# Foxit PDF Editor

> PDF editor for Windows, Mac and web, yearly or as a one-time license

Foxit PDF Editor is a desktop and web PDF editor for editing text and pages, converting to and from Office formats, running OCR on scans, building forms and redacting. Subscriptions run on Windows, macOS and the web, with the iOS and Android apps on PDF Editor+, and Foxit also sells a one-time perpetual license. Foxit eSign, the company's e-signature service, is a separate product listed on its own.

- **Category:** PDF Editors
- **Made by:** Foxit Software Incorporated (since 2001)
- **Website:** https://www.foxit.com/pdf-editor/
- **Runs on:** Windows, macOS, Web, iOS, Android
- **Facts last checked:** Oct 18, 2026

## Pricing

Foxit PDF Editor is a paid product with a free trial, starting at $129.99 per user / year.

- **Pricing model:** Free trial
- **Free plan:** None.
- **Free trial:** 14-day free trial of PDF Editor+, no credit card required.

| Plan | Price | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- |
| PDF Editor | $129.99 per user / year ($10.99 a month on an annual plan billed monthly) | Windows, macOS and web apps: editing, conversion, OCR, forms, compare and security, with Foxit DMS and 300 AI credits a month. |
| PDF Editor+ | $159.99 per user / year ($13.99 a month on an annual plan billed monthly) | Everything in PDF Editor plus the iOS and Android apps, AI Smart Redact and Foxit eSign Essentials with 150 envelopes a year. |
| Foxit PDF Editor 14 (Perpetual) | $209.99 one-time purchase per user | A perpetual license for version 14 of the editor, paid once instead of a subscription. |
| Volume Licensing | Custom | Quoted for 30 or more licenses, subscription or perpetual, with discounts of up to 30% and one renewal date. |

Read from https://www.foxit.com/pdf-editor/pricing/ on Oct 18, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Foxit PDF Editor before buying.

## Ways to pay less

- **Volume discounts from 30 licenses** (Other savings): Foxit's pricing page gives discounts of up to 30% on orders of 30 or more licenses, for subscriptions or perpetual licenses, quoted by its sales team. Source: https://www.foxit.com/pdf-editor/pricing/

## Key features

- **Editing and page tools:** Edit text and images, add, delete and reorder pages, merge and split files, compare two versions, add Bates numbering and reduce file size.
- **Conversion and OCR:** Converts PDFs to and from Word, Excel and PowerPoint, exports images, turns scans into searchable text and checks PDF/A and accessibility.
- **Forms and signing:** Create fillable forms with JavaScript, fill and sign, and add certificate signatures; PDF Editor+ can also send for e-signature through Foxit eSign.
- **Redaction and protection:** Password protection, copy and edit restrictions and manual redaction on both plans, with AI Smart Redact to find personal data on PDF Editor+.
- **AI Assistant:** Summarizes, translates, rewrites and answers questions about documents, with 300 credits a month included in every subscription.
- **Foxit DMS:** Every subscription includes Foxit's document management system with unlimited cloud storage, shared workspaces, check-in and check-out and version history.

## Good for

- Offices replacing Adobe Acrobat on Windows and Mac machines
- Buyers who prefer to pay once: a perpetual license is still sold
- Teams that also send documents for signature through Foxit eSign

## Worth knowing

- The iOS and Android apps, AI Smart Redact and the 150 eSign envelopes a year come only with PDF Editor+; PDF Editor covers Windows, macOS and web.
- Both subscriptions are annual; the $10.99 and $13.99 monthly figures are an annual plan billed monthly, not a monthly plan.
- More AI use costs extra: the AI Assistant add-on is $49.99 a year for 2,000 credits a month and access to Foxit Workspace.
- Unlimited e-signature sending needs Foxit eSign, a separate product sold per user by the year.

## ToolGPA grades

**GPA: 2.8 out of 4**, graded Oct 18, 2026. Foxit PDF Editor is a desktop app for Windows and Mac with a web version, and it does nearly everything Acrobat does: edit text, OCR, forms, redaction, compare. It's $129.99 a year, or $209.99 once if you hate subscriptions. Just know the phone apps only come with PDF Editor+.

- **Value for money: C.** $129.99 a year for PDF Editor, the plan that edits text on Windows, Mac and web. That's the dear end of normal for PDF editors, not a bargain. Spread over three years, the $209.99 perpetual license works out cheaper, but still middling.
- **Free plan and trial: C.** No free plan. There's a 14-day trial of PDF Editor+ with no card needed, which is plenty of time to see if it suits you. After that you pay or stop.
- **Features: B.** Edits text and images, converts to and from Office, OCRs scans, builds forms with JavaScript, redacts, compares versions and adds Bates numbers. It covers the whole job. Smart Redact and the phone apps wait for PDF Editor+, and heavy AI use costs extra.
- **Ease of use: B.** 4.5 from 4,763 App Store ratings for the Foxit PDF Editor app. On a computer it's an editor you install and start using, with nothing to set up first.
- **Platforms and integrations: A.** Windows, Mac, web, iPhone and Android, with Microsoft 365, SharePoint, Google Drive, Dropbox, Box and Salesforce. Just note the phone apps come with PDF Editor+, not the base plan.

These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Foxit's own pages on 18 October 2026, and its App Store rating. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews.

## Where it stands among PDF editors

- Foxit PDF Editor's GPA of 2.8 is higher than 9 of the 15 other PDF editors we grade, and level with 3.
- It stands best on platforms and integrations (A, above 13 of 15) and worst on free plan and trial (C, above 0).
- Its paid plans start at $10.83 a month when paid by the year for each person, against a middle price of $6.67 for the category: 8 of the 10 others that charge start lower.
- On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 3.3 out of 4. Nothing scores higher for less, though at least one tool matches that score at a lower price.

The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/pdf-editors

## Keep it, or make your own?

**Keep it.** The plain part of Foxit PDF Editor you could make: forms and documents. What surrounds it you could not. The 6 things listed below take a company, not a weekend. It costs $129.99 a year.

- You could make: Forms and documents: an app builder makes these well.
- You could not: Editing the text inside a PDF without breaking its layout.
- You could not: Apps for macOS, Windows, iOS and Android that stay in step with each other.
- You could not: It is priced for each person, which means accounts and billing for a team.
- You could not: It plugs into other products, Microsoft 365, SharePoint and Google Drive among them.
- You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself.
- You could not: The depth: we grade its features B, which means it covers the whole job.

A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it.

## What people say

- **App Store rating of the iPhone and iPad app:** 4.5 out of 5 from 4,763 ratings in the United States, read Oct 18, 2026. This is the store's rating of the app, not a score from ToolGPA. Source: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id507040546

## Works with

Microsoft 365, SharePoint, Google Drive, Dropbox, Box, OneDrive, Salesforce, Foxit eSign

**Tags:** PDF editing, Forms, AI features, One-time purchase, Documents

## Alternatives

- [Adobe Acrobat](https://toolgpa.com/tools/adobe-acrobat): Adobe's PDF editor for desktop, web and mobile, with an AI tier. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/adobe-acrobat-vs-foxit)
- [Nitro PDF Pro](https://toolgpa.com/tools/nitro): Desktop PDF editor for Windows and Mac with AI tools, billed yearly. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/foxit-vs-nitro)
- [PDFelement](https://toolgpa.com/tools/pdfelement): Wondershare's PDF editor, by subscription or a one-time license. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/foxit-vs-pdfelement)
- [UPDF](https://toolgpa.com/tools/updf): PDF editor with AI chat, one license across desktop and mobile. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/foxit-vs-updf)
- [Foxit eSign](https://toolgpa.com/tools/foxit-esign): E-signatures with payments, notary and storage, priced per user a year. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/foxit-vs-foxit-esign)

## Sources

The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 18, 2026:

- https://www.foxit.com/pdf-editor/pricing/
- https://www.foxit.com/pdf-editor/
- https://www.foxit.com/company/about/

Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/foxit
Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).