r/FuckAdobe

Filmcraft is da best

I've been working on Arc PDF for quite a while, and one thing that kept bothering me was how complicated PDF software has become.

I just wanted a PDF editor that was fast, lightweight, and straightforward. Instead, most of the options I found came with huge downloads, subscriptions, cloud services, or features I never needed.

So I decided to build my own.

Arc PDF is a native macOS PDF editor, completely free, and designed to stay lightweight.

You can edit PDF text and images, annotate documents, organize pages, and use AI to understand and work with your PDFs.

No subscription. No account required. No uploading your documents to my server.

The AI currently works with your own API key, so you can choose the provider and model you want to use.

It's definitely not perfect, and I'm still actively working on it. But the goal is pretty simple: make a PDF app that doesn't feel like it needs to be a full office suite.

I know this is self-promotion, but I figured this might be one of the communities that gets why I built it.

Anyone else just want a PDF editor that lets you edit a PDF without all the extra baggage?

How am I to work professionally with shit like this? I didn't even use it that hard.

Photoshop - Affinity(photo), Krita(drawing)

Illustrator - Affinity

InDesign - Affinity

Lightroom - Darktable

XD - Figma

Premiere Pro - Davinci Resolve

After Effects - Cavalry

Audition - Audacity(audio), FL Studio(daw)

Substance - Blender

Dreamweaver - Visual Studio Code

There are many more great alternatives out there but these are simply the ones i personally use as most of them are free, with the exception of fl studio and (mostly) davinci.