Changelog — The "Free" Online PDF Editor

October 26, 2026

Scroll is now the default view when you open a PDF, instead of Page.
Fixed the toolbar scrolling away instead of staying pinned to the top of the screen while scrolling through a document in Scroll view.
The Page/Scroll toggle is now Scroll, then Page, left to right.
Fixed a placed signature sometimes being gone when you reopened a downloaded PDF, even though it showed up fine before downloading.
Fixed the Privacy page's "turn all off" confirmation saying "four" small flags when a 5th (Site Tour) had been added since.
Dark Mode now carries over to every page on the site — previously it only applied to the editor itself, and every other page (including this changelog) stayed light regardless of what you'd chosen.
Clicking a tool menu, or anywhere else on the page, now closes the guided tour — previously the only way out was the X button.
Fixed pages occasionally taking a very long time to load — or briefly showing the wrong page — when a slow connection caused the offline-support feature's network check to stall.
Added Scan to PDF — take a photo of each page in a row with your phone or tablet's camera and combine them into one PDF, right in the browser.
Updated some wording across the site that named other companies or products, to keep every page's copy about this editor itself.
Merge PDFs now lets you select several files at once — PDFs, photos, or documents — and walks you through picking pages from each one before merging them all in together.
Merge PDFs now accepts a photo or document as the second file too, converting it to PDF automatically before you pick which pages to bring in — handy for merging a few scanned photos into one PDF.
Replaced Google Analytics with Cloudflare Web Analytics, a cookie-free way to count visits that can't identify anyone — see the updated Privacy page.

October 25, 2026

The guided tour's Download step now opens the real download panel, showing the format conversions, compression, and password protection options available there.

October 24, 2026

Clicking away from a text box, image, signature, or sticky note you just placed now just deselects it, instead of immediately placing another one on top of wherever that click landed.
Fixed the mobile toolbar wrapping a category tab under Upload instead of lining it up under Edit.
Fixed the font size field (Add Text, Watermark, Page Numbers) snapping back to the old number when you tried to clear it to type a new one.
Fixed a placed signature on mobile not deleting when you tapped its X, and sometimes leaving a new one behind instead.
Fixed a placed signature not being draggable with a finger on mobile.
The "save your progress?" reminder now backs off to a longer gap between appearances once you've dismissed it once, instead of asking again every 5 minutes.
Added an optional guided tour that walks new visitors through every tool, offered once right after their first upload.
Fixed the Add Text / Text Edit floating toolbar running off the right edge of the screen on mobile.
The post-download review prompt now also suggests installing the Chrome extension.

October 23, 2026

The Privacy Policy's "What's saved on your device" section now lets you turn off any of those saved preferences individually, or all at once.
Added a "What's saved on your device" section to the Privacy Policy, listing every small preference stored locally in your browser and what it's for.
The post-download review prompt now checks in once more around your 5th download if you dismissed it the first time, rather than never asking again.
Added proper resize handles to Add Image / Edit Image — drag from any edge or corner, not just one corner dot. Fixed Edit Image occasionally creating a duplicate copy of an image after moving or resizing it.
PDF text is now genuinely selectable and copyable with your cursor — for real embedded text immediately, and for scanned pages once Make Searchable has recognized the words. Added a dedicated Copy Text page.
Fixed the Find bar sometimes overlapping the toolbar instead of sitting cleanly below it.
Restructured the homepage with a features overview and a short FAQ below the hero, and added a Contact page for bug reports and suggestions.
Redesigned the toolbar: the old 22-button row, which wrapped messily on mobile, is now four organized dropdown menus — Edit, Markup, Pages, and Document.
Added a page explaining there's no file size limit, since nothing is ever uploaded.
Added PDF-to-X conversions: download as JPG, PNG, WEBP, TXT, Markdown, HTML, Word, or PowerPoint. Fixed printed page numbers getting pulled into the text-based conversions, and fixed spacing and image placement in Word exports.
Fixed the mobile keyboard-avoidance fix sometimes leaving the focused field a little too low on screen.
Fixed the on-screen keyboard covering the text box or sticky note you were actively typing into, on mobile.
Added a visible on-page hint explaining what to do once a tool is armed — now shows correctly on mobile too, with wording that adapts to touch devices.
Added OCR (Make Searchable) for scanned PDFs, and a Find in Document search.
Fixed downloaded PDFs silently losing their fillable form fields, even without touching Fill Form.

October 22, 2026

Added this changelog page.
Fixed the compressed-size estimate looking stuck on large PDFs, and explained that compression runs in your browser and can take a few minutes.
Fixed Compress sometimes making large, image-heavy PDFs bigger instead of smaller.
Added Watermark and Page Numbers tools, with opacity, rotation, and image watermark support.
Added Compress PDF as its own dedicated tool and page.
Added Add Image and Edit Image tools, plus three new landing pages.

October 21, 2026

Added a PeerPush badge to the homepage.
Added more links between related tool pages across the site.
Added keyboard shortcuts for common actions, with a settings panel to turn each one on or off.
Added PowerPoint (.pptx) to PDF conversion.
Blackout now permanently removes the covered content from the exported file, not just visually covers it.
Fixed several mobile layout bugs — overflowing buttons, tooltips popping up on tap, and the page jumping while scrolling.
Redesigned the editing toolbar into a cleaner dropdown on mobile.
Added TXT, HTML, Markdown, CSV, WEBP, and HEIC to PDF conversion.
Added Sticky Note and Strikethrough annotation tools.
Added a one-time prompt asking for a review after someone's first download.
Added a friendly notice when an ad blocker is detected.

October 20, 2026

Added a distraction-free Viewing Mode that collapses the toolbar down to page navigation.
Added JPG, PNG, and Word (.docx) to PDF conversion.
Added landing pages for students, teachers, job seekers, freelancers, real estate agents, and remote workers.
Added an experimental Fill Form tool that detects and walks through fillable PDF fields.
Added a Chrome extension with a quick-launch popup and right-click menu for every tool.
Added an FAQ page covering common questions about privacy, signing, redaction, and more.
Added support for opening and editing password-protected PDFs.
Fixed Edit Text not detecting any text on pages that are rotated in the source PDF.

October 19, 2026

Added dedicated pages for Blackout, Draw/Pen, Edit Text, Highlighter, Rotate Page, and Reorder Pages.
Added page rotation, reordering, PDF compression, password protection, dark mode, and a Blackout tool.
Added dedicated pages for Sign PDF, Merge PDF, Remove Pages, and Add Text, each linking straight into the editor.

October 18, 2026 — Launch

Launched the editor: add text, click-to-edit real existing text, highlight, draw, sign, remove pages, and download — all running entirely in your browser, with undo/redo and Page/Scroll view modes.
Added a Merge Pages feature, improved font matching, and fixed text-edit positioning.
Went live at free-online-pdf-editor.com, with a dedicated page for each tool and a privacy policy.