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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
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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.

Other launches for this product

Same idea, different domain

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