PDFgear: PDF Editor & Reader 4+
PDF Converter for acrobat PDF
PDF GEAR TECH PTE. LTD.
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- Free
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Description
PDFgear is a full-featured and free PDF editor, which provides read, edit, annotation, convert, sign, combine, merge, compress, page management, encrypt, and print PDF documents.
"It’s called PDFgear, and it’s a holy grail I never thought I’d find." - Digital Trends
"PDFgear is a full toolkit for doing pretty much anything you could want to do with a PDF." - Lifewire
"Simply open the file in PDFgear and you have access to everything you’ll need." - MacWorld
PDFgear is a full-featured, easy-to-use, and free PDF Editor & PDF Reader. With practical functions like view, convert, form filling, and page reorganizing in PDFgear, the comprehensive PDF toolkit, users could handle their PDF files with more efficiency. PDFgear offers even more - merge and combine multiple documents, split PDF into several files, rotate page direction, add or delete pages, and even convert PDF to Word and many other formats.
PDFgear provides free use for all functions without any limits like trial watermark, page count, etc. The concise design brings users a satisfying experience, and the powerful performance makes the perfect document.
PDFgear will be the only PDF solution for you, and it will make your study and work easier to carry out PDFs!
VIEW & PRINT
• View PDF in single-page or double-page display mode
• Preview the thumbnails of pages easily
• Dark Mode supported with native effect
• Zoom in or out the PDF in a great range
• Open recent PDFs conveniently
• Search texts in PDFs rapidly and locate the texts precisely
• Print PDFs directly from your device
Annotate PDF
• Markup texts in PDF with highlight, underline & strikethrough in user-defined colors
• Add Annotations by simply selecting texts in PDF
• Create rectangles, circles, lines, arrows & free hands with customized colors
• Insert Text Boxes and Notes into PDF with the font size and color you like
Stamp
• Insert stamps at the place you want in PDFs
• Add built-in stamps, including Approved, Confidential, Final, and more
• Customize stamps with different content and colors
Signature
• Create signatures using trackpad, keyboard, or images
• Save up to five signatures to use conveniently
Bookmark
• View bookmarks in the PDF, and direct to the place of the bookmark easily
• Add bookmark at any place of PDF documents
• Supports rename, delete, and expand/collapse bookmarks in PDF
PDF CONVERTER
• Support native and cloud converter
• PDF to Word, Excel, PNG, JPG, RTF, TXT, HTML & XML conversions
• Create PDFs from Word, Excel, PPT, Image, RTF & TXT
PAGE EDITOR
• Merge & split PDFs freely
• Append pages from other PDF files to the existing one
• Add new blank pages at the place you set
• Extract pages from the PDF to create a new one
• Rotate, reorder & delete pages
COMPRESS
• Reduce PDF size to make the file lighter
Fill Forms
• Fill out and save static PDF forms
• Fill out PDF forms with interactive fields, such as text fields, checkboxes, list boxes, etc.
OCR
• Conduct OCR on PDF documents or images in batch with ease
• Different languages are included to make OCR more powerful
• Export the results of OCR into one or separate files, or copy them in one click
What’s New
Version 2.12
1. OCR
2. Redact
Ratings and Reviews
A tiny bit invasive
This free utility solved my PDF to spreadsheet issue without any hassles, ads, restrictions or subscriptions. It does the job pretty flawlessly. The things about it that bugged me was after installing, any time I clicked on any PDF it opened with PDFgear instead of Apple's Preview. Clicking "Get Info" and changing "Open With" to Preview and checking "Use this application to open all documents like this one" fixed that. Then I noticed the tiny PDFgear icon in the menubar on the upper right hand side of the screen. Turns out PDFgear wants to launch on startup and always be running, I had to turn that off and tell it "no". If you're converting PDF documents all the time I guess that could be handy, but it's something I only need to do occasionally.
Excellent in every way
PDF editors are notorious cash cows for companies like Adobe and Readdle, who offer what amounts to basic word processors with signature capabilities and a PDF save and load feature. The cost of these tools is prohibitive for a student and just about anyone, except for a company, perhaps. I came across PDF Gear and was very skeptical about its zero price. The old adage that if you don’t pay for the product you are the product really frightened me. From what I am seeing thus far, however, the publisher for this utility has kept to its word about zero ads and full features. It seems very easy to use, too. PDF Expert seems to be a unicorn in this space, and I recommend it.
Great Software
I personally think this software is the closest thing to Bluebeam for a MAC. I used Bluebeam daily but it no longer is compatible with latest MAC software updates. I do wish you could take screenshots or snips within PDFgear, as well as rotate images once you paste an image, or a screenshot onto the PDF. Another cool feature would be if you could cloud an item, not just circle. If this had all the Bluebeam features, i would give me a 10 star review but it is GREAT as it is as well.
I was able to create a new floor plan and make adjustments so easily. I would reccomend this for all construction personnel using a mac.
App Privacy
The developer, PDF GEAR TECH PTE. LTD., indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Usage Data
Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- PDF GEAR TECH PTE. LTD.
- Size
- 110.8 MB
- Category
- Business
- Compatibility
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- Mac
- Requires macOS 10.14 or later.
- Languages
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English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2025 PDFgear. All rights reserved.
- Price
- Free