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CLUSTER DESKTOP-PDF-COMPRESSES · 14 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2020-07-10

Desktop PDF manipulation tools

This cluster consists of desktop applications for splitting, merging, compressing, converting, and editing PDF files, aimed at both everyday users and professionals. Dated entries appear sporadically from 2017 through 2026, with a few in the 2024–2026 period, but the overall timeline is too sparse to discern a clear trend. PaperOtter leads in traction with 15 stars, far ahead of the other members.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

JAN 2017: 1JUL 2020: 1FEB 2024: 1NOV 2024: 1SEP 2025: 1OCT 2025: 1AUG 2026: 3SEP 2026: 4OCT 2026: 1
JAN 2017OCT 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 · 2 hand-coded · 12 unlabelled

Operator · 6 hobby · 6 open source · 2 unlabelled

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 14 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01PaperOtter52★11 dayslivehobbyDesktop document toolkit that compresses, resizes, converts, and edits PDFs, images, and documents offline.
  2. 02pdf-size-reducer1★26 days—hobbyDesktop app that compresses PDF files for size-limited submissions while preserving text and allowing selective image control.
  3. 03pdf_enxuto0★18 days—hobbyDesktop app that compresses and splits PDF files locally, offering multiple quality profiles and splitting options.
  4. 04hwp-exam-assembler0★1 mo—hobbyDesktop tool for teachers that merges exam questions from multiple HWP files into one document while preserving native equations, images, tables, and layout.
  5. 05pdf-compressor0★3 days—hobbymacOS utility that compresses PDF files from the right-click menu with three quality levels, locally, preserving originals.
  6. 06sejda-desktop0★1 moliveopen sourceDesktop PDF editor for editing, merging, splitting, and converting PDF documents.
  7. 07FastyPDF2★1 mo—Fast and lightweight tool that merges and separates PDF files.
  8. 08pdftools0★2 mo—hobbyDesktop toolkit that merges, splits, reorders, and compresses PDF files locally, with a built-in AI assistant for on-device document analysis and summaries.
  9. 09Qpdf Tools0★9 mostaleliveopen sourceDesktop utility that compresses, splits, merges, and rotates PDF documents through a graphical interface.
  10. 10Sejda PDF Desktop0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceDesktop application for editing, merging, splitting, compressing, converting, and signing PDF documents for everyday and professional users.
  11. 11pdf-manager0★unknownliveDesktop application that splits, joins, converts, and compresses PDF files, with a web-based editor for students and professionals.
  12. 12Scans to PDF0★4 molivehand-codedopen sourceDesktop application that converts scanned document images into compressed, searchable PDF files with an embedded text layer.
  13. 13Splitcat0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceA utility that splits and merges files, offering presets for popular app formats.
  14. 14PDF Tricks0★5 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceDesktop application for compressing, splitting, merging, and converting PDF files.

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.