PDF Arranger vs Smallpdf

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.

Smallpdf is a PDF service with tools for editing, converting, compressing, organizing, sharing, protecting and scanning documents. Users can add text, shapes, images and freehand annotations, create forms and use OCR. It supports electronic signatures, including signing, requesting signatures and tracking documents. Files can be stored, managed and shared across devices, and the mobile app supports PDF scans, document organization and file sharing. Smallpdf is available on the web, Windows, iOS and Android, and also supports a Chrome extension. Integrations include Google Workspace and Dropbox. Thirty PDF tools are available for free, and the free trial lasts seven days. Pro costs $12 a month, billed monthly per user. Team costs $10 a month per user and covers 2 to 100 users, with a minimum of two seats. Smallpdf says it uses 256-bit TLS encryption for information transfer and is ISO/IEC 27001 certified and compliant with GDPR, CCPA and nFADP. Customer support is available around the clock.