SumatraPDF Alternatives

SumatraPDF is described as 'A free, open-source viewer for Windows, supports PDFs, eBooks, Comics, with a simple, fast, and portable design prioritized for ease of use' and is a leading PDF Reader in the news & books category. There are more than 100 alternatives to SumatraPDF for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and Web-based apps. The best SumatraPDF alternative is Foxit PDF Reader. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try Foxit PDF Reader or Okular. Other great apps like SumatraPDF are KDAN PDF, MuPDF, Adobe Acrobat Reader and Stirling PDF.

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  1. Tritium icon
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    Tritium is a desktop word processor built for transactional lawyers. Draft, review, and compare legal documents faster with real-time clause annotations, minimal redlines, and AI integrations - free for personal use.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Windows
    • Mac
     
  2. Welcome to Cantook! The favorite reading app for the true bookworms.

    Bring all your eBooks, comics and audiobooks in the same place, no matter where they're coming from. Available on iPhone, iPad or macOS.

    With Cantook, we make it easy to bring all your books in the same pl.

    84 Cantook by Aldiko alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
     
  3. Xpdf icon
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    Xpdf is a free PDF viewer and toolkit, including a text extractor, image converter, HTML converter, and more. Most of the tools are available as open source.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    Extremely barebones, missing and incomplete features like page-at-a-time scrolling, bookmarks and context menus. It's like a beta version. It functions... but unless you're on a raspberry pi or something and need the light weight, just opening files in your browser is more functional.

    • Xpdf is Free and Open SourceSumatraPDF is also Free and Open Source
    • Xpdf is MinimalisticSumatraPDF is not according to our users
  4. PdfDing icon
     6 likes

    PdfDing is a browser based PDF manager, viewer and editor that you can host yourself. It offers a seamless user experience on multiple devices. It's designed be to be minimal, fast, and easy to set up using Docker.

    Cost / License

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Kubernetes
    • Docker
     
  5. Ncored icon
     1 like

    Engineered for large CAD and construction drawing PDFs, this local software offers tenfold faster markup, instant preview, text editing, rapid search, lossless PDF save, export at up to 600 DPI, full compatibility with standard viewers, auto-fit print options, and privacy for secure projects.

    51 Ncored alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  6. SimplePDF icon
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    Simple macOS PDF reader with ChatGPT integrated. You can chat with your local PDF. The returned response can cite the page number to ensure correctness.

    61 SimplePDF alternatives

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    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  7. A simple PDF document viewer.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Android
    • F-Droid
     
  8. Comix icon
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    Comix is an image viewer specifically designed to handle comic books. It reads ZIP, RAR and tar archives (also gzip or bzip2 compressed), as well as plain image files. It has a simple and user-friendly GUI using PyGTK.

    72 Comix alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Xfce
     
  9. PDF Viewer Pro is a fast and beautiful app, allowing you to view, search, and annotate PDF documents with ease on your iPhone and iPad.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • iPad
    • Android Tablet
     
  10. In version 8, Google Chrome introduced a free PDF viewer, installed by default. While this plug-in lacks many features of the Adobe Acrobat Plug-in, it is much faster and lighter, and updates with the browser rather than an external utility.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Google Chrome
     
  11. Ashampoo PDF Free is a software for opening, reading, and creating PDF files. It includes a built-in printer driver for generating PDFs from any Windows application, a compact and fast PDF reader, and the ability to fill out interactive and static forms.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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