LightPDF vs SwifDoo PDF
LightPDF
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| Figure | LightPDF | SwifDoo PDF |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $1.33/mo | $5.75/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | Yes | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | — |
| iOS | Yes | Yes |
| Android | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | — |
| Self-hosted | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 5 | 7 |
| Spec score · PDF editors | 9.2 (#6) | 8.0 (#47) |
| Founded | 2018 | 2017 |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
Plans
LightPDF
- Free PlanFree
- Monthly Plan$5.99 a month
- Yearly Plan$15.99 a year
- Lifetime Plan$39.99 a month
- Lifetime Plan$39.99, paid once
SwifDoo PDF
- FreeFree
- Monthly Plan$16.99 a month
- Quarterly Plan$60 a month
- Yearly Plan$69 a year
- 2-Year Plan$99 a month
- Perpetual Plan (1 PC)$96.75, paid once
- Perpetual Plan (2-PC)$119.25, paid once
In their own words
LightPDF
LightPDF is an AI-powered PDF service for editing, converting, annotating, signing, organizing, and chatting with documents. Its AI Agent accepts chat requests for tasks such as merging, conversion, watermark removal, page numbering, and compression. Other listed AI features include translation, image processing, data extraction, invoice generation, and document enhancement. LightPDF offers a conversion API for PDFs and office documents, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, images, HTML, and text. It is available on the web, Android, iOS, macOS, and Windows, with a Chrome/Edge extension. The free plan is web-only, limits files to 10MB, includes five cloud files for one year, and allows three AI Agent questions per day. Monthly and yearly plans include 1,000 AI credits per month; the lifetime plan includes 40,000 credits valid until used. Monthly costs $5.99 a month, Yearly costs $15.99 a year and includes a 3-day free trial, and Lifetime costs $39.99 a month. Premium features can be used on one device at a time.
SwifDoo PDF
SwifDoo PDF has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.