A free iLovePDF alternative that runs in your browser

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Merge multiple PDF files quickly into a single document.

This is the real tool, not a demo. Open PDF Merger Tool on its own page.

AltFTool vs iLovePDF

iLovePDF is a hosted service: your file travels to their servers, gets processed there, and is deleted within two hours. That is a reasonable design, and it is why they can OCR a 4 GB scanned archive. AltFTool made the opposite trade. Our PDF tools are JavaScript and WebAssembly that your browser downloads and runs locally, so the document never leaves your machine — and there is nothing to meter, because we are not paying for the compute. The cost of that trade is real, and it is listed further down this page.

iLovePDF's free tier, in their own words

• Merge PDF on the free Basic plan is capped at 25 files per task (Premium and Business allow 500)
• Split PDF and OCR PDF are capped at 1 file per task on the free plan
• Compress PDF is capped at 2 files per task on the free plan
• Every Office conversion (Word/PowerPoint/Excel to PDF, and PDF to Word/PowerPoint/Excel) is capped at 1 file per task on free
• Free per-task file size: 100 MB for Merge PDF and Split PDF, 200 MB for Compress PDF
• Free per-task file size for Office conversions is 15 MB, versus 4 GB on paid plans
• Desktop and Mobile apps are marked unavailable on the free Basic plan
• An ad-free experience is listed as a Premium-only feature, so the free tier is ad-supported
• Uploaded files are processed on iLovePDF servers and deleted within two hours

Paid pricing: ₹3,400/year (displayed as ₹283/month billed annually); ₹500/month on monthly billing — NOTE: prices rendered in INR because the pricing page is geo-localized; the USD price was NOT verified today

Checked on 2026-07-25 against www.ilovepdf.com/pricing, www.ilovepdf.com/help/privacy, www.ilovepdf.com/help/faq. Vendors change their plans — if something here is out of date, trust iLovePDF's own page over ours.

What iLovePDF does better

Plenty of people should keep paying for iLovePDF, and these are the reasons why.

• A genuinely broad and well-polished PDF suite backed by real desktop and mobile apps plus a documented developer REST API, so the same job can be scripted, run offline on paid plans, or done on a phone.
• Workflows let a signed-in user chain several tools into one repeatable multi-step job — real automation that a stateless browser tool does not offer.
• Server-side OCR and PDF/A conversion comfortably handle very large scanned archives that would exhaust a browser tab, with 4 GB per-task file sizes on paid plans.
• Even the free tier is unusually generous on merging: 25 files at up to 100 MB each, with no account required.

And what AltFTool does not do

• No OCR. If your PDF is a scan and you need selectable text out of it, iLovePDF is the right tool and we are not.
• No Workflows. Every AltFTool run is a single stateless task — nothing is saved, nothing is chained, nothing is scheduled.
• Very large files depend on your device. A 500 MB PDF that a server chews through happily can exhaust a browser tab, especially on a phone.

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Where each iLovePDF job goes here

Left: what you clicked on iLovePDF. Right: the tool that does the same job here.

• Merge PDFPDF Merger Tool
• Split PDFPDF Split Tool
• Compress PDFPDF Compressor
• Organize PDF (reorder pages)PDF Page Reorder
• PDF to JPGPDF to Image Converter
• JPG to PDFImage to PDF Converter
• Add watermarkPDF Watermark
• Protect PDFPDF Set Password

The tools that cover iLovePDF work

• PDF Merger ToolMerge multiple PDF files quickly into a single document.Open
• PDF Split ToolSplit PDFs by page, fixed batches, custom ranges, extraction, or page removal with browser-side ZIP/PDF export.Open
• PDF CompressorCompress PDF files to reduce file size while maintaining quality.Open
• PDF Page ReorderEasily rearrange, reorder, or delete pages from your PDF documents.Open
• PDF to Image ConverterConvert PDF pages into PNG, JPG, or WebP images in your browser.Open
• Image to PDF ConverterConvert JPG, PNG, and other image formats to high-quality PDF documents. Drag and drop your images to create professional PDFs instantly.Open
• PDF WatermarkAdd custom watermarks to PDF files quickly and securely.Open
• PDF Set PasswordSet password protection on PDF files to secure sensitive documents.Open

Questions people actually ask

Does AltFTool have the same 25-file merge limit as iLovePDF?

No, because there is no server queue to protect. The practical ceiling is your browser's memory: merging a few dozen ordinary documents is fine, while a hundred large scans will be slower here than on iLovePDF's servers.

Can AltFTool convert a PDF to Word?

No. Faithful PDF-to-Office conversion needs layout reconstruction that we do not run client-side. iLovePDF allows one such conversion per task on the free plan at up to 15 MB, and that is genuinely the better route.

Is anything uploaded when I use the AltFTool PDF tools?

No. The tool code is downloaded to your browser and the document is read with the File API. Nothing about the file's contents is transmitted to us — which also means we cannot recover a file you close by accident.