# Edit My PDF vs PDF24 Tools: where files go, what is free, fonts

> PDF24 Tools compared with Edit My PDF: where files are processed, free limits, pricing, and whether editing text keeps the original font. Facts checked 2 November 2026.

Canonical: https://editmypdf.dev/compare/pdf24/

Around 150 free, ad-supported online PDF tools from a German company, plus a free offline Windows app.

Facts checked 2 November 2026

## In short

For anything other than changing the words on a page, PDF24 is the free tool to reach for, and its privacy terms are among the clearest. It simply does not edit existing text. Edit My PDF does only that, and does it in the page's own font.

PDF24 Tools and Edit My PDF on three facts
|  | PDF24 Tools | Edit My PDF |
| --- | --- | --- |
| runs in your browser | No | Yes |
| edits existing text | No | Yes |
| keeps the page's font | No | Yes |

| At a glance | PDF24 Tools | Edit My PDF |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Where your file is processed | Uploaded to their servers (Online tools run "on our servers in the cloud" in Germany; the Windows app PDF24 Creator works offline.) | In your browser (Everything 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 required (No 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 | No (Cannot 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.) | Yes (Opens 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 |

### Where PDF24 Tools is better

-   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 Edit My PDF 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.

PDF24 Creator 11.31 (October 2026) shipped its own PDF engine; e-invoice tools and an optional AI invoice reader arrived in 2026.

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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".

1.  [PDF24 Edit PDF (no existing-text editing)](https://tools.pdf24.org/en/edit-pdf)
2.  [PDF24 FAQ (free, deletion, EU servers)](https://tools.pdf24.org/en/faq)
3.  [PDF24 Creator (offline Windows app)](https://tools.pdf24.org/en/creator)
4.  [PDF24 privacy policy](https://www.pdf24.org/en/privacy-policy)
5.  [PDF24 legal notice](https://www.pdf24.org/en/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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