Adobe
Adobe Acrobat
Merging, splitting or editing a PDF, an open ISO standard, sits behind an Acrobat Pro subscription.
- Forced subscriptionYou rent it. Stop paying and you lose it.
- Paywalled basicsCore features held hostage behind a paid tier.
The exits
PdfCraft
by ArtCraft
A PDF workbench to read, organize, combine, split and secure, built from the ISO 32000 spec.
- Status
- Alpha Early and moving fast. Try it, expect rough edges.
- License
- Apache-2.0
A self-hosted PDF toolbox with more than 50 tools: merge, split, OCR, sign, convert.
- Status
- Stable Mature and ready for daily work.
- License
- MIT