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CLUSTER PDF-EDITING-MOBILE · 5 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2025-03-06

Offline PDF editor apps

This cluster consists of mobile PDF editors that emphasize fully offline, on-device processing for tasks such as editing, scanning, merging, converting, signing, OCR, and compressing. Entries before the index start appear sporadically from mid-2023, with a slight increase in mid-2026, though the overall timing is uneven. DoctorDocs: PDF Editor-Scanner leads on traction, though with a low activity signal.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

MAR 2025: 1SEP 2025: 1MAY 2026: 1JUL 2026: 1AUG 2026: 1
MAR 2025AUG 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 · 5 unlabelled

Operator · 3 indie · 1 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.

  1. 01PDFfiled: PDF Editor-Scanner0★27 daysliveindieMobile app with 15 offline PDF tools for scanning, editing, signing, merging, splitting, and compressing documents.
  2. 02PDF Editor, Converter & Merge0★16 daysliveindieMobile app offering over 20 offline PDF tools for creating, converting, editing, signing, annotating, compressing, and securing PDF documents.
  3. 03Fossify Documents Beta0★7 daysliveopen sourceOffline Android app that reads, edits, and organizes PDF, DOCX, text, Markdown, CSV, and HTML documents.
  4. 04PDF Editor Converter0★3 moliveindieOffline PDF editor with 74+ tools for editing, merging, splitting, compressing, converting, signing, and securing PDFs on mobile.
  5. 05PDF Editor | Files Converter0★6 moliveMobile app that converts Word documents to PDF, compresses PDF files, and provides page editing tools entirely on-device without internet.

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.