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A PDF editor that doesn't upload your file
The big online PDF suites are genuinely good software, and they all work the same way: you upload the document, their servers do the work, and you download the result. For a menu or a flyer that's fine. For a contract, a payslip, a medical form or anything with an ID number on it, you've handed a copy to a third party. This page is the honest comparison, including the jobs they do better than we do.
You need OCR on a scan, conversion to and from Office formats, batch processing, a team account, or a certified digital signature with an audit trail. Those are real features we simply don't have, and no amount of privacy makes up for a missing capability you actually need.
The document is sensitive and you'd rather it didn't leave your machine, or you want to sign, edit, redact or reorder without an account, a daily limit or a watermark. If you can do the job in a browser without uploading, there's no reason to upload.
The thinking behind it
We wrote the guides first and built the tool because we kept needing it.