PDF app for Mac and Windows
Edit, sign, redact and convert PDFs for a quarter of Acrobat Pro’s US price. First month free.2
Bonito PDF views, organizes, edits, converts and signs PDF files on your Mac or PC. It runs on our own PDF engine, written in Rust, and does all of its work on your computer: nothing is uploaded and nothing is tracked.
Coming soon to the Mac App Store and Microsoft Store
Get notified at launchPlanned US prices: US$7.49 a month or US$58.99 a year, 75% less than Acrobat Pro’s US prices.1 In other countries, the stores set the price at launch.
Concept
Read and search, comment, fill in, edit text, sign, redact, organize pages and convert, in one desktop app. The Tools panel sits beside the page, so the document stays in view, and on your computer.
Edit PDF
Click a block of text and type. Bonito PDF keeps the original font, size and colour whenever it can, and tells you when it can’t. The rest of the page stays exactly as it was.
Comment
Highlight, underline and strike out text, and add sticky notes, text boxes, shapes, drawings and stamps. Every comment appears in one list, with replies, the author’s name and search.
Choose pages, ranges, or odd and even pages, fit them to the paper or print at actual size, and check the preview before your system’s print dialog opens.
Tools
Fifteen working tools sit in the Tools panel beside the page, and Print is in the toolbar.
Organize Pages
Rotate, reorder, delete and insert pages, with drag and drop
Combine Files
Merge several PDFs into one, in the order you choose
Split Document
By number of pages, by page ranges, or before the pages you pick
Extract Pages
Save the pages you select as a new file
Insert Pages
Add pages from another PDF, or blank pages
Comment
Highlights, notes, shapes, drawing and stamps
Fill & Sign
Fill in PDF forms: text fields, checkboxes, buttons and lists
Edit PDF
Edit the text on the page
Ranges, sizing, grayscale and quality, with a preview
Protect
Passwords and permissions, with AES-256 encryption
Digital Signatures
Sign with a digital ID, and check existing signatures
Redact
Permanently remove sensitive content
Create PDF
From Word, Excel and PowerPoint files, with Microsoft Office on your computer
Export PDF
To Word, Excel, PowerPoint, HTML, text or images
Scan & OCR
Make scanned pages searchable and selectable
Standards
Check and convert PDF/A, for archiving
Redact
A black box drawn over text hides it on screen, but the words can still be in the file. When you redact with Bonito PDF and save, the text, image pixels, drawings and comments inside each area are removed, and the whole file is rewritten.
Sign and protect
Sign with a digital ID file (.p12 or .pfx) holding an RSA or ECDSA key. Place a visible signature with your name, the date, a reason and a location, or sign invisibly.
The signature panel shows whether each signature is intact, whether the document changed after signing, and the signer’s certificate details.
Text fields, checkboxes, radio buttons and lists, with Japanese input too. Reset a form, or flatten it so the answers become part of the page.
Set a password to open the file, a permissions password, or both, and choose what is allowed: printing, copying, editing, commenting and more. AES-256 encryption, and encrypted files stay encrypted when you save.
Convert and check
Save as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, HTML, plain text or PNG images. Word keeps paragraphs, headings, lists, tables and pictures; Excel puts tables into cells, with numbers stored as numbers. You don’t need Microsoft Office to export.
Turn Word, Excel and PowerPoint files into PDFs, using the Microsoft Office installed on your computer.
Add an invisible text layer to scanned pages, so you can search and select their text. Recognition is done on your computer by your operating system: Apple’s Vision framework on a Mac, Windows OCR on a PC. Vertical Japanese is handled on a Mac.
Check a file against PDF/A-1b, 2b, 2u, 3b and 3u, with each finding linked to its page, and convert to PDF/A-2 or PDF/A-3.
15
Working tools in the Tools panel
6
Export formats, from Word to PNG
5
Languages in the app
AES-256
Password protection
Under the hood
The part of Bonito PDF that reads, draws, edits and writes PDF files is our own code, written in Rust, with no third-party PDF libraries. We decide how every page is drawn and every file is saved.
Pages are drawn in tiles, a quick preview first, on several processor cores at once. Documents of thousands of pages open, scroll and search without a struggle.
Files are written with conservative, standards-based PDF 1.7 syntax, and the files the app writes are checked against strict PDF validation in our testing.
Tested against hundreds of real-world PDFs, and fuzz-tested with broken and malformed ones. Some damaged files are repaired as they open.
Fonts in TrueType, CFF, Type 1 and Type 3; JPEG, JPEG 2000, JBIG2 and CCITT images; ICC colour. General-purpose open-source components, for compression, image decoding and cryptography, are credited in the app.
Opening, editing, text recognition, converting and saving all happen on your computer. The app has no function that sends your files anywhere.
No analytics, no telemetry, no crash reporting and no ads. Updates come through the app stores.
There is nothing to sign up for and nothing to sign in to. The subscription goes through your Mac App Store or Microsoft Store account.
Bonito PDF does not open web links inside a PDF by itself, and it does not run scripts embedded in PDF files.
Bonito PDF vs Acrobat Pro
Much of everyday PDF work can be done in both apps. Features Adobe lists for Acrobat Pro that Bonito PDF lacks are listed here too; this is not a complete list. Acrobat Pro’s features and prices come from Adobe’s US website.
| Feature | Bonito PDF | Acrobat Pro1 |
|---|---|---|
| In both | ||
| View and print PDFs | Yes | Yes |
| Edit text in a PDF | Yes, keeping the original font when it can | Yes |
| Add, delete and organize pages | Yes | Yes |
| Combine PDFs into one | Yes | Yes |
| Comment: highlights, sticky notes and more | Yes | Yes |
| Fill in and sign forms | Yes, signing with a digital ID file | Yes |
| Export to Word, Excel and PowerPoint | Yes, without Microsoft Office | Yes |
| Create PDFs from Word, Excel and PowerPoint files | Yes, with Microsoft Office installed (still being tested) | Yes |
| Make scans searchable (OCR) | Yes, with your operating system’s text recognition | Yes |
| Password-protect PDFs | Yes, with AES-256 | Yes |
| Redact sensitive information | Yes: the content is removed from the file | Yes |
| Only in Acrobat Pro | ||
| Edit images in a PDF | Not available | Yes |
| Create forms and send them | Not available; fills in existing forms | Yes |
| Request signatures and track responses | Not available | Yes |
| Compare versions of a PDF | Not available | Yes |
| Combine different file types into one PDF | PDF files only | Yes |
| Share a link for review and collect feedback | Not available | Yes |
| Mobile and web browser | Mac and Windows only | Desktop, mobile and web browser |
| Cloud storage | None: your files stay on your computer | 100 GB |
| Number of tools | 15, plus Print | 70+ PDF tools |
| Price (US, before tax) | ||
| Monthly plan | US$7.49 a month | US$29.99 a month |
| Annual plan, paid up front | US$58.99 a year | US$239.88 a year |
Also not in Bonito PDF: form calculations and other scripts in PDF files (they don’t run); making scanned documents editable (OCR makes their text searchable and selectable only); creating PDFs from images or from files other than Word, Excel and PowerPoint; time-stamped and long-term validation (LTV) signatures; a list of trusted certificates; and XFA forms. Bonito PDF’s prices are planned prices.
1. Acrobat Pro: the features are from the “Compare plans” list on Adobe’s Acrobat plans and pricing page and from Adobe’s Acrobat Pro page; the prices are Adobe’s US prices for one person, before tax, for the Monthly plan and the Annual, prepaid plan (the annual plan billed monthly is not compared). Read on 16 October 2026. Sources: Adobe Acrobat plans and pricing, Adobe Acrobat Pro. Adobe and Acrobat are trademarks of Adobe Inc. Bonito PDF is not affiliated with Adobe.
Pricing
Two plans, each at a quarter or less of Acrobat Pro’s US price for the same billing period. New subscribers get the first month free on either.
Billed every month
US$7.49 / month
US$89.88 over 12 months
First month free for new subscribers, then US$7.49 a month
Paid once a year
US$58.99 / year
About US$4.92 a month, paid yearly
First month free for new subscribers, then US$58.99 a year
2. The free month: for new subscribers, one per store account. When it ends, the plan starts automatically at US$7.49 a month or US$58.99 a year and renews until you cancel. To avoid being charged, cancel in your Mac App Store or Microsoft Store account before the free month ends; cancelling stops the next renewal, and refunds follow the store’s policy.
Prices are in US dollars: the planned prices for the United States, before tax. In other countries, the Mac App Store and the Microsoft Store set the price in your currency at launch, and the store shows the final price before you subscribe. “A quarter of the price” compares US prices; against Acrobat Pro’s price in your country, the ratio may differ. A subscription works with the app from the store it was bought in, so using both a Mac and a PC takes two. Payment is handled by Apple or Microsoft. Acrobat Pro prices are Adobe’s US prices before tax, read on 16 October 2026 (see note 1).
We’ll email you when Bonito PDF is available.
Supported environment
macOS 11 Big Sur or later
Apple silicon and Intel, in one universal app
Windows 10 or Windows 11, 64-bit (x64)
Uses the Microsoft Edge WebView2 Runtime
Japanese, English, French, Spanish and Korean
Follows your system language on first launch; you can change it in Settings
Page thumbnails, bookmarks and page labels; several documents in tabs
Single page or continuous scrolling; fit width, fit page, actual size
Find with match case and a full list of results, Japanese included
Light, dark or system theme; undo and redo
Rotate, reorder, delete, insert and extract pages
Combine files; split by page count, by ranges or before selected pages
Edit text in place: size, colour, bold, italic, alignment
Highlight, underline, strikeout, squiggly underline, notes, text boxes, freehand drawing, rectangles, ovals, lines, arrows, polygons and stamps
Fill in AcroForm forms; reset or flatten them
Digital ID files (.p12 / .pfx) with RSA or ECDSA (P-256, P-384) keys
PAdES B-B (CAdES detached), SHA-256; visible or invisible
Checks existing signatures and changes made after signing
Open and permissions passwords: AES-256, AES-128 or RC4 128-bit
Opens password-protected PDFs (RC4 and AES)
Redaction with true removal, and removal of hidden information
Mac: Apple’s Vision framework (Japanese and Korean need macOS 13 or later)
Windows: Windows OCR (install each language in Windows Settings)
Japanese, English, French, Spanish and Korean
Export to Word (.docx), Excel (.xlsx), PowerPoint (.pptx), HTML, text and PNG, without Microsoft Office
Create PDF from Word, Excel and PowerPoint files, with Microsoft Office installed (still being tested with the store versions)
PDF/A: check 1b, 2b, 2u, 3b and 3u; convert to 2b, 2u, 3b and 3u
Pages, ranges, odd or even, reverse order; fit, actual size, shrink, custom scale
Grayscale; 150, 300 or 600 dpi; preview
Files are processed on your computer and never uploaded
No analytics, telemetry, crash reporting or ads; no Bonito PDF account
Creating form fields; XFA forms
Editing images and other page objects
Time-stamped and long-term validation signatures; a list of trusted certificates
Monthly US$7.49 or annual US$58.99 (planned US prices, before tax)
First month free for new subscribers on both plans; then the plan renews until you cancel
Other countries: the store sets the local price at launch and shows the final price
Coming soon to the Mac App Store and Microsoft Store
Questions
Get notified
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