# Tungsten Power PDF review (2026): is it worth paying for? > PDF editor with an Office-style ribbon, formerly Kofax Power PDF Checked Nov 12, 2026 ยท graded Nov 12, 2026 by ToolGPA. Tungsten Power PDF, earlier Nuance and then Kofax Power PDF, is a PDF editor for Windows and Mac with an Office-style interface. It creates, edits, converts, redacts and signs PDFs. Standard and Advanced are perpetual licenses; Business is sold through sales, adds a browser editor and a Teams app, and needs 5 users. - **Category:** PDF Editors - **Made by:** Tungsten Automation - **Website:** https://www.tungstenautomation.com/products/power-pdf - **Runs on:** Windows, macOS, Web, iOS, Android - **Who should skip it:** Tight if you want Advanced on a Mac, as it is Windows only. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 12, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 12, 2026, Tungsten Power PDF is a paid product with a free trial, starting at SGD 159 per license, one-time (shown in Singapore dollars). - **Pricing model:** Free trial - **Free plan:** None. - **Free trial:** 15-day free trial of Standard and Advanced, 30 days for Business; no credit card needed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Power PDF Standard | SGD 159 one-time purchase per license, excl. tax | Windows or Mac desktop editor for home users: create, edit and export PDFs. USD list price not read. | | Power PDF Advanced | SGD 219 one-time purchase per license, excl. tax | Windows only. Adds e-signature, batch processing, Bates numbering, advanced redaction and SharePoint and iManage links. | | Power PDF Business | Custom | Subscription or perpetual, for 5 or more users: cloud editor, Teams app, central admin, Citrix support. | Read from https://www.tungstenautomation.com/products/power-pdf/pricing on Nov 12, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Tungsten Power PDF before buying. ## Key features - **Create, edit and convert:** Make PDFs from Office files and convert PDFs back to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, JPG and HTML. - **Office-style ribbon:** The interface follows Microsoft Office conventions, with add-ins to open and export PDFs from Office. - **Security and redaction:** Set encrypted passwords and permissions, and redact sensitive content and private metadata. - **Batch and Bates (Advanced):** Advanced adds batch processing, Bates numbering and stamping, and advanced redaction. - **Cloud editor and Teams (Business):** Business users can open and edit PDFs in a browser and review them inside Microsoft Teams. - **Mobile apps:** Apps for iOS and Android read, annotate, sign and share PDFs. ## Good for - Windows users who want a one-time license with a familiar Office look - Law, finance and office teams needing Bates numbering and redaction - Organizations that need Citrix or Windows Server deployment ## Worth knowing - Prices on the vendor's page showed in Singapore dollars from this location; a US dollar list price was not confirmed. - Advanced is Windows only; the Mac edition is sold as Standard only. - Business has no published price, needs at least 5 users, and its generative AI uses your own OpenAI license. - Desktop licenses include 90 days of product support; later upgrades are sold separately. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.6 out of 4**, graded Nov 12, 2026. Tungsten Power PDF, once Kofax Power PDF, is an Office-style PDF editor sold as a one-time license with apps on every platform. The page showed prices in Singapore dollars, and the dearer Advanced edition is Windows only. - **Value for money: C.** SGD 159 for Standard or SGD 219 for Advanced, one-time; no US dollar price was confirmed, so it can't be set firmly against the $62 middle one-time price. - **Free plan and trial: C.** 15-day trial of Standard and Advanced, 30 days for Business, no card; no free plan. - **Features: C.** Create, edit, convert, redact, and batch and Bates numbering in Advanced. Advanced is Windows only, and the Mac edition is Standard only. - **Ease of use: B.** No rating on record; the Office-style ribbon means a program you install and start using. - **Platforms and integrations: A.** Windows, Mac, web, iOS and Android, with eight integrations listed. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Tungsten Automation's own pages on 12 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among PDF editors - Tungsten Power PDF's GPA of 2.6 is higher than 11 of the 28 other PDF editors we grade, and level with 6. - It stands best on platforms and integrations (A, above 24 of 28) and worst on features (C, above 0). The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/pdf-editors ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** Nothing Tungsten Power PDF does is plain enough to make in a weekend. The 5 things listed below take a company. - 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 plugs into other products, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Teams and SharePoint among them. - You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself. - You could not: What a company asks for before it lets staff use something: roles and permissions. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with Microsoft Word, Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, iManage, Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, Box **Tags:** PDF editing, One-time purchase, AI features ## Alternatives - [Adobe Acrobat](https://toolgpa.com/tools/adobe-acrobat): Adobe's PDF editor for desktop, web and mobile, with an AI tier. 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[Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/abbyy-finereader-vs-kofax-power-pdf) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 12, 2026: - https://www.tungstenautomation.com/products/power-pdf/pricing - https://www.tungstenautomation.com/products/power-pdf - https://www.tungstenautomation.com/products/power-pdf/free-trials Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/kofax-power-pdf Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).