PDFApps
v1.15.2 · Now on the Microsoft Store

Download PDFApps

Free forever, open source. Choose your platform below; installation takes less than a minute.

Windows

Windows

Windows 10 / 11 · 64-bit
Get from Microsoft Store

Windows downloads are exclusive to the Microsoft Store for automatic updates and platform validation.

macOS

macOS

macOS 10.14+ · Intel / Apple Silicon
Download DMG

The app is not yet signed or notarized by Apple, so macOS blocks it the first time you open it. Signing and notarization are planned. To open it:

  1. Open the DMG and drag PDFApps to Applications.
  2. Open PDFApps once. When the warning appears, go to System Settings > Privacy & Security, click Open Anyway and confirm. On older macOS versions, you can instead right-click the app and choose Open.
  3. If macOS says the app is damaged, run xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/PDFApps.app in Terminal and open PDFApps again.
Linux

Linux

Multiple package managers below
See options
Linux

Pick your distro

Install from the Snap Store or the AUR. A pre-built tar.gz archive is also available.

Ubuntu

Ubuntu / Debian / Snap

Snap Store package, auto-updates handled by snapd
sudo snap install pdfapps
Arch Linux

Arch / Manjaro

From the AUR. Source build (lightweight) or pre-compiled binary.
yay -S pdfapps # source yay -S pdfapps-bin # binary

tar.gz (other distros)

Pre-built archive. It needs system libraries that it does not include, such as libGL, and may not start on a minimal install. The Snap or the AUR is recommended.
tar -xzf PDFApps-Linux-x86_64.tar.gz && ./PDFApps
Download tar.gz
Optional

External tools

For OCR and advanced compression. PDFApps works without these but two tools require them.

Tesseract OCR

Required by the OCR tool to recognize text in scanned PDFs.

Ghostscript

Used by the "extreme" compression level for maximum file size reduction.

The Microsoft Store package bundles both automatically. On Linux, install from your package manager.