Why look beyond iLovePDF?
iLovePDF is a great product, but the free tier comes with daily limits, watermarks on some outputs and pushes you toward a paid subscription. If you convert only a handful of files a week you may never notice — but for power users, developers, and privacy-conscious teams a lighter, unlimited alternative is often a better fit.
What we compared
- Unlimited free conversions
- No signup / no email
- File deletion policy
- Available tools (PDF ⇄ Office, images, OCR, merge, split, compress, protect, watermark)
- Support for scanned documents
- Total cost
Go Convert Documents (this site)
- Free with no daily limit
- No signup, no email
- Files auto‑deleted after 1 hour
- 26 tools covering PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, images and OCR
- Works from any browser — try it now
Smallpdf
Smallpdf's UX is polished, but free users hit a hard cap of two tasks per hour and larger PDFs are rejected without a subscription. Great if you convert occasionally, frustrating for daily use.
PDF24 Tools
PDF24 offers a huge toolbox and desktop client. Interface can feel dated and merging speed on very large PDFs is slower than modern cloud tools.
Sejda
Powerful editor with strong free tier (three tasks/day, 200 pages max). If you need real PDF editing (not just conversion) Sejda is a solid choice; for pure conversion, cloud tools like ours are faster.
Which should you pick?
- Occasional user, want the prettiest UI: iLovePDF or Smallpdf
- Heavy user, want unlimited & anonymous: Go Convert Documents
- Need to edit PDF text directly: Sejda