PDF Editor

Yes, and no account is needed to start. Every editing tool on this page is available to everyone — nothing is held back behind a paid tier, and the tool never stamps a watermark or a trial notice onto your file. What the free tier limits is volume: exporting a finished PDF counts as one operation against a daily allowance of 10 per device, which resets at midnight UTC. Pro removes the cap. Editing, previewing and undoing cost nothing at all; only the export is counted.

No. This is a web page, not an installer — there is no .exe, no .dmg, no extension and no sign-up wall. Opening the page is the whole setup. The editing itself runs on WebAssembly inside the tab, which is why it works without a desktop application and without sending your document anywhere. The practical difference from an installed editor is that a very large file is limited by your browser’s available memory rather than by your disk.

Choose Edit Text and click the line you want to change. The editor reads the position, size, colour and baseline of that run and the font the document set it in, and writes your replacement in the same place. Where the document embeds that font with every character you typed, the line keeps its own face; otherwise the closest of Helvetica, Times or Courier is used (or Noto Sans for letters such as ł, ş, Greek or Cyrillic) and the width shifts slightly. Where the editor can find the original words in the page they are removed; where it cannot, your text covers them and the export tells you the old wording is still in the file. Use Redact when the previous text must certainly go.

Yes. The Find panel searches every page case-insensitively, lists each occurrence with its page number, and shows a running count so you know the scope before you act. Replace All then rewrites every match in a single pass. Each replacement goes through the same in-place text mechanism described above, so the same font and removal rules apply, and the export lists any page where the old wording could not be removed.

A black rectangle leaves the text underneath accessible to anyone who selects it or searches the file. Redact works differently: the whole page is rendered to a flat 2.5x image that takes its place, and the original page is deleted from the file together with everything only it used, so the covered content is not in the file at all. The trade-off is real and worth knowing: that page becomes a picture, so none of its text is selectable or searchable afterwards, and its links and form fields go with it. If the page cannot be rasterised, the export says so instead of pretending.

Yes — page changes are part of the same editor rather than a separate tool. From the thumbnail panel you can insert a blank page, delete the current one, duplicate it, rotate it, or drag a page to a new position. All of it is covered by undo and redo, including reorders, so a mis-drop is recoverable. A deleted page is removed from the file for real, not just hidden. Bookmarks you add follow their pages when pages move, and one that pointed at a page you delete is removed with it, with a note saying so.

Yes. The Forms panel lists the fields the document already declares — text boxes, checkboxes, radio groups and dropdowns — and you type your answers straight into them. On export you choose whether to leave the fields live or flatten them. Flattening writes the answers into the page so they cannot be edited again, which is what you want when returning a completed form; leave it off if the document still has to be filled in by someone after you.

Not with Edit Text, and it is worth being clear why. A scan is a picture of a page, so there are no text runs in the file for the editor to click into — Find & Replace has nothing to search either. What does work here is everything drawn on top: you can add text boxes, sign it, stamp it, redact areas and reorganise the pages. To get genuinely editable text out of a scan, run it through Scanned PDF to Text or PDF to Word first, both of which do character recognition, and bring the result back here if you still need to lay content over it.

Yes to all of them. There is no platform-specific build to pick, because there is no build to install: the same page runs on macOS, Windows, Linux, ChromeOS, and on tablets. Any current version of Chrome, Edge, Firefox or Safari has the WebAssembly and Canvas support the editor needs. macOS users in particular tend to arrive looking for something Preview cannot do — retyping existing text, real redaction, or filling a form — and all three are here.

Your annotations, text edits, bookmarks, watermark, form entries and metadata are written to the browser’s own storage a moment after you stop working, along with the file itself, so reopening the editor offers to pick the session back up. Two things are left out on purpose: passwords, because a recovery draft is stored in plain text, and attachments, which are file handles the browser cannot save. Page inserts, deletes and reorders cannot be replayed from a draft either — the restore banner says so rather than putting your annotations back onto a layout that no longer exists. The draft, file included, is deleted from the browser as soon as you export the PDF or choose Discard.