Adobe Acrobat Reader Alternatives

Adobe Acrobat Reader is described as 'View, annotate, and collaborate on PDFs, utilize cloud storage and freehand tools. Upgrade for editing and converting to other formats' and is a very popular PDF Reader in the office & productivity category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Adobe Acrobat Reader for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Web-based, Linux, Mac and Android apps. The best Adobe Acrobat Reader alternative is SumatraPDF, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Adobe Acrobat Reader are Okular, Foxit PDF Reader, Evince and Firefox PDF Viewer (PDF.js).

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Adobe Acrobat Reader alternatives are mainly PDF Readers, but if you're looking for PDF Editors or Ebook Readers you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Open Source, Windows, Linux, Windows + Open Source, Free, Android and PDF Editor. You can also filter by region, for example EU-based alternatives if you prefer software developed in the European Union. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to Adobe Acrobat Reader.
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  1. Orion Viewer icon
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    Orion is a pdf, djvu, xps and cbz file viewer for Android devices, based on mupdf and DjVuLibre libraries.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android
    • Android Tablet
    • F-Droid
     
  2. ePDFView icon
     12 likes

    A simple PDF document viewer, in the lines of Evince but without using the Gnome libraries. ePDFView is a free lightweight PDF document viewer using Poppler and GTK+ libraries.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  3. ClarifyDocuments is a free AI tool that converts PDFs, images, and slides into clean, editable text. It automatically cleans, organizes, and processes content in any language, helping students and educators focus on learning.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  4. PDF Reader Air is the ideal app for anyone who works with PDFs in the office or at home. Optimizing your work quality and productivity couldn’t be easier!.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  5. An all-in-one PDF editing software to create, manage and convert PDF files easily.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  6. PDF Online icon
     1 like

    The better PDF experience - Simple and easy online PDF tools

    Annotating. converting and editing pdfs in a web application by the developers of xodo.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  7. Innovative open source JavaFX PDF Viewer that combines the power of JavaFX with IDRsolutions industry leading PDF library to deliver a complete cross-platform PDF Reader/Viewer.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  8. Perfect PDF Reader functionality:

    • open, read, display any PDF file
    • print PDF documents
    • export PDF as plain text
    • export PDF by the page as images (not available in Adobe Reader!)
    • great number of navigation and display modes, zoom
    • rotate pages
    • send PDF file via email.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  9. PDF Assistant icon
     2 likes

    PDF Assistant - simple in use application, that let you easily interact with any pdf file. Provides ability to make adjustments into pdf and annotate files and user friendly interface will make working with the application simple and convenient.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Windows Phone
     
  10. Hyphen icon
     3 likes

    Take control of the way your ePubs display. Hyphen comes packed with a ton of options for custom colors, fonts, font sizes, line heights, paragraph indentations, margins - ...well, you get the idea. You can even use styling on a per-book basis.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
  11. A simple PDF document viewer.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Android
    • F-Droid
     
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