Edit PDFs locally — your files never leave your device
Merge, split, rotate, renumber, flatten and compress PDFs with a proper editor that runs entirely in your browser. No upload, no signup, no watermark — verify it with your Network tab open.
- No upload — ever
- Free, no signup
- No watermarks
- Works offline
- Merge PDFs
Combine files into one, in the order you set — including duplex-scan interleaving.
- Split a PDF
Every page, every N pages, in half, or custom ranges — with a ZIP of the parts.
- Compress a PDF
Re-encodes oversized scans, strips metadata — honest when nothing can shrink.
- Rotate pages
Fix sideways or upside-down pages — saved into the file, per page or all at once.
- Delete pages
Click pages or type ranges like 1-3, last — see exactly what goes before saving.
- Extract pages
Pull chosen pages into a new PDF — in the order you click them.
- Reorder pages
Drag thumbnails into place, or reverse a back-to-front scan in one click.
- Page numbers
Six positions, real formats, custom start — plus Bates stamps for legal work.
- Flatten a form
Make filled form fields permanent — what many courts require before e-filing.
Why this exists
The documents people edit as PDFs — contracts, medical records, court filings, bank statements — are near the top of anyone’s “things I’d rather not upload to a random server” list. Yet the big PDF sites all work exactly that way: your file goes up, sits in their queue under their retention policy, and comes back edited. EditPDFLocally takes the other road: the editing engine comes to you. The site is static files; there is no upload endpoint to trust, because there is no upload endpoint at all. Here’s the full technical explanation.
Built like an editor, not a form
Every tool shows your actual pages as live thumbnails: click the pages to delete and watch
them mark red; drag pages into a new order; see rotation applied before you save it. Ranges
like 1-3, 5, last work everywhere and stay in sync with what you click. And
because operations re-read your original bytes each run, nothing is ever double-applied —
the downloaded file is derived from your untouched original every time.
Frequently asked questions
How can a PDF editor work without uploading my file?
PDFs are just structured bytes, and modern browsers are more than powerful enough to restructure them. This site ships the editing engine to your browser as JavaScript; your file is read into your tab’s memory, edited there, and downloaded from there. There is no server to upload to — the site is static files.
How do I verify the “nothing leaves your device” claim?
Open your browser’s DevTools, switch to the Network tab, then run any tool. You’ll see the page load its scripts — and then nothing outbound while your file is processed. Stronger still: load a tool page, switch off Wi-Fi, and it keeps working.
Is it really free? Where’s the catch?
Free, no account, no watermark, no daily quota. Your device does the computing, so our costs are just hosting static files. If the site ever carries ads, they’ll sit outside the tools and will never see your documents — the no-upload architecture doesn’t change.
What’s the file size limit?
Whatever your device can hold in memory — in practice a few hundred MB, far beyond the caps of upload-based tools’ free tiers. There’s no artificial page count or “2 tasks per day” limit.
Can it open password-protected PDFs?
No — encrypted files can’t be edited here, and the tools say so honestly rather than producing broken output. Open the file with its password in your PDF viewer and save an unprotected copy first.
Does it work on phones and offline?
Yes on both. The tools run in mobile browsers, and once a page has loaded it works with no connection at all — which doubles as proof that your documents stay local.