The fair PDF editor
Edit text and images in place, fill and sign, convert PDF to Word and OCR your scans — offline, in under a second. Everything Acrobat charges $240 a year for, without giving your contracts to a cloud.
EDEL Group · Switzerland · Est. 2026
We build the tools we use every day — a PDF editor, a private notetaker, a fitness app — and price them the way software should have always been priced: €10 a year, or €30 for life. Open source. Your data stays on your computer. No trackers, no ads, no licences that break when you change laptops.
01 — The family
Every Edel company makes software we need ourselves, keeps it on your own machine, and sells it at a price you never have to think about.
Edit text and images in place, fill and sign, convert PDF to Word and OCR your scans — offline, in under a second. Everything Acrobat charges $240 a year for, without giving your contracts to a cloud.
Records your Teams, WhatsApp and Signal calls without a bot joining, then transcribes and summarizes on your own PC. Bring your own AI key — Claude, GPT, Gemini — or keep it 100% local. Into your ATS on request.
Training, nutrition, recovery and body measurements in one app that works offline. No ads, no upsells, no data sold to anyone — just your progress, on your phone.
We build what our users ask for — quickly, and only when it's genuinely wanted. Tell us what software you're tired of overpaying for.
02 — The Edel way
This is the whole contract between us and you. If we ever break one of these, you should demand your money back.
€10 a year or €30 for life. Every feature included, all updates included. No ads, no add-ons, no "premium" tier hiding behind a second payment.
Everything runs locally, even offline. No account, no cloud, no AI reading your documents. What happens on your PC stays on your PC.
Closed software asks for trust. Open code earns it. Every line is public under the GNU AGPL-3.0 — anyone can check that it does what it says, and nothing more.
Designed and built with love in Switzerland, under a jurisdiction you can rely on. We pay our taxes here, and we answer for what we ship.
New laptop? Activate there and the old one switches off automatically. No support tickets, no phone calls, no buying the same software twice.
We are professionals first — we hold the meetings, edit the contracts, do the training. We make the software we need ourselves, and we keep updating it.
03 — Pricing
While the market charges €100–240 a year per seat, we decided software could cost less than a coffee a month.
Less than €1 a month, for everything.
Pay once, use it for good.
For every suggestion of yours we build.
If you own any Edel app, every other app in the family is 50% off — €5 a year or €15 for life. One fair price was already rare. A family that rewards you for staying? That's new.
One person, full-featured plans, list prices as listed by each vendor in October 2026.
Adobe Acrobat, Foxit, Nitro, Otter, Fireflies, Granola and Fathom are trademarks of their respective owners; EDEL is not affiliated with them. Prices differ by country and plan. Full feature comparisons live on each product website.
We pay for software too. We just want the price to be fair — and our data to stay where it belongs.The Edel teams · Switzerland
04 — Roadmap
We don't guess what you want — you tell us, and if enough people agree, it ships. Sometimes in days, not quarters.
Ask for a feature, a language, an integration or a platform. If we build your suggestion into any Edel app, you get 6 months free. Keep suggesting, keep it free — some users never pay us a cent, and we're proud of that.
When two or three people ask for the same thing, we stop discussing and start building — immediately. Your emails genuinely steer what the family makes next, including entirely new apps.
Currently on the bench: Mac versions of EDELPDF and Edel Notetaker, German and Spanish transcription, more ATS and CRM connections, PDF to Excel and PowerPoint. Missing something? That's what the inbox is for.
What you write here goes directly to the people who build the software. No middleman, no ticket queue, no salesperson in between. We read every email, we get all the information, and we respond to you if we can do it.
Prefer your own mail app? Use the addresses above — same inbox, same team.