PDF editor · offline

Edit, sign and protect PDFs without sending them anywhere.

Taborca Reader opens, marks up, fills, organises, redacts and signs PDFs on your Mac, PC, iPad or Android tablet. It has no account, no telemetry and no network access, so confidential files stay on your device.

Free, for everyday PDF work

  • Highlight, comment, draw and add text
  • Fill in forms and sign with your signature
  • Insert, delete, rotate and reorder pages
  • Merge files, split them and extract pages
  • Search, print, and open password-protected PDFs

Built for files that can’t leave the room

Lawyers, clinicians, accountants and HR teams often may not upload documents to cloud PDF tools. Taborca Reader does the work on the device and never goes online.

No account, no cloud

Nothing to sign up for. Files open from your disk and are saved back to it, with your edits added as an update.

Standard PDFs

Comments, form values and signatures are saved the standard way, so Acrobat, Preview and other readers show them.

Familiar layout

Tools are where Acrobat users expect them, with tabs for several PDFs and undo for every edit.

Every device you use

The same app on Mac, Windows, iPad and Android tablets, by mouse, keyboard or touch.

Download

Taborca Reader is free to download and use. Pro tools unlock with a one-time purchase.

Taborca Pro

Professional tools for confidential work. One purchase, no subscription, on all your devices.

US$10 once

  • Sign with a certificate (PAdES)
  • Redact text and areas for good
  • Sanitise: take out hidden data
  • Passwords and permissions (AES-256)
  • Recognize text in scans (OCR), on the device

Pro comes as a licence by email: in Taborca Reader, open Settings, choose Unlock… beside Taborca Pro and paste it in. It is checked on the device, offline, and works on your Mac, PC, iPad and Android tablet.

Buy Pro for the Mac and Windows apps

Taborca Reader shows it in About and Settings. Your email address is asked for at checkout.

Our order process is conducted by our online reseller Paddle.com. Paddle.com is the Merchant of Record for all our orders. Paddle provides all customer service inquiries and handles returns. Prices are in US dollars; sales tax is added where it applies. See the refund policy.

Bought Pro in the App Store on an iPad? Claim a licence for your other devices.

Pretend checkout (dev server)

Paddle isn’t set up here. This makes a sale as Paddle’s webhook would, and the licence lands in the outbox.