Three core features. All offline-capable. Signature, merge and convert are always free.
Credits needed
Edit PDF text
Click any text block, retype it, change font, size, colour. The original is whited out and replaced — all inside the PDF, pixel-perfect.
Always free
Sign any PDF
Draw, type or upload your signature. Drag it anywhere on the page. Resize it. Export the signed PDF instantly — no account needed.
Always free
Merge & convert
Combine multiple PDFs into one, extract pages, or convert to JPG, PNG, TXT and DOCX — all in one click, all locally in your browser.
Pricing
Simple, transparent.
Most features are free forever. Only text editing uses credits.
Always Free
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Sign PDF (draw / type / image)
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Merge multiple PDFs
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Extract pages
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Convert to JPG / PNG / TXT / DOCX
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Annotations & highlights
Text Editing
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First session free
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0.50 € per editing session
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Credits never expire
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No subscription, ever
Privacy first
Your files stay on your device.
ForgePDF processes everything locally. Your PDFs are never sent to any server — not even ours. Full GDPR compliance by design.
🔒 No upload
🚫 No tracking
✈️ Works offline
🇪🇺 GDPR compliant
FAQ
Common questions
Everything you need to know before installing.
Yes. ForgePDF runs entirely in your browser using JavaScript. Once the extension is installed, signing, merging, converting and annotating PDFs all work without an internet connection. Text editing requires a brief server check to validate credits, but the actual processing remains local.
Never. All PDF processing happens client-side using PDF.js and pdf-lib — two open-source libraries that run directly in your browser. The only server communication is the credit check API call (which contains only your anonymous user ID, not your file). Your documents are never uploaded anywhere.
The very first time you edit text in a PDF, it's completely free — no payment or account required. After that, text editing costs 0.50 € per session (a session lasts as long as you have the document open). Credits never expire. Signing, merging, converting and all other features remain free forever.
ForgePDF only requests the minimum necessary permissions: access to the current tab to detect when you open a PDF, and storage to save your anonymous user ID for credit tracking. It does not read your browsing history, access other tabs, or have access to any other site. You can audit the full source on GitHub.
Yes. ForgePDF is a standard Chrome extension and works on any desktop platform that runs Google Chrome — Windows 10/11, macOS 12+, and Linux. It also works in Chromium-based browsers like Edge, Brave and Arc. Mobile Chrome is not supported as extensions are not available on mobile.
Text editing requires the PDF to have actual selectable text. Scanned PDFs (image-only) do not have extractable text layers, so editing is not possible on those — this is a fundamental limitation of how PDFs store content. Signing, annotating, merging and converting to image formats work fine on any PDF, including scanned ones.
If a feature doesn't work as expected and consumes a credit unfairly, contact us and we will refund it — no questions asked. Credits are non-refundable in general, but we stand behind the product and will make it right if there's a bug on our end.
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