Free Software: STDU Viewer

I had been using Foxit Reader to view PDFs as a lightweight alternative to Adobe Reader. However, I recently found STDU Viewer (Windows only), and I liked it enough to switch to it and uninstall Foxit. STDU Viewer is your standard document reader, but it has some key features that made it stand out for me. First of all, it’s free and doesn’t have annoying messages to update to a paid version all over the place. I also checked how much memory it was using while running, and the number was pretty low (about 18MB with two documents open).

There’s a few features in STDU Viewer that really won me over though. When you close the application it saves which documents you had open in it (they’re sorted in tabs, which is also great) and your position in the document. The next time you open it, it prompts you if you wish to continue reading those documents where you left off. Very handy! The other major reason I made the switch to STDU Viewer is that it also opens CBR and CBZ file types. Those are the standard formats for digital comic books, and now STDU Viewer has double duty for me. I can uninstall another program from my PC!

STDU Viewer Download Page