Alternatives to PDF Candy
An online toolkit of more than 90 tools for converting, merging, splitting, compressing and editing PDF files. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
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PDF Candy
An online toolkit of more than 90 tools for converting, merging, splitting, compressing and editing PDF files.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as PDF Candy.
iLovePDF
Browser PDF toolkit for merging, splitting, compressing and converting.
iLovePDF is a freemium browser toolkit with Android and iOS apps and an API, but free use is limited by file size and daily task count.
Smallpdf
Browser PDF tools for compressing, converting, editing and signing.
Smallpdf is freemium with browser, Windows and mobile apps, but free use is capped at a couple of documents per day.
PDF24 Tools
Free online PDF tools for merging, compressing, creating, editing and converting PDF files in a browser.
PDF24 Tools is free online with no registration, limits or watermarks, works in any current browser, and is financed by advertising.
PDF2Go
An online PDF editor and converter for editing, compressing, merging, splitting and converting PDF files.
PDF2Go is a free online editor and converter that deletes uploads after 24 hours, though many tools require a free account.
Sejda PDF
PDF editor available both online and as a desktop application.
Sejda PDF is freemium with a web version plus desktop apps for Windows, macOS and Linux that process files locally, with hourly free task limits.
DeftPDF
A browser-based collection of more than 40 tools for editing, converting, splitting and signing PDFs.
DeftPDF is freemium with more than 40 web tools plus Android and iOS apps, adding document translation, Bates numbering and bookmark splitting.
HiPDF
Wondershare's online PDF suite for converting, editing, compressing, merging and summarizing PDF files.
HiPDF is Wondershare's freemium online suite with AI summarizing and chat, uploading files to Wondershare's servers.
BentoPDF
Browser-based PDF toolkit that edits, merges and converts files locally.
BentoPDF is a free browser toolkit that processes documents locally instead of uploading them, with no signup or file limits required.
Also worth comparing
These listings name PDF Candy as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.
CleverPDF
Set of free online and desktop PDF conversion tools.
PDF Candy is free with more than 90 online tools including OCR, but it is web only and uploads files to a remote service.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
CloudConvert
An online file converter for more than 200 document, image, audio, video, archive and CAD formats.
Convertio
A browser-based file converter that handles documents, images, audio, video, ebooks and archives in over 300 formats.
Zamzar
A long-running online file converter supporting over 1100 formats, with no account needed for small files.
Online-Convert
A browser-based converter for audio, video, image and document files between common formats.
Stirling PDF
A self-hosted web PDF toolkit for merging, splitting, converting, signing and editing PDFs on your own server.
