Foxit is the established Acrobat alternative and it offers two different redaction paths: manual redaction in the desktop editor, and Smart Redact, which finds the sensitive information for you. The second one sends your text to Foxit's service to do it. Omit runs the same kind of detection on your own machine.
| How they compare | Omit | Foxit PDF Editor |
|---|---|---|
| Manual redaction | Available, with true removal of underlying content | Included in the base PDF Editor plan |
| Automatic PII detection | On-device, with no credits and no per-document allowance | Smart Redact, in the PDF Editor+ plan |
| Where that detection happens | Entirely on your machine, with no network access at runtime | Text extraction is local, including OCR text from scanned pages, then the extracted text is sent to Foxit's cloud service for analysis |
| Volume limits | None. The detection is local, so there is nothing to meter | Smart Redact is metered per document, with paid upgrades for higher volumes |
| Licensing | One-time perpetual key, no subscription | 159.99 US dollars per user a year for PDF Editor+, or a one-time 209.99 US dollars for PDF Editor 14 |
| Hidden data and metadata | No metadata sweep. Document properties are not cleared for you | A full PDF editor with its own document inspection tooling |
| General PDF editing | Redaction only, and the original file is never modified | A full PDF editor: edit, sign, combine, export and review |
| Beyond PDF | CSV, Excel, images and plain text under the same per-entity policy | Centred on PDF |
| Reversible redaction | Encrypted vault, reversible tokens sealed with AES-256-GCM | No equivalent |
| Rows where Foxit PDF Editor leads are marked plainly and explained below. We concede what we do not win. Verified 17 September 2026. | ||
Foxit is a capable PDF editor and Smart Redact is a serious feature, not a checkbox: automatic detection with a cloud model behind it will often beat a local one on raw accuracy. It also offers a perpetual licence, so the usual subscription argument does not separate us. The one thing it cannot offer is detection that never leaves your machine, and if your document is a patient note or a privileged file, that is the only row that matters.
If you use Foxit for editing, keep it. Run Omit over the file first where the content cannot be sent anywhere, then edit the redacted output in Foxit. Omit writes a separate output file, so your original stays as it is.
Plans and prices were read from Foxit's own pricing page, and the processing model from Foxit's own Smart Redact security and privacy page, both on the date shown. We went to the primary source deliberately: third-party summaries describe Smart Redact as uploading documents, which is accurate for Foxit's Server product and not for the PDF Editor plugin.
Verified 17 September 2026.
Foxit lists manual redaction under PDF Editor at 129.99 US dollars per user a year, and Smart Redact under PDF Editor+ at 159.99. A one-time purchase of PDF Editor 14 is offered at 209.99 US dollars per user, so a perpetual licence is genuinely available.
Foxit PDF Editor pricingFoxit's own security page states that text extraction happens locally on the user's device and the extracted text, including text read from scans by OCR, is then sent to its service for AI analysis, using Azure AI Language Service and an internal multi-model system hosted on AWS. Original and intermediate documents are deleted once the task completes. This is a reasonable design, honestly documented. It is still content leaving the machine.
Foxit, Smart Redact security and privacyOmit's detection runs in a bundled local engine, so the same automatic PII pass happens with no service behind it and nothing metered. You can verify it on a network-isolated machine and it behaves identically, which is the one claim this comparison actually turns on.
How Omit is builtChoose Omit Redact when the content genuinely cannot leave the device, when you do not want automatic redaction metered per document, or when you need the same policy over spreadsheets and images as well as PDFs.
Choose Foxit if you need a full PDF editor, if you want the accuracy of a larger cloud model and are comfortable with extracted text leaving the machine, or if its document inspection and editing tooling matters more to you than local-only processing.
Omit runs fully offline, and Omit Redact is a free download. Read the Trust Center and verify the offline promise yourself.