Edit a PDF.

Add text anywhere, draw boxes and highlights, write freehand — free, no sign up, no watermark, and the file never leaves your device.

Open your network tab while it runs: zero requests. Your document stays yours.

How to edit a PDF

  1. Select your PDF — it opens page by page with live previews, all locally.
  2. Add your edits — pick a tool — Text (type, then click the page), Box, Highlight, or Pen — and place as many edits on as many pages as you need. Drag text to reposition, hover to remove.
  3. Download the edited PDF — your additions are written into the file itself, visible in every PDF reader.

Honest scope, stated plainly: like every browser-based editor, this adds content on top of your PDF — filling gaps, annotating, correcting — rather than rewriting the text already printed in it. It runs on the same in-browser engine as our PDF merger, PDF splitter, and PDF to Markdown converter — the file never leaves your machine.

Editing PDFs, honestly answered

Yes to all three. No account, no email, no watermark stamped on your document, no daily task limit. We can afford that because your device does the work — there are no server costs to recover.
Not directly — a PDF stores text as positioned print instructions, not editable paragraphs. What works well: covering the old value with a highlight or box and typing the correction next to or over it. That's also how most "PDF editors" actually operate.
No. Rendering, editing, and saving all happen in your browser — the document never leaves your device.
Yes. Edits are drawn into the page content itself with real PDF operations — not viewer-specific annotations — so they appear everywhere, including in print.
Not from the downloaded file — edits are baked in. While editing, you can remove or redo anything before you download; keep your original file as the editable source.
Yes — free, no account, no watermark.
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Take every tool offline — native apps for Mac, Windows, Linux, iOS & Android.

  • Every tool on this site, running natively on your device
  • Fully offline — files never even touch a browser tab
  • Batch-process whole folders of documents locally

The native apps will be a one-time paid upgrade when they launch — everything in the browser stays free, always.