PDF Candy

PDF Candy is a web-based toolkit that bundles more than 90 tools for working with PDF files, covering conversion to and from formats like Word, Excel, and images, along with merging, splitting, compressing, watermarking, password protection, and unlocking. It has also added AI features for summarizing PDFs, chatting with document content, and translating text within a file. The service has been running since 2016 and says it has processed over 8 billion files for more than 100,000 active users. Free use is available with limits on file size and daily processing; paid plans remove those caps, including a Web plan at $6 per month, a combined Desktop and Web yearly plan discounted to $4 per month, and a one-time lifetime license at $99 for desktop plus web access. Paid users get no hourly limits and can process files up to 500MB. A downloadable Windows desktop application is offered alongside the browser-based version. The site states that uploaded files are kept on its servers for no more than two hours, a privacy commitment likely aimed at users wary of document leaks. PDF Candy targets anyone who regularly handles PDFs, from students and office workers to small businesses, offering a broad but fairly generic set of file-manipulation tools rather than deep, specialized document analysis.