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Paperwing
The free, open-source alternative to Adobe Acrobat
Paperwing is a free, open-source PDF app for Windows and macOS with Acrobat's layout and shortcuts. Edit, sign, convert, organize, compress and protect PDFs with 100+ tools. No account, no subscription, no upsells, and your files never leave your computer.
Hey Product Hunt 👋 I'm Rohan, and I made Paperwing.
Every time I needed to merge two PDFs or sign a form, Acrobat asked me to sign in, start a trial or upgrade. So I built a PDF app that works like Acrobat, without any of that. It's free and open source, for Windows and macOS.
What you get:
→ 100+ tools: edit text and images, annotate, redact, sign, fill and create forms, convert to and from Word, Excel, PowerPoint and 30+ other formats, merge, split, compress, OCR, PDF/A, encrypt
→ A familiar workspace: tabs, an All tools panel, a floating annotation toolbar and Acrobat's keyboard shortcuts
→ Private by default: no account, no analytics, and your files never leave your computer
→ Small things that matter: results open in a new tab so your original stays untouched, session restore, reopen closed tab, a command palette, light and dark mode, and a portable Windows version
Paperwing is built on BentoPDF, an open-source project by Alam that does all of the PDF processing. Paperwing adds the desktop app and the Acrobat-style workspace on top. If you like it, please consider sponsoring BentoPDF too.
One heads-up: it isn't code-signed yet, so Windows and macOS will warn the first time you open it. The install guide covers the one-time steps.
I'd love to know: what do you still open Acrobat for? Your answers decide what I build next.
(Paperwing isn't affiliated with Adobe.)
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About Paperwing on Product Hunt
“The free, open-source alternative to Adobe Acrobat”
Paperwing was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 0 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #27 on the daily leaderboard. Paperwing is a free, open-source PDF app for Windows and macOS with Acrobat's layout and shortcuts. Edit, sign, convert, organize, compress and protect PDFs with 100+ tools. No account, no subscription, no upsells, and your files never leave your computer.
Paperwing was featured in Design Tools (263.5k followers), Productivity (663.7k followers), Open Source (69k followers) and GitHub (41.4k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 266.6k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted Paperwing?
Paperwing was hunted by Rohan Vijaykumar. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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