Compare html2pdf.app with the tool you use now

What each tool does better, where html2pdf.app falls short, and how to move your code across.

Open-source and self-hosted tools

wkhtmltopdf

Open-source command-line tool

Archived since January 2023

Read the wkhtmltopdf comparison

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Stay with wkhtmltopdf if you

  • need to convert offline or keep documents on your servers
  • already run it in isolation, on HTML you control
  • fetch pages behind a login with cookies or headers
  • need a generated table of contents

Move to html2pdf.app if you

  • want Chromium instead of an engine last updated in 2012
  • would rather not install and update a binary on every server
  • convert HTML that your users can influence
  • need password-protected PDFs