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 PDF-XChange Editor.

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    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
     
  2. Genei icon
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    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

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Google Chrome
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  3. 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 (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
     
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    Revolutionize PDFs for free! Try PDFPro: advanced editing, annotating, converting, signing. Premium tools, cloud support, secure.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Android
     
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    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
     
  6. Xreader icon
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    Xreader is a document viewer capable of displaying multiple and single page document formats like PDF and Postscript.

    52 Xreader alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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    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
     
  8. iTop PDF icon
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    Comprehensive PDF tool for viewing, editing, annotations, and conversion between formats like Word, Excel, or PPT. Features include encryption, redaction, and fast batch processing.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  9. SourcePDF icon
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    SourcePDF is a completely free to use PDF editor.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  10. ePDFView icon
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    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
     
  11. FormulatePro icon
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    FormulatePro helps you open and write on PDF documents. You can fill out any PDF form document, drop in graphics, scribble with the mouse or a tablet, save and print.

    Cost / License

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  12. NightPDF icon
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    Dark Mode PDF reader.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
     
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