At a glanceExpert`s Rating Pros Powerful editing, redaction, and AI-assisted tools Familiar, intuitive interface Integration with cloud storage and eSign Cons Some advanced features only available in Editor+ plan Our Verdict Foxit PDF Editor is a fantastic Acrobat alternative for business users who work regularly with PDF documents. It provides all the tools you need to edit content, protect sensitive information, and collaborate with other document stakeholders. Price When Reviewed This value will show the geolocated pricing text for product undefined Best Pricing Today Editor’s note: This review was updated April 3, 2025 to reflect the most current features and pricing. Foxit is well known in business circles for its innovative PDF products and services. Its flagship PDF Editor is now available in two streamlined versions for individual users, business teams, and educational institutions: Foxit PDF Editor and Foxit PDF Editor+. Both include cloud storage and mobile access, while the Editor+ plan adds eSign and AI-powered tools. Read on to learn more, then see our roundup of the best PDF editors for comparison. Foxit PDF Editor design and features Foxit PDF Editor uses the familiar Office-style ribbon interface. A row of task-specific tabs—such as Convert, Edit, Comment, and Organize—runs across the top, and each tab reveals a contextual set of tools for that function. This keeps the layout streamlined and easy to navigate, particularly for users accustomed to Microsoft Office. Upon launching the app, you’re presented with a home dashboard that includes tool shortcuts for common workflows, a list of recently opened files, and access to your Foxit Cloud documents. This hub view also appears whenever you close an open document. Editing text within a PDF feels intuitive, much like working in a word processor. You select the Edit tab, click Edit Text, then click on the text block you want to modify. You can type directly into the document, remove or highlight text, and adjust fonts and formatting from the context-sensitive Format panel on the right. You can also resize or rotate individual text boxes by dragging their borders. Text editing remains box-based, meaning text is confined to the original text container. If you want to link multiple text boxes so text can flow between them, the Link & Join Text tool on the Edit toolbar lets you connect them in the order you choose. To flow added text from one page to the next, you have to use the editor’s Link & Join Text feature. Michael Ansaldo/Foundry Foxit PDF Editor supports creating PDFs from Microsoft Office files, web browsers, scanned documents, or any print-capable application. It also allows conversion of PDFs to multiple formats including Word, Excel, HTML, and plain text. Collaboration features are robust. The Comment tab includes sticky notes, callouts, text markups, drawing tools, and stamps. You can highlight, strike through, or replace text to provide clear feedback when reviewing shared documents. New in recent versions is deeper integration with Foxit Cloud, enabling smoother cross-device editing and sharing. Users on the Editor+ plan also have access to Foxit’s AI Assistant, which can summarize long PDFs, rewrite sections, or translate selected text—adding powerful new functionality for business and academic users alike. ChatGPT integration enables you to get document help from an AI assistant. Michael Ansaldo/Foundry Foxit includes a full set of annotation tools for collaborating with others in the Comments tab. Business extras Foxit PDF Editor includes a strong set of security tools to help businesses protect sensitive data. The Protect tab offers multiple redaction options, including Whiteout, which permanently erases content and replaces it with a blank background, and Mark for Redaction, which blacks out selected text or images. You’ll also find tools to sanitize PDFs by stripping hidden data such as metadata, embedded links, and bookmarks. Documents can be secured using password protection, encryption, and custom security policies, and administrators can apply batch processing to multiple files at once. Foxit continues to support integration with popular cloud services and enterprise storage platforms, including Google Drive, OneDrive, SharePoint, Box, and Dropbox. Files stored in these services can be accessed directly from within the editor, making document workflows smoother for remote and hybrid teams. Should you get Foxit PDF Editor? Foxit PDF Editor is available in two editions for both Windows and Mac. The standard Foxit PDF Editor includes the full desktop editor, 20GB of cloud storage, and access to the web-based Foxit PDF Editor Cloud. It’s priced at $129.99 per year or $10.99 monthly. Foxit PDF Editor+ adds advanced features such as Smart Redaction, Foxit eSign with 150 envelopes per year, the AI Assistant, full access to the mobile app, and 150GB of cloud storage. It’s available for $159.99 per year or $13.99 monthly. Both plans include a 7-day free trial that gives full access to all tools and cloud features, so you can evaluate whether it suits your workflow. If you’re an independent professional or small business owner who regularly works with PDFs, Foxit PDF Editor remains a powerful, affordable alternative to Acrobat for modern document workflows. Read...

As a Yankees fan living in Cincinnati who also sort of roots for the Reds, I have a unique window into two baseball streaming worlds. One is run by MLB.TV, whose out-of-market coverage lets me watch every Yankees game except those that are nationally televised. The other is run by Main Street Sports Group, whose FanDuel Sports Network app streams local Reds games. The two services ought to be comparable, but there’s really no contest. The MLB app is by far the better way to watch baseball, but you can only use it under two conditions: Either your favorite team doesn’t play where you live (like the Yankees, in my case), or your local team is one of the 10 clubs that partners with the league for in-market streaming. Otherwise, you’re stuck with whichever regional sports network operates in your area for standalone streaming, and the experience will probably be worse. Why the MLB app is better The MLB app can sync radio broadcasts perfectly with the video feed.Jared Newman / Foundry The differences between MLB.TV and FanDuel Sports Network are apparent as soon as I start streaming. MLB.TV’s streams are always smoother out of the gate for me. While video quality can be blurry at the outset, within seconds the stream pops into clear HD quality. On my smart TV—a Hisense set running Google TV—FanDuel’s streams tend to stutter for the first 30 seconds or so, and while they eventually settle down, it’s initially more distracting to watch. Catching up on games is also easier in the MLB app, which shows the inning count in its video player and overlays the score as you fast forward or rewind. That’s helpful for jumping directly to scoring plays, but FanDuel’s app offers nothing similar. And after the game, MLB’s app offers condensed games and recaps, whereas FanDuel’s app offers full replays only. The MLB app’s video player helps you home in on scoring plays.Jared Newman / Foundry MLB’s app has some other neat features that make watching games more enjoyable. My favorite is the option to play the local radio broadcast in sync with the video telecast. (No disrespect to Michael Kay, but I want to hear how Dave Sims is acclimating to his new job.) There’s a statistical overlay for pitch sequences as well, though to be fair FanDuel’s app offers a similar feature. Because MLB.TV’s service also streams other out-of-market games, you also can use its multiview feature to watch more than one game at a time on Apple TV, Fire TV, and Google TV devices. That’s not an option in FanDuel’s app, which doesn’t have much else to watch anyway. The MLB app can stream up to four games at once.Jared Newman / Foundry All told, the MLB app just feels like a more lively place to watch baseball. You open the app and are instantly greeted with scores, schedules, and highlights. The FanDuel Sports Network app feels barren and overly utilitarian by comparison. The FanDuel Sports Network app offers little beyond a pitching stat overlay.Jared Newman / Foundry The FanDuel Sports Network app’s home screen doesn’t have much going on.Jared Newman / Foundry What should be done about it No matter how you pay for the games, you should be able to watch them in the MLB app, where the experience is just better, though that’s unlikely to happen anytime soon. As of 2025, five MLB teams (the Diamondbacks, Guardians, Rockies, Twins, and Padres) partner directly with the league to distribute in-market games, priced at $100 for the season or $200 when bundled with MLB.TV’s out-of-market coverage. For five additional teams, the league partners with their respective regional sports networks to offer in-market streaming through the MLB app. That leaves 20 teams whose in-market games aren’t available through the MLB app. Local fans of those teams who don’t want an entire live TV streaming package must instead rely on whatever standalone streaming service their nearest regional sports network offers. In the case of the Reds and eight other teams, that’s FanDuel Sports Network. (A few teams don’t offer standalone options at all.) Even with a FanDuel Sports Network subscription, you can’t use the MLB app to watch live games.Jared Newman / Foundry In the near term, it’d be great if those networks could partner with the league on authenticated access to the MLB app. The technical capability to stream any game already exists—Reds fans who live outside of Ohio can watch them with an MLB.TV subscription—and the MLB app already offers authenticated access for Mets and Dodgers fans who get SNY or SportsNet LA as part of a pay TV package respectively. There should be a system where subscribers to FanDuel Sports Network, Gotham Sports, and other standalone regional sports services could sign into the MLB app as well. Over the long term, the league should just offer in-market streaming access nationwide, with no blackouts. That’s reportedly been the plan for years—here’s a rumor from 2021, and here’s one from last week that says the league wants to partner with a larger streamer on such an offering—but commandeering the rights from regional sports networks has been a slog. CNBC’s Alex Sherman says not to expect any significant moves until 2028, when the league’s major media rights deals expire. In the meantime, the 2025 season is another reminder of how baseball streaming is a case of haves and have nots. Here in Cincinnati, I’m a little of both. Sign up for Jared’s Cord Cutter Weekly newsletter for more streaming TV advice. Read...

Dutch smart home hub manufacturer Athom has added new energy-monitoring capabilities to the app for its Homey series of smart home hubs and Homey cloud services. The company also announced the new Homey Energy Dongle for European smart meters. The energy-monitoring feature appears in a new Energy tab in the Homey app. It tracks data from whole-home energy meters, solar panel inverters, and energy-measuring devices—including the Emporia Home Energy Monitor, the Shelly Pro 3EM, and Athom’s own Homey Energy Dongle and displays that information in easy-to-read charts. Provide your utilities’ rates and the app will show you how much it costs to operate your home. Euopean consumers can opt to plug Athom’s Homey Energy Dongle into their utility-provided smart meters to track their home’s energy consumptions. U.S. customers can use any of several alternative energy monitors from third-party manufacturers. Athom Used in conjunction with these and similar energy monitoring devices, Homey’s app can also identify which devices are consuming the most energy, and if you have solar panels, how much energy that system is generating. The app can track electrical (in kilowatt hours), natural gas, and even water consumption with a compatible meter (gas and water consumption are measured in square meters). Armed with this information, Homey users can schedule events such as EV charging to occur during off-peak hours, when the electrical utility’s rates are the lowest. Users will also be able to automatically turn off high-consumption devices at peak times. The current version of the app uses manually entered utility rates, but Athom says an update that will support rates that vary by the hour—or even in 15-minute increments—will follow shortly after launch. Athom’s own Homey Energy Dongle, for European smart meters outfitted with a standard P1 port, streams real-time energy consumption and production data over Wi-Fi to the Home Pro locally, or through the cloud to both the free and Premium tiers of Athom’s Homey Cloud. The Homey Energy Dongle supports electricity, gas, and, in select markets, water metering. Priced at €39, the Homey Energy Dongle is available now. Read...

What are you looking for in a new laptop? A gorgeous OLED panel with high-resolution display? A performant machine with all-day battery life? A thin and lightweight build for portability? Cutting-edge AI capabilities? You can get all of the above with the Asus Zenbook S 14, and it’s currently on sale for $1,000 at Best Buy ($400 off its original price). Ready for just about anything you throw its way, the Zenbook S 14 runs on an Intel Core Ultra 7 Series 2 256V processor with 16GB of LPDDR5X RAM and a 1TB speedy PCIe 4.0 SSD. In other words, this is an AI-capable Copilot+ PC that’ll serve you well as a productivity machine, fit for all the new AI-driven features to come in the next few years. When we reviewed the Asus Zenbook S 14, our laptop expert Mark Hachman said that it’s a “nearly perfect productivity PC,” giving it a magical 4.5-star rating and praising its fantastic battery life, great audio, and lovely OLED screen: “You might approach buying the Asus Zenbook S 14 for a variety of reasons such as its status as an AI-infused Copilot+ PC and its lovely OLED screen, but it’s the long-lasting battery—21 hours in our tests!—that will change your life.” That’s a lot of hours to go between chargings, and it makes leaving home without a charger a non-issue. And I really need to emphasize how gorgeous the 3K OLED panel is on this laptop with its standard 14-inch display and 2880×1800 resolution. It’s a touchscreen (for even more hands-on productivity) with 120Hz of refresh and 500 nits of brightness, but it’s the OLED greatness that will give you vivid colors and deep darks, perfect for streaming video. This future-ready AI-capable laptop normally demands a steep price, so grab it while you can for just $1,000 at Best Buy! It’s a hot deal that won’t last forever, and the Zenbook S 14 is a bargain with this discount. Save $400 on this high-productivity laptop with 3K OLED screenBuy now at Best Buy Read...

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You already know that Google is the largest search engine on the planet by a long shot. You may also know that Google is relying more and more on AI results, which has been controversial (to say the least), all while the organic search results have gotten worse. To cap things off, the US DOJ ruled and then doubled down on Google being a monopoly. So, people are understandably peeved and looking to alternatives. The one that caught my eye? Ecosia, which offers an environmentally-friendly bent that lets you search while fighting climate change. What is Ecosia and why is it special? Ecosia was founded in 2009 by Christian Kroll, who felt compelled to do something after he saw the effects of deforestation while on a trip around the world. And so Ecosia was born, a search engine that puts its advertising revenue towards tree-planting projects. Ecosia started off as a search engine, but has since expanded with a few other products that include Ecosia Browser (a Chromium-based web browser), Ecosia Chat (an AI chatbot powered by OpenAI’s API), and Freetree (a browser extension that plants trees as you shop). Dave Parrack / Foundry Ecosia is a not-for-profit tech company based in Berlin, Germany, that dedicates all profits to the betterment of our planet. In addition to turning every web search into an opportunity to plant and protect trees, Ecosia invests in various initiatives that further regenerative agriculture, renewable energy, and fighting climate change. As a Certified B Corporation, Ecosia seeks to maintain the highest standards of equity and inclusivity. (First time hearing about B Corps? In short, it’s a company that’s committed to using business for good and considering the needs of all stakeholders.) It’s also a steward-owned company, so it can’t be sold off or mined for profit. How Ecosia is helping to save the planet After covering its own costs (which includes costs of operations and development of its own products), Ecosia puts 100% of its profits towards planet-saving goals. As of this writing, 80% of those profits go towards planting and protecting trees while the remaining 20% is invested in other grassroots and community-driven “green” activism. Ecosia has already planted hundreds of millions of trees thanks to users choosing it over other search engines like Google and Bing. And it’s not just about planting trees! Ecosia relies heavily on solar panels to power its servers using renewable energy. As of 2020, Ecosia was producing twice as much energy as it consumes. Ecosia And perhaps the best thing about all of this? Their commitment to transparency. Ecosia publishes monthly financial reports that break down revenue generated, where every single dollar goes, impact on a country-by-country basis, and more. Most tech companies aren’t just secretive and profit-first, but also consume tons of energy to do what they do. That’s why Ecosia is so refreshing. They’re doing things differently and making a difference. How to start using Ecosia right now Using the Ecosia search engine is as simple as navigating to Ecosia.org and using it like you’d use any other search engine. The layout will be familiar if you’ve ever used Google to search the web, with a search bar that invites you to “Search the web…” Dave Parrack / Foundry The Ecosia search engine delivers search results (and the resulting ads) from both Microsoft Bing and Google Search. Ecosia has partnered with both companies, but where your results come from will depend on your location, device, and cookie settings. You can see which search providers are available to you by clicking the hamburger menu at the top-right of the Ecosia site, then clicking Search > Settings. Under “Preferred search provider,” if both Google and Bing are available, you can select one or leave it as No preference: Dave Parrack / Foundry If you want to take things one step further, you can install and use the Ecosia browser. This is a simple, pared-down browser that has Ecosia Search built into it, saving you from having to navigate to Ecosia.org every time you want to search something. Don’t skip Ecosia Chat and Freetree In addition to the search engine and web browser, don’t forget that you can also use Ecosia Chat if you want to interact with an AI chatbot and Freetree if you want to plant trees while shopping online. Ecosia Chat Dave Parrack / Foundry Ecosia Chat is a large language model in the same vein as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini. It can answer questions, help with daily tasks, and even guide you in creative content production. It’s powered by ChatGPT in the backend, but the difference here is that none of your queries are used to train the AI model. However, do note that your queries are sent to OpenAI for processing, and those queries are held by OpenAI for 30 days. Ecosia also maintains that its chatbot “does not significantly increase the overall carbon footprint of Ecosia,” even though generative AI is widely known to consume a lot of energy to produce its responses. Freetree Dave Parrack / Foundry Freetree is a browser extension that lets you plant trees every time you purchase something from one of Ecosia’s partner shops. Once installed, you don’t have to do anything else—Freetree will automatically recognize when you’re shopping on supported online stores. Essentially, Ecosia acts as an affiliate. Supported online stores will pay a small commission to Ecosia every time a Freetree user purchases a product. As with the search engine, Ecosia uses that money to plant trees and fund its other climate action initiatives. My personal experience using Ecosia To be perfectly honest, while I had heard of Ecosia many years ago, I hadn’t really used it until a few months ago. But now I’ve used the search engine and the web browser pretty extensively—and while there are times when I return to Google, Ecosia is pretty good overall. The most obvious takeaway is that when using Ecosia, you know you’re doing some good for the world. Google, Microsoft, and other big tech companies may donate to good causes, but their primary mission is to rake in huge profits. That’s not the case with Ecosia. Dave Parrack / Foundry I’d urge anyone seeking to switch to Ecosia to explore the settings and tweak them to make Ecosia work for you. For example, I changed the Search region from the United Kingdom to “All Regions.” I also enabled Personalized search results, which is disabled by default. As for the Ecosia browser, I really enjoy the simple, pared-down interface. Google Chrome—my usual go-to browser—can be a little busy at times. And while I need Chrome’s extra features for work, I use Ecosia to browse the web when I want a more casual, laid-back experience. Dave Parrack / Foundry Ultimately, it feels good knowing that my web searches throughout the day are benefiting the world in a real, tangible way—certainly a more positive impact than searching with Google. If you don’t care about climate change, deforestation, or renewable energy, then you obviously won’t appreciate Ecosia’s raison d’être. But if you, like me, want to make small but effective changes to help make the world a better place, Ecosia is worth using. Further reading: Sick of Google? Try one of these search engines Read...

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Yesterday, Mozilla released Firefox version 137.0 for Windows, macOS, and Linux, introducing new features and some security fixes. The headlining feature is the new built-in ability to organize and save tab groups. Prior to this, you had to use a third-party extension like Simple Tab Groups or Panorama View. Now, Firefox has caught up with Chromium-based browsers with native tab grouping. Furthermore, the Firefox address bar now offers enhanced search functions, and the developers have again patched a number of security flaws. Firefox ESR and Tor Browser also got security updates. Mozilla plans to release Firefox 138 on April 29, 2025. What’s new in Firefox 137? Following the introduction of vertical tabs in Firefox 136, Firefox 137 now offers the option of organizing tabs into groups. You can assign a name and color to each tab group, and you can close tab groups to be reopened again later. Both vertical tabs and tab groups have been among the most requested features for Firefox, especially as they’ve been available in other browsers like Chrome and Vivaldi for some time. Mozilla’s developers have given the address bar a fresh makeover, too. In particular, they’ve revised the search functions. A standardized search button in the address bar now simplifies switching between search engines and search modes. Firefox recognizes whether you’re currently on a page with a search function and offers to use it and integrate it into Firefox. The address bar can now also be used as a calculator, similar to the Google search bar. Not all new features are immediately available to all users. Some of them may only be rolled out gradually over the coming weeks. Security updates in Firefox 137 Mozilla’s 2025-20 Security Advisory report shows at least eight fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox 137. Mozilla only gives a high risk rating for one of the entries among individual vulnerabilities reported by external researchers. For example, CVE-2025-3028 can lead to a use-after-free (UAF) vulnerability if JavaScript code runs while a page is being transformed by the XSLT processor. There are also two summarized entries on internally discovered vulnerabilities, which also have high risk ratings. Exploitation of these vulnerabilities can lead to memory errors that can potentially be exploited to inject and execute arbitrary code. Mozilla doesn’t provide any information on the exact number of vulnerabilities covered here. Updates for Firefox ESR and Tor Browser Mozilla has updated its long-term versions Firefox ESR 128 and ESR 115 to patch vulnerabilities. At least three vulnerabilities have been closed in Firefox ESR 128.9.0 and exactly one in Firefox ESR 115.22.0, namely the UAF vulnerability CVE-2025-3028 mentioned above. The updated Tor Browser 14.0.9 is based on Firefox ESR 128.9.0. An update for Tor Browser 13.5 to version 13.5.15 is also available if you’re running Windows 7 or 8.1 or macOS 10.13 or 10.14. This should make it clear that the Tor project is following Mozilla’s example and will continue to support the old operating systems at least until September. Further reading: Reasons to switch from Chrome to Firefox Read...