Free PDF Editor for
Windows, macOS & Linux
Stop paying to rotate a PDF.
Merge, split, rotate, extract, encrypt and edit PDFs on your own machine — all the things other tools charge $20 a month for. Nothing is uploaded, and there is no watermark.
- Rotate pages
- Merge PDFs
- Extract text
- Add passwords
- Edit text
- All free
Your documents never leave your computer.
The web is full of free PDF tools that work by taking your file. You upload a contract, a payslip or a scan of your passport to a server you know nothing about, it comes back modified, and you take it on faith that the copy was deleted. For a task as trivial as turning a page ninety degrees, that is an absurd trade.
VerusPDF is a desktop application. It opens files from your disk and writes them back to your disk. There is no account, no upload, no telemetry and no network round trip in the middle of your work — which also means no queue, no file-size cap, and no retention policy to read.
All of it. For free.
No trial, no feature gates, no upgrade prompt. Every one of these is in the app you download.
Rotate pages
Turn sideways scans the right way up and save the rotation for good.
Merge PDFs
Combine any number of PDFs into one, in the order you choose.
Split a PDF
Break a large document apart by page count, bookmarks, or chosen split points.
Extract pages
Keep only the pages you need, as a new document.
Extract text
Pull the text out to a file or the clipboard, encodings intact.
Password protect
Add or remove password protection, with AES-128 and AES-256.
Edit text
Click a line and change it in place, matching the original font.
Bookmarks
Add, rename and nest outline entries so long documents stay navigable.
Compress
Remove duplicated resources and unused objects to shrink the file.
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VerusPDF is free and always will be. Support funds this project and the ones after it. Good software shouldn't be gatekept behind subscriptions.
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