Stirling – The Privacy-First PDF Editor

Used by 72% of Fortune 500 Companies

Award-Winning Toolkit

50+ Powerful PDF Tools

Stirling offers granular tools for complete control of your PDFs - from signing and redaction to conversion and data extraction.

Sign

Sign PDFs with ease and add digital certificates for compliance.

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Sign

Sign PDFs with ease and add digital certificates for compliance.

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Sign

Sign PDFs with ease and add digital certificates for compliance.

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Convert

Convert PDFs to and from Word, CSV, Markdown, images, and more.

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Convert

Convert PDFs to and from Word, CSV, Markdown, images, and more.

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Convert

Convert PDFs to and from Word, CSV, Markdown, images, and more.

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Redact

Protect sensitive data by removing text, metadata, and comments.

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Redact

Protect sensitive data by removing text, metadata, and comments.

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Redact

Protect sensitive data by removing text, metadata, and comments.

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Time Savings

Automate any tool you use regularly.

No-code automation lets you save unique combinations of tools and settings for quick access.

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Enterprise-Grade

Scale from personal use to enterprise deployment.

Share PDFs with teammates, manage permissions, and automate workflows securely at any size.

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Developer Platform

Automate millions of PDFs with code.

Stirling equips developers with the tools to process PDFs securely on-prem and beyond the reach of adversaries.

Developer Console

Monitor usage, manage keys, and debug workflows with real-time insights. Test automations with free credits and scale confidently into production workloads.

Core APIs

50+ endpoints for conversion, compression, redaction, ingestion, and more.

SDKs

Drop Stirling API into your stack with prebuilt libraries in your language of choice.

On-Prem AI Infra

Pretraining on PDFs, real-time agent calls, and integration across your AI pipeline.

Quickstart Guides

Docs, code snippets, and examples to get you going in minutes.

Deployment Options

Run Stirling where you need it

Choose the cloud, on-prem, or private infrastructure. Flexible deployments designed for strict security and compliance.

Testimonials

Meet our community

Business leaders, software developers, and creators around the world share why they trust Stirling.

“Stirling is the only actively developed open-source web-based PDF editor. It replaces Adobe Acrobat for users that care about privacy and security.”

Sid Sijbrandij

Founder and Chairman, GitLab

“Stirling's vast community on GitHub combined with the speed at which it has developed makes it particularly promising. We're very excited about our investment."

Betty Ma

COO, Open Core Ventures

"The best part is Stirling's features can be used either from the platform or via API, ideal if you are working on a project requiring document processing or PDF generation."

Wassim Samad

Developer, 3D AI Studio

"This is the one PDF Editor to rule them all! My quest for the perfect PDF editor finally paid off. Meet Stirling PDF, the only PDF editor you will ever need."

Vikash Jhagroe

Sr Technical Adoption Manager, VMware

"Stirling PDF is the ultimate PDF editor. DO NOT use Adobe Acrobat Pro. Use Stirling PDF."

Carlos Melantuche

Sr Network and Infrastructure Engineer, Aramark

“Stirling is the best open-source PDF manipulation tool. The interface is designed to be clear and simple, making it easy for anyone to use.”

Senthilkumar Palani

Editor, OSTechNix

“For those who don’t want to pony up for Adobe’s software or upload their files to sketchy-looking file conversion websites, Stirling PDF is the Swiss Army knife for PDF documents."

Zack Whittaker

Security Editor, TechCrunch

"Here is where Stirling PDF surprised me. It’s far from a basic PDF viewer or a simple converter. Almost every single tool comes with a ton of customization options."

Parth Shah

Tech Writer, XDA Developers

“Every feature [in Stirling] is designed to maximize your productivity while remaining intuitive to use."

Clement Mondary

Agency Director, Groupe Luminess

“Stirling is the only actively developed open-source web-based PDF editor. It replaces Adobe Acrobat for users that care about privacy and security.”

Sid Sijbrandij

Founder and Chairman, GitLab

“Stirling's vast community on GitHub combined with the speed at which it has developed makes it particularly promising. We're very excited about our investment."

Betty Ma

COO, Open Core Ventures

"The best part is Stirling's features can be used either from the platform or via API, ideal if you are working on a project requiring document processing or PDF generation."

Wassim Samad

Developer, 3D AI Studio

“Stirling is the only actively developed open-source web-based PDF editor. It replaces Adobe Acrobat for users that care about privacy and security.”

Sid Sijbrandij

Founder and Chairman, GitLab

“Stirling's vast community on GitHub combined with the speed at which it has developed makes it particularly promising. We're very excited about our investment."

Betty Ma

COO, Open Core Ventures

"The best part is Stirling's features can be used either from the platform or via API, ideal if you are working on a project requiring document processing or PDF generation."

Wassim Samad

Developer, 3D AI Studio

"This is the one PDF Editor to rule them all! My quest for the perfect PDF editor finally paid off. Meet Stirling PDF, the only PDF editor you will ever need."

Vikash Jhagroe

Sr Technical Adoption Manager, VMware

"Stirling PDF is the ultimate PDF editor. DO NOT use Adobe Acrobat Pro. Use Stirling PDF."

Carlos Melantuche

Sr Network and Infrastructure Engineer, Aramark

“Stirling is the best open-source PDF manipulation tool. The interface is designed to be clear and simple, making it easy for anyone to use.”

Senthilkumar Palani

Editor, OSTechNix

“For those who don’t want to pony up for Adobe’s software or upload their files to sketchy-looking file conversion websites, Stirling PDF is the Swiss Army knife for PDF documents."

Zack Whittaker

Security Editor, TechCrunch

"Here is where Stirling PDF surprised me. It’s far from a basic PDF viewer or a simple converter. Almost every single tool comes with a ton of customization options."

Parth Shah

Tech Writer, XDA Developers

“Every feature [in Stirling] is designed to maximize your productivity while remaining intuitive to use."

Clement Mondary

Agency Director, Groupe Luminess

“Stirling is the only actively developed open-source web-based PDF editor. It replaces Adobe Acrobat for users that care about privacy and security.”

Sid Sijbrandij

Founder and Chairman, GitLab

“Stirling's vast community on GitHub combined with the speed at which it has developed makes it particularly promising. We're very excited about our investment."

Betty Ma

COO, Open Core Ventures

"The best part is Stirling's features can be used either from the platform or via API, ideal if you are working on a project requiring document processing or PDF generation."

Wassim Samad

Developer, 3D AI Studio

"This is the one PDF Editor to rule them all! My quest for the perfect PDF editor finally paid off. Meet Stirling PDF, the only PDF editor you will ever need."

Vikash Jhagroe

Sr Technical Adoption Manager, VMware

"Stirling PDF is the ultimate PDF editor. DO NOT use Adobe Acrobat Pro. Use Stirling PDF."

Carlos Melantuche

Sr Network and Infrastructure Engineer, Aramark

“Stirling is the best open-source PDF manipulation tool. The interface is designed to be clear and simple, making it easy for anyone to use.”

Senthilkumar Palani

Editor, OSTechNix

“For those who don’t want to pony up for Adobe’s software or upload their files to sketchy-looking file conversion websites, Stirling PDF is the Swiss Army knife for PDF documents."

Zack Whittaker

Security Editor, TechCrunch

"Here is where Stirling PDF surprised me. It’s far from a basic PDF viewer or a simple converter. Almost every single tool comes with a ton of customization options."

Parth Shah

Tech Writer, XDA Developers

“Every feature [in Stirling] is designed to maximize your productivity while remaining intuitive to use."

Clement Mondary

Agency Director, Groupe Luminess