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Each Monstera release is listed here, newest first, including any change to the privacy policy. Updates arrive through the Microsoft Store.

Monstera PDF Editor 1.0.2150.0

  • October 26, 2026
  • First release

The first public release of Monstera, free on the Microsoft Store for Windows 10 and 11. Some of the headline features:

  • Over 150 tools for editing, organising, protecting, converting and reviewing PDFs.
  • Edit the text already on a page. Monstera changes only the letters you typed and keeps the original font wherever that font can draw them.
  • An optional AI assistant with ten providers and your own key. Answers cite page numbers you can click, and a whole page can be translated in place, keeping its layout.
  • True redaction that also removes form values, comments, page thumbnails and document metadata under the marks, find and redact by search, and Sanitize.
  • Digital signing with your certificate, document certification, visible signatures, trusted timestamps and signature verification.
  • OCR in 14 languages on your computer, with automatic scanned-page detection, deskew and scan enhancement.
  • Handwriting to Excel and Word with your own Azure or Anthropic account, with an editable grid to correct misread words before the Excel file is created.
  • Word, Excel and PowerPoint files converted to PDF on your computer, offline.
  • Export to Word in three modes, to Excel with an editable review grid, and to images at any DPI.
  • Compare two documents: changed and moved text, annotations, pictures, and added or removed pages, marked on both.
  • Designed to WCAG 2.1 AA and checked by automated accessibility tests, with a high-contrast theme, full keyboard use and a PDF accessibility checker.
  • 144 offline help articles. F1 opens the article for exactly where you are.

See the features page for everything in this release.