Smallpdf Reviews

4dev.com Reviews

1. William

   · SMO · 21 days ago
   A strong fit for contractor-focused startups and great Deel alternative

   Onboarding was straightforward, the legal setup was much easier to manage than our previous process, and payouts have been consistently on time for us. It does a focused job, but it does that job very well.

   👍 Pros:    If you mainly hire independent contractors and do not need a large hr suite built around full-time employee benefits, 4dev can be a much better fit. for our contractor-only setup, the billing model was simple: a transaction-based fee, with no subscription costs for empty seats. the invoice generation and exports were also structured well enough to save our finance team a lot of time during our last audit review.

   👎 Cons:    It does not offer full-scale eor features for permanent local employees. if you need to manage local health insurance, pensions, or similar employee-benefit workflows, this probably is not the right tool.
2. Jean Bernard

   about 2 months ago
   Switched mid-audit and did not regret it

   I spent most of those 48h reformatting spreadsheets and writing an explanatory email about why three different payment methods showed up in the same period.

   We moved to 4dev two months after that. When the same investor came back with a follow-up data request eight months later, I exported everything in about twelve minutes. No explanatory emails attached. Same documentation standard across all contractors, all countries, and the whole period.

   Overall: It solved the exact problem we had. Honestly, we should have moved sooner.

   👍 Pros:    Our series a investor once asked for a full payroll export covering 6 months - with just 48h notice. at that point, we were running a mix of wire transfers, wise, and one contractor was getting paid via paypal because his bank situation was complicated. not ideal, right?

   👎 Cons:    If you have a multi-level approval workflow, the role settings may feel a bit limiting. we adjusted our internal process around it — it works, just not as elegantly as i’d like.
3. slitispuyaprogw9

   · CMO · 3 months ago
   Switching to 4dev was a good move for our small team

   We were looking for something less bloated but with the same level of legal security... So setup was straightforward and the kys didnt take 4ever (thanx god!) which was a real relief. I rly like the lean interface bc it does exactly what it says on the tin and it doesn't try to upsell you a dozen unnecessary features. Support's also very responsive on messenger so it feels way more kinda personal than waiting for a ticket response for a dozen days)

Smallpdf mentions (38)

• OpenDataLoader: Safe, Open, High-Performance — PDF for AI

  According to statistics from smallpdf.com, by 2025, there will be a massive 2.5 trillion PDF documents stored worldwide, and 290 billion new PDF documents will be created every year. - Source: dev.to / 7 months ago

• Stirling-PDF: local web application to perform various operations on PDFs

  Smallpdf [1] probably deserves a mention here. Not OSS and not self-hosted, but I‘ve used it occasionally and it has always worked really well. When I was running an agency, we inherited their first office – very cool folks. [1] https://smallpdf.com/. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• Looking fore college ruled template to print

  And use this one to merge two single-page pdf to make a double side page. Source: over 2 years ago

• PDF to Excel without O365/Adobe Acrobat?

  I don't have Office 365 for the "Get Data" option, nor do I have Adobe Acrobat. I've tried the smallpdf website but it came out a mess, possibly because my original spreadsheet had highlighted rows and lots of text in some of the cells. Source: about 3 years ago

• 5 tips to improve your SaaS user onboarding

  Examples of companies doing this well: - SmallPDF users can convert or compress a limited number of files without an account — turning users into advocates and customers once paid use cases comes along; - Freshline uses interactive product demos to help users self-educate and understand the value of their features, without a paywall or registration;. Source: about 3 years ago

4dev.com mentions (1)

• How to pay international contractors in 2026: contracts, taxes, invoices, and payment tools

  4dev.com positions itself around contractor operations worldwide, with workflows, documentation, compliance support, and contractor administration across 150+ countries (4dev.com). - Source: dev.to / 23 days ago