ExecutiveDesk – Private, Native PDF Workbench for Windows
The complete PDF toolkit that runs entirely on your own machine. View, organise, compress, edit, annotate, secure, redact, fill forms, sign and OCR — all in one fast, native Windows app. No file ever leaves your device, there’s no account and no cloud, and it’s a one-time purchase — not a subscription. Built for anyone who handles sensitive documents: legal, finance, healthcare, government, or simply anyone under an NDA.
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Available on the Microsoft Store — free to use, with a one-time Pro upgrade that unlocks the full toolkit. No subscription, no ads, nothing to sign up for.
Or view the listing at apps.microsoft.com.
Free to use — with a one-time Pro upgrade
Free covers everyday reading and cleanup: the full viewer, page organising (reorder, rotate, delete, merge, split, extract) and compression — with no watermark and no file-size limit. A one-time Pro upgrade unlocks the professional toolkit: edit & annotate, security & true redaction, forms, local signing, OCR and the batch engine. Pro is a one-time purchase, not a subscription.
Changelog — what’s new in each release
Full release history — the viewer, page organising, compression, edit & annotate, security & redaction, forms, signing, OCR and the batch engine.
View the full changelogUser Guide — every tool explained
A plain-English walkthrough of viewing, organising pages, compressing, editing & annotating, security & redaction, forms, signing, OCR, batch processing — and the keyboard shortcuts.
Read the User GuideFeatures
🔒 Private by Default
ExecutiveDesk works 100% offline — no account, no cloud upload, no telemetry. Your PDFs are opened, processed and saved right on your machine and never leave the device. That’s the real “executive” hook for anyone in legal, finance, healthcare, government or under an NDA.
⚡ Fast & Native
A true native Windows app — not a web wrapper. High-fidelity rendering opens and processes large files instantly, and every long operation runs on a background job queue with progress and cancel, so the app stays responsive even on hundreds of pages.
👁️ View & Read Free
A clean tabbed viewer — open several PDFs at once. Thumbnail navigator, search-in-document with on-page highlighting, bookmarks/outline panel, page navigation and zoom, plus a dark reading mode that respects your Windows theme.
🗂️ Organise Pages Free
Reorder, rotate, delete and duplicate pages in a thumbnail grid; merge several PDFs; insert pages from another file; extract pages to a new PDF; crop and resize page boxes; set page labels; and convert images ↔ PDF.
🗜️ Compress & Optimise Free
Shrink one file or a whole folder with Low / Medium / High presets and a live size preview. Control image downsampling and quality, strip metadata and duplicate objects, and see a before/after savings report. Full compression is free — no watermark, no size cap.
✏️ Edit & Annotate Pro
Add text boxes, images and shapes (rectangle, ellipse, line, arrow); highlight, underline, strike-through, freehand ink and sticky notes; add headers/footers, page numbering and Bates numbering; and set a page background. Flatten annotations into the page when you’re done.
💧 Watermarks & Stamps Pro
Apply text or image watermarks, and drop stamps like “DRAFT” or “CONFIDENTIAL” (or your own) across a page or the whole document — useful for review copies and controlled distribution.
🔐 Secure & Redact Pro
Password-protect or remove passwords, set permissions (print/copy/edit) and apply AES-256 encryption. True redaction permanently removes the underlying text and images — not just a black box over them — and Sanitise strips hidden metadata. Most cheap tools fake redaction and leak data; ExecutiveDesk doesn’t.
📝 Forms Pro
Build form fields — text, checkbox, radio, dropdown, list, button and signature — and fill existing forms. Reset a form, flatten a filled form into the page, and import/export field data (XFDF) to move answers between copies.
✍️ Sign Locally Pro
Sign a document right on your machine — type a signature, draw it, or drop in an image of your signature — then place and size it on the page. Everything stays offline; nothing is routed through a cloud service.
🔍 OCR for Scans Pro
Run OCR over a scanned PDF to make it searchable and selectable — so you can find, copy and work with text that was previously just an image. Runs entirely on your device, like everything else.
⚙️ Batch Engine Pro
Apply the same operation to many files at once — compress, watermark, add page numbers, convert to images, or merge — with a queue, progress and a per-file result log. A real force-multiplier for repetitive document work.
🗄️ Bookmarks, Attachments & Metadata Pro
Add and jump to bookmarks, attach files to a PDF and extract them again, and edit document metadata and properties — the housekeeping details that keep a document library tidy and correct.
💳 One Payment, Not a Subscription
The generous free tier is free forever, and Pro is a single one-time unlock — no monthly fee, no renewals, no “pay to keep your files.” It re-unlocks automatically on your other Windows devices signed in to the same store account.
Screenshots
Reading a PDF — tabbed viewer with thumbnails, search and zoom
The home screen — open a PDF or build one from images, with the full toolbar on top
Latest Release
Version 1.0 — July 2026
The complete private PDF workbench — viewer, page organising, compression, edit & annotate, watermarks & stamps, security & true redaction, forms, local signing, OCR and the batch engine, with a generous free tier and a one-time Pro upgrade.