Split PDF
100% privatePull out the pages you need, or break one PDF into several. The file is read on this device and never uploaded.
Tap a page to select it, and shift-tap to take a run of pages in one go. The number on each tile is its page number.
Advanced options
Leave it blank and the result is named after the first document you added.
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Step by step
How to split a PDF
Four steps, no account, no email address, and no watermark on the results.
Add your PDF
Drag it anywhere onto this page, or press Choose a PDF. The pages appear as thumbnails, rendered on your own device — nothing is sent.
Choose how to split
Just the pages I pick is the default and covers most jobs: tap the pages you want, shift-tap for a run of them. The dropdown also has cut marks, page ranges like 1-3, 7, every N pages, and one file per page.
Check the count
The line above the pages says exactly how many PDFs you are about to get, and the button says the same. Neither is a guess — both are read from the same plan the export uses.
Split and download
Press the button once. One result downloads as a PDF; several arrive together as a ZIP.
Private by design
Why this splitter can’t leak your document
A PDF you need to split is usually one you would not want a stranger reading: a bank statement where only one page matters, a scanned passport, a contract, a medical report, a set of payslips. Every tool ranking for this search uploads the whole document to a server in order to take three pages out of it. Smallpdf holds it for an hour, iLovePDF for a few, and several of them put splitting by size or by bookmark behind a paid tier. This one never receives the file at all.
Zero uploads
The editor is downloaded to your browser once. From then on it reads your PDFs straight off your own disk and writes the new one in this tab. Your documents never enter a network request, so there is no copy of them anywhere for us to keep, lose, or be compelled to hand over.
No retention, because there is nothing to retain
The big converters upload your file and promise to delete it in an hour. That is a promise about a copy they have already taken. Here there is no copy and no hour — the result exists in this browser tab, and closing the tab is the whole of the deletion.
No account, no cap, no watermark
No sign-up, no email address, no 100 MB free-tier ceiling, no watermark stamped across your document, and no paid tier that unlocks the one option you actually needed.
To be precise about what does leave your device — because “100% private” is easy to say and worth checking. Two things, neither of them your documents:
1. When a PDF is written, this page sends one anonymous message to our counter saying “split-pdf was used”. No file, no file name, no page count, nothing identifying you. It exists so the usage number above is a real one rather than something we invented.
2. Google Analytics records the page view and that a PDF was split, the same as on every other page of this site. We don’t send it anything about your documents. You can block it and the tool works exactly the same.
Your PDFs are in none of that. They never enter a network request — and unlike a promise, that is something you can check for yourself. Turn off your wifi, reload this page, and use it anyway. It still works. No upload-based tool can pass that test.
At a glance
Tool specifications
| Input | One or more PDF files. Any version, including PDF 2.0 |
|---|---|
| Output | One PDF, or several delivered together as a ZIP |
| Split modes | Pick individual pages · place cut marks between pages · page ranges such as 1-3, 7, 9-12 · every N pages · every page as its own file |
| Page quality | Untouched. Pages are copied at the object level, not re-rendered — text stays selectable and searchable, images keep their original bytes |
| Overlapping ranges | Allowed. Asking for 1-3 twice gives you two copies of it |
| Selection | Tap to select, shift-tap for a run of pages, or Select all |
| File naming | Each result is named after the source and the pages it contains, e.g. statement-pages-4-6.pdf |
| Password-protected PDFs | Supported. Type the password once and it is used on this device only — it is never sent anywhere. Files that are merely “restricted” (an owner password, no open password) are handled without asking you at all |
| Bookmarks | Not carried into the result. Pages, text, images, links and filled-in form values all come through; the clickable contents tree does not |
| Digital signatures | Invalidated, as they are by every tool that edits a PDF, including Adobe’s — a signature certifies the exact bytes it was applied to |
| Metadata | The result starts clean: the title, author and creating application of the source are dropped unless you tick Keep the title and author. A PDF’s title is very often the original file path |
| Maximum size | 50 files and 300 MB in total at once |
| Where processing happens | In your browser, on your device — nothing is uploaded |
| Works offline | Yes, once the page has loaded |
| Sign-up | Not required, not offered |
| Watermark | None |
| Price | Free |
Questions
Splitting PDFs, answered
Is my PDF uploaded anywhere?
How do I get just one page out of a PDF?
How do I select a long run of pages without tapping forty times?
What is the difference between the ranges mode and picking pages?
Can I split a password-protected PDF?
Will the split pages lose quality or become images?
Why did my bookmarks disappear?
Do I need to sign up or pay?
Keep it handy
Save it, share it, or tell us what’s missing
Come back to it
Bookmark the page, or pin it to your saved tools so it sits at the top of the tools list on this device.
Something not right?
If a PDF wouldn’t open, a page came out the wrong way round, or an option you needed isn’t here, tell us. The form opens with the tool already filled in, so you only have to describe what happened.
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