CLUSTER PDF-DOCUMENTS-EDITING · 59 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2014-07-04
Browser-based PDF utilities
This cluster comprises browser-based PDF utilities that let users merge, split, compress, convert, edit, and sometimes OCR documents without leaving the web page. Their dated history shows isolated entries in 2013–2015, a multi-year gap, and then more regular monthly additions from 2021 onward, usually one per month but occasionally two or three. The activity leader is nexus-pdf-editor (1 star), while PDF Splitter + PDF Merge and PDF Reader: Fill Edit,Sign PDF each have 0 stars.
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 · 1 ai-built · 2 hand-coded · 17 unlabelled
Operator · 8 hobby · 4 commercial · 8 unlabelled
Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 20 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.
- 01PDF Splitter + PDF Merge0★1 molivecommercialA PDF utility app that allows users to merge and split PDFs, extract pages, and handle password-protected files.
- 02allpdfeditor1★2 daysliveWeb app for editing PDFs, allowing users to merge, split, convert, and modify documents.
- 03file-minify1★16 days—hobbySelf-hosted web app that compresses images, videos, and PDFs, converts Office documents to PDF, and merges files into a single PDF.
- 04nexus-pdf-editor1★15 dayslivehobbyWeb app that edits PDFs in the browser: users click words to change them, add text, highlight, redact, and export updated documents.
- 05PDF Reader: Fill Edit,Sign PDF0★1 molivehand-codedcommercialA versatile PDF editor and converter for iOS that scans, merges, splits, fills forms, secures files, and syncs with iCloud, featuring both free and paid tools.
- 06modu-app0★2 days—hobbyBrowser utility app that merges PDFs, runs a Pomodoro timer, and offers typing practice locally.
- 07pdf-master-studio0★26 days—Tool suite that provides PDF editing, merging, and conversion features for document management.
- 08DocSplit0★24 dayslivehand-codedWeb app that splits a mixed PDF into individual named PDF documents and generates an Excel index of the results.
- 09pdfeditor0★8 days—hobbyWeb app that edits PDFs entirely in the browser, offering merge, split, compress, rotate, watermark, sign, and page editing without uploading files.
- 10pdf-studio0★18 days—hobbyWeb app that edits PDFs in the browser and performs OCR, conversion, compression, redaction, and repair without uploading files to third parties.
- 11PDF-Editor0★23 days—hobbyWeb application that combines multiple PDF files in the browser with drag-and-drop and automatic dark mode.
- 12Campus-Toolkit-pwa0★22 days—hobbyProgressive web app for university students to convert files, merge PDFs, transcribe and translate audio, generate citations, and organize work.
- 13PDFSuite0★6 days—hobbyWeb app that converts, merges, splits, watermarks, and edits PDFs, and extracts pages as images or Word documents, all in the browser.
- 14pdf-to-word0★6 days—All-in-one PDF tool for converting, merging, splitting, editing, and watermarking documents client-side.
- 15PDF Reader & Editor | Xodo0★15 dayslivecommercialAll-in-one PDF reader and editor that scans, converts, compresses, splits, merges, fills forms, and e-signs documents.
- 16PDFly0★7 dayslivePDF utility web app that lets users merge, split, compress, repair, and convert documents.
- 17docugrip-claude-plugin0★2 dayslivecommercialClaude plugin that helps users compress, merge, convert, sign, and fill PDFs and find official forms and upload limits.
- 18PDF3600★2 days—All-in-one web application for managing PDFs, including creation, editing, conversion, compression, OCR, e-signatures, forms, and team collaboration.
- 19lovepdf.com0★3 days—Web app that provides PDF tools for converting, merging, compressing, and editing documents.
- 20mypdf-toolbox0★22 daysliveai-builtA web app that allows users to edit, merge, split, compress, and convert PDF documents in the browser.
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.