Pdfetto

Soon on Android and iPhone

Lighter PDFs, ready to send. Without leaving your phone.

A PDF too heavy for an email or an online form, pages to put in order, a form to fill in, a scan to turn into text: Pdfetto does it all on your phone, without sending a single file anywhere.

Coming soon

Free to use every day; an optional Premium subscription, sold by Google Play and the App Store, removes the daily limits. The app is in English and French.

How it works

  1. Open a file

    A PDF or a photo, from the app, from your files, or straight from the Share menu of any other app.

  2. Choose what to do

    Compress, annotate, reorder pages, merge, split, convert to images or text: one tap per action.

  3. Save and share

    A new file, saved to your Downloads or Files and ready to send. Your original stays untouched.

What Pdfetto does

Compress PDFs

Three presets, or a target size: get a PDF under 1, 2 or 5 MB for an email or an upload portal, with the size saved shown at once.

Annotate and fill in

Add text, highlights, freehand drawings, arrows, shapes or an image to a page, and fill in PDF forms.

Organize pages

Reorder, rotate, delete, duplicate or extract pages, insert a blank page or a photo, merge several PDFs or split one.

Convert and read text

PDF to JPG or PNG, PDF to text, and offline text recognition (OCR) for scanned documents and photos.

Photos too

Convert HEIC to JPG or PNG, compress and resize photos, and combine several photos into one PDF.

Private by design

Everything runs on your device, without an internet connection. No server, no account: your files cannot be lost or leaked.

Frequently asked questions

When will Pdfetto be available?

Pdfetto is coming soon to Android phones and tablets (Google Play) and to the iPhone and iPad (App Store). Their store buttons will appear on this page as soon as they are out.

Are my documents sent to a server?

No. Compression, editing, conversion and text recognition all run on your phone. Pdfetto has no server, needs no account and collects no data.

How much smaller will my PDF be?

It depends on the document: scans and PDFs full of photos shrink the most, a PDF of plain text much less. The Target size mode tries several settings to get the file under the size you need.

Does editing a PDF turn it into images?

No. When you annotate or reorganize a PDF, its original text and graphics stay as they are, sharp and selectable. Only compression redraws the pages as images, which is how it saves so much space.

Is Pdfetto free?

Yes, with daily limits: a few compressions or conversions and one export from the editor each day. The optional Premium subscription, monthly or yearly through the stores, removes these limits. It can be cancelled at any time.

Can I open a PDF protected by a password?

Yes, if you know its password: Pdfetto can then remove it, to get a file that opens without one. It can also protect a PDF with a password of your choice.

In which languages is the app?

The app is in English and French for now, and text recognition reads English and French documents. This website is translated into more languages to present it.

Lighter PDFs, without the cloud

Pdfetto is coming soon to Google Play and the App Store: free, no ads, no account. Your documents never leave your phone.

Coming soon