PDFRabbit at work.
What privacy, IT and purchasing should know before the app goes on company devices. Only statements you can check in the app.
What happens to documents.
- On the device
- Scanning, merging, compressing, redacting, signing, text recognition and converting run locally on the device, without a connection. The one exception is HTML to PDF, which loads the web page you enter.
- AI tools
- The default is a cloud provider via OpenRouter. It only works with your own API key; the request and the document text then go to OpenRouter and the chosen model. In the settings you can pick Apple Intelligence on the device instead. For confidential documents we recommend that setting or not using the AI tools.
- Google Drive
- Only if someone connects a Google account. The app then asks for access to the files opened or created with PDFRabbit, not to the whole Drive.
- Account and tracking
- Nobody needs an account for PDFRabbit. The app contains no analytics or tracking tools, and its privacy manifest declares no tracking.
Tools an office actually needs.
- Redact PDF
- Sign PDF
- Protect PDF
- Text recognition (OCR)
- Compress PDF
- Compare PDFs
- Word to PDF
- PDF to Word
- Page numbers
- Header & footer
- Watermark
- Flatten PDF
Processing several files in one go, for example compressing a folder of invoices, is part of Pro. Merging stays free, even with many files.
Purchase and devices.
PDFRabbit Pro is on the App Store as a yearly subscription for €8.99 or a one-time purchase for €44.99. A purchase is tied to the Apple ID and works on Mac, iPad and iPhone with the same Apple ID.
Requires macOS 26.1, iPadOS 26.1 or iOS 26.1. Scan, Excel to PDF and PowerPoint to PDF are only on iPhone and iPad. The app is in German.
Questions about several workplaces or invoices: email mail@quarex.de.