A free iLovePDF alternative that runs in your browser
The same everyday PDF jobs — merge, split, compress, convert — running inside your own browser tab, with no upload, no task counter and no account.
No upload — files are processed in this tab
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Merge multiple PDF files quickly into a single document.
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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.
| Comparison point | AltFTool | iLovePDF |
|---|---|---|
| Where the work happens | File tools (PDF, image, converters) run in your browser and the file is not uploaded. Tools that need live data or a model — AI tools, language checkers, lookups — send your input to an API, and say so on their own page. | Uploaded to iLovePDF servers, deleted within two hours. |
| Account required | No — every tool opens and runs without signing in. | Not required for the free tier. |
| Free tier ceiling | — | 25 files per merge, 1 file per split/OCR, 2 per compress; 100–200 MB per task, 15 MB for Office conversions. |
| Paid plans | None. There is no paid tier and no per-file metering. | Premium from ₹283/month billed annually (₹3,400/year). |
| Ads | Yes — ads are what keep the tools free. | Yes — an ad-free experience is a Premium feature. |
| Desktop / mobile apps | Android only. AltFTool publishes a few free Android apps as APK downloads on its Apps page; there is no desktop app. | Yes — desktop and mobile apps, on paid plans. |
| API & automation | No public API. Tools are interactive pages, not endpoints. | Yes — a documented REST API, plus chained Workflows. |
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 the following sources, each opening in a new tab: 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.
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
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
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.
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- Author and publisher
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"A free iLovePDF alternative that runs in your browser." AltFTool, 25 July 2026, www.altftool.com/alternatives/ilovepdf.BibTeX
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title = {{A free iLovePDF alternative that runs in your browser}},
year = {2026},
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howpublished = {\url{https://www.altftool.com/alternatives/ilovepdf}},
note = {Vendor pages checked 2026-07-25. Source: iLovePDF: \url{https://www.ilovepdf.com/pricing}.}
}Free-tier limits and prices are transcribed from the vendor's own pages on the date shown and are never converted between currencies, so quote that date alongside any figure you take from here. Vendors change their plans: if something here is out of date, trust iLovePDF's own page over ours. The vendor links are plain links - no affiliate tracking, no referral IDs, no paid placement.