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Document Viewer

Document viewer for popular document formats.

Completely free
macOS and Linux
Open source

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Technical details

Pricing: Completely freeconfirmed by Flathub
License: GPL-2.0+ — Open source (copyleft)confirmed by Flathub, Wikidata
Open source: Yes
Commercial use: Yesconfirmed by Flathub, Official plan pages (pricing, licence, terms)
Account required: not documented
Credit card required: Noconfirmed by Flathub
Watermark: Not applicable
Ads: not documented
Platforms: macOS and LinuxEstablished by Linux: Flathub, Wikidata · macOS: Wikidata
Publisher: The GNOME Project
Latest version: 48.4 (19 May 2026)
Latest activity: 3 July 2026
Source code: gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evince

Overview

Document Viewer is a PDF reader, available on macOS and Linux.

Features described in its Flathub listing: annotation and highlighting.

File formats mentioned: PDF, CBZ, CBR, DJVU and TIFF.

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information

“Document viewer for popular document formats” — Flathub, 11 November 2026
“You can view, search or annotate documents in many different formats.” — Flathub, 11 November 2026

At a glance

Document Viewer is completely free: it is open source software, and every feature is available without paying or subscribing.

Its licence (GPL-2.0+) is a copyleft open source licence: you may use, study, modify and redistribute it, including commercially; modified versions must keep the same licence.

Strengths

Open source code
Commercial use allowed

About

A document viewer for the GNOME desktop. You can view, search or annotate documents in many different formats. Evince supports documents in: PDF, PS, EPS, XPS, DjVu, TIFF, DVI (with SyncTeX), and Comic Books archives (CBR, CBT, CBZ, CB7).

Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

Sources and checks

Facts collected from Flathub (credit card, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) — 10 November 2026
Facts collected from Official plan pages (pricing, licence, terms) (commercial use) — 7 November 2026
Facts collected from Wikidata (licence, platforms) — 5 November 2026
Last technical check: 5 November 2026
Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

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