Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Fileloom
Hey HN, I built Fileloom because I kept running into the same problems with PDF generation: font rendering breaks on Linux servers, Puppeteer setup is painful, and most services charge $15-30/month for only a few hundred PDFs. Fileloom is a simple PDF generation API. Send HTML (or use saved templates with Handlebars syntax), get a PDF back in under 2 seconds. What's included: Single endpoint: POST to /v1/pdf/generate 70+ built-in Handlebars helpers (currency formatting, dates, loops, conditionals, math) Automatic font handling - no more debugging why fonts work locally…
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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BreezePDF lets you edit, sign, merge, compress, redact, OCR, fill forms, extract tables, and use 30+ more PDF tools — all in the browser, no sign-up. Files never leave your computer. I built it because when people search Google for common PDF tasks, many of the tools they find upload documents to a server. I wanted an option that keeps files local instead. I posted an earlier version on HN last spring: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43880962 At the time it only supported a small set of features. Over the last 10 months I rebuilt large parts of it and expanded it to…
2025 · breezepdf.com · its alternatives →
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PDFShift▲386Convert any HTML to PDF with a single POST request.
2018 · pdfshift.io · its alternatives →
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The easiest way to programmatically populate any PDF
2020 · useanvil.com · its alternatives →
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2016 · createamemo.com · its alternatives →
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FileFaker▲255Generate sample files of various types and sizes in seconds.
2025 · filefaker.com · its alternatives →
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CraftMyPDF▲135Design and generate pixel-perfect PDF documents in minutes
2022 · craftmypdf.com · its alternatives →
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🤖 A Node queue API for generating PDFs using headless Chrome. Comes with a CLI, S3 storage and webhooks for notifying subscribers about generated PDFs - esbenp/pdf-bot
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, Arek here. We’re super excited to officially launch PSPDFKit API [1]. PSPDFKit API is a collection of HTTP APIs that enable you to convert, generate, and edit documents without running any service on your infrastructure. What differentiates our API from others is that you can chain together multiple “actions” as part of a single API request. For example, you can convert, OCR, watermark, edit, and flatten a document — all in one call. Available actions [2]: - PDF Generator - PDF Converter - Image Converter - OCR - Watermark - Merge - Split - Duplicate - Delete - Flatten Our…
2022 · its alternatives →
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Anvil PDF API▲185Twilio for PDFs: esign, fill, generate PDFs with one API
2021 · useanvil.com · its alternatives →
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HelloPDF▲172Generating a PDF from a URL has never been easier
2019 · hellopdf.co · its alternatives →
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Fileloom▲82A free, ad-free Android viewer for all your files
May 2026 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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Hello HN! It kept surprising me how much of a hassle it is to generate a PDF with decent HTML5 rendering from my SaaS apps. I tried several free libs and APIs but ended up with botched rendering a lot of times. So I set out to simplify this chore by creating an AWS hosted HTML to PDF conversion API that's based on Chrome. This API will allow a dev to just send the HTML to our API and get a PDF in response without having to worry about running and managing Chrome somewhere in their infra. I just finished the first version of my landing page and hosted pdf generation API…
2018 · its alternatives →
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PDFBolt▲16Hi HN, I'm Michał. I posted PDFBolt here about a year ago as a basic HTML to PDF API. Since then I've been rebuilding it around the thing that kept bugging me: every time a designer tweaked a layout, it meant a code change, a deploy, and a prayer that nothing broke in production. I wanted templates that live on the server and version themselves, so my API calls stay the same when the layout changes. Try the editor, no sign-up. Open a sample report, change the data, and download a real PDF: https://pdfbolt.com/try Templates use Handlebars. Your API call sends a templateId +…
2025 · pdfbolt.com · its alternatives →
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Thumbnails Cloud▲117The simplest API for generating file thumbnails
2019 · includable.com · its alternatives →
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Loads a web page in headless Chrome using Puppeteer and prints it to PDF. The input is a JSON object and output is a PDF file.
2017 · apify.com · its alternatives →
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GeneratePDFs ▲8Convert HTML to clean PDFs with one simple API call
Dec 2025 · generatepdfs.com · its alternatives →
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Docuest▲18Convert HTML to PDF quickly and cost-effectively with API
2025 · docuest.com · its alternatives →
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