PDFsmith does the everyday PDF work — rearrange and merge pages, add text, sign, highlight, fill forms, watermark — right in your browser. No upload, no login, no install, no nagging. Open a file and get on with it.
Drag thumbnails to reorder. Rotate, duplicate or delete any page. Insert blank pages. Merge in another PDF with one click.
Save any selection or range ("1-3,7") as a new PDF, split every page into its own file, or export pages as PNG images.
Click anywhere and type. English and Hebrew both come out right — proper RTL, real embedded fonts, exactly where you put them.
Draw your signature once; it's saved locally and placed with a click. Drop in logos or stamps from PNG/JPG files.
Freehand pen, highlighter and cover-up boxes for quick markups and hiding what shouldn't be there.
Fillable PDF forms are listed field-by-field — type the values, tick the boxes, optionally flatten so they can't be changed.
Stamp DRAFT across every page, or add clean page numbers in any corner — size, position and starting number are yours.
Every action — page moves, text, drawings, deletes — steps back with Ctrl+Z. Your original file on disk is never touched.
In Chrome or Edge, install PDFsmith to your computer: it gets its own window, works offline, and registers as an "Open with" choice for PDF files — you can even make it your default PDF editor.
PDFsmith is a static page. There is no server to upload to — opening, editing and saving all happen inside your browser using Mozilla's pdf.js and the open-source pdf-lib. Close the tab and nothing remains anywhere. That's why it works on contracts, medical records and anything else you'd rather not hand to a random "free PDF site".
Really free. PDFsmith costs almost nothing to host because it has no servers doing PDF work — your browser does it. No trial, no page limits, no "premium" watermark.
Never. Edits are saved as a new download (yourfile-edited.pdf). The
file you opened stays untouched on your device.
Not yet — encrypted files are declined with a clear message rather than mangled. Remove the password first with the tool that set it.
Yes — as long as you keep the page structure (annotate, fill, rotate, delete pages), fields stay interactive. After merging or reordering pages the fields' values are kept but become part of the page.
Rewriting text that's already typeset inside a PDF is lossy in any tool. PDFsmith does the honest version: white-out the old text and type the correction over it — which is what the expensive tools do behind the curtain more often than they admit.
Open the editor in Chrome or Edge and click
⇩ Install app in the toolbar (or the install icon in the address
bar). Once installed: on Windows, right-click any PDF → Open with → PDFsmith
and tick Always (or Settings → Apps → Default apps → set .pdf
to PDFsmith). The installed app also works with no internet connection.
Current Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari on desktop. It runs on tablets too; fine mouse work is nicer with a mouse or pen.