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PDFMacroWorkspace + Workflows. Every tool, every automation. $79 once — no subscription.
Edit, convert, sign, redact, translate and automate in your browser. Your files never go to us. $79 once, no subscription.
You needed to fix one PDF. So you uploaded it to a stranger. Where does it go? Who keeps a copy? Once it's uploaded, it isn't yours alone. PDFMacro never uploads your files. Every tool runs in your browser, on this device. Built for people who can't take the risk: lawyers with privileged filings, HR teams with employee records, finance with bank statements, clinics with patient intake forms. Each file stays on the computer. No signal? Keep working. On a plane, in court, behind a firewall. AI and OCR models download once, then run offline too. Your files. Your device. Nobody else. PDFMacro: private PDF tools that run on your device, even offline.
Or a whole folder. Files open from your disk into browser memory — nothing is sent anywhere.
Use any of the 53 tools. With Pro, connect your own AI to chat with the document, summarise and translate it.
Sign in free to download. The result is written straight back to your device; the file itself never went anywhere.
200 MB+
Files handled locally
Whole folders
Processed in one batch
0 ms
Upload wait — there is none
1 load
Then Pro works offline
Prove it
Open your browser's network tab while you work. Your document is in no request, on any tool. The only calls are signing in, the free plan's daily count (a number, never the file) and, if you connected one, your own AI provider.
Session network log
Not to us, not to cloud backup. AI text goes only to the provider you chose, or stays on your machine with a local model.
After the first load, pull the plug and keep working. A free account needs a connection to save, for its daily count.
No server does the work, so an installed Pro copy does not stop when a company does.
Show it
Everything a full desktop editor does, in your browser — and any of it can be wired into a pipeline that runs across a whole folder at once.
Workflows · invoice run · 214 files
Automation like this is usually sold as its own subscription. Here it's part of the one-time $79.
What people come here to do
Content is removed from the PDF content stream — not covered with a black rectangle — and you get a certificate listing what was removed and how it was checked.
Sign a form, merge scans, shrink a file to email
Fill a lease, number a closing packet, combine disclosures
Split statements, pull tables to Excel, batch invoices
Redact records before sharing, strip hidden data
Privilege review, exhibit binders, Bates across a set
Real estate
Legal
Accounting
Healthcare & HR
Personal
Bring your own AI
Chat with a PDF, summarise, write and translate with your own OpenAI, Claude or Gemini key, or a free model on your own machine. PDFMacro sells no AI and never sees your key or your text.
Ask what a clause means, what changed, what you agreed to. Answers cite the pages.
A contract, a report, a statement — down to what matters.
The same pages in another language, or a Word file. Numbers are checked.
Draft a document on the page, or rewrite one section.
PRONo AI subscription from us and no free AI allowance: your AI costs what your provider charges you, or nothing with a local model.
The text you ask about goes from your browser straight to that provider, billed to your account. The app asks before the first send and lists every request.
Free to run, and nothing leaves your machine.
There isn't one. Nothing of ours sits between you and your AI.
In the workspace, or from any AI tool's “Connect your AI” card.
Check key lists the models your key can use. Ollama and LM Studio are found on this computer.
Chat with PDF, Summarize, Write with AI and Translate all use the AI you chose.
Two small helpers that write nothing, sensitive-data detection and search by meaning, run on your device without any AI connected. How your own AI works
A free account gets every basic tool: 3 downloads a day, with a small PDFMacro line on each page. Pro removes both and adds your own AI, translation and Workflows for $79, once.
Security & governance
Most PDF tools ask you to trust a cloud pipeline. PDFMacro removes the pipeline: the file is read into browser memory and never leaves it, so there is no transfer and no remote processing layer to assess.
Documents are parsed and written in the browser. There is no endpoint that receives file content.
Parsing, rendering, redaction, stamping, OCR and export all run in the browser tab or its Web Workers.
We have no technical ability to view, retain or disclose your documents, because we never receive them.
After first load the app runs offline; a Service Worker caches the shell, the WASM modules and the OCR language packs.
Content is removed from the PDF content stream and evidenced with a verification certificate.
The core modules are held in escrow, so the toolkit stays alive even if the company does not.
Comparison
Asked of the best-known names, answered from their own pages.
Taken from each vendor's own pricing or FAQ page, checked October 2026. Prices and plans change; follow the links for theirs today.
The other PDF apps need your monthly payment to keep their servers running. PDFMacro runs on your CPU — no servers, no recurring cost on our side, so no recurring cost on yours.
Pricing
Workspace + Workflows. Every tool, every automation. $79 once — no subscription.
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Every basic tool, with a free account. 3 downloads a day, and a small “Made with PDFMacro Free” line on each page of a saved PDF.
View, organize, merge, split, extract pages, rotate, crop, insert/delete/resize pages, compress, convert, images ↔ PDF, protect, unlock, repair, manual redaction, basic Sign & Fill, comments and highlight, outline & links, page numbers and header/footer. Your files are processed in the browser either way.
No AI, no translation, no Workflows and no certified redaction — those are Pro.
Start free$79once — then never again
Lifetime licence — available now
One payment, plus any sales tax or VAT. Not right for you? A full refund within 30 days, no questions asked.
Everything in Free with no line and no daily limit, plus every advanced tool, certified redaction, the full Legal pack, Workflows, and AI and translation on your own key or local model — every future update to the tools that run on your device included, core modules in open-source escrow.
Get the lifetime licence — $79 Try the Pro tools free — create an account3 free uses of the Pro tools (AI is not part of the trial). No card.
ONE PAYMENT · EVERY DEVICE · NO RENEWAL
Commercial use included — freelance, business, practice or personal.
One price, no subscription at any tier — Pro removes the line and the daily limit, and adds the advanced tools, your own AI, translation and automation.
Where the licence goes next
EVERY TOOL, EVERY AUTOMATIONShipping now
Form-field detection & auto-fill, batch signing across folders.
In progress
Larger on-device models, chat across whole document sets.
Exploring
Offline team sync and a self-hosted admin console.
A lifetime licence is only as good as the company behind it — which is why the core modules are held in open-source escrow and every update ships to existing licence holders first.
Common questions
Last thing
That's the whole point. Drop it in — it stays on this device, and the counter stays at zero.
Workspace + Workflows. Every tool, every automation. $79 once — no subscription.