Public beta · macOS 11+ · Windows 10+

A PDF editor that never touches the network.

PDFluent reads, edits, redacts, and signs PDFs entirely on your machine. No account, no cloud, no telemetry. Built in pure Rust, so the whole class of memory-safety bugs that plagues older PDF software is gone by construction.

Free for personal use. Business licence €49 per user per year. No credit card to download.

What you can do with it

Read heavy files fast

Open 500-page scans and print-ready artwork without the beachball. Rendering is native Rust, so large documents stay responsive.

Edit text in place

Click a line and rewrite it. Fix a typo in a contract or update a figure without exporting to another tool and back.

Redact for real

Black bars that actually remove the text underneath, not just cover it. The words are gone from the file, which is what GDPR and discovery reviewers check for.

Sign cryptographically

Apply PAdES digital signatures that make tampering detectable. Any change to the document after signing breaks the signature.

Your documents never leave your device

Most PDF tools now route your files through their servers. PDFluent does not. Contracts, medical records, tax filings — they stay on disk, where you put them.

No cloud
Every operation runs locally. Nothing is uploaded.
No account
Download and use it. Nothing to sign up for.
No telemetry
We cannot see your files or how you use them.

Written in Rust, from scratch

Around 70% of severe security bugs in software written in C and C++ come from memory-safety mistakes, according to Microsoft and Google. PDFluent has no C or C++ and no third-party PDF engine, so that entire category of bug is designed out rather than patched over.

Read the full security story

Pricing

Freepersonal

Full editor, no time limit, no watermark. For your own non-commercial use.

  • Every feature
  • No account required
  • macOS & Windows
€49/ user / year

For commercial use. One price, no per-feature tiers.

  • Everything in Free
  • Commercial licence
  • Priority support

Full pricing and licence terms →

System requirements

macOS
11 (Big Sur) or later · Intel & Apple Silicon · notarised
Windows
10 or later · 64-bit
Download size
About 35 MB
Runtime
None. Single binary, no installer bloat.

What is still in progress

This is a public beta, and we would rather tell you the rough edges than hide them.

  • ·XFA form rendering is experimental. It improves with each release.
  • ·There is no OCR inside the editor yet, so scanned pages are not searchable.

Questions

Is it really free?

Yes, for personal, non-commercial use, with no time limit and no account. Businesses pay €49 per user per year. There is no upsell nag and no locked features on the free tier.

Do my files get uploaded anywhere?

No. Every operation runs on your machine. The editor makes no network calls to process a document, has no cloud sync, and collects no telemetry. It works fully offline.

Which platforms are supported?

macOS 11 and later (Intel and Apple Silicon, one universal build) and Windows 10 and later. The macOS build is signed with a Developer ID and notarised by Apple, so it opens without a security workaround.

What is not finished yet?

It is a public beta. XFA form rendering is experimental and improves with each release, and there is no OCR inside the editor yet. If a form does not look right, it likely will after an update.

Download and open your first PDF

Free for personal use, no account, nothing uploaded. macOS and Windows.