macOS 14 Sonoma or later · Apple silicon and Intel

A PDF editor for Mac that keeps your files on your Mac

Native SwiftUI and PDFKit, an Office-style ribbon, and on-device OCR and AI. Free to download; there are never ads on the Mac.

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Flourish PDF for Mac

macOS 14 Sonoma or later · Apple silicon and Intel

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On Mac

What works on Mac today

Universal app — runs natively on Apple silicon and Intel
Ribbon with Home, Edit, Organize, Comment, Form, Protect and more
Apple Intelligence powers summaries and questions, on the Mac, when your Mac supports it
Saves a new file and keeps your original — with a version history that stays outside the PDF

Add text anywhere on a pageFree

Type a text box onto any page, then move, resize and restyle it.

Font and colour controls vary by platform.

Marks you add stay editableFree

Everything you place is an object until you save: move, resize, rotate, group and undo it.

Select and delete original text, images and shapesPro

Not on iPhone yet.

Reorder, rotate, duplicate and delete pagesFree

Drag pages into order in the gallery; rotate, duplicate or delete any of them.

Insert a blank pageFree

Merge PDFsPlus · Free on mobile

Join PDF files into one, in the order you pick.

PDF files only; page ranges and images are on the way.

Split a PDF into one file per pagePlus · Free on mobile

Not on iPhone yet. Splitting by page range is on the way.

Extract pages into a new PDFPlus · Free on mobile

One page at a time on Apple devices; several at once on Windows and Android.

Crop pagesPlus · Free on mobile

Windows offers three presets: trim 5%, 16:9 and square.

Page numbers, headers and footersPlus · Free on mobile

Bottom-centre page numbers and one centred header and footer today.

Text watermarkPro

Windows watermarks the selected page for now.

Bates numbering for legal documentsPro

Not on iPhone yet.

Recognize text in a scan (on-device OCR)Free

Apple Vision, Google ML Kit or Windows' own recognizer reads the page on your hardware. 5 pages a month free, 250 on Plus, unlimited on Pro.

Make a scan searchableFree

Lay the recognized text invisibly over the scan so the PDF can be searched.

Android saves the text as a separate file for now. Windows adds one text block per page.

Batch OCR over many filesPro

Not on iPhone yet.

Sign with a saved signature and dateFree

Draw or type your signature once, reuse it on any document, and add a date that moves with it.

Android supports a drawn signature.

Stamps such as Approved or DraftFree

Type any word; a preset stamp library is on the way.

Turn a flat or scanned form into a fillable onePlus

Finds boxes and ruled lines, names each field from the text beside it, and asks you to confirm before writing real form fields.

Text and checkbox fields everywhere; radio buttons and dropdowns are added by hand on Mac and iPad.

Flatten forms and markup into the pagePlus

Android flattens by turning pages into images.

Password-protect a PDFFree

Not on iPhone yet. Windows lists it under Pro for now.

Restrict printing and copyingPro

Not on iPhone yet.

Lock the app with Face ID, Touch ID, fingerprint or Windows HelloFree

Export pages as PNG imagesPlus

Batch OCR, images, compression and watermarkingPro

Four fixed operations per run. Not on iPhone yet.

Summarize a documentPro

A short summary generated on your device.

Needs Apple Intelligence (macOS 26 or iOS 26) or an Android phone with Gemini Nano. Reads the opening pages of a long document.

Translate text or a documentPro

Returns text; a translated PDF is on the way.

Read, zoom and searchFree

On Mac and iPad a results list shows every match with the sentence around it.

Day, Sepia and Night reading themesFree

Highlight textFree

Android draws a highlight rectangle rather than snapping to text.

Draw and handwrite with a pen, finger or Apple PencilFree

Pen colour and width choices are on the way.

Sticky notesFree

Read aloudFree

On a scan it uses your OCR allowance first.

Version history: your original plus the last 15 savesFree

Kept on the device, outside the PDF.

PrintFree

Write LaTeX and compile it to PDFFree

A bundled engine — no TeX install. 3 builds a month free, 100 on Plus, unlimited on Pro.

iPad edits and drafts; compiling runs on Mac and Windows. The first compile of a package needs a network connection.

Reopen a compiled PDF's LaTeX sourcePro

The source travels inside the PDF, encrypted to your account on Pro.

Windows keeps the source unencrypted for now.

Draft and repair LaTeX with on-device AIFree

Apple Intelligence on Mac and iPad.

Partly there

Works in part on Mac

Edit text that is already in the PDFPro

Take over a line of existing text and retype it, matched to its font.

Line by line, on Mac and Apple mobile devices. Paragraph reflow is on the way.

Fill in form fieldsPlus

Filled through a field-name dialog today; click-to-type on the page is on the way.

Redact selected content permanentlyPro

Android removes the content from the page itself. Mac, iPad and Windows redact the selection and flatten pages to images. Redaction by area or by search is on the way.