Comparison
Edit My PDF vs PDF24 Tools
Around 150 free, ad-supported online PDF tools from a German company, plus a free offline Windows app.
| At a glance |  PDF24 Tools | Edit My PDF |
|---|---|---|
| Where your file is processed | Uploaded to their serversOnline tools run "on our servers in the cloud" in Germany; the Windows app PDF24 Creator works offline. | In your browserEverything runs in your tab with pdf.js and pdf-lib. Nothing is uploaded. |
| File retention | Files are deleted from the server within one hour; no backups are made. The optional AI invoice tool sends the PDF to Google's Gemini API. | Nothing is sent, so nothing is retained. Documents stay in your browser's IndexedDB until you remove them. |
| Account | Not requiredNo registration. | Not required |
| Free tier | Everything is free and ad-supported, with "no artificial limits". Its Edit PDF tool adds text, images and shapes but cannot change existing text.File size cap: None published. Limit: None. Watermark: no. | Everything is free. No task counter, no watermark, no file size cap beyond browser memory. |
| Paid plans | None | None. Everything is free. |
| Edits the text already on the page | No | Yes |
| Keeps the page's original font | NoCannot edit existing text. Its FAQ says the best way is to convert the PDF to Word, edit, and convert back, which reflows the page and substitutes fonts. | YesOpens the clicked text in the PDF's embedded font, at its size, colour, letter and word spacing; exports it as real text in a subset of that font. |
| Annotate and draw | Yes | Yes |
| Sign | Yes | Yes |
| Fill forms | Yes | No |
| OCR | Yes | No |
| Convert to and from other formats | Yes | No |
| Merge and split | Yes | No |
| Compress | Yes | No |
| Desktop apps | Yes | No |
| Mobile apps | No | No |
| API | Yes | No |
- Enormous breadth, all free: OCR, every conversion, merge, split, compress, redact, compare, PDF/A, e-invoices and digital signatures with timestamps.
- A free offline Windows app with its own PDF engine.
- German hosting, one-hour deletion and no backups, from a company that has been at it since 2006.
- No account, no subscription, no paywall.
Where PDF24 Tools is better
- Editing the text that is already on the page, in its own font. PDF24 cannot do this at all.
- No upload for any operation; PDF24's online tools all run on its servers.
- No ads.
Where Edit My PDF is better
PDF24 Creator 11.31 (October 2026) shipped its own PDF engine; e-invoice tools and an optional AI invoice reader arrived in 2026.
Read on 2 November 2026 from geek software GmbH's own pages, with independent reviews used only to fill gaps. Prices are as the vendor showed them, in the currency and region seen. Where a vendor publishes nothing, the page says "Not stated".
- PDF24 Edit PDF (no existing-text editing)
- PDF24 FAQ (free, deletion, EU servers)
- PDF24 Creator (offline Windows app)
- PDF24 privacy policy
- PDF24 legal notice
PDF24 Tools is a product of geek software GmbH, Berlin. The name is used only to identify the product being compared.
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