Price: Free, $79.99 for advanced functionalities – Basic paid plan doesn’t have basic features like edit, compressing, and organizing PDFs. – Basic paid pack gives access for one Mac only

– Less expensive alternative to Adobe Acrobat On the downside, even the paid basic $79.99/year plan misses out on features like organizing and compressing PDFs. There is a free version but it has limited functionality.

PDFElement is the best Adobe reader alternative for Mac.

Additionally, it provides the option to password-protect your PDF files. PDFElement is not just a PDF reader, it also brings a couple of PDF editing tools that you can use to annotate PDFs or add text/images. This software packs some powerful features such as adding text, images, links, OCR technology, highlighting text, and a highly user-friendly user interface. The closest thing to trial would be to try it on your iOS device, while the user interface is written from the scratch for macOS, the layout structure is almost the same and for VoiceOver users I think they would look very similar aside that on macOS you have also elaborate menus available.If you want a feature-rich PDF reader for your macOS device, look no further than PDFElement. I would prefer this model now (among other things I could offer the app for free to blind people only as on iOS) but as it was already set up years ago there's not much options aside from keep going as is. The next problem is that the paid app cannot be converted to the free app with in-app purchases. Unfortunately Mac App Store doesn't have an option to offer free trials, it is either paid app or free app (with possible in-app purchases). Dawn, thanks for mentioning Speech Central.Īs I am a developer of it I am not neutral, but in one thread on this site a user said that he started to use Speech Central for the Mac because he needed an accessible solution for PDFs, so I assume it is fair to say that it can work well in this use case.

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