• CutePDF

Is this your business?

Claim your listing for free to respond to reviews, update your profile and manage your listing.

Claim Your Business
Is this your business?

Overview

CutePDF has a rating of 4.5 stars from 10 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally satisfied with their purchases. CutePDF ranks 9th among Freeware sites.

What reviewers want you to know

Positive highlights

  • I needed to make pdf files out of some jpegs and I didn't want to fork over money for any more expensive adobe software.

Critical highlights

No critical highlights yet

How would you rate CutePDF?
Top Positive Review

“Awesome application that is very, very useful”

Mary B.
8/10/11

Awesome application that is very, very useful. It's only available for Windows, but then again, you can pretty much print to pdf on a Mac, so it's not needed for Mac. You do need the "ghostscript" thing, but you can download it from their website, (look for the PDF Writer, and click Learn More). Works beautifully and it's so nice to have receipts from internet purchases in pdf form!

Top Critical Review

“The program itself does the job correctly, but I am...”

Anon Y.
7/11/14

The program itself does the job correctly, but I am far from satisfied with all the bloatware it contains. When installing the pdf printer, I was asked if I wanted to install extra bloatware, which I naturally unchecked. To my surprise, the bloatware was installed despite that I unchecked the boxes during the installation. Luckily, they can be removed afterwards, but it is extremely bad practice to force along bloatware with the installation. Only get this program if you have no other option.

Reviews (10)

Rating

Timeframe

Other

Reviews that mention popular keywords

pdf files (3)
Thumbnail of user maryb23
9 reviews
32 helpful votes
August 10th, 2011

Awesome application that is very, very useful. It's only available for Windows, but then again, you can pretty much print to pdf on a Mac, so it's not needed for Mac. You do need the "ghostscript" thing, but you can download it from their website, (look for the PDF Writer, and click Learn More). Works beautifully and it's so nice to have receipts from internet purchases in pdf form!

Thumbnail of user paulp11
2 reviews
10 helpful votes
Thumbnail of user anony108
1 review
25 helpful votes
July 11th, 2014

The program itself does the job correctly, but I am far from satisfied with all the bloatware it contains. When installing the pdf printer, I was asked if I wanted to install extra bloatware, which I naturally unchecked. To my surprise, the bloatware was installed despite that I unchecked the boxes during the installation. Luckily, they can be removed afterwards, but it is extremely bad practice to force along bloatware with the installation. Only get this program if you have no other option.

Thumbnail of user darylj
9 reviews
37 helpful votes
March 20th, 2010

Free is Free... this software does exactly what it claims and can make PDF files out of pretty much anything for no money to you at all. I have no experience with their pro version and I'm sure they make some money off people who use the freeware and then upgrade but for me the free version is all I need.

Thumbnail of user henryv
1 review
6 helpful votes
June 11th, 2011

Cutepdf is the best, I tried using Adobe, I have the expensive program, not easy to use at all. Cutepdf is a must for everyone. It simple and easy to use.

Thumbnail of user bobbyk
83 reviews
373 helpful votes
October 25th, 2009

I needed to make pdf files out of some jpegs and I didn't want to fork over money for any more expensive adobe software. Cutepdf is not only an easy to use software it is Freeware. Not shareware with an expiration date, it is free. They will ask you to upgrade to the professional if you need the extra functions, but if you do not, then the software is great as it is.

Thumbnail of user chriso1
654 reviews
3,550 helpful votes
August 31st, 2010

[ Edit: Please note that the freeware Writer app now requires that you install the Ask Toolbar for Internet Explorer. Personally I think this is an unacceptable intrusion, but you can delete or turn off the toolbar later. Deletion is always better. And as for Ask.com, how many applications *force* you to install the Google toolbar?]

Cute PDF writer is an excellent piece of free software and does exactly as advertised with no fuss.

Worth mentioning here is the way that this and other PDF conversion apps of the same type get around the problems caused by "fillable forms" that you often find online. These are PDFs with data fields into which you type your content, before printing the whole thing to your printer.

The problem is, fillable forms, once printed, often can't be saved with all your data in there. They will only save as blanks. So if you need to print multiple copies, you have to do the whole lot straight away, and if you don't have a printer but need to use someone else's, you're stuck unless you go to their home or office and fill your forms in there.

CutePDF makes this all go away, because as far as your computer is concerned, it's just another printer. Send a document to it for printing, and it will create a PDF file instead, which you treat as any other PDF file. You aren't obliged to print it now, or at all.

So now, all you need to do to save copies of a filled form, is send it to CutePDF Writer from your Printers menu. You get a form, with all the fields filled out. You can't modify it any more, not with the freeware version, but you can now save it to a flash drive, take it to the library or a friend's house or the office and print the copies out at your leisure.

Apps that use the printer trick are amongst the most useful to have available if you do any document work at all. This one is nowhere nearly the most complex but for most people, it doesn't need to be. It just gets the job done. Recommended.

Thumbnail of user kennyf
3 reviews
17 helpful votes
October 20th, 2009

Very useful application and also extremely easy to use. I found it to come in handy all the time when I had to send documents, for example.

Thumbnail of user tn1
265 reviews
1,793 helpful votes
July 25th, 2009

Not only do I love the name of this "CutePDF" application but I love the function of it. The CutePDF writer turns any of my documents, spreadsheets, powerpoints, pictures into PDF files with just the click of my "print" button. There are a couple of CutePDF products on the website but I use only http://www.cutepdf.com/products/cutepdf/Writer.asp (which is the only free one; there are trial versions of the other products). After you download the Writer application and converter and install/run it, a CutePDF printer is created on your computer (excuse my technical language inability). So whenever you're done with a document on Word, Excel, Powerpoint, whereever, you go to print it using CutePDF printer. Instead of actually printing the document, it's converted into a PDF file, just like that! The whole process, from downloading to creating PDFs is amazingly simple. I find CutePDF very useful when I have to send letters to parents and professionals via email.

Thumbnail of user mj144
1 review
15 helpful votes
March 26th, 2016

There are 2 sites for the same product, why?
1-http://www.cutepdf.com/
2-https://www.cutepdf-editor.com/
Why? Which one is legit? Also, does it work on imac? I need to edit and merge documents. I wish they could add OCR to it(to have searchable pdf)

Sitejabber for Business

Gain trust and grow your business with customer reviews.

About the business

CutePDF allows you to create PDF files from any printable document, save PDF forms using Acrobat Reader, make PDF booklet, impose, rearrange pages and much more.

How do I know I can trust these reviews about CutePDF?

  • Sitejabber’s sole mission is to increase online transparency for buyers and businesses
  • Sitejabber has helped over 200M buyers make better purchasing decisions online
  • Suspicious reviews are flagged by our algorithms, moderators, and community members

See reviews as you browse with our Firefox extension

4.5
10 reviews
Have a question about CutePDF?

Is this your business?

Claim your listing for free to respond to reviews, update your profile and manage your listing.

Claim Your Business