Making software accessible
Your files belong to you.
Simple apps that work on your computer, not in the cloud. Cheaper, better, more private.
- No cloud
- No subscription
- Email only, no account
- Never online by itself
Breach figure: 3,322 data compromises tracked in 2025 by the Identity Theft Resource Center, about nine a day.
Our mission
We believe software should work for you, not the other way around.
In a world of AI and cloud apps hungry for your data, Latte makes simple, affordable tools that keep your files on your own computer. Pay once, keep it forever, and never wonder who’s reading your documents.
Join us in changing the direction of software.
- CheaperPay once, from less than the price of a latte. No subscription, nothing to renew.
- BetterSimple tools that do the job well, with big buttons, clear type and no clutter.
- More privateYour files stay on your own device. No cloud, no account, no tracking.
No subscription. Ever.
End the subscription trap.
You shouldn't have to keep paying for something you already bought. With Latte, you pay once and it's yours.
The subscription trap
- Pay again every month or every year
- Stop paying and you lose the app you paid for
- Your files kept in someone else’s cloud
- An account, a password and renewals to remember
The Latte way
- Pay once, from $9.99
- Keep it for life, with free updates to everything you bought
- Your files stay on your own computer
- No account. Just your email, for your licence key
Why it matters
The cloud is just someone else's computer.
AI tools and cloud apps all want your files on their servers. Every upload, sync and AI feature makes another copy of your data, held by another company, on computers you can't see. More copies means more ways in for attackers, and more chances your data ends up in the wrong hands.
- Their servers
- Their backups
- AI providers they use
- Third-party vendors
- Staff with access
Your file can end up in many places, each one another target.
Your file stays on your computer. Nothing to breach somewhere else.
Data compromises tracked in 2025: 3,322 in a single year.
Source: Identity Theft Resource Center, 2025 Annual Data Breach Report.of breaches studied involved a third party, such as a vendor or service provider.
Source: Verizon 2026 Data Breach Investigations Report.Our privacy promise
Your data and your privacy belong to you.
Your documents never leave your computer.
Latte apps open, edit and save your files on your own device. Nothing is uploaded, synced or copied to a cloud.
We only ask for your email.
It’s how we send your licence key. No account, no profile, no tracking.
You start every update.
Latte checks for updates only when you click Check for updates. Nothing runs in the background.
Never online by itself.
Our software makes no background connections. It goes online only when you click a button that says so, like Activate or Check for updates.
Trusted with confidential work by
- Law firms
- In-house legal
- Healthcare
- Executive offices
- Entrepreneurs
- Small businesses
A dead simple PDF editor. Click the words and type.
Edit text right on the page, fix scanned documents, fill and sign forms, black out private details and export to Office. All on your computer, with no internet needed to edit.
Edit text in place
Click into a line and type on the page. Latte PDF keeps the original font, size and position, so the page still looks like itself.
Works on scans
Scanned pages are read on your device. Adjust thickness, lightness and scan texture until new words blend in.
Matches the font
It finds the closest font it can. If one is missing, drop in the .ttf or .otf file and carry on.
Split and merge
Fix how lines are grouped. Split a block into lines or words, or merge several into one.
Add new text
Draw a box anywhere on the page to fill in a form, add a note or correct a date.
Export to Word, Excel and PowerPoint
Get a Word document with its headings, lists, tables and pictures, a sheet a page in Excel, or slides with text you can edit. Scanned pages are read first, on your computer.
Compare two versions
Open two PDFs side by side and see every added, removed and changed word highlighted, with a list of changes to step through. A moved page shows as moved.
One action, many files
Make a folder of scans searchable, export it to Word, add a password or combine it into one PDF. Every result is a new file, and no original is ever written over.
Original kept safe
Save as writes a new PDF. The file you opened is never touched, so you can always go back.
| Try it free, buy to save | Free | Licence |
|---|---|---|
| Open any PDF | Included | Included |
| Edit and add text | Included | Included |
| Scanned pages and font matching | Included | Included |
| See every change on screen | Included | Included |
| Compare two PDFs | Included | Included |
| Save your edited PDF | Not included | Included |
| Export to Word, Excel and PowerPoint | Not included | Included |
| Batch: one action on many files | Not included | Included |
| Free updates | Included | Included |
Mind your latte factor.
A coffee here, a ride there. Small, everyday spending adds up to real money over a year, which personal-finance writers call the latte factor. Latte Scanner helps you see yours.
Latte Scanner Free
- Scan paper into searchable PDFs
- Read on your device, nothing uploaded by the app
- No account, no tracking
- Locks and backups
Latte Scanner Pro $7.99 once
- Track every receipt and see your latte factor
- Mileage
- Rental property income and costs
- Budgets
- Split costs with friends
Coming soon to the App Store. Pro is free with Latte PDF Personal.
Private by design
Your stuff stays on your computer.
Contracts, medical forms, tax papers, receipts. The files people most need to work on are the ones they least want to upload. Latte apps do their work on your own device, including reading scanned pages. No cloud to sync to and no account to sign in to.
Latte PDF never goes online by itself.
No background connections, no tracking, no telemetry. It connects only when you click Activate, Deactivate this computer, Check for updates, a button in Help › Invite Friends, Add language in Make Form. Activating sends your licence key, your email and an anonymous ID for this computer, so your plan can count its computers. Your documents are never sent.
- Where your file goes
- Nowhere
- Account required
- No
- Tracking in the app
- None
- Internet needed
- Only to activate
- Goes online
- Only when you click
- Original file
- Never changed
- Monthly fee
- $0.00
Edit PDFs without renting your editor.
The big PDF editors ask for a yearly payment and send some of your work to the internet for their cloud and AI features. Latte PDF is paid once and never uploads a page.
| Latte PDF | Adobe Acrobat Pro | PDF Expert | Smallpdf | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| How you pay | Yes. $9.99 once | No. $239.88 a year | Partly. $79.99 a year, or $139.99 once | No. Monthly or yearly plan |
| No subscription | Yes | No. Subscription only | Partly. Lifetime licence for the Mac | No |
| Your PDF stays on your computer | Yes. Always | Partly. Not with cloud or AI features | Partly. Not with PDF Copilot | No. Uploaded to its servers |
| Works with no internet | Yes. Every editing feature | Partly. Editing; not AI or cloud | Partly. Editing; not AI | No. A website |
| No AI reading your files | Yes. None built in | No. AI Assistant | No. PDF Copilot | No. AI tools |
| Edit the text of a scan | Yes. Read on your computer | Yes | Yes | Partly. In its cloud |
| Convert to Word, Excel and PowerPoint | Yes. On your computer | Yes | Yes | Partly. Online; offline in its Windows app |
| Compare two versions | Yes. Every change highlighted | Yes. Compare Files | Partly. Side by side in split view | Not stated on its own page or listing |
| One action on many files | Yes. Batch, every output a new file | Yes. Guided actions | Partly. Converting several at once | Partly. With Smallpdf Pro, online |
What three years cost
One licence for one computer, at each company's own price.
The original is never changed
Every edit is saved as a new copy with Save As. Your signed or official file stays exactly as it was.
No account, ever
Your email and licence key are all there is. Nothing to sign in to and no password to forget.
Online only when you click
It goes online only for Activate, Deactivate, Check for updates, Invite Friends and Add language. Nothing at launch, nothing on a timer, never a page of your PDF.
Their prices and features as each company showed them in US dollars in October 2026, on its own website or App Store page. They can change, so check before you buy.
Less than a latte. Yours for life.
Latte PDF is free to try. A licence unlocks saving, and the only difference between plans is how many computers you can use it on. Every plan includes every feature, free updates to everything you've bought, works offline, and a 7-day money-back guarantee.
Solo
Personal
RecommendedSave $6.99 vs. two Solo licences
Latte Scanner Pro included free, a $7.99 value when it launches. We email you the App Store code.
Office
for 10 computers, then $4.90 each
10 computers: $49
Get notified at launch
One email when checkout opens. No account, no spam.
Prices in US dollars. Sales tax or VAT is added at checkout where required. Checkout is handled by Lemon Squeezy, a Stripe company. Moving to a new computer? Open Latte PDF › Licence… on the old one and deactivate it first. See the terms of sale and refund policy.
Frequently asked.
Which plan should I pick?
Most people pick Personal: one licence for your desktop and your laptop, plus Latte Scanner Pro for your iPhone or iPad when it launches. Pick Solo if you only ever use one computer, and Office to put Latte PDF on ten computers or more at work.
Why no subscription?
Because you shouldn't have to keep paying for something you already bought. You pay once, keep it, and get free updates to everything you've bought. Brand-new features may be offered separately, and you never need them to keep what you have working.
Can I try it before I buy?
Yes. Download Latte PDF for free and use it on your own files for as long as you like. You can open PDFs, change the text, work on scanned pages and see the result on screen. To save an edited PDF, you need a licence. Enter your email and licence key in the app, click Activate, and saving is unlocked straight away, with no reinstall.
Is Latte Scanner really free?
Yes. Scanning paper into searchable PDFs, locks and backups are free, with no account and nothing uploaded by the app. Latte Scanner Pro adds expenses, mileage, rental property, budgets and splitting for $7.99 once, and it comes free with Latte PDF Personal when it launches.
What counts as a computer?
Each computer you activate Latte PDF on counts as one, whether it is a desktop, a laptop or a virtual machine. Reinstalling Latte PDF or updating the operating system on the same computer does not use another one.
How do I move Latte PDF to a new computer?
On the old computer, open Latte PDF › Licence… and click Deactivate this computer. Then activate Latte PDF on the new one with the same email and licence key. You can do this as often as you need.
I reinstalled or lost my old computer and can't activate.
Go to Reset my licence, enter your licence key and the email you bought with, and every computer on your licence is deactivated at once. Then activate Latte PDF on the computer you have now.
I lost my licence key.
Enter the email you bought with on Find my key and we will email your key to that address again.
How do refunds work?
Ask within 7 days of buying and you get a full refund, no questions asked. First deactivate Latte PDF on each computer (Latte PDF › Licence…, or Reset my licence for one you no longer have), then reply to your receipt or email support@latteapps.com. See the refund policy.
How do invite codes work?
Every licence comes with its own invite code, in your licence email, in Help › Invite Friends and from Find my key. A friend who uses it pays 50% less for Solo ($5) or Personal ($6.50). An invite code never takes anything off Office. When 5 friends have bought, you get a Latte PDF Solo licence to use or give away. Refunded purchases don't count. A code works for at most 25 friends a year and is for people you know: please don't sell it or post it publicly. We never tell you who bought. See the terms of sale.
Are there other codes?
Two. A creator's code, from someone who writes or makes videos about Latte PDF, takes 30% off Solo or Personal; the creator earns part of what you pay. One code per order: a creator's code and a friend's invite code don't add up, and neither takes anything off Office. Enter a code under Have a code? in the pricing section, or a friend's or creator's code at checkout.
Can I get an invoice with my company name?
Yes. Lemon Squeezy, which handles checkout, emails you a receipt. Open View Order in it to add your company name and address and download an invoice.
I need it on more than 10 computers.
Pick the number on the Office card: $49 covers the first 10 computers and each one after is $4.90, up to 500 on one key. For example: 15 computers, $73.50 · 25 computers, $122.50 · 50 computers, $245. Already have Office? Add computers at $4.90 each, the same as at first, with the same key.
Does Latte PDF connect to the internet?
Only when you click Activate, Deactivate this computer, Check for updates, a button in Help › Invite Friends, Add language in Make Form. It never goes online by itself: no background connections, no usage tracking, nothing at launch. Your documents are never sent.
Activating and deactivating send your licence key, your email and an anonymous ID for this computer, so we can count computers against your plan. After that the licence is checked on your own computer, so the app works with no connection. Checking for updates sends no licence key, email or usage data, and neither does Add language, which downloads a font for form answers in Chinese, Japanese or Korean.
Do I get future updates?
Yes. You pay once, from $9.99, and get free updates to everything you've bought: fixes, improvements and new versions. Brand-new features may be offered separately; you never need them to keep what you have working. There is no subscription and nothing to renew.
Which computers does it run on?
Macs with macOS 13 (Ventura) or later, with Apple silicon (M1 or newer). Intel Macs aren't supported for now. Windows and Linux versions are coming in 2027. If it doesn't run on your computer, you get your money back.
Is it safe to edit confidential PDFs with Latte PDF?
It is made for exactly that. Latte PDF opens, edits, previews and saves your PDF on your own computer, so contracts, medical forms and tax papers never leave it. There is no account and no cloud copy of your files, and Save as writes a new PDF, so your original is never changed.
Can Latte PDF turn a PDF into Word, Excel or PowerPoint?
Yes, on your computer, with nothing uploaded. File › Export to Word… writes a document that flows like one typed in Word: paragraphs, headings Word knows as headings, bold and italic, lists, tables and pictures, without the running headers and page numbers. Export to Excel… gives each page its own sheet, its tables cell by cell with numbers you can add up, and the rest of its text below. Export to PowerPoint… makes a slide of each page, with its text in boxes you can edit.
The export is made from your edited copy, the same one Save as would write, so what you blacked out stays out. Scanned pages are read on your computer first. Your PDF is left as it was.
Can it show what changed between two versions of a PDF?
Yes. File › Compare with… opens the two files side by side, scrolling together: added, removed and changed words each highlighted in their own colour, with a list of every change to step through. A page that moved shows as moved, and scanned pages are read on your computer first. Comparing is free; with a licence, Save comparison report… writes the changes as a new PDF. Neither file is changed.
Can I do the same thing to many PDFs at once?
Yes. File › Batch… takes files or a whole folder and does one thing to each: make it searchable, export its text or export it to Word, Excel or PowerPoint, save it with a password, remove personal info, or combine them all into one PDF. Each result is a new file, named after its original with an ending you choose, such as " (searchable)", and never written over another file, and the originals are never touched. A file that needs a password is skipped and named, so you can open it on its own.
What does Latte PDF do with a PDF's hidden details?
Latte PDF never writes your name, your computer's name or its folders into a copy you save.
File › Document Info… shows what a PDF carries besides its pages, such as the author, the apps that made it and names on comments, and which of those details a copy can leave out. Turn on the Remove personal info choice, there or when you save, and the copies you save leave them out. For a protected PDF the choice is off, and the app says why.
The document's own content stays as it is: the words on its pages (a scanner's invisible text layer too), comment text, form answers, attached files and scripts. To take words out for good, use Black out. Before you save, it shows what it will take out and what it can't reach, such as what is inside an attached file.
Do you collect any of my data?
Not from your documents, ever, and the app sends no usage data at all. To sell you a licence we need your email address and the details our payment provider requires. This website sets no cookies. It keeps anonymous, cookie-free daily counts of visits and clicks, with no IP address or visitor identifier. The privacy policy lists everything.