egPDF

Minimal, fully local desktop PDF reader & editor for Windows, macOS, and Linux.
No network access, no accounts, no telemetry — your files never leave your machine.

Download

All versions are on the releases page.

• Windows — ⬇ egPDF-Setup.exe (one-click installer, per-user, no admin rights)
• macOS — ⬇ egPDF.dmg
• Linux — ⬇ egPDF.AppImage

The Windows installer is not code-signed, so SmartScreen may warn — choose More info → Run anyway, or build from source below. macOS/Linux builds are likewise unsigned; macOS users may need to allow the app in System Settings → Privacy & Security, and Linux users may need to chmod +x the AppImage.

Screenshots

Viewing & editing	Split view + compare	Print preview

Viewing

• Tabs — open many PDFs (drag & drop anywhere, Ctrl+O, middle-click a tab to close, Ctrl+Tab to switch).
• Clean viewer — continuous scroll, fit-width, zoom (Ctrl+wheel / Ctrl+= / Ctrl+- / Ctrl+0), text selection, search (Ctrl+F).
• Split view — the split button shows two documents side by side; click a pane to focus it, then pick a tab for it.
• Compare — with two documents in split view, the compare button diffs their text word-by-word; click a difference to jump both panes to it.
• Pages panel — the sidebar button shows page thumbnails: drag to reorder, hover a page to rotate 90° or delete it. Ctrl+Z undoes page changes.
• Text selection — select text with the mouse to copy it, or use the popup that appears: Highlight, Edit text (whites out the selection and opens a pre-filled, size-matched text box to retype), or Redact.
• Print (Ctrl+P) — opens an M365-style print screen: settings panel (printer, copies, page range, one/two-sided, collation, orientation, paper size, color, fit/actual size) beside a live page preview with navigation and zoom. Prints the document exactly as saving would produce it: form values, highlights, comments, added text/images, and true redactions all included (pages rendered at 150 dpi through the save pipeline).

Editing (applied on Save)

• Redact (R) — drag a box; on save the page is re-rendered to an image with the box burned in, so the underlying text is actually removed from the file.
• Whiteout (W) — cover an area with white.
• Highlight (H) — translucent yellow marker.
• Text (T) — click to add text. Font and size dropdowns appear in the toolbar; the list shows the fonts actually installed on your machine, and the chosen font is embedded (subset) into the PDF on save, Unicode included. Double-click to re-edit.
• Image (I) — insert PNG/JPEG, drag to move, corner handle to resize.
• Comment (C) — click to attach a sticky-note; saved as a real PDF annotation visible in any viewer.
• Select (V) — move/resize/delete edits (Del), undo (Ctrl+Z).
• PDF forms — fillable text boxes and checkboxes render as native inputs; values are written back into the file on save.

Save with Ctrl+S, Save As with Ctrl+Shift+S; dirty tabs show a •.

Run from source

npm install
npm start

Installer / packages

npm run dist

Builds a native package for the current platform (DMG on macOS, NSIS installer on Windows, AppImage + deb on Linux). After installing on Windows, right-click any PDF → Open with → Choose another app → egPDF → Always to make it the default PDF app.