The short answer
Sejda is one of the better online PDF editors, and its free tier is the tightest of the major services: three tasks per hour, and documents up to 50 pages or 50 MB. FixMyPDFs has none of those limits, because your device does the work — there is no server cost to ration and no file to upload.
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Upload required
No — there is no upload endpoint
Yes, for the web tools
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Works offline
Yes, once a tool has loaded
No — the web tools need the upload
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Free use
No daily cap; file size limited only by your device
Limited on the free plan — see their pricing page
Sejda earns its reputation on editing. Its web editor genuinely changes text inside an existing PDF, which most free tools cannot do at all, and its forms and signing tools are well built. If that is the job you have, Sejda is a good answer and this page will not pretend otherwise.
What people hit is the free tier. Three tasks an hour is enough to try it and not enough to finish an afternoon of work, and the counter is what usually sends people looking for an alternative rather than any complaint about quality.
The difference here is architectural rather than commercial. Sejda uploads each file, works on it and sends it back, which is what a task counter is counting. FixMyPDFs does the work in the page, so there is nothing to meter.
How is FixMyPDFs different from Sejda?
| FixMyPDFs | Sejda | |
|---|---|---|
| Where your PDF is processed | In your browser, on your own device | Uploaded to Sejda’s servers (online tools) |
| Upload required | No — there is no upload endpoint | Yes, for the web tools |
| Account needed | Never | Not for everything, but free use is limited |
| Free use | No daily cap; file size limited only by your device | Limited on the free plan — see their pricing page |
| Watermark | None, ever | None on most free output |
| Works offline | Yes, once a tool has loaded | No — the web tools need the upload |
| Speed limited by | Your device | Your upload speed, then their servers |
| File retention | Nothing leaves the tab, so there is nothing to retain | Held for a period set by Sejda’s policy, then deleted |
Their plans and limits change; check Sejda’s own pricing page for today’s terms.
What are Sejda’s free limits?
| Sejda free | FixMyPDFs | |
|---|---|---|
| Document size | Up to 50 pages or 50 MB | No cap; your device’s memory is the limit |
| Tasks | 3 per hour | No counter |
| Files | 30 per hour, one per task | As many as you add, in one go |
| Images | Up to 5 MB each | No cap |
| Conversions | 20 or 50 pages, depending on the tool | Every page |
| OCR | 10 pages per task | Every page, on your device |
As stated on Sejda’s own tool pages, checked October 22, 2026.
Where Sejda is the better choice
- Paragraph editing that reflows the text when a line gets longer — Edit PDF here changes words in place, but line by line
- Filling and creating form fields, and sending documents out for signature
- OCR in more languages than the six OCR PDF reads here
- A desktop version that keeps files off the web entirely, and Google Drive and Dropbox connections
Where FixMyPDFs is
- No task counter — no three-an-hour limit, no waiting for the clock
- No 50 MB file cap and no 50-page ceiling; your device is the only limit
- Nothing is uploaded, which you can verify in the browser’s network panel
- Keeps working offline once a tool has loaded
Which FixMyPDFs tool replaces each Sejda tool?
- Merge PDF Merge PDF
- Split PDF Split PDF
- Compress PDF Compress PDF
- PDF to Word PDF to Word
- PDF to Excel PDF to Excel
- Word to PDF Word to PDF
- PDF to JPG PDF to JPG
- JPG to PDF Images to PDF
- Protect PDF Password Protect PDF
- Unlock PDF Remove PDF Password
- Rotate PDF Rotate PDF
- Delete pages Delete PDF Pages
- Extract pages Extract PDF Pages
- Organize pages Organize Pages
- Crop PDF Crop PDF
- Flatten PDF Flatten PDF
- N-up pages Multiple Pages per Sheet
- Edit PDF text Edit PDF
- OCR PDF OCR PDF
- Sign PDF Sign PDF
Questions
What exactly are Sejda’s free limits?
Sejda’s own tool pages say: documents up to 50 pages or 50 MB, three tasks an hour and 30 files an hour, one file per task, images up to 5 MB, 20 or 50 pages per conversion depending on the tool, and 10 pages per OCR task. The table above has them side by side. Services change these, so check Sejda’s site for today’s figures. None of those limits exist here, because nothing is processed on a server.
Is there a free Sejda alternative with no hourly limit?
Yes. FixMyPDFs has no task counter at all: the work runs on your own device, so there is nothing to ration. Merge forty files in ten minutes if you need to.
Can FixMyPDFs edit text inside a PDF like Sejda does?
Line by line, yes. Edit PDF takes the words out of the page and writes the new ones in the same font, size and position, so a colored background stays intact. It doesn’t reflow a paragraph when a line gets longer — Sejda’s paragraph editing does, and that is still the honest reason to use it for heavy rewrites. For merging, splitting, compressing, converting, redacting and protecting, everything here works today.
Is Sejda safe for confidential documents?
Sejda deletes uploaded files after a period and has a reasonable policy, and it also offers a desktop version that avoids uploading altogether. For web use the file is still uploaded; a browser tool removes that step rather than promising to clean up afterwards.
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