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PDFsam Basic vs. LightPDF

A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.

MetricPDFsam Basic

by Sober Lemur

LightPDF

by LightPDF

Overall rating4.24.6
Review count4922
Ease of use9.29.5
Ease of setup9.69.3
Quality of support8.28.4
Meets requirements9.29.5
NPS40.81632776.190476
Small Business42.9%57.1%
Mid-Market32.7%28.6%
Enterprise24.5%14.3%
Total page views81509
Total LLM citations1,1822,256

PDFsam Basic

PDFsam Basic, a free, open source, multi-platform software designed to split, merge, extract pages, mix and rotate PDF files.

Pros

    LightPDF

    LightPDF is an all-in-one, AI-powered PDF productivity platform designed to help users create, understand, and manage documents more efficiently across devices. It integrates advanced AI tools such as an AI PDF Generator, AI presentation creation, PDF-to-mind-map conversion, document translation, and an AI Agent—with a complete set of PDF capabilities including watermark removal, file conversion, encryption, compression, and other essential document-processing features—enabling users to handle complex PDF tasks more efficiently in one place.

    Pros

    • User-Friendly Interface
    • Ease of Use
    • Time-Saving
    • PDF Viewing
    • PDF Processing
    • File Compression