PDF Arranger
Desktop app for merging, splitting and rearranging PDF pages visually.
Where your files are processed
No server involved
Desktop application. It reads and writes local files through a graphical window; no server is involved.
Inherent to a locally installed desktop application that reads and writes local files. There is no server component and no account.
What it does
PDF Arranger is a small desktop application built on pikepdf with poppler for rendering, which lets you rearrange a PDF by dragging page thumbnails — reorder, merge several documents into one, split, rotate, crop, resize, delete and duplicate pages, then save the result. It is a maintained fork of PDF-Shuffler, and can also import images when img2pdf is installed. Everything happens on your own machine in a graphical window, with no server and no account.
Best for: Desktop users who want a free, offline, point-and-click way to fix page order and page geometry instead of uploading documents to a cloud converter.
Worth knowing: It only manipulates whole pages — text and images inside a page cannot be edited — and on macOS it must be installed through Nix or Homebrew rather than an official signed package.
Details, and where each comes from
Vendor statements, our own reading of their pages, and the things nobody has established yet, each answered separately. Where we have not confirmed something it says so rather than guessing, and a row nobody has established is greyed out.
- Versions covered
- Windows · macOS · Linux
- Website
- github.com
- Requires an account
- No
- Watermark on the free tier
- Not verified
- Maximum file size
- Not verified
- Batch processing
- Not verified
- Data residency
- Self-hosted
- Open source
- Yes
- Self-hostable
- No
- Licence
- GPL-3.0
- Redaction
- No redaction feature
- Programmatic access
- None
- Last availability check
- Responded in 311 ms 16 October 2026
Checked automatically by our own runner, not reported by the vendor. 100% of our last 30 checks got a response.
What the redaction verdict rests on
From the vendor's own documentation, read 22 September 2026. Not tested by us.
What that does not establish: The automated absence check flagged this page, and reading it showed the match was the commit message "Sanitize language list in preferences dialog" — incidental, and not a feature. pdfarranger merges, splits, rotates, crops and rearranges pages and does not offer redaction, so the verdict stands on the same negative evidence as the rest of this batch.
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Related reading
- Which PDF tools keep your file on your machine — what we count as processing on your own device.
- Open source PDF tools, and what their licences require — what open source does and does not tell you.