
lightPDF
Lightweight. Fast. Offline.
What it does
lightPDF is a blazing-fast, minimalist document viewer built with React, Rust, and Tauri. It offers an offline-first experience, ensuring your documents never leave your local machine for maximum privacy. Powered by the native C++ PDFium engine, it delivers extreme performance for quickly rendering heavy PDFs and massive comic archives. Users can enjoy a free version with unobtrusive ads, or upgrade to an Ad-Free Pro Tier for a seamlessly clean interface
Does the same job
all alternatives →- IBI built a free alternative to Adobe Acrobat PDF viewer2025 · github.com · ▲357
I built EmbedPDF: an MIT-licensed, open-source PDF viewer that aims to match all of Adobe Acrobat’s paid features… for free. Already working: - Annotations (highlight, sticky notes, free text, ink) - True redaction (content actually removed) - Search, text selection, zoom, rotation - Runs fully in the browser, no server needed - Drop-in SDK for React, Vue, Preact, vanilla JS Why? Acrobat is heavy, closed, and pricey. I wanted something lightweight, hackable, and embeddable anywhere. Demo: https://app.embedpdf.com/ Website: https://www.embedpdf.com/ GitHub:…


- PMPrivatePDF – minimal PDF editor that runs in the browser2023 · github.com · ▲14
I created this tool to make it quick and easy to sign PDF contracts, without having to deal with installing additional software and without worrying that my PDFs will get uploaded to a third party. It supports the bare minimum for my most common usecases. It is not intended to be a full-featured PDF editor. Features include filling PDF forms, inserting images and text, and rotating PDFs. Check it out by either picking a PDF of your own - https://photown.github.io/private-pdf/, or with a preloaded sample PDF -…
- IBI built an 11MB offline PDF editor because mobile Acrobat is 500MBJan 2026 · revpdf.com · ▲11

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