Top 3 Adobe Acrobat Replacements for Mac and Windows

Adobe Acrobat has been taken the leader in viewing, creating, printing and managing PDF documents. With Adobe Acrobat, you can create high-quality PDF files from a wide range of source, edit PDF in many ways, export PDF to Office for convenience, add audio and video to PDFs and much more. However, there are always two sides to everything, and Adobe Acrobat is no exception.

• It is quite complex to handle for beginners. Adobe Acrobat does offer a wide of editing features for users, but for beginners, it requires some special knowledge or skills to operate.
• It is really expensive, especially when you only use it once. It takes you $449 for full version of Adobe Acrobat Pro and $299 for Adobe Acrobat Standard for lifetime.
• The most annoying part of it is it is poor in performance and crashes a lot. That drives people crazy.

No matter what kind of reason that causes you to decide to find an alternative to replace Adobe Acrobat, you’ve came to the right place. The following article introduces top 3 alternatives to Adobe Acrobat for you.

Part 1 The Best Adobe Acrobat Alternative

I never boast it; surely, this PDF tool (for Windows, for Mac) is the best Adobe Acrobat alternative so far. It performs as well as Adobe Acrobat, but cheaper and with friendly and intuitive design. This excellent and brilliant PDF tool offers one-stop solution for you to edit, combine, transform and organize PDFs with ease. It also helps you edit PDF in a high level: apply passwords and prevent unauthorized access and changes to PDFs, insert new pages, OCR, permanently remove sensitive texts and images and more. It’s easy-to-use yet functional.

The following is the detail guide to tell you how this utility works. Before that, download Adobe Acrobat right version to make preparation. The supported OS: Windows 10/8.1/8/7/XP/Vista and Mac OS X 10.7, 10.8, 10.9, 10.10 and 10.11 (El Capitan).

Step 1 Add PDF to it

After you run the program, the window as below shows. There you can choose to open a PDF, edit a PDF, convert PDF or combine PDF.

• If you choose “Combine PDF”, from the pop-up window you can add multiple PDFs and then join them into one.
• If you choose “Create PDF” or “Edit PDF” option, you are asked to load a PDF document from your computer first.

Step 2 Edit PDF as your wish

After you open a PDF document, click “Edit” tab to open “Edit PDF” window. There you can edit text and objects, add text and image to PDF, OCR and more.

Go to “Page” tab to change your PDF pages like insert new pages, delete unwanted pages from PDF, and rotate pages by a certain degree and more.

You can see many other options beside “Page” tab like “Forms” which lets you add text field, check box and more and “Protect” which allows you to change password, sign document, etc.

Step 3 PDF conversion

If you choose “Convert PDF” at the first beginning, a “PDF Convert” window will show and you can add your PDF document and then directly convert to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc. It’s quite easy and fast.

Part 2 Another Windows Alternative to Adobe Acrobat

Nitro Pro 9 is another wonderful alternative to Adobe Acrobat which sells at $183.58 and is much cheaper than Adobe Acrobat. It allows users to create new documents, edit and share them with others easily both offline and online. It’s also quite popular.

Cons:

• It only has Windows version. If you are a Mac user, it can do nothing for you.
• Its OCR feature doesn’t work if the imported PDF is with a big size.
• It doesn’t support PDF indexing.

Part 3 A free Adobe Acrobat Replacement

The free Adobe Acrobat replacement is DigiSigner which is design for viewing and digitally signing PDF. With it, you are capable of viewing PDF documents and creating digital signatures in them using X.509 certificates. It is compatible with Mac, Windows and also the Linux operating system.

Cons:

• It’s specialized in signing documents and is lack of other features like editing and converting.
• The free edition is subject to only essential tools, whereas the paid application comes with greater facilities of time stamp, Smartcard/USB tokens, and server support besides one-year email customer support.