PdfDing
PDF manager, viewer and editor offering a seamless user experience on multiple devices. It's designed to be minimal, fast, and easy to set up using Docker.
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Still maintained? Yes: 54 commits in the last 90 days, latest release v1.14.1 (Oct 2026).
Comparisons in Document Management: Paperless Cloud alternatives, Adobe Acrobat alternatives, SharePoint alternatives, DocuSign alternatives.
At a glance
PdfDing quick facts
- Health score
- 86/100 GOOD
- Stars
- 23
- Last commit
- 4 days ago (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- v1.14.1, Oct 2026
- Licence
- AGPL-3.0
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Why it ranks here
Health score explained
PdfDing scores 86/100, #10 of 17 in Document Management: 54 commits in the last 90 days earn 35.0 of 35 points, the latest release (v1.14.1, 6 days ago) earns 25.0 of 25, 23 stars add 5.5 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and Docker support adds the final 10. That places it in the good band (70 and above). The biggest shortfall is star count, worth 14.5 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the Codeberg API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity 35.0 / 35
54 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 25.0 / 25
v1.14.1 released 6 days ago
- Stars biggest shortfall 5.5 / 20
23 stars on Codeberg (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support 10.0 / 10
Docker image or Compose file available
Commit activity
- 54
- Last 90 days
- 102
- Last 12 months
- 4 days ago
- Last push
Ranked #10 of 17 tools in Document Management by health , between SimpleDMS (#9) and Papermerge (#11) .
Details
| Licence | AGPL-3.0 |
| Platforms | Docker, K8S |
| Latest release | v1.14.1 · 6 days ago |
| Stars | 23 |
| Open issues | 11 |
| Docker | Yes |
| Repository | codeberg.org/mrmn/PdfDing ↗ |
PdfDing vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a category with PdfDing (Document Management), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stirling-PDF | 100 | 95k | Apache-2.0 | today |
| Paperless-ngx | 99 | 47k | GPL-3.0 | today |
| BentoPDF | 97 | 16k | AGPL-3.0 | today |
| Documenso | 97 | 16k | AGPL-3.0 | today |
| Docuseal | 97 | 19k | AGPL-3.0 | 4 days ago |
| PdfDing (this tool) | 86 | 23 | AGPL-3.0 | 4 days ago |
PdfDing: common questions
Is PdfDing still maintained?
PdfDing had 54 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was 4 days ago; the latest tagged release, v1.14.1, is from 6 days ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.
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