Top pick01 - sign
Sign & send a contract
Draw, type, or upload your signature. Place it. Fill the form fields. Send the PDF. Two minutes, zero uploads.
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For freelancers
Everything you need
to work with PDFs.
Merge, compress, sign and protect your client files - without uploading them to anyone else's servers.
7-day trial, no card needed
Files stay on your device
Works offline (PWA)
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Merge PDFs
3 files · 4.2 MB- 1Add files
- 2Merge locally
- 3Download
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The thesis
Built like a web app should be.
01
A tab. Not a subscription.
No installs, no downloads, no accounts to manage. Open pdfsuite.co and every tool is there - same as any other website.
02
Your files, your device.
Every tool runs in your browser using WebAssembly. We literally cannot see your documents because they never reach our servers.
03
Made for working solo.
Sign a contract, compress a pitch deck, redact a client address - the things freelancers do every week, handled in the fewest clicks.
A few favourites
The ones you'll open every week.
Saves hours02 - ocr
OCR a scanned lease
Drop a scan. Get a searchable, copy-pasteable PDF back - run locally with Tesseract in WebAssembly. 14 languages.
SCAN
→
LEASE AGREEMENT
Dated March 04, 2026,
between Landlord and…
Dated March 04, 2026,
between Landlord and…
Every tool
36 tools, organized by what you're trying to do.
Click anything to jump straight into that tool. No onboarding, no tutorial, no popup - just the thing you came to do.
Core pdf ops
01 - 08Format conversion
09 - 16Security & redaction
17 - 21Annotation & editing
22 - 27Advanced
28 - 33Ai — byok
34 - 35Utility
36 - 36Privacy
“Your files never leave your browser.”
Not a privacy policy you have to read. Not a setting you can toggle. It's how the app is built. There is no “upload” step because there is no server on the other end.
How it works
Runs in your browser
Every tool uses WebAssembly libraries (pdf-lib, pdf.js, Tesseract) that process files directly on your device. No upload button, because there’s no server to upload to.
What that means
Unlimited file size
Competitors gate big files behind paid tiers because every byte costs them bandwidth. Ours costs us nothing - so there’s no limit. Merge a 2 GB set of scans if you want.
How to verify
Open DevTools
Right-click → Inspect → Network tab. Process a PDF. Watch the Network tab stay completely silent. The only request we ever make is your one-time license check.
Why PDFsuite
The honest side-by-side.
No cherry-picked metrics. These are the things that matter when you're working with real client documents.
PDFsuite | Adobe Acrobat | Sejda | iLovePDF | Smallpdf | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Files stay on your device | Always | Uploaded to cloud | Uploaded to servers | Uploaded to servers | Uploaded to servers |
| Price | $29 / year | $239 / year | $63 / year | $48 / year | $108 / year |
| Works offline | Yes - installs as app | Desktop app only | No | No | No |
| File size limits | None | 100 MB on web | 50 MB free | 25 MB free | 5 GB paid only |
| Free forever tier | No - 7-day trial instead | No free tier | Yes, with watermarks | Yes, with watermarks | Yes, with watermarks |
| AI chat with your PDFs | BYOK · coming soon | Paid add-on | No | No | No |
| Number of tools | 36 tools | 20+ (desktop) | 25 tools | 25 tools | 20 tools |
Prices as of April 2026. Competitor data from public pricing pages.
From the people using it
Made for freelancers who ship.
I cancelled SmallPDF the day after I found this. It does more and I stopped worrying about where my client contracts were sitting.
Priya Menon
brand consultant
The OCR alone is worth it. I scan leases, drop them in, get searchable PDFs back in seconds - without sending a client doc to a stranger.
Daniel Ortega
paralegal · solo practice
Finally, a PDF tool that doesn’t treat me like a churn number. One price, every tool, runs offline. It’s the platonic ideal of a small app.
Emma Larsson
freelance illustrator
Pricing
One plan. Every tool.
Pro
The full workspace
$29/ year
billed yearly · cancel anytime
- All 36 tools, updated forever
- No file size limits, no daily caps
- Works offline as an installable app (PWA)
- BYOK AI chat with your PDFs
- Cancel anytime, keep your files forever
Full access for 14 days. No card required. $29/yr after, or cancel and walk away.
FAQ
The honest
answers.
Nothing buried in a help centre. If you have a question we haven't covered, email hi@pdfsuite.co.
Do I need to download or install anything?
No. It’s a website. Open pdfsuite.co and every tool is there. If you want offline access, hit "Install" in your browser and it becomes a standalone app - but you don’t have to.
Can it really do all 36 things in a browser?
Yes. Modern browsers run WebAssembly fast enough that a 200-page merge takes about a second. OCR a scanned lease in under 10 seconds. We didn’t cheat - every tool is truly local.
Is there a free trial?
Yes - sign up with an email and get full access to all tools for 7 days, no card required. After that it's $29/yr. No watermarks, no feature limits, no surprises.
What about AI - where do my files go?
Only if you opt in to the AI chat feature. You bring your own OpenAI/Claude/Gemini key (stored in your browser). When you ask a question, your browser talks directly to the AI provider - we are never in the middle.
What if pdfsuite.co goes down?
If you installed the PWA, nothing happens - it keeps working offline forever. If you didn’t, you’d need to wait until it’s back up. Either way, your files are never stuck on our servers because they were never on our servers.