Add Page Numbers to PDF
Add Page Numbers to PDF. Free, no signup, no watermark. Runs in your browser — your file never leaves your device.
How to add page numbers to pdf
- Add your document — Drop it onto the box above, or click to open your file picker. On a phone this opens the camera roll directly.
- Set the options — Adjust the settings shown beneath the upload area. The defaults suit most files.
- Run the tool — Press the button. Processing happens on your device and normally finishes in well under a second.
- Download the result — Save the file. The original on your device is untouched — the tool never modifies what you put in.
What this tool does
To convert Add Page Numbers to PDF, add your PDF to the tool above and the result downloads straight back. The document is read and rewritten by JavaScript running on your own device, so the file is never sent anywhere. The tool is free, needs no account, applies no watermark, and has no daily limit.
What this tool does
PDF manipulation in the browser became genuinely practical with pdf-lib, and that is what runs here. The document is parsed, restructured and rewritten locally — pages reordered, extracted, rotated, numbered or marked — and the rebuilt file downloads straight back. That matters more for PDFs than for almost any other format, because the PDFs people need to edit are contracts, payslips, bank statements, medical letters and identity documents. Uploading those to a stranger's server to reorder two pages is a poor trade.
Why nothing is uploaded
This tool runs entirely on your own device. Your file is read into memory by JavaScript on this page, processed there, and handed back to you as a download. It is never transmitted to us, which means there is nothing on our side to store, log, leak or forget to delete.
You can verify that yourself: load this page, disconnect from the internet, and the tool still works. That is a different claim from a privacy policy promising prompt deletion, and it is the reason this site exists.
What it costs
Nothing. There is no account, no email capture, no free-trial countdown, no watermark on the output and no daily limit. The site is funded by advertising, which sits below the tool and never between an input and its result.
Supported formats
| Format | Accepted | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Yes | Page-level operations run locally. Encrypted files must be unlocked first. | |
| DOC | Yes | Converted through a document engine on the server. |
| DOCX | Yes | Converted through a document engine on the server. |
| XLS | Yes | Spreadsheet formats; converted server-side. |
| XLSX | Yes | Spreadsheet formats; converted server-side. |
| PPT | Yes | Presentation formats; converted server-side. |
| PPTX | Yes | Presentation formats; converted server-side. |
| TXT | Yes | Plain text, any encoding the browser can read. |
| HTML | Yes | Rendered before conversion. |
Limitations worth knowing
Password-protected PDFs cannot be opened here — the file has to be decrypted before any tool, including this one, can read its structure. Scanned documents are images inside a PDF wrapper, so page-level operations work but text operations find nothing to work with; those need OCR.
Very large documents are held in memory while they are processed, so a several-hundred-megabyte file may struggle on a phone. Splitting it first usually solves it.