Chrome PDF Viewer Plug-in Alternatives

Chrome PDF Viewer Plug-in is described as 'In version 8, Google Chrome introduced a free PDF viewer, installed by default. While this plug-in lacks many features of the Adobe Acrobat Plug-in, it is much faster and lighter, and updates with the browser rather than an external utility' and is a popular PDF Reader in the web browsers category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Chrome PDF Viewer Plug-in for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Web-based and Android apps. The best Chrome PDF Viewer Plug-in alternative is SumatraPDF, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Chrome PDF Viewer Plug-in are Okular, Foxit PDF Reader, Evince and MuPDF.

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  1. Ashampoo PDF Free is a software for opening, reading, and creating PDF files. It includes a built-in printer driver for generating PDFs from any Windows application, a compact and fast PDF reader, and the ability to fill out interactive and static forms.

    90 Ashampoo PDF Free alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  2. PDF X icon
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    PDF X is a productive PDF reader & editor for Windows. It's powerful for users to view, print, edit, and annotate Adobe Acrobat PDFs.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  3. Do more than just view your PDF files online. With the Acrobat extension, you can mark up proposals, leave sticky note comments, and use your favorite PDF tools without leaving your browser.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Google Chrome
    • Microsoft Edge
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  4. zathura icon
     44 likes

    Zathura is a highly customizable and functional document viewer. It provides a minimalistic and space saving interface as well as an easy usage that mainly focuses on keyboard interaction.

    81 zathura alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (Zlib)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • MacPorts
    • Homebrew
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  5. Atril icon
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    Atril is a simple multi-page document viewer. It can display and print PostScript (PS), Encapsulated PostScript (EPS), DJVU, DVI, XPS and Portable Document Format (PDF) files. When supported by the document, it also allows searching for text, copying text to the clipboard...

    120 Atril alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
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  6. Supercharge your paper reading: follow references, skim outline, jump to figures, cite and save.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Google Chrome
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  7. qpdfview icon
     45 likes

    qpdfview is a Qt-based tabbed document viewer using the Poppler library for PDF rendering and CUPS for printing. Support for the DjVu and PostScript formats can be added via plugins.

    90 qpdfview alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Haiku
    • Qt
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  8. Xpdf icon
     12 likes

    Xpdf is a free PDF viewer and toolkit, including a text extractor, image converter, HTML converter, and more. Most of the tools are available as open source.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • US flagUnited States
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  9. ePDFView icon
     13 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
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  10. The simplest PDF viewer. Safe (doesn't require permissions), lightweight (just 6,9MB) and modern.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android
    • HUAWEI AppGallery
    • F-Droid
    • Kindle Fire
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  11. Apryse  icon
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    Apryse, previously known as PDFTron, takes document solutions to the next level, making work better and life simpler.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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