Password Protect PDF

Yes — no account, no per-file charge, and no limit on how many PDFs you protect or unlock. The password is applied by code running in your browser tab, which costs us nothing per use; our paid bank-statement converter is what funds the site.

No. The password is applied — or removed — by code running in this browser tab, and your file never leaves your device. The only network activity is this page's own code and an anonymous count of how often the tool is used; nothing about your document or your password is ever part of that.

Yes — switch to Remove a password, enter the password that currently opens the file, and the encryption comes off, the same way adding one works: AES-256, applied entirely in your browser. One thing to know: removing a password rebuilds the document from its pages, so form fields, annotations, bookmarks, and document metadata are not carried over into the unlocked copy.

Each PDF has to be under 100 MB, the same ceiling every tool on this site uses, because the whole job runs inside your browser tab and a much larger file risks it running out of memory. There's no cap on how many files you protect or unlock, one after another.

There's no way to recover it — not by us, not by anyone. The password is never sent anywhere or stored, so once it's set, opening that file again depends entirely on remembering it. Write it down somewhere safe before you close the tab.