# PDFill PDF Editor review (2026): is the free plan enough? > Windows PDF editor with a free basic version and low-cost licenses Checked Nov 13, 2026 ยท graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA. PDFill is a Windows program for filling and marking up PDFs, building form fields and managing pages. A free Basic edition covers form filling, typing text and commenting, while Professional and Enterprise are paid one-time licenses that add editing of the original text and images, redaction, scanning and shapes. A free PDF writer and free PDF tools come in the same package. - **Category:** PDF Editors - **Made by:** PlotSoft L.L.C. (since 2002) - **Website:** https://www.pdfill.com/ - **Runs on:** Windows - **Who should skip it:** Skip it if you use a Mac, Linux or Android. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 13, 2026, PDFill PDF Editor has a free plan, and paid plans start at $19.99 one-time, with free lifetime upgrades. - **Pricing model:** Free plan - **Free plan:** Free Basic version: fill forms, type text and add markup, with no watermark; it shows an advertisement link. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Free Basic | $0 | Form filling, typewriter text, form maker and markup tools; an advertisement link is shown. | | Professional | $19.99 one-time per user, with free lifetime upgrade | Removes the advertisement link and unlocks the paid features; the comparison page marks which tools need Enterprise. | | Enterprise | $39.99 one-time per user, with free lifetime upgrade | Adds 170 Office shapes, custom shapes and fill mode; the comparison page lists the editing, redaction and scanner tools. | Read from https://www.pdfill.com/pdfill_versions.html on Nov 13, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with PDFill PDF Editor before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **Multi-license discount** (Other savings): The order page gives extra free licenses on bulk purchases, such as 8 licenses at $19.99 each with 2 more free. Source: https://www.pdfill.com/safeorder.html ## Key features - **Fill and type on forms:** Fills interactive forms with spell check and an autofill list, and types formatted text, checks or images onto any page. - **Form maker:** Creates fillable text, check box, radio, combo, list and button fields with keystroke, format, validate and calculate actions. - **Editing of original content:** Paid editions list deleting or replacing original text, images, form fields and comments, and redacting content; see the comparison page. - **Page and document tools:** Inserts, extracts and replaces pages, adds bookmarks, headers, watermarks, Bates numbers, signatures, and runs OCR. - **Markup and ink:** Markup tools cover stamps, text boxes, highlights and shapes; a pen-input ink annotator is listed for the paid editions. - **Free PDF writer and tools:** The package includes a virtual printer that creates PDFs or images from printable programs, plus merge, split, encrypt and watermark tools. ## Good for - Windows users who want an inexpensive one-time purchase instead of a subscription - Filling and creating PDF forms with calculations - Printing documents to PDF from any Windows application ## Worth knowing - Windows only; the vendor says it does not support Mac, Linux or Android. - The free evaluation copies of Professional and Enterprise watermark the edited PDFs. - The download page lists version 15.0 Build 3 updated in March 2021, and it needs Ghostscript. - Original-content editing, redaction and OCR are listed only on the paid-edition comparison, not the free Basic edition. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.4 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. PDFill is a Windows program with a free Basic edition for form filling and markup and paid one-time editions at $19.99 and $39.99. The download page shows version 15.0 from March 2021 and it needs Ghostscript. - **Value for money: A.** $19.99 one-time with free lifetime upgrades is under a year of the $7.99 middle subscription for PDF editors. - **Free plan and trial: B.** Free Basic fills forms, types text and marks up with no watermark, though it shows an advertisement link. - **Features: C.** Original-content editing, redaction and OCR are paid-only, and the page shows a 2021 update date, so the listing shows gaps. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record. It needs Ghostscript installed, which is extra setup. - **Platforms and integrations: D.** Windows only; the vendor says it does not support Mac, Linux or Android. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from PDFill PDF Editor's own pages on 13 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among PDF editors - PDFill PDF Editor's GPA of 2.4 is higher than 14 of the 45 other PDF editors we grade, and level with 5. - It stands best on value for money (A, above 31 of 45) and worst on platforms and integrations (D, above 0). 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 PDFill PDF Editor you could make: forms. What surrounds it you could not. The 2 things listed below take a company, not a weekend. That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 26 of the 45 other PDF editors grade higher. It costs $19.99, paid once. - You could make: Forms: an app builder makes this well. - You could not: Editing the text inside a PDF without breaking its layout. - You could not: A real app for Windows. Something home-made would be a web page. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. **Tags:** PDF editing, Forms, One-time purchase ## Alternatives - [PDF-XChange Editor](https://toolgpa.com/tools/pdf-xchange-editor): Windows PDF editor with a free edition and perpetual licenses. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/pdf-xchange-editor-vs-pdfill-pdf-editor) - [Xodo PDF Studio](https://toolgpa.com/tools/pdf-studio): Offline PDF editor for Windows, Mac and Linux, formerly Qoppa. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/pdf-studio-vs-pdfill-pdf-editor) - [Master PDF Editor](https://toolgpa.com/tools/master-pdf-editor): Desktop PDF editor sold as a perpetual license. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/master-pdf-editor-vs-pdfill-pdf-editor) - [PDFsam](https://toolgpa.com/tools/pdfsam): Split and merge PDFs offline, with paid Visual and Enhanced editions. 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