pdfmend

Free private PDF editor

Edit PDFs without uploading them — free, no account, no watermark.

Annotate, sign, reorder pages, merge, and export on this device. Up to 100 MiB and 250 pages during launch. Built for people who want a private browser PDF editor.

On this device

Recent documents

What you can do

A focused free PDF toolkit for everyday paperwork — with a hard privacy boundary: document bytes stay in the browser.

How it works

Three steps. No account wall. No document upload.

  1. Open a PDF

    Choose a file from your device. Nothing is sent to a document API.

  2. Edit in the browser

    Annotate, reorganize pages, merge, or mark text tools — all local to the tab.

  3. Export a copy

    Download a cleaned PDF. Your original file stays untouched on disk.

FAQ

Short answers about privacy, free access, and what the editor can do.

Does pdfmend upload my PDF?

No. Your PDF is opened and processed in your browser. pdfmend has no document upload API for editor content.

Is pdfmend free?

Yes. During launch pdfmend is free for everyone — no paid plans, no watermark, and no account required for editing and export (within published size and page limits).

Do I need an account to edit or export?

No. The free editor works without an account and exports without a watermark.

Where are recent documents stored?

By default, opened PDFs are not stored after the browser session. Optional draft recovery can keep the source PDF and edits in this browser’s IndexedDB only. A separate optional recent-file library is off unless enabled. Nothing is uploaded. You can clear all local data anytime.

What can I do in the free editor?

Add text, highlights, ink, images, and visible signatures; fill supported form fields; rotate, reorder, duplicate, or remove pages; merge PDFs; and export a clean PDF copy. Experimental Cover text paints a replacement over text (not redaction). Experimental Redact removes matching text from simple PDF content streams when verification succeeds.

Is Cover text the same as redaction?

No. Cover text is a visual cover-replace: it paints over the original and draws new text. Redact is a separate tool that attempts content-removal for selected text on simple PDFs and verifies the text is gone from extract.