PDFsmith is a Windows desktop app that does everything you actually use SmallPDF for — entirely on your own machine. No uploads, no account, no telemetry. SmallPDF Pro costs $12/month, $144 a year, forever — and it sends your contracts, invoices, and medical records to their servers just to merge two files. PDFsmith is $29 once, works on a plane, and your documents never leave your disk. It pays for itself in under 3 months.

Built for anyone who handles PDFs daily: freelancers merging contracts, admins splitting scans, agencies stamping drafts.

• Merge PDFs — drag-drop any number, reorder in the list, combine into one file

• Split PDF — extract any page ranges (1-2 | 3 | 4-6) into separate new PDFs

• Rotate pages — 90/180/270 degrees, all pages or a range, batch across files

• Watermark — text (position, size, opacity, diagonal) or image stamp, batched

• Images to PDF — JPG/PNG to PDF, one per page, reorderable, A4-fit or native size

• Metadata editor — read and rewrite title, author, and subject

• 100% local processing with pdf-lib — zero network calls, zero telemetry

Runs as a Windows desktop app (Electron), fast startup, premium dark UI.

What's included:

• Windows installer download (PDF Toolkit Setup 1.0.0.exe)

• Full source access — https://github.com/bensblueprints/pdf-toolkit (MIT)

• Lifetime v1 updates

• Setup guide (README quick start)

• Premium tiers coming later