Platform Comparison

The Sejda alternative with no hourly limit and no page cap.

Sejda is the closest thing to a real in-place PDF text editor on the web, and its desktop app is a genuinely good free download. The web version is the catch: it meters tasks per hour and caps how many pages each document can have. Drops edits existing text the same way, with no metering and nothing to install.

Guest upload — max 10 MB per file·Upgrade for bigger files

Drag & drop drop a pdf and click any line of text to edit it in place — 100% in your browser here

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Or publish directly from your favorite AI tools

Claude

ChatGPT

Cursor

Grok

Gemini

Sejda vs Drops at a glance

Edit existing PDF text in place, like Sejda — with no hourly task limit.
No per-document page cap; the only ceiling is your own device memory.
Nothing to install, and no file upload for editing.
The edited PDF can be published to an https link with a QR code.

Feature Comparison

Drops vs Sejda vs Smallpdf

Focused on in-place text editing — the job Sejda is best known for.

Feature	No Page CapDrops	Sejda	Smallpdf
Price for unlimited use	$0 / free forever	Roughly $7.50 / month	Roughly $12 / month
Free-tier hourly task limit	None	Yes — a few tasks per hour	Yes — daily cap
Pages per document on the free tier	No cap	Capped	No cap
In-place editing of existing PDF text
Runs in the browser with no install
Free offline desktop app available
Files processed in your browser (never uploaded)
Hosted share link + QR code for the finished PDF

How It Works

Edit PDF text in place without an hourly limit

Click a line, change it, publish it — three steps.

1

Drop the PDF into the editor

The Advanced PDF Editor renders your file locally with PDF.js. No queue, no upload progress bar, no account.

2

Click the text you want to change

Click any line and type. Drops matches the font size and baseline and can whiteout text you want removed. Add a signature, highlight or shape while you are there.

3

Download it, or send a live link

Export a vector PDF, or publish the edited document to a private https link with a QR code so the recipient can read it on any phone.

Sejda is good — its web free tier is the problem

Sejda deserves its reputation. Its in-place text editing is the closest web equivalent to a desktop editor, and Sejda Desktop is a free, offline download that many people keep installed. The catch is the free web plan: it limits how many tasks you can run per hour and caps the page count of each document, which is exactly when you are halfway through a long contract.

The paid web plan removes some of that, but you are then paying a monthly fee for something that can run in the browser tab you already have open.

What Drops does differently

No hourly task counter: run as many edits as you need, back to back.
No page cap beyond your own device memory, because the whole document is processed locally.
No installation and no upload — open a tab, drop the file, edit.
Publishing is included: finish the edit and hand over a link and QR code instead of an attachment.

Being fair: when Sejda still wins

If you want a permanently installed desktop app that works with no internet connection at all, Sejda Desktop is free and genuinely good — Drops is a web app, so it needs the page loaded once. Sejda also has more mature form-field authoring and OCR options on its paid tier. For everyday text edits, whiteout, signing and sharing, the browser route is faster and has no limits.

Frequently Asked Questions

Switching from Sejda to Drops

Pricing, privacy, file limits, and what actually changes in your workflow.

Yes. Click a line of text in the Advanced PDF Editor and it becomes editable in place. Drops matches the surrounding font size and baseline, and you can whiteout, highlight, add shapes, drawings and signatures before exporting a vector PDF.

There is no hourly task limit and no per-document page cap. Because processing happens in your browser, the practical limit is your device memory rather than a vendor quota.

No. Drops runs entirely in the browser. If you specifically want an installable offline app, Sejda Desktop is a reasonable free choice — Drops needs the page loaded once, then the processing itself is local.

No. Editing, whiteout, signing and page operations run client-side with PDF.js and pdf-lib. Only a document you deliberately publish is uploaded, and only so it can be hosted on a shareable link.

Yes — this is a difference from Sejda. Publish the finished document to a Drops https link and share a QR code or URL. Recipients open it in their browser with no app or account.

They reflect publicly listed plans at the time of writing and are intended as a rough comparison. Verify current Sejda, Smallpdf and Adobe terms on the vendor site before relying on them.

AI Document Workflows

Let an AI agent edit and publish the document for you

Connect Cursor, Claude Code or ChatGPT to the Drops MCP server and have the agent prepare, edit and host a document end to end.

Claude

ChatGPT

Cursor

Grok

Gemini

Drops

One key connects them all · you.drops.sh

1.Create an API key

Sign in at app.drops.sh/account and create a key. Think of it as a password just for your agent — you can revoke it anytime.

2.Connect your agent

In your agent’s settings, add Drops as a tool and paste your key. One-time setup, about a minute — we show you exactly what to copy.

3.Ask it to publish

'Fix the totals in this invoice PDF and publish a private link on Drops.' Your agent builds the page, uploads it, and hands you a live link. No dashboard needed.

Try asking your agent

“Fix the totals in this invoice PDF and publish a private link on Drops.”

Show the one-time setup snippet

Paste this into your agent’s MCP settings (Cursor, Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini and most tools), replacing the key with yours:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "drops": {
      "url": "https://api.drops.sh/mcp",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Bearer drops_live_YOUR_KEY"
      }
    }
  }
}

Endpoint: https://api.drops.sh/mcp

Edit PDF text in place, with nothing to count

No hourly limit, no page cap, no install — and a shareable link when you are done.

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