01PdfCraft

05PdfCraft

The open-source PDF workbench.

Read, organize, combine, split and secure PDFs in a fast, native app written in Rust from the ground up. No account, no telemetry, no cloud.

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macOS · Windows · Linux · Web · Free and open source

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Viewer with threaded comments

Screenshot

PdfCraft showing a showcase PDF cover with the All tools panel and threaded comments

02Highlights

What's inside.

  1. 01

    Faithful rendering

    World scripts, vertical Japanese, color emoji and transparency. Zero crashes across a 983-file test corpus.

  2. 02

    Search as you type

    Instant find, and text selection that follows the document's real reading order.

  3. 03

    Organize like cards

    Rotate, delete, insert and reorder pages, with deep undo behind every change.

  4. 04

    Combine, extract, split

    Assemble and break apart documents while keeping links, form fields, layers and bookmarks intact.

  5. 05

    Fearless saves

    Incremental, atomic saves with autosave and crash recovery.

  6. 06

    Built-in security

    Opens everything from RC4 to AES-256 encryption and honors author permissions.

03Screenshots

PdfCraft page organizer with three pages selected and the page tools in the toolbar aboveFull size
Organize pages like cards02
PdfCraft command palette searching for page and listing the page toolsFull size
A command palette for every tool03
PdfCraft two-up Read mode in the dark theme showing typeset specimen pagesFull size
Two-up Read mode, dark theme04

04Get PdfCraft

Platform

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Linux

AppImage (x86_64)

Any distro. Mark it executable and run.

Download for Linux

Other Linux downloads

Release

Version 0.2.1.

Free for every platform above. Questions or feedback? The team is in the ArtCraft Discord.

Other downloads

Release notes on GitHubAll releases
macOS
Windows
Linux
Web

Build from source

Run it today.

Needs Rust 1.90 or newer. New to Rust? Install it with rustup, then run:

Terminal
git clone https://github.com/storytold/pdfcraft.git
cd pdfcraft
cargo run --release -p pdfcraft
View source on GitHub

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Help shape PdfCraft.

Report bugs, request features and get early builds of PdfCraft in the ArtCraft Discord.

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