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DocHub
DocHub ranks #24 of 24 in pdf editors in the week of 28 September 2026, with a visibility score of 1 across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity. It was named in 2% of the answers we sampled.
sampled: 3 of 4 assistants this week
DocHub barely registers with AI assistants in the PDF editors category, showing up in just 2 of 79 answers and landing an overall score of 1 out of 100 (ChatGPT 0, Claude 2, Perplexity 2). Its best showing is a modest one: named in 1 of 3 answers to "What are the best alternatives to Adobe Acrobat?" and 1 of 4 answers to the near-identical singular version of that question. Outside of Acrobat-alternative questions, DocHub is absent, never named for Windows, open-source, browser-based, or mobile PDF editor queries.
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Who's talking about you
| assistant | score | named in, this week | usual spot, this week |
|---|---|---|---|
| ChatGPT | 0 | 0% of answers | |
| Claude | 2 | 0% of answers | |
| Gemini | not sampled this week | ||
| Perplexity | 2 | 5% of answers | #5.0 |
Questions you win
| question | named in | best spot |
|---|---|---|
| What are the best alternatives to Adobe Acrobat? | 1 of 3 | #7 |
| What's the best alternative to Adobe Acrobat? | 1 of 4 | #5 |
Questions you lose
| question | who got named instead |
|---|---|
| What are the best PDF editors? | Adobe Acrobat, Foxit, Nitro PDF |
| What's the best free PDF editor? | Sejda, PDFgear, PDF24 |
| What's the best PDF editor for Windows? | Adobe Acrobat, Foxit, PDF-XChange Editor |
| What's the best PDF editor for Mac? | Preview, PDF Expert, Adobe Acrobat |
| Which PDF editor is best value for a small business? | PDF-XChange Editor, Wondershare PDFelement, Adobe Acrobat |
| What's the best online PDF editor that works in the browser? | Smallpdf, Sejda, Adobe Acrobat |
| Which PDF tool is best for privacy and sensitive documents? | Foxit, Smallpdf, iLovePDF |
| What are the best PDF editors in 2026? | Adobe Acrobat, Foxit, Nitro PDF |
| What's the best PDF editor app for iPhone or Android? | Adobe Acrobat, Foxit, PDF Expert |
| What's the best tool to fill in and sign a PDF form? | Adobe Acrobat, Xodo, Preview |
| What's the best tool to merge, split and reorder PDF pages? | PDFsam Basic, Adobe Acrobat, iLovePDF |
| What's the best tool to convert a PDF to Word or Excel? | Adobe Acrobat, Sejda, Google Drive |
| What's the best tool to compress a large PDF? | PDF24, Adobe Acrobat, Foxit |
| What's the best OCR tool to make a scanned PDF searchable? | Adobe Acrobat, ABBYY FineReader |
| What's the best tool to redact or remove sensitive text from a PDF? | Adobe Acrobat, UPDF, Foxit |
| What's the best open-source or self-hosted PDF tool? | Stirling PDF |
| What's the best tool to edit a PDF without a subscription? | PDFgear, Preview, Stirling PDF |
| What's the best tool to extract tables or data from a PDF? | Adobe Acrobat |
| What's the best AI tool to summarise or chat with a PDF? | nobody in particular |
| What are the best alternatives to PDFgear? | PDF-XChange Editor, Adobe Acrobat, Foxit |
| What are the best alternatives to Foxit? | Adobe Acrobat, PDF-XChange Editor, Preview |
| What are the best alternatives to Nitro PDF? | PDF-XChange Editor, Foxit, Adobe Acrobat |
| What are the best alternatives to PDF-XChange Editor? | Nitro PDF, Foxit, PDF-XChange Editor |
Assistants cited 12 pages for questions in this category that name your rivals and not you. Claim to see them. See all sources for PDF editors.
In their words
- Perplexity“| DocHub | Browser-based workflows | Online editing, signing, form filling, and document sharing; Capterra identifies it as a leading overall alternative.”
- Perplexity“DocHub — convenient browser-based option for editing, sharing, and signing PDFs.”
Closest rivals
- DocHub vs Canva2
- DocHub vs EaseUS PDF Editor2
- DocHub vs PDFescape2
- DocHub vs Tungsten Power PDF2
- DocHub vs Google Drive3
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