Stirling-PDF Alternatives

Stirling-PDF is described as 'Locally hosted web application that allows you to perform various operations on PDF files' and is a popular PDF Editor in the office & productivity category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Stirling-PDF for a variety of platforms, including Web-based, Windows, Mac, Linux and SaaS apps. The best Stirling-PDF alternative is PDF Arranger, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Stirling-PDF are PDFgear, PDF24 Creator, PDFsam and Adobe Acrobat DC.

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Stirling-PDF alternatives are mainly PDF Editors, but if you're looking for PDF Readers or PDF Printers you can filter on that. You can also filter by region, for example EU-based alternatives if you prefer software developed in the European Union. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to Stirling-PDF.
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  1. PDF Expert icon
     38 likes

    Read, annotate, and highlight PDFs, fill interactive forms with saved input, underline or strike through text, manage bookmarks, sync files from cloud services, and share documents. Compatible with Preview and Adobe Acrobat annotations, supporting extensive iOS features.

    136 PDF Expert alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
  2. doPDF icon
     86 likes

    doPDF allows you to freely convert documents to PDF files. It installs as a printer driver, enabling you to print from any Windows application.

    89 doPDF alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  3. CutePDF Writer icon
     69 likes

    CutePDF Writer (formerly CutePDF Printer) is the free version of commercial PDF creation software. CutePDF Writer installs itself as a "printer subsystem". This enables virtually any Windows applications (must be able to print) to create professional quality PDF...

    81 CutePDF Writer alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  4. iLovePDF icon
     20 likes

    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!

    145 iLovePDF alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
     
  5. Soda PDF icon
     10 likes

    Soda PDF was created with the user in mind. Smart, reliable, and accessible, our software is designed with a focus on giving you the most useful features in an easy-to-use package.

    61 Soda PDF alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  6. PDFill icon
     39 likes

    With PDFill you can create, fill, delete and submit PDF form fields; insert new formatted text, check, image, hyperlink, whiteout, highlight, drawing, comment and annotation anywhere in the document; save, print or email the filled and password-protected PDF; save and resume...

    168 PDFill alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  7. PDF Chain icon
     14 likes

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  8.  8 likes

    Yet another PDF Printer? Yes! This PDF Printer has the intention to be completely open source. Print to PDF, PDF/A, PDF/X, PNG, JPEG, TIF and text.

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    • Windows
     
  9. 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
     
  10. A privacy-first, client-side PDF editor that runs in your browser. Edit, annotate, merge/split, compress to target sizes, OCR scanned PDFs, and convert files—no signup, no watermark.

    34 Free PDF Editor alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  11. Qpdf Tools icon
     2 likes

    Qpdf Tools is an easy-to-use Qt interface for Ghostscript and QPDF.

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
     
  12. LightPDF icon
     23 likes

    Cloud PDF toolkit provides over 20 tools for editing, conversion, OCR, merge, split, annotation, batch processing, and signatures, with free online access, cross-platform usability, no watermarks, no size limits, and options for mobile and desktop integration.

    176 LightPDF alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Windows
    • Mac
     
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