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title: "Nitro: search popularity and Share of Search worldwide"
description: "Nitro provides tools and services to edit and work with PDF documents. Branded searches tell you how often people look for a brand by name or related terms. Comparing these searches across competitors helps you see how popular each brand is over time."
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# Nitro: search popularity and Share of Search worldwide

Nitro provides tools and services to edit and work with PDF documents. Branded searches tell you how often people look for a brand by name or related terms. Comparing these searches across competitors helps you see how popular each brand is over time.

## Key facts

- **Brand**: Nitro
- **Market**: Global
- **Measured month**: Aug 2026
- **Share of Search among PDF editing platforms**: 4.9%

## Where the brand sits

| Competitive set | Rank | Share of Search | Estimated monthly branded searches |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| PDF editing platforms | 4 | 4.9% | 120K |

- [PDF editing platforms](/demand/global-en/categories/pdf-editing-platforms)

## How has branded search demand for Nitro changed worldwide over the last 12 months?

- Across the 11 months ending August 2026, estimated monthly branded searches for Nitro worldwide fell from 131K to 120K.
- Across the 11 months ending August 2026, Nitro’s estimated Share of Search among PDF editing platforms worldwide increased from 4.3% to 4.9%.
- Across the 11 months ending August 2026, Nitro’s estimated Share of Search among PDF editing platforms worldwide peaked at 5.3% in July 2026 and was lowest at 3.8% in March 2026.
- Across the 11 months ending August 2026, Nitro rose from 5th to 4th among PDF editing platforms worldwide.

## How did search popularity change for PDF editing platforms worldwide in August 2026?

- In August 2026, Foxit gained estimated Share of Search among PDF editing platforms worldwide, from 17.3% to 18.2%.
- In August 2026, Smallpdf lost estimated Share of Search among PDF editing platforms worldwide, from 64.5% to 63.7%.
- Estimated monthly branded searches for pdfFiller worldwide fell 37.1% over 11 measured months, from 148K to 93K in August 2026.
- Estimated monthly branded searches for PDF-XChange worldwide fell 24.8% over 11 measured months, from 300K to 226K in August 2026.

## Historical estimated branded-search demand

| Month | Competitive set | Estimated monthly branded searches | Share of Search | Rank |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Oct 2025 | PDF editing platforms | 131K | 4.3% | 5 |
| Nov 2025 | PDF editing platforms | 134K | 4.6% | 4 |
| Dec 2025 | PDF editing platforms | 108K | 3.8% | 5 |
| Jan 2026 | PDF editing platforms | 132K | 4.5% | 5 |
| Feb 2026 | PDF editing platforms | 111K | 3.8% | 5 |
| Mar 2026 | PDF editing platforms | 111K | 3.8% | 5 |
| Apr 2026 | PDF editing platforms | 111K | 3.9% | 5 |
| May 2026 | PDF editing platforms | 111K | 4% | 4 |
| Jun 2026 | PDF editing platforms | 114K | 3.8% | 5 |
| Jul 2026 | PDF editing platforms | 139K | 5.3% | 4 |
| Aug 2026 | PDF editing platforms | 120K | 4.9% | 4 |
| Sep 2026 | PDF editing platforms | — | — | — |

## How is Nitro measured?

Brandwave collects information about searches that people make online using Nitro’s name. When viewed over time, estimated search volumes for these branded terms can be used to understand whether interest in the brand is growing, holding steady, or fading.

- “gonitro com”
- “nitro pdf”
- “nitro pdf editor”
- “nitro pdf pro”

## Which PDF editing platforms compete with Nitro?

- [Smallpdf](/demand/global-en/brands/smallpdf): Head-to-head: /demand/global-en/compare/nitro-pdf-vs-smallpdf
- [Foxit](/demand/global-en/brands/foxit): Head-to-head: /demand/global-en/compare/foxit-vs-nitro-pdf
- [PDF-XChange](/demand/global-en/brands/pdf-xchange): Head-to-head: /demand/global-en/compare/nitro-pdf-vs-pdf-xchange
- [pdfFiller](/demand/global-en/brands/pdffiller): Head-to-head: /demand/global-en/compare/nitro-pdf-vs-pdffiller

## Methodology

- [How is branded search demand measured?](/demand/methodology): Where the figures come from, what they compare, and how they may be reused.

## Cite this page

Brandwave. "Nitro: search popularity and Share of Search worldwide". https://gobrandwave.com/demand/global-en/brands/nitro-pdf

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