◆SelectPdf PDF Editor Windows · Mac · iPhone & iPad

PDF editor for Windows, Mac and iPhone.
Free to start, Pro when you need it.

Edit the text in your PDFs, sign them with a digital ID, redact what must not be seen and convert to Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Everything runs on your own computer, iPhone or iPad, with no account and no uploads.

No watermarks, ever. Pro has a 14-day free trial; on Windows and Mac it needs no card and no account. System requirements

SelectPdf PDF Editor on Windows, editing the text of a paragraph in a PDF, with the font and paragraph settings beside it SelectPdf PDF Editor on iPhone, with a paragraph selected for editing
§FREE VERSION

Free, and genuinely useful.

The free version is not a trial. It never expires and never watermarks what you save.

  • Read, search and print PDFs, including password-protected ones
  • Highlight, comment, draw, and add shapes, stamps and text boxes
  • Fill in forms, and sign them with a signature you draw, type or import
  • Merge, split, rotate, reorder, crop and extract pages
  • Convert Word, Excel, PowerPoint and images to PDF
  • Reduce the file size, and save pages as images or text
  • Check digital signatures, and run the accessibility checker
  • On Windows and Mac: check documents against 18 PDF standards, PDF/A, PDF/UA and PDF/X. On iPhone: scan paper with the camera
§PRO

Pro: edit, sign, redact and convert.

EDIT

Edit text in place.

Click into a paragraph and type; it rewraps as you go. Replace and crop images, add text, images, shapes and links, and add headers, footers, page numbers and watermarks.

Editing a paragraph of a PDF in SelectPdf PDF Editor on Windows
SIGN

Sign with a digital ID.

PAdES signatures with time stamps. On Windows and Mac, also long-term validation, certifying signatures, and smart cards and USB tokens.

A digitally signed agreement in SelectPdf PDF Editor, with the signature reported as valid
REDACT

Redact for real.

The text is removed from the file, not covered. On Windows and Mac, find what to redact by pattern: phone numbers, email addresses, card and IBAN numbers, dates or your own expression. Remove hidden information too.

Names, an address and account numbers marked for redaction in a contract in SelectPdf PDF Editor

Convert PDF to Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

No Microsoft Office needed.

Make scans searchable.

Text recognition with the system's own engine, or Tesseract on Windows and Mac.

Forms, protection and archiving.

Create form fields, protect with passwords or certificates, convert to PDF/A, and compare two versions.

Windows and Mac: work in bulk and fix accessibility.

An action wizard for batch jobs, web pages to PDF, the PDF Optimizer, measuring, and accessibility fixes: autotag, reading order and alternate text.

§PRIVACY

Processed on your device.

Your documents are opened, edited and converted on your own computer, iPhone or iPad. There is no account to create and no cloud service in between. The editor goes online for its license and updates, for what you ask of it, such as a time stamp on a signature, and, if you agree, to send a crash report, which never contains your documents or file names.

⌗PLATFORMS

Windows, Mac, iPhone and iPad.

Windows

Windows 10 and 11

Windows 10 (version 1809 or later) or Windows 11, 64-bit. Installs without administrator rights and updates itself, after asking.

Mac

macOS 13 or later

Macs with Apple Silicon. Updates itself, after asking.

iPhone and iPad

iOS and iPadOS 17 or later

On the App Store. The AI assistant needs iOS 26 on a device with Apple Intelligence.

12 languages: English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Polish, Romanian, Japanese, Chinese and Korean.

$PRICING

Pricing that respects you.

Free
$0

Everything in the free version above, forever.

Pro yearly
$49/ year

Every Pro feature and every update while subscribed. Also $9 a month.

A license bought on this website covers the Windows and Mac apps downloaded from it, one Windows PC and one Mac at the same time. On iPhone and iPad, Pro is an App Store subscription: $9.99 a month or $49.99 a year. Compare Free and Pro →

?FAQ

Questions, answered.

Something else? Contact us, or read the user guide.

Yes. It never expires, has no watermarks and needs no account. Pro adds editing, digital signatures, redaction, OCR and conversion to Office formats.
Pro keeps working, with every feature of the version you have. Newer versions need a renewal, $39 a year; you can renew at any time.
Yes, a license bought on this website covers one Windows PC and one Mac at the same time, and you can move it to another computer from the app. On iPhone and iPad, Pro is an App Store subscription.
No. Your documents are opened, edited and converted on your device. The app goes online for its license and updates, for the lists of trusted certificates it checks signatures with, for a time stamp when you ask for one and, if you agree, to send crash reports. A form's Submit button sends the form's data to the address the form names, after you confirm.
Yes. Reading, editing and saving work without internet. The license needs to check in about every 90 days; for computers with no internet there is offline activation.
Yes, with Pro, also to Excel and PowerPoint, and to RTF, ODT, HTML and Markdown on Windows and Mac.
Macs with Apple Silicon (M1 and later), on macOS 13 or later.
On Windows and Mac, Pro is on for 14 days from the first start, with no card and no account; afterwards the app continues as the free version. On iPhone and iPad, the App Store subscriptions start with 14 days free.