A READER BUILT FOR LAW

LawPDF.

The world’s best PDF reader for lawyers.

Read the argument. Follow the footnotes. Make the page your own. LawPDF brings the tools of close legal reading together in one remarkably capable reader.

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FREE & OPEN SOURCE WINDOWS, MAC & LINUX

THE LAWPDF FILMA closer look · 60 seconds

THE DETAILS MATTER

Made for the way lawyers read.

Bring footnotes into view.

Review Mode reflows legal scholarship and places footnotes beside the text, with the original PDF close at hand.

Mark it up. Make it yours.

Highlight, underline, and comment as you work through a case, a colleague’s draft, or a law review article.

Find what matters.

Search, copy, and navigate your documents; use OCR for scanned pages and explore sources from footnotes.

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A better way to read law.

LawPDF is free and open source, created by Professor Yonathan Arbel.

Release notes & all downloads

01 / WINDOWS

Microsoft Store

Install through the Store for Microsoft-signed updates.

Get it from Microsoft Direct installer

02 / MAC

Apple silicon

For M-series Macs running macOS 13 or later.

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03 / LINUX

Linux x86_64

For Ubuntu 24.04 or a compatible modern desktop.

Download for Linux

Public beta · The direct Windows package is unsigned and the Mac build is not Apple-notarized. See the release notes for installation details. Keep backups of important files and check quotations and citations against the original PDF.