There’s finally a replacement for subscription PDF editors

TL;DR: Replace Adobe Acrobat with a lifetime license for SwifDoo PDF Pro on sale for $29.97 through April 27.

If you deal with a lot of PDFs but don’t want to pay for Adobe Acrobat every month, SwifDoo PDF Pro is a great alternative. It’s a lightweight, affordable editor for Windows that still packs in a full range of features. Bonus: a SwifDoo lifetime license just went on sale for $29.97 (reg. $129), but it’s not going to stay that way.

With SwifDoo, you can open, edit, annotate, merge, and compress PDFs without any fuss. Need to convert a document to Word or Excel? It can handle that too, without messing up the formatting. You can even batch convert multiple files at once.

SwifDoo also includes OCR (optical character recognition), which means you can scan printed documents and turn them into searchable, editable files. Signing PDFs, adding or removing watermarks, and password-protecting documents are all built in as well.

What makes it especially appealing is the one-time cost. You pay once, and that’s it: no subscriptions, no recurring fees. It’s easy to use, fast to install, and doesn’t slow down your system.

April 27 at 11:59 p.m. PT is the cutoff to get a SwifDoo PDF Pro Lifetime License on sale for $29.97.

No coupon needed.