techtuate vs. Sejda
Sejda has the strongest privacy story of the paid PDF tools (auto-deletes files in 2 hours, has a desktop app). The free tier still caps you at 3 tasks per hour, 50 MB, 200 pages. techtuate goes further: no caps, no upload, no account.
TL;DR
Sejda Free = 3 tasks/hour, 50 MB file, 200 pages, blocks (not watermarks) when you hit the limit. Sejda Web = $7.50/mo. techtuate = no caps, no upload, $0 forever.
The free-tier ceiling
- 3 tasks per hour. One of the friendlier limits among the bunch, but still a limit.
- 50 MB per file. Generous, but multi-hundred-page scans will trip it.
- 200 pages per document. Hard cap.
- When you hit a limit, Sejda blocks rather than watermarking, which is the more honest behavior.
- Files do still upload to Sejda's servers for the web tier.
The techtuate version
- No task limit. No page limit. No file-size limit beyond your browser's memory.
- Nothing leaves your machine. Sejda's desktop app gets you offline + private, but you have to install it. techtuate is the same idea, in a web page.
- No account, no email, no install.
Where Sejda is genuinely good
Of the paid PDF tools, Sejda is the most thoughtful. They publish clear limits, the desktop app respects your privacy, and $7.50/mo is the lowest "real" tier among the majors. If you need its specific features (advanced text editing inside PDFs, OCR), it's a fair price.
For the everyday cases - annotate, merge, split, rotate, fill, build-from-images - techtuate gets you there without the limits or the install.
If you keep hitting "3 tasks this hour"...
Just use this. No install, no account, no clock.
Open the PDF editorSee also: all comparisons · vs. PDFescape