BentoPDF vs PdfCraft
BentoPDF and PdfCraft are both PDF tools software. BentoPDF is open source under AGPL-3.0, with 16k GitHub stars. PdfCraft is open source under Apache-2.0, with 19k GitHub stars.
Which to pick
- Pick BentoPDF when
- Staff need everyday PDF tasks without uploading documents to online PDF services.
- Pick PdfCraft when
- You want to try a fast native PDF workbench and do not need it to be dependable yet.
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 PDF reader and editor written in Rust for macOS, Windows, Linux, FreeBSD and the web, for reading, organising, combining, splitting and securing PDFs.
About a year old, AGPL licensed, and large PDFs are limited by browser memory.
Created one month ago; very high star count but no track record, and a from-scratch PDF engine will have rendering gaps.
Usable
Experimental
Cloud service and self-hosted server
Desktop app and cloud service
JavaScript, TypeScript, Vue, Vite and Tailwind CSS
Rust
Open source, AGPL-3.0 (network copyleft)
Open source, Apache-2.0 (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
19k GitHub stars
Young: started 12 months ago, latest release v2.8.11.
New: started 1 month ago, latest release v0.18.0.
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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.