Right from the right-click menu. No upload, no account.
Windows 11 can't shrink a PDF on its own. PDFClick adds a "Compress PDF" command to File Explorer, so you right-click the file and it makes a smaller copy — entirely on your PC.
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Windows 11 can create PDFs with "Microsoft Print to PDF", but it has no built-in way to reduce the size of a PDF you already have. The usual workaround is an online tool — but those upload your document to a server you don't control.
PDFClick fills that gap locally. It installs a single right-click command and does all the work on your machine, so a PDF on Windows 11 gets smaller without ever leaving your computer. See our offline PDF compressor overview for how that works.
Windows 11 ships a compact right-click menu by default. If you don't see "Compress PDF" at first, click "Show more options" (or press Shift+F10) to reveal the full menu.
In File Explorer, right-click your file. On the compact menu, pick "Show more options".
Click it once. There are no dialogs or upload screens to wait on.
A compressed version is saved next to the original, ready to email or upload.
That depends on the contents. PDFClick down-samples and re-encodes the images inside the file while keeping text crisp and selectable.
Scans & images
80–95%
Scanned or photo-heavy PDFs see the biggest drop.
Mixed documents
Moderate
Reports with some images fall in between.
Text & vector
Minimal
Plain text has little to remove — that's normal.
On Windows 11, single-file compression is free. A one-time $9.99 Pro license adds batch compression, a compression-level control, and compress-to-a-target-size. No subscription and no account — the same install, unlocked by a key.
Install PDFClick and get a "Compress PDF" command in your right-click menu — free for single files.