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PDFgear
✓ verifiedFree
Free desktop and web PDF suite for editing, converting, OCR, and signing, with built-in AI chat and summarization.
3.0M visits/mo310 saves
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LightPDF AI
✓ verifiedFreemium
AI-powered online and desktop PDF suite to edit, convert, OCR, sign, organize and chat with documents across devices.
1.8M visits/mo12K saves
Pricing
Basic: $0/month
Pro: $20/month
Team: $49/month
Starter: $22/mo billed annually ($29 monthly, 5 pages)
Build: $74/mo billed annually ($99 monthly)
Experiment: $112/mo billed annually ($149 monthly)
Optimize: $187/mo billed annually ($249 monthly)
Free trial available
No public pricing
No public pricing
Free Plan: $0 one-time
Hobby: $16/month
Standard: $83/month
Growth: $333/month
Auto Recharge Credits: $11/mo for 1000 credits
Credit Pack: $9/mo for 1000 credits
Enterprise Plan: Contact for Pricing
Core features
- ✦Integration with Notion databases
- ✦Unlimited fields and submissions
- ✦Customizable form styling
- ✦Conditional logic and validation rules
- ✦Ready-made form templates
- ✦File uploads
- ✦Multi-page forms
- ✦Email, Slack, and Discord notifications
- ✦Submission editing
- ✦Form protection (password, captcha)
- ✦Drag-and-drop landing page builder
- ✦No-code A/B testing
- ✦AI copywriting (Smart Copy)
- ✦Real-time analytics
- ✦AI optimization (Smart Traffic)
- ✦Integration with marketing tools
- ✦Edit text, images, and form fields in PDFs
- ✦Convert between PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and images
- ✦OCR with 30+ language support
- ✦Annotate with highlights, notes, and stamps
- ✦AI chat and summarization built into the app
- ✦Cross-device sync across desktop, web, and mobile
- ✦Edit, convert and annotate PDFs
- ✦OCR and scanned-PDF enhancement
- ✦AI summarize and chat with documents
- ✦E-signature and document organization
- ✦Batch processing
- ✦Cross-platform: Web, Windows, Mac, iOS, Android
- ✦Web scraping
- ✦Web crawling
- ✦Data extraction in Markdown, JSON, and screenshot formats
- ✦Dynamic content handling
- ✦Rotating proxies
- ✦Rate limits management
- ✦Open-source availability
- ✦Media Parsing
Use cases
- →Guest blog submission forms
- →Event attendee check-in forms
- →Customer satisfaction surveys
- →Patient intake forms
- →Photography quotation requests
- →Equipment rental requests
- →Photo shoot permit requests
- →Creating landing pages for PPC, social ads, and email marketing campaigns
- →Generating leads and sales for agencies, e-commerce, SaaS, and small businesses
- →A/B testing landing pages to improve conversion rates
- →Using AI to optimize landing page traffic and conversions
- →Editing and converting PDFs without paying for Adobe Acrobat
- →Summarizing long PDFs with built-in AI chat
- →OCR-ing scanned documents into editable text
- →Signing documents on desktop or mobile
- →Convert and edit PDFs online or on desktop
- →Summarize or ask questions about documents
- →OCR scanned PDFs into editable text
- →Sign and organize documents across devices
- →Powering AI assistants with real-time web content
- →Enhancing sales data with web information
- →Adding scraping capabilities to code editors
- →Enabling customers to build AI apps with web data
- →Extracting comprehensive information for in-depth research
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