| Price from | Free | Free |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | — |
| macOS | Yes | — |
| iOS | Yes | — |
| Android | Yes | — |
| Self-hosted | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 2 | 1 |
| Spec score · PDF editors | 9.0 (#11) | 7.6 (#68) |
| Annotation tools | Yes | Yes |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| OCR | Its OCR recognizes scanned documents and supports more than 30 languages. | Yes |
| Supported platforms | web,Windows,macOS,iOS,Android | web |
| Text editing | Yes | Users can edit existing text in place, add text boxes, and change font family, size, color, bold, and italic. |
| What it does | PDFgear provides PDF reading, editing, annotation, conversion, page management, protection, signing and AI-assisted document chat. | PdfZero is an open-source PDF editor for editing text in PDFs in a browser. |