# Latte PDF: Your files belong to you. > Simple apps that work on your computer, not in the cloud. **Cheaper, better, more private.** - Latte PDF is a PDF text editor for Mac. Windows and Linux versions are coming in 2027. - Privacy: every PDF is opened, edited, previewed and saved on the computer. Documents are never uploaded or sent anywhere. - Security: no account, no password, no cloud sync. No tracking, telemetry, crash reporting, cookies or ads in the app. - The app goes online only when the user clicks Activate, Deactivate this computer, Check for updates, a button in Help › Invite Friends, or Download in Make Form › Add language (a font for answers in Chinese, Japanese or Korean). Nothing runs in the background or at launch. - Pricing: a one-time payment, no subscription. Solo $9.99 for 1 computer, Personal $12.99 for 2 computers, Office $49 for 10 computers. Personal is the recommended plan. Every plan includes every feature and free updates to everything bought; brand-new features may be offered separately. - Licences are per computer. Moving to a new computer: deactivate the old one in the app, or reset the licence on the website. - Free to try with no time limit, no account and no email address. A licence unlocks saving: the edited PDF, exports to Word, Excel and PowerPoint, comparison reports and batches. - A 7-day money-back guarantee on every purchase. - Edits text in place, keeping the original font, size and position. Works on scanned pages, reading them on the device. - Exports a PDF to Word, Excel or PowerPoint, compares two PDFs word by word, and runs one action on many PDFs at once (Batch), all on the computer. - Save as always writes a new PDF; the original file is never changed. Exports, comparison reports and batches are new files too. - The website sets no cookies; it keeps only anonymous daily counts of visits and clicks. The app sends no usage data. - Made by Latte. Support: support@latteapps.com. ## Promises - **Works fully offline.** Pull the cable. Edit on a plane, in a courthouse or behind an air gap. - **Nothing is uploaded.** No uploads, no telemetry, no background connections. Ever. - **Pay once, own it.** One payment from $9.99. No subscription, nothing to renew. - **Free updates.** Free updates to everything you've bought. Brand-new features may be offered separately. ## Your stuff stays on your computer. Contracts, medical forms, tax papers, receipts. The files people most need to work on are the ones they least want to upload. Latte apps do their work on your own device, including reading scanned pages. No cloud to sync to and no account to sign in to. There is no cloud to sync to and no account to sign in to. The app doesn't track what you open or what you change. Read the [privacy policy](https://latteapps.com/legal/privacy) for the full detail, in plain language. **Latte PDF never goes online by itself.** No background connections, no tracking, no telemetry. It connects only when you click **Activate**, **Deactivate this computer**, **Check for updates**, a button in **Help › Invite Friends**, **Add language** in Make Form. Activating sends your licence key, your email and an anonymous ID for this computer, so your plan can count its computers. Your documents are never sent. - Where your file goes: Nowhere - Account required: No - Tracking in the app: None - Internet needed: Only to activate - Goes online: Only when you click - Original file: Never changed - Monthly fee: $0.00 ## Nine things, done well. Latte PDF is for changing the words in a PDF, and for the jobs around it: turning it into an Office file, checking what changed, doing one thing to a pile of files. All of it on your computer. - **Edit text in place.** Click into a line and type on the page. Latte PDF keeps the original font, size and position, so the page still looks like itself. - **Works on scans.** Scanned pages are read on your device. Adjust thickness, lightness and scan texture until new words blend in. - **Matches the font.** It finds the closest font it can. If one is missing, drop in the .ttf or .otf file and carry on. - **Split and merge.** Fix how lines are grouped. Split a block into lines or words, or merge several into one. - **Add new text.** Draw a box anywhere on the page to fill in a form, add a note or correct a date. - **Export to Word, Excel and PowerPoint.** Get a Word document with its headings, lists, tables and pictures, a sheet a page in Excel, or slides with text you can edit. Scanned pages are read first, on your computer. - **Compare two versions.** Open two PDFs side by side and see every added, removed and changed word highlighted, with a list of changes to step through. A moved page shows as moved. - **One action, many files.** Make a folder of scans searchable, export it to Word, add a password or combine it into one PDF. Every result is a new file, and no original is ever written over. - **Original kept safe.** Save as writes a new PDF. The file you opened is never touched, so you can always go back. ## Open, type, save. 1. **Open a PDF.** Drop a file on the window or press ⌘O, then click Edit text. Every text block gets a thin outline so you can see what can be edited. 2. **Click and type.** Click a block, then click into its text and type right on the page. The page updates as you type; Esc finishes. 3. **Save a new copy.** Choose Save as. You get a fresh PDF with your changes, and your original stays exactly as it was. ## Edit first. Pay only if it works for you. Download Latte PDF for free and try every feature on your own PDFs. Open them, change the text, fix scanned pages and see the result on screen. When you're happy, buy a licence to save your edited files. The first Mac build is almost ready, and Windows and Linux follow in 2027. When the Mac build lands: no account, no email address, no time limit. - Open any PDF: free yes, licence yes - Edit and add text: free yes, licence yes - Scanned pages and font matching: free yes, licence yes - See every change on screen: free yes, licence yes - Compare two PDFs: free yes, licence yes - Save your edited PDF: free no, licence yes - Export to Word, Excel and PowerPoint: free no, licence yes - Batch: one action on many files: free no, licence yes - Free updates: free yes, licence yes ## Less than a latte. Yours for life. Latte PDF is free to try. A licence unlocks saving, and the only difference between plans is how many computers you can use it on. Every plan includes every feature, free updates to everything you've bought, works offline, and a 7-day money-back guarantee. Personal includes Latte Scanner Pro for iPhone and iPad at no cost when it launches. - Solo: $9.99 once, 1 computer. One computer. - Personal: $12.99 once, 2 computers. Your desktop and your laptop. Save $6.99 vs. two Solo licences. (Recommended) - Office: $49 once, 10 computers. One key for 10 computers or more, with your company name on the invoice. Prices in US dollars. Sales tax or VAT is added at checkout where required. Checkout is handled by Lemon Squeezy, a Stripe company. Moving to a new computer? Open **Latte PDF › Licence…** on the old one and deactivate it first. See the [terms of sale](https://latteapps.com/legal/terms-of-sale) and [refund policy](https://latteapps.com/legal/refunds). ## Frequently asked. ### Which plan should I pick? Most people pick **Personal**: one licence for your desktop and your laptop, plus Latte Scanner Pro for your iPhone or iPad when it launches. Pick **Solo** if you only ever use one computer, and **Office** to put Latte PDF on ten computers or more at work. ### Why no subscription? Because you shouldn't have to keep paying for something you already bought. You pay once, keep it, and get free updates to everything you've bought. Brand-new features may be offered separately, and you never need them to keep what you have working. ### Can I try it before I buy? Yes. Download Latte PDF for free and use it on your own files for as long as you like. You can open PDFs, change the text, work on scanned pages and see the result on screen. To save an edited PDF, you need a licence. Enter your email and licence key in the app, click **Activate**, and saving is unlocked straight away, with no reinstall. ### Is Latte Scanner really free? Yes. Scanning paper into searchable PDFs, locks and backups are free, with no account and nothing uploaded by the app. Latte Scanner Pro adds expenses, mileage, rental property, budgets and splitting for $7.99 once, and it comes free with Latte PDF Personal when it launches. ### What counts as a computer? Each computer you activate Latte PDF on counts as one, whether it is a desktop, a laptop or a virtual machine. Reinstalling Latte PDF or updating the operating system on the same computer does not use another one. ### How do I move Latte PDF to a new computer? On the old computer, open **Latte PDF › Licence…** and click **Deactivate this computer**. Then activate Latte PDF on the new one with the same email and licence key. You can do this as often as you need. ### I reinstalled or lost my old computer and can't activate. Go to [Reset my licence](https://latteapps.com/reset), enter your licence key and the email you bought with, and every computer on your licence is deactivated at once. Then activate Latte PDF on the computer you have now. ### I lost my licence key. Enter the email you bought with on [Find my key](https://latteapps.com/find-my-key) and we will email your key to that address again. ### How do refunds work? Ask within 7 days of buying and you get a full refund, no questions asked. First deactivate Latte PDF on each computer (**Latte PDF › Licence…**, or [Reset my licence](https://latteapps.com/reset) for one you no longer have), then reply to your receipt or email [support@latteapps.com](mailto:support@latteapps.com). See the [refund policy](https://latteapps.com/legal/refunds). ### How do invite codes work? Every licence comes with its own invite code, in your licence email, in **Help › Invite Friends** and from [Find my key](https://latteapps.com/find-my-key). A friend who uses it pays 50% less for Solo ($5) or Personal ($6.50). An invite code never takes anything off Office. When 5 friends have bought, you get a Latte PDF Solo licence to use or give away. Refunded purchases don't count. A code works for at most 25 friends a year and is for people you know: please don't sell it or post it publicly. We never tell you who bought. See the [terms of sale](https://latteapps.com/legal/terms-of-sale). ### Are there other codes? Two. A **creator's code**, from someone who writes or makes videos about Latte PDF, takes 30% off Solo or Personal; the creator earns part of what you pay. One code per order: a creator's code and a friend's invite code don't add up, and neither takes anything off Office. Enter a code under **Have a code?** in the pricing section, or a friend's or creator's code at checkout. ### Can I get an invoice with my company name? Yes. Lemon Squeezy, which handles checkout, emails you a receipt. Open **View Order** in it to add your company name and address and download an invoice. ### I need it on more than 10 computers. Pick the number on the Office card: $49 covers the first 10 computers and each one after is $4.90, up to 500 on one key. For example: 15 computers, $73.50 · 25 computers, $122.50 · 50 computers, $245. Already have Office? [Add computers](https://latteapps.com/add-computers) at $4.90 each, the same as at first, with the same key. ### Does Latte PDF connect to the internet? Only when you click **Activate**, **Deactivate this computer**, **Check for updates**, a button in **Help › Invite Friends**, **Add language** in Make Form. It never goes online by itself: no background connections, no usage tracking, nothing at launch. Your documents are never sent. Activating and deactivating send your licence key, your email and an anonymous ID for this computer, so we can count computers against your plan. After that the licence is checked on your own computer, so the app works with no connection. Checking for updates sends no licence key, email or usage data, and neither does Add language, which downloads a font for form answers in Chinese, Japanese or Korean. ### Do I get future updates? Yes. You pay once, from $9.99, and get free updates to everything you've bought: fixes, improvements and new versions. Brand-new features may be offered separately; you never need them to keep what you have working. There is no subscription and nothing to renew. ### Which computers does it run on? Macs with macOS 13 (Ventura) or later, with Apple silicon (M1 or newer). Intel Macs aren't supported for now. Windows and Linux versions are coming in 2027. If it doesn't run on your computer, you get your money back. ### Is it safe to edit confidential PDFs with Latte PDF? It is made for exactly that. Latte PDF opens, edits, previews and saves your PDF on your own computer, so contracts, medical forms and tax papers never leave it. There is no account and no cloud copy of your files, and Save as writes a new PDF, so your original is never changed. ### Can Latte PDF turn a PDF into Word, Excel or PowerPoint? Yes, on your computer, with nothing uploaded. **File › Export to Word…** writes a document that flows like one typed in Word: paragraphs, headings Word knows as headings, bold and italic, lists, tables and pictures, without the running headers and page numbers. **Export to Excel…** gives each page its own sheet, its tables cell by cell with numbers you can add up, and the rest of its text below. **Export to PowerPoint…** makes a slide of each page, with its text in boxes you can edit. The export is made from your edited copy, the same one Save as would write, so what you blacked out stays out. Scanned pages are read on your computer first. Your PDF is left as it was. ### Can it show what changed between two versions of a PDF? Yes. **File › Compare with…** opens the two files side by side, scrolling together: added, removed and changed words each highlighted in their own colour, with a list of every change to step through. A page that moved shows as moved, and scanned pages are read on your computer first. Comparing is free; with a licence, **Save comparison report…** writes the changes as a new PDF. Neither file is changed. ### Can I do the same thing to many PDFs at once? Yes. **File › Batch…** takes files or a whole folder and does one thing to each: make it searchable, export its text or export it to Word, Excel or PowerPoint, save it with a password, remove personal info, or combine them all into one PDF. Each result is a new file, named after its original with an ending you choose, such as " (searchable)", and never written over another file, and the originals are never touched. A file that needs a password is skipped and named, so you can open it on its own. ### What does Latte PDF do with a PDF's hidden details? Latte PDF never writes your name, your computer's name or its folders into a copy you save. **File › Document Info…** shows what a PDF carries besides its pages, such as the author, the apps that made it and names on comments, and which of those details a copy can leave out. Turn on the **Remove personal info** choice, there or when you save, and the copies you save leave them out. For a protected PDF the choice is off, and the app says why. The document's own content stays as it is: the words on its pages (a scanner's invisible text layer too), comment text, form answers, attached files and scripts. To take words out for good, use **Black out**. Before you save, it shows what it will take out and what it can't reach, such as what is inside an attached file. ### Do you collect any of my data? Not from your documents, ever, and the app sends no usage data at all. To sell you a licence we need your email address and the details our payment provider requires. This website sets no cookies. It keeps anonymous, cookie-free daily counts of visits and clicks, with no IP address or visitor identifier. The [privacy policy](https://latteapps.com/legal/privacy) lists everything. ## Latte Scanner (iPhone and iPad) A free scanner that keeps your papers on your device. Latte Scanner is the scanner from the makers of Latte PDF, and scanning is free. Hold your iPhone or iPad over a page and it finds the edges, straightens it, cleans it up and reads the words, right on the device. No account, no ads, no tracking. Page: https://latteapps.com/scanner - **Takes the picture for you.** Hold the phone over the page. It shoots when the page is steady, then waits for the next one. Tap once when you are done. - **Searchable from the start.** Every page is read on your device, so you can search the words in all your scans and copy text out of them. - **Names each scan.** A new scan is named from what is on it, such as its date and heading, so you are never left with "Scan 37". - **Clean pages, no settings.** Shadows and grey paper are cleaned up for you. Colour, grey and black and white are one tap away. - **Black out, sign, lock.** Black out an account number for good before you send a page, sign with your finger or Apple Pencil, and lock the app with Face ID. - **Receipts, IDs, passports, books.** Long receipts in one piece, both sides of an ID card on one page, a passport's photo page at its true size with its expiry date read (checked against its own check digits when its machine-readable lines can be read), and a book split into its two pages. - **QR codes and barcodes.** Read on your device, from the camera, a photo or a page you scanned. It shows where a link goes and opens nothing until you tap. - **Business cards to Contacts.** The name, company, phones, emails and address are read on your device for you to check, then Apple's own contact sheet saves them. - **Automatic export to a folder.** A searchable PDF of each scan, kept up to date in a folder you pick in the Files app, by month; locked scans only if you include them. These copies are not locked. Scanning is free, with no limit on how many pages or documents: scan, clean up, search, share, export and send to Latte PDF. Locks, the Private folder and backups are free too. If you want more, Latte Scanner Pro is one payment of $7.99 in the App Store. No subscription, free updates to everything you've bought, and it covers your iPhone and iPad and your Family Sharing group. ## Policies - [Privacy policy](https://latteapps.com/legal/privacy): How Latte PDF handles personal information: your documents stay on your computer, and we keep only what we need to sell and activate a licence. - [Licence agreement (EULA)](https://latteapps.com/legal/eula): The terms under which you may use Latte PDF, free or with a paid licence, including computers, activation and updates. - [Terms of sale](https://latteapps.com/legal/terms-of-sale): What you get when you buy a Latte PDF licence, who sells it, how delivery and computers work, and what happens with upgrades and refunds. - [Refund policy](https://latteapps.com/legal/refunds): Ask within 7 days of buying Latte PDF and we refund you in full, no questions asked, once it's deactivated on your computers. - [Cookie policy](https://latteapps.com/legal/cookies): This website sets no cookies. It keeps anonymous daily counts of visits and clicks, and remembers your theme in your own browser. - [Accessibility statement](https://latteapps.com/legal/accessibility): What we have built into Latte PDF and this website for people with low vision, colour blindness and motor impairments, and what is not yet verified. - [Security and responsible disclosure](https://latteapps.com/legal/security): How to report a security problem in Latte PDF or this website, and what happens next. - [About us](https://latteapps.com/legal/company): Why we make Latte PDF, who makes and sells it, and how to reach us. ## Contact Email support@latteapps.com. Latte PDF is made by Latte (Devicery, LLC).