Best 10 PDF Editor for Mac OS X/macOS

PDF, as one of the great format for sharing files, is widely used in daily life. You can print a file and copy the text from it. But one of its defects is that you cannot edit PDF easily. More difficult is to edit PDF file on Mac, because Mac system is not used broadly. But still good a piece of news is that we collect the best 10 PDF editors list for Mac including free and paid, so you can pick up the best one.

Part 1. Top 5 free PDF editor for Mac
Part 2. Best 5 paid/premium PDF editor on Mac

Part 1. Top 5 free PDF editor for Mac

1. Foxit Reader for Mac - PDF reader and editor

Foxit Reader for Mac, as its name show, is the free PDF reader, but it also possesses editing features.

Check its free editor features as below:

Create standard compliant PDFs that are compatible with other PDF products.
Encrypt PDF files.
View, highlight, add bookmarks & comments.
Convert PDF to cPDF on Mac.

2. Preview - Easy PDF editor

Preview is the built-in PDF editor for macOS system. As the image and PDF viewer, it also enables you to edit PDF file with simple buy practical PDF editing features.

Select, copy, and add text.
Annotate with highlight, underline, rectangle, oval, line, etc.
Split, merge and rotate PDF files.
Protect PDF.
Add signature and notes.

3. Skim - PDF editor and note-taker

Skim is the free PDF reader and editor to help you read and annotate scientific papers in PDF and edit PDF files easily.

Add and edit notes.
Add comments and copy text.
Crop PDF file.
Export notes as text.
Support bookmarks, spotlight, etc.

4. GIMP - Image editor for PDF

GIMP is the open source image editor mainly on Windows, Mac and Linux. But it also enables you to edit PDF file with basic editing features.

Edit image in a PDF file.
Crop PDF file.
Redact PDF file by erasing content and filling in the erased data.
Add text to PDF.
Remove the dotted lines of the text.

Part 2. Best 5 paid/premium PDF editor on Mac

Free PDF editors for Mac has the limited features for you to edit. Here we also find the most popular PDF editor on Mac which will need to pay money to get a more powerful editing feature.

Premium PDF editor for Mac	Price	Editor features
Acrobat Pro DC - PDF creator and editor Foxit Reader for Mac, as its name show, is the free PDF reader, but it also possesses editing features.	$14.99/month	This PDF editor is compatible with Mac OS X v10.9, Mac OS X v10.10, Mac OS X v10.11, or macOS v10.12. Interact and create PDF files. Convert PDF to Microsoft Office formats. Find, replace, add and edit text. Reorder pages. Clean up document photos to remove backgrounds and adjust perspective. Sign and collect in real time.
Foxit PDF Editor - PDF editor and manager Foxit PDF Editor, also named as PhantomPDF, is the ideal for groups of all sizes to create, edit, comment, collaborate and sign PDF documents and forms.	$9.00/month	Edit scanned PDF document. Convert PDF to editable text formats. Add and edit text. Redaction tool is fully supported. Erase text, background color or images. Select and delete all comments across pages.
PDF Editor Mac - Image and text PDF editor PDF Editor Mac is the professional PDF editing app for Mac OS X.	$29.95	Add text, move text, and change text font, color, size, etc. Add and resize image. Eraser tool enables you to delete unwanted text or graphics and change the line thickness. Annotate with lines. Rotate PDF pages 90, 180 or 270 degrees. Watermark for all pages in a PDF file.
iSkysoft PDF Editor - Feature-laden PDF editor iSkysoft PDF Editor is the streamlined, feature-laden PDF editor for Mac. It provides you various PDF editing features to edit, convert, OCR and secure PDF file easily.	$99.95	Edit, delete and insert texts into PDF. Add, delete, extract, rotate and crop PDF images. Delete, add, replace, extract and rotate PDF pages. Annotate PDF by adding sticky notes, texts, box, etc. Convert, combine, split and create PDF. Fill and create PDF form. Support batch processing PDF file. Redact PDF.
PDF Expert - PDF reader and editor PDF Expert is the powerful PDF viewer with built-in apps and the export of editing software for Mac users.	$59.99	It provides you advanced reading experience as the PDF reader by splitting viewing mode. Add annotations and notes to PDF document. Edit text, images, links, etc. Merge, copy, add, extract and crop pages. Fill PDF forms and sing contracts. Compress PDF files and reduce file size.