CLUSTER DESKTOP-DOCUMENTS-EDITING-3 · 25 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2023-05-05
Desktop PDF editing apps
This cluster consists of desktop applications for viewing, editing, and in some cases converting PDF documents. The dated entries before the index start are sparse, with single entries in 2012, 2014, 2022, 2023, 2025, and 2026, showing no clear pattern. AventyaPDF leads on traction, followed by viewer and nova-pdf-studio.
Entry timeline
ENTRY TIMELINE
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 · 2 hand-coded · 3 unlabelled
Operator · 1 indie · 3 open source · 1 unlabelled
Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 5 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.
- 21com.jisupdfeditor.deepin0★3 yrabandonedliveopen sourceDesktop application for viewing, editing, and converting PDF documents quickly and easily.
- 22ReadWeft — PDF, EPUB & Comic0★unknownliveDesktop application that reads and edits PDF and e-book files, offering page editing, annotation, conversion, OCR, and an offline AI assistant.
- 23PDF Editor Pro0★unknownliveindieDesktop PDF editor that edits text and images and checks resumes for applicant tracking system compliance with a scored report.
- 24pidif0★4 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceSimple application for viewing PDF documents.
- 25Adobe Reader0★13 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceDesktop application for viewing, printing, and annotating PDF documents.
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.