PDFCreator Alternatives for Mac

PDFCreator is not available for Mac but there are plenty of alternatives that runs on macOS with similar functionality. The best Mac alternative is Stirling-PDF, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to PDFCreator and many of them are available for Mac so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Mac alternatives to PDFCreator are iLovePDF, PDF Genie, Elimisoft PDF Creator and Cisdem PDFCreator.

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PDFCreator alternatives are mainly PDF Editors, but if you're looking for PDF Readers or PDF Printers you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Open Source, Linux and Mac. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to PDFCreator.
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  1. iLovePDF icon
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    iLovePDF is an online service to work with PDF files completely free and easy to use. Merge PDF, split PDF, compress PDF, office to PDF, PDF to JPG and more!

    153 iLovePDF alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
     
  2. PDF Genie icon
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    40+ free PDF tools plus AI-powered contract review, invoice extraction, and document chat — all in your browser, no signup needed.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • iPad
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Mac
     
  3. Elimisoft PDF Creator is a great way to help you create PDF from Word(.docx), PowerPoint(.pptx), Plain Text, RTFD, HTML, EPUB, and Image(.png, .gif, .tif, .jpeg, etc). It also keeps the origin formatting after creating!.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  4. Cisdem PDFCreator for Mac lets you easily create PDF from Word, PowerPoint, EPUB, Text, RTFD, HTML, CHM, JPG, and PNG, etc. It can do both partial conversion of one single file and batch conversion, and even merged conversion with several files.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  5. Read, edit, annotate, and sign PDF documents with built-in AI features like summarize and translate, OCR in 50+ languages, fill forms, export to major formats offline, apply watermarks, compress files, secure with passwords, and use text-to-speech on all major platforms.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
     
  6. PDFify icon
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    PDF creation with text recognition and scanner support. Features email and webpage import to PDF. Reduce file size by optimizing PDF.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
     
  7. Edit, convert, annotate, protect, merge, split, compress, and sign PDF files on Mac.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  8. Infix PDF editor lets you open, edit and save PDF files. It’s easy and quick – you can change text, fonts, images and more. And, unlike other PDF editors, it works like normal word processing software, so it’s really easy to use.

    92 Infix PDF Editor alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  9. pdfly icon
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    pdfly (say: PDF-li) is a pure-python CLI application for manipulating PDF files.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Python
    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Windows
    • BSD
     
  10. Spool Pilot makes it possible to convert printouts from arbitrary applications in several popular graphic formats as easily as it is now to save them in a PDF file. From the point of view of the user, the procedure of saving printouts is very much the same.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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