Permanently remove text and areas from PDFs, offline on Windows
Adolix PDF Redactor costs from $24.95 USD one-time, as of 15 October 2026.
Key facts
- Vendor
- Adolix
- Headquarters
- Not recorded
- Media
- Deployment
- Desktop
- Method
- Manual
- Free tier
- Yes
- Trial
- None
- Entry price
- $24.95 one-time
What it does
- Metadata removal
- True content removal
Plans and pricing
| Plan | Price | Includes |
|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | PDFs up to 3 pages · Personal, non-commercial use only · Runs offline on Windows 10/11
|
| Pro | $24.95 one-time | One-time purchase, no subscription · No page limit · Commercial use allowed · Single Computer License; volume discounts from 2 licences
|
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What will it cost?
100 pages a month
| Plan | Published price | Total | Per page |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | — | |
| Pro | $24.95 one-time | Included in the plan | |
Our assessment
Adolix PDF Redactor is a small Windows desktop application for people who need to permanently remove sensitive content from PDFs without uploading anything. Everything runs locally and offline, which makes it a fit for confidential files that cannot go to a cloud service.
Redaction is manual. You select text directly, search for text to redact, or draw a box over any area, including scanned pages and images. The vendor says selected text is deleted from the PDF's content stream rather than covered by a shape, and that drawn areas are redacted at pixel level. Document metadata such as author, creation date and producer can be stripped in the same step, and redacted areas can be shown as grey or as a white box with an outline to save toner when printing. The interface is available in 11 languages.
It deliberately does little else: there is no automatic detection of sensitive data, no OCR and no batch processing of multiple files, and encrypted PDFs must be re-saved unencrypted first. Pricing is simple: a free version for PDFs up to 3 pages, personal non-commercial use, and Pro as a one-time $24.95 purchase with no page limit, commercial use allowed, and volume discounts for several licences. There is no subscription. The listing was submitted by the developer.
Strengths
- Fully offline; files never leave the computer
- Real content removal plus metadata stripping in one step
- One-time $24.95 price with no subscription, and a free version
- Available in 11 languages
Limitations
- Manual only: no automatic detection of sensitive data
- No OCR and no batch processing
- Windows only, and encrypted PDFs are not supported
- Free version limited to 3 pages and personal use
From the vendor
Permanently removes selected text and areas from PDF files. Everything runs locally and offline; files are never uploaded.
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