PatchworkPDF vs PDF Candy
PatchworkPDF
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PDF Candy
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| Figure | PatchworkPDF | PDF Candy |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | $0.33/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | — | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| iOS | — | Yes |
| Android | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 1 | 5 |
| Spec score · PDF editors | 7.9 (#51) | 9.1 (#9) |
| Annotation tools | Yes | Yes |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| OCR | Image-only pages are recognised automatically when Tesseract is installed, and the capability list also describes on-demand OCR. | Yes |
| Supported platforms | Windows,macOS,Linux | web,windows,macos,linux,ios,android |
| Text editing | Users can move, retype, or delete existing page text and add text overlays with font, size, and colour controls. | Yes |
Plans
PDF Candy
- Web + Desktop FreeFree
- Desktop + Web Yearly$4 a year
- Web Monthly$6 a month
- Web + Desktop FREEFree
- Desktop + Web Lifetime$99, paid once
In their own words
PatchworkPDF
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PDF Candy
PDF Candy is a PDF toolkit for editing, converting, merging, splitting, compressing, signing, protecting and managing documents. Its tools include text editing, annotations and OCR, while AI features can summarize, chat with and translate PDF documents. Users can import files from Google Drive or Dropbox and save updated versions back to cloud storage. PDF Candy Desktop is a Windows download with 35 tools that can operate offline; the company lists 98 PDF tools and 19 languages. Access is listed for web, Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS and Android. The free plan has page and hourly restrictions, limited file size, no batch processing and a desktop operations limit. Students and teachers can get one year of PDF Candy PRO online at no cost, with no hourly limits and uploads up to 500 MB. PDF Candy says files are deleted from its servers within two hours after processing. The free plan is available, with paid access from $6/mo.