Foxit alternative
Foxit is the bigger product. Filozy never receives your file.
Foxit sells a genuinely complete PDF suite: desktop, web and mobile apps, OCR that lets you pick the document's language, legally binding eSignatures with audit trails, and the compliance documentation a procurement team asks for. Its free online tools are free, need no account, and are honest in their own privacy policy about how they work — your document is uploaded to Foxit's servers, processed there, and deleted afterwards. Filozy is a narrower thing built on one constraint instead: 39 tools, no account, no certified signatures, English-only OCR, and every operation running in a Web Worker on your own machine, so the document is never sent anywhere at all. If you need the feature, Foxit has more of them. If the file is the part you can't compromise on, that is the whole reason Filozy exists.
What Foxit says about your files
These summaries link to Foxit's published information. Plans, features and wording change; check the linked sources before choosing a service.
- Foxit's privacy policy describes the round trip plainly: "All the files you upload to the Foxit cloud services and the data you created using the Foxit cloud services are stored on an appropriate server infrastructure for processing… all these files you uploaded will be deleted once the process is completed, and the output files will typically be deleted in one day." The same policy states that "The servers on which user data is collected, stored and used are located in the United States, Germany, Canada, Australia, and Japan." Foxit Privacy Policy
- The free online tools do not ask you to register. Foxit's converter FAQ says "there's no cost and no account needed for the online converter", and names what pushes you to pay: "unlimited conversions, batch processing, editing, and OCR are all available through the 14-day free trial of Foxit PDF Editor." Foxit PDF Converter
- Each free online tool prints its own upload ceiling in the dropzone. The merge tool's reads "Drag PDF files here (max 20MB each)", and the page adds that "After combining your files, Foxit automatically deletes both the originals and the merged document." Foxit Merge PDF
- Those ceilings are set per tool, not site-wide — the compress tool's dropzone reads "Drag PDF file here (max 150MB)", well above the merge tool's, so what fits depends on which job you are doing. Foxit Compress PDF
- Paid editions are per-seat and annual. The pricing page lists Foxit PDF Editor at "$129.99 per user/year" and Foxit PDF Editor+ at "$159.99 per user/year" when paid in full, with monthly billing from "$10.99". Foxit also sells a perpetual licence, "Foxit PDF Editor 14", for "a one-time $209.99 per user". The page adds that "every plan starts with a 14-day free trial", with "No credit card required". Foxit PDF Editor Pricing
What Filozy does instead
Filozy's document tools process the files on your device and save the results locally, without uploading your document to our server. Multi-step workflows can temporarily store a result in your browser to carry it to the next tool; see the privacy policy for cleanup details. The website and supporting engine files still require ordinary web requests.
Tools for similar tasks
Each row pairs a task, not identical features or output. Check the tool's limits and your exported file.
| On Foxit | On Filozy |
|---|---|
| Merge PDF | Merge PDF |
| Split PDF | Split PDF |
| Compress PDF | Compress PDF |
| Rotate PDF | Rotate PDF |
| Crop PDF | Crop PDF |
| Rearrange PDF | Organize PDF pages |
| Extract PDF Pages | Extract PDF pages |
| Delete Pages from PDF | Delete PDF pages |
| Add Pages to PDF | Merge PDF |
| Add Page Numbers to PDF | Add page numbers to PDF |
| Edit PDF | Edit PDF |
| Password Protect PDF | Protect PDF |
| Unlock PDF | Unlock PDF |
| OCR PDF | OCR PDF |
| PDF to Word | PDF to Word |
| Word to PDF | Word to PDF |
| PDF to Excel | PDF to Excel |
| Excel to PDF | Excel to PDF |
| PPT to PDF | PowerPoint to PDF |
| PDF to PPT | Not offered |
| PDF to JPG | PDF to JPG |
| JPG to PDF | JPG to PDF |
| Text to PDF | Text to PDF |
| PDF to Text | PDF to Markdown |
When Foxit is the better choice
- You need a signature that will hold up. Foxit sells eSign with a "complete audit trail stored on a central portal", and points to the electronic signature laws behind it — "UETA and ESIGN Act". Filozy's sign-pdf stamps a signature onto a page and nothing more — it has no certified or digital signatures of any kind. If the document is a contract someone may later dispute, this is not a close call.
- Your scans are not in English. Foxit's OCR asks you to specify the language of your document before it runs. Filozy's OCR reads English only, so a Spanish, German or Hindi scan is simply outside what it can do.
- You want software, not a browser tab. Foxit ships desktop apps for Windows and macOS, and PDF Editor+ adds mobile apps for iOS and Android — which means offline work, batch jobs across many files at once, and integration with the operating system. Filozy is a website; close the tab and there is nothing left.
- Procurement needs paperwork. Foxit publishes a Trust Center covering its security practices and compliance support, sells per-seat licences with volume terms, and has a support organisation you can escalate to. Filozy is a free site with no contract, no SLA and no attestations behind it — fine for your own work, hard to get through a vendor review.
- The file is larger than the machine you are on. Because Filozy does the work in your browser, your device's memory is the ceiling, and a phone can run out on a very large scan. Foxit processes on its own hardware, so the computer in your hand does not have to be up to the job.
Questions people ask
Does Foxit upload my PDF to its servers?
Yes, and Foxit says so openly. Its privacy policy states that files uploaded to Foxit cloud services "are stored on an appropriate server infrastructure for processing", that uploads are "deleted once the process is completed", and that output files "will typically be deleted in one day". That is a clear and reasonable retention policy — it is just a different model from Filozy's, where the document is processed by your own browser and no document bytes are sent to us at all. Loading any web page fetches that page's own files, Filozy included; the claim is about your document, not about network traffic in general.
Is Foxit's free online tool really free, and do I need an account?
For the online tools, no account is needed — Foxit's converter FAQ says "there's no cost and no account needed for the online converter". What the free tools don't cover is spelled out in the same answer: batch processing, unlimited conversions, editing and OCR sit behind Foxit PDF Editor. Each online tool also prints its own upload size cap in the dropzone, and those caps differ by tool. Filozy has no account, no cap beyond your device's memory, and no watermark, but also a much smaller catalogue.
Can Filozy replace Foxit PDF Editor?
For most people, no. Filozy has 39 tools; Foxit sells a full suite with a much larger feature set. Filozy has no certified or digital signatures, no native desktop or mobile apps, no cloud storage, no team or admin features, and no non-English interface. Its PDF-to-Word conversion is weak on multi-column layouts. If you live in PDFs all day, or your organisation needs licences and support, buy Foxit. If you need to merge, split, compress or redact a sensitive file now and would rather it not be uploaded anywhere, that is the job Filozy does well.
Which should I use for a scanned contract in Spanish?
Foxit. Its OCR asks for the document's language, so it can handle Spanish text. Filozy's OCR is English-only — it will not read a Spanish scan properly, and we would rather tell you that than have you find out after the fact. The same applies to the interface itself: Filozy is only available in English.
Filozy is closed source. How do I know the file isn't being uploaded?
You can check it yourself, which is more useful than taking our word for it. Open your browser's developer tools, switch to the Network tab, and run a job — you will see the page's own files load and no request carrying your document. Every job also prints a receipt that reads like "3 pages · 412ms · 0 document bytes sent". Filozy is closed source and served through Cloudflare, so you cannot audit the code, but you can audit the traffic, and traffic is the thing that actually matters here.