A professional PDF toolkit, built on privacy
38 tools for merging, converting, editing, and securing PDFs — free to use, no sign-up, engineered so most work never leaves your device.
Why we built it
Most online PDF tools ask you to upload every file, create an account, and pay to work past a five-file-a-day cap. Sensitive documents — contracts, tax returns, medical scans — end up on servers you don’t control. PDFGrover was built to flip that default: give professionals a complete toolkit, without the friction or the trade-off.
How privacy-first actually works
Everything that can run in your browser, does. Merge, split, rotate, reorder, crop, resize, add watermarks, add page numbers, image conversions — all happen locally via in-browser JavaScript PDF libraries. Your files never leave your device.
For tools that require heavy processing — converting to/from Word, Excel, or PowerPoint, compressing PDFs, OCR, and a handful of others — the work runs on an isolated server. Files are processed in a scoped temporary directory and auto-purged within the hour. There’s no account, no profile, and no tracking of what you processed.
What you get
- 38 tools across Core, Convert, Edit, Page, and Security categories
- No sign-up — no account, no email, no tracking cookies
- No daily caps — use every tool as often as you need
- Client-side first — most tools never upload your file
- Per-tool upload caps (most allow 100 MB+; merge accepts up to 750 MB total), auto-purged within the hour
- Works everywhere — modern browsers on desktop, tablet, or phone
The stack, briefly
PDFGrover is built on a modern web stack with a clean, responsive front-end. Client-side PDF work runs on in-browser JavaScript libraries. Server-side conversions run on a tuned engine stack — tuned to produce editable output rather than image-baked placeholders.