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CLUSTER DESKTOP-DOCUMENTS-EDITING · 8 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2016-12-05

Desktop PDF editors

This cluster comprises desktop applications for viewing, creating, editing, converting, and managing PDF documents, with tools for modifying text, images, forms, and page layouts. Before the index start, the dated history is sparse: seven entries appear across months from December 2016 to July 2026, with the largest single-month count being two in June 2026 and one in July 2026. Traction leaders are pdfcraft_studio, masterpdfeditor-qt6, and masterpdfeditor-qt6-bundled, all tied with 0 stars, so no single product stands out.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

DEC 2016: 1OCT 2018: 1FEB 2025: 1JUL 2025: 1JUN 2026: 2AUG 2026: 2
DEC 2016AUG 2026

Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.

Members by activity

Activity signals, not revenue.

Build origin · 1 hand-coded · 7 unlabelled

Operator · 8 open source

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 8 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01word-sys's PDF Editor0★14 daysliveopen sourceDesktop editor for PDF files that modifies text and images, reorders pages, draws shapes, and exports to PDF or plain text.
  2. 02masterpdfeditor0★1 moliveopen sourceDesktop application for viewing, creating, and editing PDF documents, with tools to modify text, images, forms, and page layout.
  3. 03masterpdfeditor-qt60★2 moliveopen sourceDesktop application for viewing, creating, and editing PDF documents, with tools to modify text, images, forms, and page layout.
  4. 04masterpdfeditor-qt6-bundled0★2 moliveopen sourceDesktop application for viewing, creating, and editing PDF documents, with tools to modify text, images, forms, and page layout.
  5. 05PDF Tinkerer0★3 moliveopen sourceDesktop application that creates, edits, and converts PDF documents, including page cloning, image extraction, booklet creation, and image-to-PDF conversion.
  6. 06masterpdfeditor-qt_include0★3 moliveopen sourceDesktop application for viewing, creating, and editing PDF documents, with tools to modify text, images, forms, and page layout.
  7. 07masterpdfeditor-qt50★3 moliveopen sourceDesktop application for viewing, creating, and editing PDF documents, with tools to modify text, images, forms, and page layout.
  8. 08masterpdfeditor-free0★7 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceFree desktop application for creating and editing PDF documents without a watermark, with tools to modify text, images, and pages.

Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.