PDF Arranger vs PDF Candy

PDF Arranger is a free graphical desktop application for editing and organizing PDF pages on Linux, macOS, and Windows. It displays pages side by side and supports reordering by drag and drop, copy, and paste. Users can rotate, delete, duplicate, split, merge, resize, and crop pages, and the manual lists generating or splitting booklets. The application can search PDF text, edit metadata, import images as PDF pages, and export pages as PDF, PNG, JPEG, or rasterized PDF. Options address preserving document information such as outlines and links, although some operations can remove those properties. Image import requires img2pdf, while the project requires pikepdf version 6 or later. The project is licensed under GPL-3.0. Its Free plan is listed at free. Installation guidance differs by operating system, including Windows packages, macOS dependency options, and packages for Linux distributions and FreeBSD.

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.