Skim Alternatives

Skim is described as 'PDF viewer and annotation tool for macOS supports scientific paper reading, note-taking, highlighting, bookmarks, multiple annotation types, and AppleScript' and is a popular PDF Reader in the office & productivity category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Skim for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and iPhone apps. The best Skim alternative is SumatraPDF, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Skim are Okular, Foxit PDF Reader, Xournal++ and Evince.

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  1. TagNotate icon
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    TagNotate is a PDF viewer and annotator with the unique ability to assign tags to annotations - you can create as many different tags as you want, allowing you to associate with each annotation whatever kinds of information are important for you.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
     
  2. Genei icon
     4 likes

    AI powered productivity tool for reading, understanding and taking notes on PDFs and long websites. Users can search, summarise, extract and define keywords, ask google-search type questions and be taken straight to the answers.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Google Chrome
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  3. Notetaking and blackboard replacement application. Inspired by Xournal. Written in C++/Qt for Linux / Windows. It has the ability to annotate PDF files and has a few other options (e.g. markdown support).

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  4. Lumin PDF icon
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    Cloud connected PDF viewer and editor.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
  5.  1 like

    A small .pdf management tool with a command-line UI.

    Cost / License

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  6. ezPDF Reader icon
     13 likes

    ezPDF Reader is a PDF viewer with some powerful features such as TTS (Text-to-Speech), annotations and PDF forms.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPhone
     
  7. 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
     
  8.  1 like

    PrivatePDF is a free web tool that lets you make quick PDF edits from within your web browser, without uploading anything anywhere.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  9. Redact & Annotate images. Hide or mark up essential parts of your image by simply clicking and dragging on it.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  10. Shelf is a convergent document viewer that supports PDF and EPUB files. With Shelf, you can organize your document collection by creating tags, like other Maui applications.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Android
     
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