| Price from | Free | Free |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | — | Yes |
| iOS | Yes | — |
| Android | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 2 | 3 |
| Spec score · PDF editors | 9.0 (#11) | 8.4 (#26) |
| Annotation tools | Yes | Yes |
| Form creation | Yes | Yes |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| OCR | Its OCR recognizes scanned documents and supports more than 30 languages. | OCR runs locally and adds an invisible searchable text layer to scans. |
| PDF conversion | Yes | Yes |
| PDF editing | Users can modify PDF text, images, shapes, signatures, links and form fields. | PickPDF edits existing PDF text objects in place and supports annotations and object edits. |
| Privacy policy | The privacy notice says AI features may send uploaded PDF content and chat text to Microsoft Azure OpenAI after explicit user consent. | The privacy policy says PickPDF does not include advertising or use the application to track activity across other apps or websites. |
| Supported platforms | web,Windows,macOS,iOS,Android | The maker lists a browser editor, Windows, macOS, Linux, and Chrome and Edge extensions. |
| Text editing | Yes | Yes |
