Best PDF Editor for Mac: 5 Can't-Miss Tools

Wondershare PDFelement for Mac is a professional yet affordable PDF editing tool. It provides full editing features for Mac users to create, edit, convert PDF files, edit and fill out PDF forms on a Mac. It is fully compatible with Mac OS X 10.7 or later, including the latest OS X 10.12 Sierra.

• Create and combine web pages, text files, images, etc. to PDF files;
• Edit PDF text, images, watermark, and pages;
• Merge and split PDF files;
• Reuse PDF content in Office documents, HTML pages, and EPUB eBooks,etc.
• Built-in OCR makes text in image-based PDF files editable and searchable;
• Edit and fill out PDF form hassle freely;
• Permanently blackout sensitive info with redaction tools;
• Batch add or remove watermarks, delete all annotations from PDF.

Acrobat for Macintosh is one of the best PDF editors for Mac. All features it provides are solid and stable. Because it is such a professional PDF editing tool and its high price ($350), most of its clients tend to be entrepreneurs.

• Create PDF files (no double the results are industry-standard files);
• Edit PDF files, including text, images, pages, etc.
• Merge and combine files;
• Protect PDF files with restrictions;
• Make comments on PDF files and collaborate among people;
• Create, sign and analyze PDF forms;
• Provide cloud services;

PDFpenPro is shareware. It offers users some simple editing features, like exporting PDF content to Word documents, correcting typos in PDF text, sign PDF files with handwritten signature, etc.

• Export PDF content to Microsoft Word documents;
• Correct typos in PDF text;
• Sign PDF files with handwritten signature;
• Make images-based text in PDF files to editable by performing OCR;
• Store PDF files in the Cloud;
• Create PDF forms;

Preview is the default PDF viewer and PDF editor for Mac OS X. It functions more like a PDF viewer that lets users to annotate PDF files. At the same time, it is also a simple PDF editor for Mac since it allows users to create, merge, and split PDF files.

• Export web pages and images as PDF format;
• Split a PDF file by dragging the thumbnails out of the file;
• Merge PDF files by dragging the thumbnails together;
• Rotate PDF pages;
• Annotate PDF files with a range of tools;

Skim is a free Mac PDF editor. It functions like Preview. It offers markup tools that help users to highlight important PDF content, add and edit notes, crop PDF files, etc.

• View PDF files;
• Add and edit notes;
• Highlight text;
• Take snapshots of PDF files;
• Give presentations with built-in transitions