About us
We built a PDF editor that never asks for your file.
Pandaedits is a free PDF editor that runs inside your browser tab. There is no upload, no account and no server that sees your document: the whole editor is on your device while you work.
Free. No sign-up. Your file never leaves your device.
- 0 bytes
- of your document sent anywhere
- 389 checks
- every edit verified against our reference results
- 3 browsers
- Chrome, Edge and Firefox
- No account
- open the page and choose a file
Why we exist
A document should not have to travel to be edited
Almost every online PDF editor works the same way: you hand over the file, a server somewhere changes it, and you download whatever comes back. For a poster, that is fine. For a contract, a payslip, a passport scan or a medical letter, it means giving a copy of something private to a company you have never met.
- The upload was never necessary. A browser can run a complete PDF editor today. Files are sent to a server because that is easier for whoever wrote the tool, not because the work needs it.
- We had already built the hard part. The part of Pandaedits that understands a PDF was ours before this website existed, so the editor here is the real thing rather than a web imitation of one.
- So we left the file where it was. Your browser reads the PDF from your disk, the editor in that tab changes it, and your browser saves the result. There was no server step to take out, because we never put one in.
How it works
Built to run on your device
Pandaedits is not a front end for a server that does the work elsewhere. It is a complete PDF editor that your browser downloads and then runs itself.
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The editor travels, your file does not
Instead of sending your document somewhere it can be edited, your browser fetches the editor once and brings it to the document.
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WebAssembly does the work
WebAssembly is what lets a web page run heavy software at close to native speed. It is why a full PDF editor can work on your own processor instead of on ours.
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Large documents stay smooth
The heavy work is kept away from what you are looking at, so a 200-page document opens, scrolls and edits without the page freezing.
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Your browser saves the result
Download writes the edited PDF straight to your downloads folder. Nothing is fetched to finish the job, which is why the editor keeps working with your network off.
Our standards
How we keep ourselves honest
A claim about privacy is worth nothing unless it can be checked. These are the rules we hold the editor to, and how each one is proved.
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Proved, not promised
Every kind of edit is measured against our reference results before a release goes out: 125 text checks, 133 image checks and 131 annotation checks, over a library of real documents.
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Nothing to store
No account, no cookie and no analytics. Your document is not kept on a server or in your browser: close the tab and it is gone.
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Almost nothing reaches us
The only place on this site that receives anything at all is the contact and feedback forms, which keep what you typed, never your address, and never anything about a document.
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We respect what a document asks for
A PDF that restricts editing asks for its permissions password, and editing a digitally signed PDF warns you first, because that edit breaks the signature.
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No one else on the page
The page loads nothing from other companies: no trackers, no advertising scripts and no embedded widgets. Nobody but you learns that you opened a document.
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Free, and clear about it
No ads, no trial and no page limit. Our terms of use say what happens if paid features ever arrive: the price is shown first, and nothing free is charged for without notice.
FAQ
Questions about us
Something here not answered? Write to us and we will reply by email.
Who makes Pandaedits?
Pandaedits is an independent product, built and run by the same small group who made the editor inside it. Nobody else is in the middle: the editor is ours, the site is ours, and the work happens on your device.
Where is my document while I edit it?
On your own computer, in the browser tab you opened it in. Your browser reads the file from your disk, the editor in that tab changes it, and your browser writes the result to your downloads. No copy is sent to us.
How is Pandaedits free?
There is nothing for us to run on your behalf: no upload, no processing and no storage, so the editor costs us almost nothing per visitor. It is free today, with no ads and no account. If we add paid features later, their price and terms will be shown before you pay, and nothing that is free today will start being charged for without notice.
Can I use it for confidential work documents?
That is what it was built for. Contracts, invoices, payslips, IDs and medical letters stay on your device the whole time, so editing one here does not send it outside your organisation.
How can I check that nothing is uploaded?
Load the page, turn off your network, then open, edit and download a PDF. Everything still works, because nothing is sent anywhere.
See it for yourself
Open a PDF, edit it, and watch your network stay quiet.
Open the PDF editor