Free Online PDF Editor

Yes. Editly is completely free: no paid plan, no trial that runs out, no subscription and no watermark on your files. You don't need to sign up or log in to edit and download. A free account is optional and only raises the file size limit from 20 MB to 50 MB.

Open Editly on this page and add your PDF from your device, Google Drive, Dropbox or OneDrive. Click any text to change it, or pick a tool from the toolbar to add text, images, a signature, highlights or drawings. When you're done, download the edited PDF, or a Word file, for free. No sign-up, no watermark and nothing to install.

Yes, that's what Editly is built for. Click any line or paragraph and type to change it right in the document; the font, size and colour are detected automatically. In the default Server mode, Editly removes the old text and writes your new text in its place, so the page looks as if it had always said that.

Yes, whenever the PDF includes it. Editly reads the font the document already uses and writes your new text with it, so edits blend in. If a character isn't in the PDF's embedded font, the closest matching font is used. Keeping the original embedded font needs the default Server mode; in Browser mode the font is matched on your device.

Yes. Editly works without an account, email or login: open your file, edit it and download it. There's no subscription to cancel later. You only need a free account for files larger than 20 MB, up to 50 MB.

No. Editly never adds a watermark, logo or footer to your file, and there's no paid upgrade to remove one. Your PDF is exported exactly as you edited it.

Just open it in Editly. There's no need to convert the PDF to Word first: you edit the text, images and pages of the PDF itself and download it as a PDF again. If you'd rather keep working in Microsoft Word, you can also download your edited file as a Word document.

Usually for one of three reasons. The PDF is a scan, so the page is a picture with no real text: run it through OCR PDF first. The PDF is password-protected or locked against editing: Unlock PDF removes the password if you know it, and can usually lift edit restrictions even without it. Or you're using a viewer that can only add comments, while Editly edits the text itself.

A scanned PDF is an image of text. Make it editable with OCR PDF, which adds real, selectable text, then open the result in Editly. If you'd rather have an editable Word document, the PDF to Word converter runs OCR on scans automatically.

Choose Add Text in the toolbar, click where the text should go and start typing. You can change the font, size and colour and drag the text anywhere on the page. It's the quickest way to fill in blanks, add notes or write a date next to your signature.

Yes. Add Image places a JPG or PNG anywhere on a page, and you can resize, move or crop it. You can also draw shapes, add clickable links, highlight passages and leave comments. Every element can be moved or deleted until you download.

Choose the signature tool and draw, type or upload an image of your signature, then place it on the page and resize it. It's a simple electronic signature, ideal for forms, contracts and letters. To collect signatures from other people by email, use Sign PDF.

Yes. Editly finds the fields in a form automatically, both real fillable fields and the boxes and lines printed on the page. Click a field, type, and press Enter to jump to the next one. Add your signature and download the completed form, with no printing or scanning.

Yes. From the page menu you can add a blank page, copy a page, rotate it or delete it. You can also crop pages, add page numbers and change the page background. To rearrange many pages at once, Organize PDF shows every page as a thumbnail you can drag.

Yes. Upload a Word file (.doc or .docx) or an image (JPG or PNG) and Editly converts it into a PDF you can edit straight away. When you're finished, download it as a PDF or as a Word document.

Yes. You don't need Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Reader or any other software to edit a PDF. Editly opens and edits PDFs in your web browser for free, and it also works as a PDF viewer when you only want to read a file. Our guide shows how to edit a PDF without Adobe step by step.

For everyday editing, Editly is a free alternative that runs in your browser: change existing text, fill in forms, sign, add images, annotate and edit pages, without a subscription. Specialist work such as print prepress or certificate-based digital signatures still calls for dedicated desktop software.

The best free PDF editor edits the text that's already in your PDF, adds no watermark, doesn't make you sign up and keeps your files private. Editly does all four, works in any browser and also handles forms, signatures, images and pages. For a side-by-side look at popular tools, see our comparison of PDF editors.

No. A PDF isn't plain text: its content is stored in a compressed, binary structure. Opening one in Notepad++ or another text editor shows unreadable characters, and saving it there can break the file. To change a PDF's text, use a PDF editor such as Editly, or convert it with PDF to Word first.

Editly needs no download: it runs in your browser on Windows, Mac and Linux. You can install iHatePDF as an app from your browser for one-click access, and once Editly has loaded it keeps working offline, with text edits matched on your device until you're back online.

You don't need an app. Editly works in Safari, Chrome and other browsers on iPhone, iPad and Android, and the toolbar adapts to small screens. On a Mac it runs in any browser too. You can even scan paper pages with your phone camera straight into Editly.

Not a full one. Microsoft Edge, the default PDF viewer in Windows 11, can highlight, draw, add text notes and fill in forms, but it can't change the text that's already in a PDF. Open Editly in Edge or any other browser to edit the text itself, for free.

Editly is a hands-on editor: nothing in your document changes unless you change it, so there are no surprise rewrites. When you want AI help, Chat with PDF answers questions about a document and summarises it, and Buddy, the assistant in the corner of the page, can run tasks such as compressing a file or converting it to Word.

Yes. PDFs open and render right in your browser. When you change existing text, that page is sent over an encrypted connection to our server, rebuilt in memory with the original font and sent straight back, without being stored. Word files and images are converted on our server and deleted automatically. For the most privacy, switch on Browser mode and everything stays on your device.

Editly opens files up to 20 MB without an account and up to 50 MB with a free account. For a bigger file, shrink it first with Compress PDF or split it into parts with Split PDF.

No. Editly is iHatePDF's own PDF editor, made by Nutshell Labs, and it isn't affiliated with Sejda, iLovePDF or any other PDF service. It's free, adds no watermark and needs no sign-up.