# Sejda

> Web and desktop PDF tools, free within daily limits or by the week

Sejda is a set of PDF tools that runs both as a web tool in the browser and as a desktop app for Windows, Mac and Linux that processes files on your own computer. It edits existing text, fills, signs and creates forms, merges, splits, compresses, converts and runs OCR. Both versions are free within page, size and task limits, and paid plans are sold as a one-week pass, monthly or yearly.

- **Category:** PDF Editors
- **Made by:** Sejda BV
- **Website:** https://www.sejda.com
- **Runs on:** Web, Windows, macOS, Linux
- **Facts last checked:** Oct 18, 2026

## Pricing

Sejda has a free plan. Paid plans start at $5 per user for 7 days, paid once, with no renewal.

- **Pricing model:** Free plan
- **Free plan:** Free on web and desktop with limits: on desktop, 3 tasks a day, files up to 50MB and 200 pages, OCR up to 10 pages and one file converted at a time.
- **Free trial:** None listed.

| Plan | Price | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Desktop+Web Free | $0 | No signup needed; page, hourly and file-size limits and some tool-specific limits. |
| Web Week Pass | $5 per user for 7 days, paid once, with no renewal | Seven days of unlimited Sejda Web, then back to free; no desktop app. |
| Web Monthly | $7.50 per user / month | Unlimited Sejda Web with files up to 500MB, OCR up to 100 pages and batch processing; no desktop app. |
| Desktop Week Pass | $7.95 per user for 7 days, paid once, with no renewal | Seven days of unlimited Sejda Desktop and Sejda Web. |
| Desktop+Web Annual | $63 per user / year | A year of Sejda Desktop and Sejda Web with no page or hourly limits, renewing yearly. |

Read from https://www.sejda.com/upgrade on Oct 18, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Sejda before buying.

## Ways to pay less

- **Save 30% with the annual plan** (Annual discount): Sejda's pricing page says the Desktop+Web Annual plan at $63 per user a year saves 30% over the $7.50 monthly web plan. Source: https://www.sejda.com/upgrade
- **Team volume discounts from 2 users** (Other savings): Sejda gives volume discounts from 2 members, 20% for 10 users on its plans, and up to 60% off on desktop volume licenses. Source: https://www.sejda.com/desktop

## Key features

- **Edit existing text:** Add, edit or move text and change its font, size and style, add links, images and shapes, and annotate, highlight and sign.
- **Forms:** Fill and sign PDF forms, and turn an existing PDF into a fillable form.
- **Merge, split and organize:** Combine files, alternate pages from two documents, split by pages, size, bookmarks or text, and reorder, rotate, crop or delete pages.
- **Convert and OCR:** Converts PDFs to Word, Excel or CSV and images, and HTML or images to PDF, with OCR on scans and table extraction.
- **Desktop app that works offline:** Sejda Desktop installs on Windows, Mac and Linux and processes documents on your computer rather than on Sejda's servers.
- **Batch work and tool chains:** Paid plans process several files at once, and a workflow tool runs a series of tasks on PDFs in one go.

## Good for

- One-off jobs: a week pass covers a short burst of PDF work
- Linux users who want a desktop PDF editor
- People who prefer files processed on their own computer

## Worth knowing

- Free use is capped at 3 tasks a day on desktop and by pages and hours on the web, with OCR limited to 10 pages.
- The Web plans do not include Sejda Desktop; only the Desktop Week Pass and the Annual plan do.
- There is no monthly plan that includes the desktop app, and no mobile app.
- Even paid plans run OCR on documents of up to 100 pages.

## ToolGPA grades

**GPA: 2.2 out of 4**, graded Oct 18, 2026. Sejda is a web tool and a desktop app for Windows, Mac and Linux, and both edit the text that's already in a PDF. It's free for a few tasks a day, and you can buy a single week when a big job lands. Don't expect phone apps, though, and OCR stops at 100 pages even when you pay.

- **Value for money: C.** The Desktop+Web Annual plan is $63 a year, a bit under the middle for PDF editors. Web only is $7.50 a month, and week passes are $5 for web or $7.95 with desktop, paid once, which is handy for a one-off job.
- **Free plan and trial: C.** Free on web and desktop with no signup, and that includes editing existing text. But desktop is capped at 3 tasks a day, 200 pages and 50MB a file, and OCR stops at 10 pages.
- **Features: C.** Edits existing text, turns PDFs into fillable forms, merges, splits, converts to Excel and runs OCR, with batch jobs on paid plans. The gap the listing names: OCR stops at 100 pages even when you pay.
- **Ease of use: B.** No store rating on record. No signup on the web, and the desktop app installs and runs, so there's nothing to set up.
- **Platforms and integrations: C.** The web, plus desktop apps for Windows, Mac and Linux, and Linux is a rare bonus. But there's no phone app and no integrations on record.

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

## Where it stands among PDF editors

- Sejda's GPA of 2.2 is higher than 0 of the 15 other PDF editors we grade, and level with 4.
- It stands best on ease of use (B, above 2 of 15) and worst on free plan and trial (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.** The plain part of Sejda 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: 11 of the 15 other PDF editors grade higher. It costs $5, 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: Apps for macOS, Windows and Linux that stay in step with each other.

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, Works offline

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## Sources

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

- https://www.sejda.com/upgrade
- https://www.sejda.com/desktop
- https://www.sejda.com
- https://www.sejda.com/pdf-editor

Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/sejda
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