Pdfwithlove
PDF tools that run 100% locally (no uploads, no back end)
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Most PDF web tools make millions by uploading documents that never needed to leave your computer.pdfwithlove does the opposite:1. 100% local processing 2. No uploads, no backend, no trackingFeatures include merge/split/edit/compress PDFs, watermarks & signatures, and image/HTML/Office → PDF conversion.
HN · launched Jan 19, 2026 · 177 upvotes (top 4%) · 1 view
Niche: browser-based pdf tools · 442 launches, 36 in the last 7 days ▼ -32% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Workflow automation
- B2C
- Not AI
- Commercial product
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More like this: all 442 launches in browser-based pdf tools →
Could you build this?
Yes All of these features can be implemented client-side in browser JavaScript by wrapping established open-source WebAssembly libraries like pdf-lib, PDF.js, Tesseract.js, and ffmpeg.wasm.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Stirling PDF (open source alternative), Google APIs (for PDF/OCR tasks), Other free PDF editing tools
Concerns raised: Market saturated with simple PDF tools, Pricing/licensing model changes, Low willingness to pay for PDF Chrome extensions, Command-line usage barriers for non-technical users, File permission and security errors
Feature requests: Command-line WASI/WebAssembly distribution, Node-based workflow editor for chaining operations, 100% offline/local processing without cloud APIs
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 1329 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #9 of 1330 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 33 days after the earliest competitor.
- PDF tools with no uploads, no account · ph · 2026-09-29 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.72
- LocalPDF Tools · ph · 2026-09-16 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.71
- localipdf · ph · 2026-11-03 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.70
- Uttily PDF Tools · ph · 2026-10-21 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.67
- PDFRoll · ph · 2026-10-26 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.67
- Free PDF Tools Online · ph · 2026-09-22 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.65
- AmiPDF · ph · 2026-09-23 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.65
- Local PDF Tools · ph · 2026-09-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.63
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