BreezePDF
Productivity
pdf editor
SHOW HN2025
791points
182comments
#28of 3,837 in 2025
Top 1%of 2025 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
18 positive, 31 neutral or asking, 7 mixed, 18 critical, out of 74 comments about the project. Thread score 0.00.
Privacy: 1 for, 6 againstExecution: 1 for, 5 againstIdea: 2 for, 3 againstPricing: 1 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Useful free tool with no sign-up
From 2 comments
Very nice, thank you !
TheJCDenton on HNYou'd think at this point there would be a dozen solid competitors to Adobe Acrobat. You'd really fuckin think so. And yet filling out a pdf and signing it with a certificate…
moffkalast on HN
Objections
Browser-based privacy is unverified without open source code
From 1 comment
Where is the repo? I do not trust the privacy...
VisualByte on HN
Cannot edit existing PDF text
From 1 comment
doesn't "edit" PDF text, just adds more.
behnamoh on HN
Firefox already offers some PDF features
From 1 comment
Doesnt Firefox do this natively?
Saris on HN
Requests
Edit existing text
From 1 comment
yes, that's why the description says "add text" not edit :) there aren't existing packages that can edit existing PDF text in the browser, but I'll do it myself sometime soon
philjohnson on HN
Open source the code
From 1 comment
not yet available as open source. Open-source has two main purposes I think: trust, and customizing/integrating it into other products. On the first part, since everything…
philjohnson on HN
Touch support and PWA
From 1 comment
The service worker functionality can be expressed as a PWA! Based on the comments I'm thinking of heading in that direction. As far as touchscreen PDF editing, that is 100%…
philjohnson on HN
Questions
Will the code be open source?
From 2 comments
It's not open source at the moment, but I would consider it. Just have to think through it as once you go open-source it doesn't go over too well to go back. So, if I want to…
philjohnson on HNThanks! As of now I don’t plan on open sourcing. I think open sourcing software that I plan to monetize would create bad incentives. There are several companies of note that were…
philjohnson on HN
Alternatives named
Smallpdf and ilovepdf
From 1 comment
Scrolling is now fixed! And just updated so that if you click outside modal it closes. Working on update now so you can edit text you've already added. Agree with you regarding…
philjohnson on HN
Stirling PDF
From 1 comment
Yes, though both of those send documents to their server which might be a concern for some people. And most people working with PDFs wouldn't know how to setup stirling locally.…
philjohnson on HN
Firefox built-in PDF tools
From 1 comment
Doesnt Firefox do this natively?
Saris on HN