PDF Raven is a free online PDF editor with no card, no trial countdown and no watermark on your download. Pro adds editing the text already inside your PDF, true redaction, and Studio — where every line, image and shape on the page becomes an object you can drag and retype.
Start free and stay free for everyday editing. Upgrade only when you need real text editing, true redaction and Studio.
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Clear answers on what the free online PDF editor includes, what Pro costs and how billing works.
Yes. The Free plan is a complete online PDF editor for free - view, annotate, highlight, draw, add text and download your PDF without paying anything. It is free forever with no trial countdown and no credit card required. Start editing free.
Our online PDF editor costs nothing on the Free plan. The optional Pro plan is $9 per month and adds editing the text already inside your PDF, true redaction, Studio mode for moving and retyping page objects, a whiteout tool and unlimited documents. You only pay if you want those Pro features - the free online PDF editor stays free.
Yes. Pro comes with a 7-day free trial and no credit card is required to start it. You can explore AI editing and unlimited documents during the trial, and if you do nothing you simply stay on the free online PDF editor.
Free gives you the full editor: viewing, highlighting, drawing, shapes, sticky notes, text with font controls and PDF downloads. Pro edits the text already inside your PDF while keeping the original fonts and layout, permanently removes content with true redaction, and adds Studio mode - where every line, image and shape on the page becomes an object you can drag and retype - plus a background whiteout tool, unlimited documents and priority support. AI rewrites and tone adjustments are coming next.
Studio is included in Pro at no extra cost. It rebuilds the page as objects - every line, image and shape becomes something you can drag, retype, restyle or delete, with alignment guides and undo. It runs entirely in your browser, and because Studio writes a new page from those objects, deleting something truly removes it. Read the Studio walkthrough.
Yes, with Studio mode in the Pro plan. Because Studio turns the page into objects, you can drag a heading, reposition a logo, move a paragraph into another column or resize a block, and alignment guides snap the object to the edges and centres of everything else on the page - including the page itself. The Pro tools take the opposite approach: they edit text in place and leave everything you did not select byte-identical to the original.
Pro redaction is real redaction, not a black box. The text and images inside the region are permanently removed from the PDF file, so they cannot be selected, copied or extracted afterwards - unlike a drawn rectangle that only hides content visually. Try it in the Pro editor.
No. PDF Raven never adds a watermark or any editor branding to your PDF, on any plan. When you download, you get a clean file with only your own edits baked in - the same on the free online PDF editor and on Pro.
No. You can use the free online PDF editor with no card and no sign up at all. Even the 7-day Pro trial starts without a credit card, so there is zero risk in trying either plan.
You can cancel anytime and keep Pro access until the end of your current billing period. You can also upgrade or downgrade whenever you want - changes take effect immediately and billing is prorated. Cancelling always drops you back to the free plan, never to no access.
Our core editor is, and stays, a genuinely free online PDF editor. The Free plan covers viewing, annotating, highlighting, drawing and adding text, then lets you download your file - no trial countdown and no card on file. You only move to Pro for true redaction that permanently removes text, AI editing and unlimited documents.
The Free tier is a complete online PDF editor for free: markup tools, shapes, sticky notes, full text controls and instant downloads. For everyday tasks it's often all you need, which is why many people rank it among the best free online PDF editor options available today.
Some tools advertise an online PDF editor free download but really push a desktop installer or a limited trial. Ours runs entirely in your browser - nothing to install, update or uninstall later. That's a big reason users call it the best online PDF editor for quick, no-friction edits.
Pro includes Studio, a second mode that turns every line, image and shape on the page into an object you can drag, retype, restyle or delete — with alignment guides and undo, and without the file ever leaving your browser. It's the closest thing to editing a PDF like a Word document online. See how Studio works.
Pro edits the text already inside your PDF while preserving the original fonts and layout, removes content from the file for good, and adds Studio for moving and retyping whole parts of a page (AI rewrites are coming next). If you edit PDFs daily it pays for itself quickly - but the free online PDF editor remains available for as long as you want it.
Start on the free online PDF editor with no card and no trial countdown. Move to Pro only when you want AI superpowers, and switch back whenever you like - your free access never expires.