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Folio — a simple, clean, open-source PDF reader for Windows
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GITHUB · launched Oct 26, 2026 · 129 upvotes (top 12%)
- Horizontal
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- electron
- pdf-reader
- pdfjs
- react
- windows
Similar launches
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Yes A simple open-source Windows PDF reader can be built by wrapping existing rendering libraries such as PDF.js or pdfium in an Electron, Tauri, or WinUI shell.
Competitors
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Attention rank: #166 of 1454 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 360 days after the earliest competitor.
- papilot · github · 2026-10-26 · 34 upvotes · similarity 0.66
- PDF.Delphi · github · 2026-10-23 · 23 upvotes · similarity 0.66
- Emboss · hn · 2026-07-30 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- windows-pdf-ocr-text-extractor · github · 2026-10-19 · 20 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- pdfcraft-android · github · 2026-10-13 · 65 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- read-pico-reader · github · 2026-10-03 · 17 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- snappdf · github · 2026-10-19 · 19 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- reading-log · github · 2026-10-19 · 46 upvotes · similarity 0.60