PDF Candy, run by Icecream Apps Ltd., offers online PDF tools for merging, splitting, compressing, editing and converting PDFs, including PDF to Word and OCR. Its free plan works without an account but has page and hourly limits, a limited file size and no batch processing, and the site states that uploaded files and results are kept for no longer than two hours. A paid plan lifts the hourly limits, and a separate Windows desktop version works offline.
Shared requirement: Merge, Split or Compress PDF · Convert PDF
Only the tasks below are shared; other capabilities do not follow from this match.
Same platform: Desktop → Desktop
Recorded facts for this choice
Confirmed differences
- Free output: Xodo No → PDF Candy Yes
Documented on one side only
- Batch processing: Xodo Yes → PDF Candy Not verified
Confirmed on both sides with the same value: Works offline.
Neither side has verified data for these fields, so equality cannot be inferred. No account needed · No watermark.
Requires desktop installation. Check the official page for current quotas and output conditions.
Go to pdfcandy.comPDFgear is a free desktop app and online toolkit for editing, merging, splitting, compressing and converting PDFs to Word, Excel, PowerPoint or JPG.
Shared requirement: Merge, Split or Compress PDF · Convert PDF
Only the tasks below are shared; other capabilities do not follow from this match.
Same platform: Desktop → Desktop
Recorded facts for this choice
Confirmed differences
- Free output: Xodo No → PDFgear Yes
Documented on one side only
- No account needed: Xodo Not verified → PDFgear Yes
Confirmed on both sides with the same value: Works offline · Batch processing.
Neither side has verified data for these fields, so equality cannot be inferred. No watermark.
Requires desktop installation. Check the official page for current quotas and output conditions.
Go to pdfgear.comSejda offers PDF tools for merging, splitting, compressing, editing and converting to Word, Excel or JPG in the browser or a desktop app.
Shared requirement: Merge, Split or Compress PDF · Convert PDF
Only the tasks below are shared; other capabilities do not follow from this match.
Same platform: Desktop → Desktop
Recorded facts for this choice
Confirmed differences
- Free output: Xodo No → Sejda Yes
Documented on one side only
- Works offline: Xodo Yes → Sejda Not verified
- Batch processing: Xodo Yes → Sejda Not verified
Neither side has verified data for these fields, so equality cannot be inferred. No account needed · No watermark.
Requires desktop installation. Check the official page for current quotas and output conditions.
Go to sejda.comPDFsam Basic is a free, open-source desktop app for merging, splitting, extracting, rotating and mixing the pages of PDF files on your own computer.
Shared requirement: Merge, Split or Compress PDF
Only the tasks below are shared; other capabilities do not follow from this match.
Tasks listed only for Xodo: Convert PDF
Same platform: Desktop → Desktop
Recorded facts for this choice
Confirmed differences
- Free output: Xodo No → PDFsam Basic Yes
Documented on one side only
- No watermark: Xodo Not verified → PDFsam Basic Yes
- Batch processing: Xodo Yes → PDFsam Basic Not verified
Confirmed on both sides with the same value: Works offline.
Neither side has verified data for these fields, so equality cannot be inferred. No account needed.
Requires desktop installation.
Go to pdfsam.orgStirling PDF is an open-source PDF platform with dozens of tools such as merge, split, compress, sign, redact, convert and OCR, available as a desktop app or on your own server.
Shared requirement: Merge, Split or Compress PDF
Only the tasks below are shared; other capabilities do not follow from this match.
Tasks listed only for Xodo: Convert PDF
Same platform: Desktop → Desktop
Recorded facts for this choice
Confirmed differences
- Free output: Xodo No → Stirling PDF Yes
Documented on one side only
- No account needed: Xodo Not verified → Stirling PDF Yes
- Works offline: Xodo Yes → Stirling PDF Not verified
- Batch processing: Xodo Yes → Stirling PDF Not verified
Neither side has verified data for these fields, so equality cannot be inferred. No watermark.
Requires desktop installation. Check each tool’s plan separately; one feature’s allowance does not cover another.
Go to stirling.comLibreOffice is the free, open-source office suite of The Document Foundation for Windows, macOS and Linux. Its help documents exporting Writer and Draw files to PDF with page range, encryption and PDF version options, also from the command line. Use it to save your own documents as PDF; to turn an existing PDF into Word or Excel, look at PDF-focused converters instead.
Shared requirement: Convert PDF
Only the tasks below are shared; other capabilities do not follow from this match.
Tasks listed only for Xodo: Merge, Split or Compress PDF
Same platform: Desktop → Desktop
Recorded facts for this choice
Confirmed differences
- Free output: Xodo No → LibreOffice Yes
Documented on one side only
- Works offline: Xodo Yes → LibreOffice Not verified
- Batch processing: Xodo Yes → LibreOffice Not verified
Neither side has verified data for these fields, so equality cannot be inferred. No account needed · No watermark.
Requires desktop installation.
Go to libreoffice.org