For macOS

A free PDF editor for macOS, built native

If you're on a Mac and want a real PDF editor without a subscription, an account, or a wrapped-Electron app pretending to be native, this is built for you. Free for macOS and Windows, including commercial and unlimited business use, with no license key and no seat limits. Everything runs on your machine: no uploads, no cloud dependency, no telemetry.

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Why native matters here

A real Tauri app, not a wrapped Electron browser

Runs in macOS's own WebKit view, no bundled Chromium

Pure-Rust PDF engine underneath the interface

Universal binary: native on Apple Silicon and Intel, no Rosetta

Developer ID signed and notarized for Gatekeeper

Where this goes further than Preview

Preview.app covers the basics: viewing, light annotation, a signature or two. Where it runs out of road:

Opens dynamic XFA forms (most US tax and immigration paperwork) instead of showing a blank page

Real redaction that removes the underlying content, not a box drawn over it

Merge, split, and rotate multiple files, not one at a time

Open an XFA form (the format behind a lot of US tax and immigration paperwork) in Preview and you typically get a blank page or nothing usable. PDFluent detects the XFA structure and flattens it into a static PDF you can actually read, fill, and file — see the XFA flatten demo running in the browser.

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Free, signed, notarized, no App Store account needed.

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