PDFly
56 free PDF tools that run in the browser
Details
- External ID
- 49030778
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- PDFly
- Website domain
- pdfly.uk
- Launched
- July 24, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 10
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.5418160095579451
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
Hi HN! I built PDFly — a PDF toolkit that runs entirely client-side. No file uploads, no server processing, no account needed. It has 56 tools including merge, split, compress, convert, redact, compare, and an AI chat feature to ask questions about your PDF content.Everything runs in your browser using [mention your tech stack if relevant, e.g., WASM/JS libraries]. Would love feedback on the tools, UX, or anything else!
Enrichment
- Theme
- document and PDF utility tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- free pdf tools in the browser
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It consists of client-side web interfaces wrapping existing WebAssembly/JS PDF libraries like PDF-lib, pdf.js, and browser-based Transformers.js for AI chat.
Discussion
2 comments analyzed.
Concerns raised: Source code availability and open source status
Feature requests: Multilingual support, especially German
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 476 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #147 of 477 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 256 days after the earliest competitor.
- PDFLY · ph · 2026-09-11 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.69
- PDF Tools Club · ph · 2026-09-17 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.66
- A free, browser-only PDF tools collection built with Kimi k2.5 · hn · 2026-02-08 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- EasyPDFNex · ph · 2026-09-13 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- PDF Tools Base · ph · 2026-09-21 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- Freeallpdf · ph · 2026-09-11 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- PDFOrchard · ph · 2026-09-26 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- EditPDFEasy · ph · 2026-09-25 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.61
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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