Number your PDF pages with a custom start, skip the cover & front matter, and pick the position — 100% in your browser. Your file never leaves your device. 🔢
Custom start, skip pages & position
Leave the cover, title page and copyright unnumbered, so "1" lands on your first real page.
Begin at any number and choose 1, Page 1, or 1 of N — bottom-center or any corner you like.
Numbering happens entirely in your browser — manuscripts, reports and legal files never leave your device.
Need to add page numbers to a PDF — for a self-published book, a thesis, a legal bundle, a report or a manuscript? This free tool stamps clean, professional page numbers onto your PDF right on your device, and it handles the part most tools get wrong: front matter. Use Skip first pages to leave the cover, title page and copyright unnumbered so your printed "1" starts exactly where it should — for example, skip 5 and start at 1 so the numbering begins on the 6th page.
You're in full control: set any start number, choose a format (just the number, "Page 1", or "1 of N"), pick the font size and color, and place the number in the bottom-center or any of the six corner/edge positions. You can also skip a few pages at the end to leave back matter (like an "About the Author" page) clean.
Unlike most "free" online tools that upload your documents to a server, this runs 100% in your browser using the open-source pdf-lib engine. Your PDF is read locally, numbered locally, and downloaded locally — nothing is transmitted, stored, or seen by anyone, which matters for unpublished manuscripts, financial reports and confidential legal documents. It works on Windows, Mac, iPhone, iPad, Android and Chromebook with no install.
Putting a document together? Use Merge PDF to combine sections first, Rotate & Organize PDF to fix page order, or Compress PDF before sending it to print.