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SafePDF - Your PDFs never leave your machine

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SafePDF is a desktop PDF toolkit with 27 tools that run 100% locally on your machine. Merge, compress, convert, sign, encrypt, OCR, redact β€” no file is ever uploaded to a server. It's the iLovePDF/Smallpdf experience, but your documents never leave your computer. Critical for confidential work: legal contracts, medical records, financial statements, ID documents. Free forever: the Merge tool is free, no account, no email. Pro unlocks the other 26 tools. macOS, Windows, Linux. Works offline.

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Hey Product Hunt πŸ‘‹ β€” maker of SafePDF here. I built it out of frustration. Every time I needed to merge or compress a PDF, the "free" online tools wanted me to upload confidential contracts and bank statements to servers I didn't control. For anyone handling sensitive documents β€” and anyone subject to GDPR β€” that's a non-starter. SafePDF is the fix: a desktop app where everything runs on your machine. Merge, compress, convert, sign, encrypt, OCR, redact β€” your files literally never leave your computer. No account, no upload, works offline. Under the hood it's Electron + React, with real engines doing the heavy lifting: Ghostscript (compression & PDF/A), qpdf (AES-256 encryption), Tesseract (OCR), and LibreOffice headless (Office β†’ PDF conversion). Same quality as the cloud tools β€” zero servers. Free forever for the merge tool. €12/mo unlocks the 26 other tools (OCR, Office conversion, PDF/A, redaction, forms, signatures…). Available on macOS, Windows, and Linux. I'd love your honest feedback β€” especially on which Pro tool you'd want next. What's missing for you? πŸ™

honestly the local-only angle is exactly what i need for client contracts, but one thing would make it way better for me: a batch queue where i can drop 30 pdfs at once and run merge, compress, and ocr across all of them in one go instead of doing them one by one.

Maker

Β Hi, thanks a lot for your reply & upvote
Really good idea to add a drop zone

Really glad something like this exists, been wanting a local-only PDF tool forever. One thing that would make it even better for me: add a way to create and save reusable redaction profiles so I don't have to manually mark the same fields across dozens of similar contracts every time.

Maker

Β Great suggestion; I just built a visual redaction mode: you can now drag-to-draw zones directly on the PDF instead of typing coordinates. And reusable profiles are next on the roadmap. Would love your feedback when v1.0.3 drops!

honestly the offline-first angle is what got me, since I deal with client contracts all day and uploading to random sites always felt sketchy. merge worked smoothly and it was nice not seeing an upload spinner for once.

Maker

Thank you! πŸ™ Glad the merge worked smoothly. Batch processing + visual redaction are coming in the next update. What other tools would you find useful?

A folder watching feature would be a game changer for my workflow. If I could drop PDFs into a watched folder and have SafePDF auto-apply rules like "compress anything over 2MB" or "OCR all scanned files," that would save a ton of repetitive clicking.

Maker

Β This is a brilliant idea; a "watched folder" with auto-rules (compress if >2MB, OCR if scanned) would be incredibly powerful. I'm adding it to the roadmap. No ETA yet but it's the kind of automation that makes a local tool genuinely better than cloud. Thanks for the suggestion!

Maker

πŸš€ v1.0.3 is live!

Built 3 features from your feedback in 3 days:

βœ… Batch processing β€” process 30+ PDFs at once

βœ… Visual redaction β€” drag-to-draw zones on the PDF

βœ… Search bar β€” find any tool instantly

Plus a Team plan (€49/mo, 10 seats) for firms.

Update now β†’

You asked, I shipped. What's next? πŸ™