BentoPDF vs OmniTools
BentoPDF and OmniTools are both PDF tools software. BentoPDF is open source under AGPL-3.0, with 16k GitHub stars. OmniTools is open source under MIT, with 11k GitHub stars.
Which to pick
- Pick BentoPDF when
- Staff need everyday PDF tasks without uploading documents to online PDF services.
- Pick OmniTools when
- You want an ad-free in-house replacement for the scattered online converter and formatter sites staff use.
Side by side
A browser-based PDF toolkit that merges, splits, edits, compresses and converts PDFs entirely on the client, self-hostable as a static site.
A self-hosted web app with many everyday tools for images, video, PDFs, text, JSON, lists and numbers, all processed in the browser.
About a year old, AGPL licensed, and large PDFs are limited by browser memory.
Pre-1.0 with a broad but shallow feature set; heavy video work is limited by the browser.
Usable (both)
Cloud service and self-hosted server
Self-hosted server and cloud service
JavaScript, TypeScript, Vue, Vite and Tailwind CSS
TypeScript, React, Vite and Tailwind CSS
Open source, AGPL-3.0 (network copyleft)
Open source, MIT (permissive)
Use inside your business is unrestricted. If you change it and let customers use it over the internet, you must publish your changes.
You can build it into a product you sell, as long as you keep its copyright notice.
16k GitHub stars
11k GitHub stars
Young: started 12 months ago, latest release v2.8.11.
Established: started 2 years ago, latest release v0.7.0.
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Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from each project's README and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.