Edit a PDF
A proper PDF editor that runs entirely in your browser. Add text anywhere, draw or sign with a pen, drop in an image or logo, highlight passages, cover mistakes, and mark up pages with shapes, lines, arrows and checkmarks — then download the result. Your document is never uploaded; the editing engine comes to your device instead.
It’s built for the everyday jobs people reach for “Adobe” to do: sign a contract, fill a flat (non-fillable) form by typing on top of it, initial a page, tick a box, black-out a stray line, or add a note before sending. Everything you place is baked into the page content on download, so it looks the same in every viewer and on every device.
Drop a PDF here to edit
Or click to browse. Add text, draw, shapes, highlights, images — all on your device, never uploaded.
How it works
- Drop your PDF into the editor above (or click to browse). It opens on your device — nothing is uploaded.
- Pick a tool: Text, Pen, Highlight, Shapes, Checkmark, Whiteout or Image. Set the colour, size or thickness first.
- Click or drag on the page to add your mark. Switch to Select to move, resize or delete anything; Ctrl+Z undoes.
- Use the page arrows to work through a multi-page document, then “Apply edits & download” to save a new PDF.
Every tool you’d expect — and what each is for
Text lays down a box you type into, in Helvetica, Times or Courier at any size, with bold, italic, colour and alignment — ideal for filling forms that have no real fields. Pen draws freehand for signatures and quick circling. Highlight lays a translucent colour over text the way a marker does. Rectangle and Ellipse outline or fill areas; Line and Arrow point things out. Checkmark and Cross tick or clear boxes on printed forms. Whiteout covers a mistake, and Image drops in a PNG or JPG — a scanned signature, a stamp, a logo.
Select any mark to move it, drag its handles to resize, or press Delete to remove it. Undo and redo (Ctrl+Z / Ctrl+Y) go back as far as you need, and the page thumbnails-style navigator lets you edit a document of any length one page at a time.
The honest limits — worth reading before you start
This is an add-a-layer editor: it draws new content on top of your page. It does not reflow or retype the text that’s already in the PDF, because a PDF isn’t a word processor document — the text is fixed glyphs, not editable paragraphs. To “change” existing text, cover it with Whiteout and type your replacement over it. That is genuinely how the reliable PDF editors work; anything promising seamless in-place text editing is either running OCR (and guessing) or quietly rasterizing your page.
And a specific caution: Whiteout hides, it does not redact. The covered text is still in the file and can be recovered. For anything sensitive, remove the whole page with the delete-pages tool — which rebuilds the file so the content is truly gone — or use dedicated redaction software. We’d rather tell you this up front than let you send a document you think is safe.
Why do this in the browser?
The documents people edit — offer letters, NDAs, medical forms, lease agreements, tax paperwork — are exactly the ones that shouldn’t be uploaded to a stranger’s server and left in a processing queue. Here there is no server: the page is static files, and the editing happens in your tab. Open your browser’s Network tab while you work and you’ll see nothing leave the page; disconnect from Wi-Fi and it keeps working, which is the same fact viewed from another angle. It’s free, with no account, no watermark and no per-file quota, because your device is doing the work.
Frequently asked questions
Can I edit the existing text in the PDF — retype a word that’s already there?
Not directly, and no honest browser tool can promise to. A PDF stores text as positioned glyphs, not editable paragraphs, so “changing” a word means covering the old one and typing new text over it. This editor does exactly that: use Whiteout to cover the original, then add a Text box with your replacement. It’s the reliable way, and it’s what most “edit PDF text” tools do under the hood anyway.
Is Whiteout the same as redaction?
No — and this is important. Whiteout draws an opaque rectangle over the content so it’s hidden visually, but the covered text or image still exists in the file’s bytes and could be recovered or copied. It’s fine for tidying a document; it is not safe for hiding secrets. To truly remove content, delete the whole page (the delete-pages tool rebuilds the file so removed pages are genuinely gone), or redact in software built for it.
Will my typed text show up in every PDF viewer?
Yes. The text is drawn into the page content itself using one of the standard PDF fonts (Helvetica, Times or Courier), exactly like the page-numbering tool — not stored as an annotation layer that some viewers skip. It prints and displays everywhere. One limit: standard fonts cover Latin text (accents included); non-Latin scripts and emoji can’t be drawn, and the editor tells you which character it hit rather than saving an invisible value.
How do I sign a PDF here?
Two ways. Use the Pen tool to draw your signature freehand with a mouse, trackpad or finger — pick a colour and thickness first. Or, if you have a photo of your signature (ideally a PNG with a transparent background), use the Image tool to drop it in and drag it to size. Both are baked into the page on download.
Does editing change my original file?
Never. Your file is read into the tab’s memory and the edited version is offered as a new download — the file on your disk is untouched. Because each “Apply” re-reads the original bytes and re-applies your marks, saving twice never double-stamps anything.
Can it handle a scanned PDF or a rotated page?
Yes to both. A scan is just an image inside a page, so you can write and draw on top of it — handy for signing or annotating scanned paperwork. And the editor understands page rotation: marks you place on a sideways or upside-down page are saved the right way up, because placement is computed in the page’s displayed orientation.