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PDFly

56 free PDF tools that run in the browser

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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!

HN · launched Jul 24, 2026 · 10 upvotes (top 46%) · 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 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 : 1381 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #374 of 1382 (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
  • PDFRoll · ph · 2026-10-26 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.67
  • Free PDF Toolkit · ph · 2026-11-04 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.67
  • PDFEditly · ph · 2026-10-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.66
  • pdf free · ph · 2026-11-06 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.66
  • PDFEasy · ph · 2026-11-01 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.66
  • PDF Smart Kit · ph · 2026-11-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.65
  • PDF Tools Club · ph · 2026-09-17 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.65

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