy, add images or graphics. Export, import, remove and change page...

Freemium Mac Windows Linux
Multiple languages No registration required Fill PDF Forms Sign PDF files ... Watermarking Add a feature

33 Like
Nitro Pro

Nitro Pro gives you everything you need to create, convert, edit, sign, and share 100% industry-standard PDF files. It's simple, straightforward, and intuitive to...

Commercial $ $ $ Windows
Batch conversion Create PDF files Edit PDF PDF OCR ... PDF Redaction Convert PDF to Excel document Convert PDF to Word document Scan to PDF Sign PDF files Add a feature

46 Like
PDF-Shuffler

Merge, split, rotate, crop and rearrange pdf documents and their pages using an interactive and intuitive graphical interface.

Free Open Source Linux
Split and merge PDF files Split PDF files Add a feature

23 Like
PDFill

With PDFill you can create, fill, delete and submit PDF form fields; insert new formatted text, check, image, hyperlink, whiteout, highlight, drawing, comment and...

Commercial Windows
Fill PDF Forms Support for Batch Mode Convert images to PDF PDF annotation ... Convert PDF to image Scan to PDF Sign PDF files Split PDF files Swiss-army knife Swiss-army knife tool Add a feature

33 Like
PdfMod

PDF Mod is a simple application for modifying PDF documents. You can reorder, rotate, and remove pages, export images from a document, edit the title, subject...

Free Open Source Linux BSD
Edit PDF Add a feature

27 Like
- Discontinued The program seems no longer updated. Last release, 0.9.1, was released on March 3, 2011 and only translations have been done on the project since then. It can be still downloaded from the official website.
jPdf Tweak

jPDF Tweak is a Swiss Army Knife GUI application for PDF documents: combine, split, rotate, reorder (n-up, booklet), watermark, edit bookmarks/fileinfo/pagetransition...

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux
Split PDF files Portable Sign PDF files Add a feature

15 Like
- Discontinued The program is no longer updated. Latest version, 1.1, released in December 2011, can be still downloaded from the official website.
Briss

Cross-platform application for cropping PDF files in a simple and fast way via a GUI.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux
Portable Add a feature

17 Like
PDF Chain

PDF Chain is a graphical user interface for PDFtk. The GUI supports all common features of the command line tool in a comfortable...

Free Open Source Linux
No features added Add a feature

13 Like
CutePDF Writer

CutePDF Writer (formerly CutePDF Printer) is the free version of commercial PDF creation software. CutePDF Writer installs itself as a "printer subsystem"....

Free Windows
Edit PDF Add a feature

67 Like
- Bundleware The installer may contain third-party softwares. Be careful during the installation: https://alternativeto.net/discussions/applications/11718/be-careful-in-the-installation/
qvPDF

qvPDF is a PDF creator for Windows, but you can also merge & split. Its implemented as printer driver and uses plugins to execute different actions after creating...

Free Open Source Windows
Merge Files Split PDF files Add a feature

20 Like
- Discontinued The program is no longer updated. Last version, 3.1, released in September 2011, can be still downloaded from SourceForge.
PDFedit

Free (and open source) editor for manipulating PDF documents. GUI version + commandline interface. Scripting is used to a great extent in editor and almost anything can...

Free Open Source Windows Linux
No features added Add a feature

20 Like
- Discontinued The project is no longer developed. Last version, 20140526_1531, released in May 2014, can be still downloaded from SourceForge.