R.I.P.

Open-source alternatives to Adobe Acrobat

3 open-source options for Adobe Acrobat, the PDF editor. Compare alternatives to paid apps below. 3 shipped code in the last 30 days.

Acrobat Pro$19.99/molist price

Open-source alternatives to Adobe Acrobat for reading, organizing, merging, splitting and securing PDFs, as desktop apps or a self-hosted toolkit. Acrobat's cloud e-signing and its advanced editing of scanned text are the parts to check before you switch.

3 open-source alternatives

Most-starred first. Stars and growth come from GitHub; activity comes from the project's code host.

Most starred

#1 PDF Application on GitHub that lets you edit PDFs on any device anywhere

Stars: 95.5k
Growth: –
Launched: Jan 2023

Custom licenseupdated today

Recent growth

An open-source PDF reader and editor written by scratch in pure Rust

Stars: 19k
Growth: 598/day
Launched: Sep 2026

Apache-2.0updated today

#3 by stars

An open-source PDF toolkit for Windows and Linux, combining powerful desktop applications, command-line tools and a modern MIT-licensed C++/Qt PDF…

Desktop: Windows

Stars: 1.5k
Growth: –
Launched: Jul 2019

MITupdated 1d ago

All Everyday Apps