PDF Arranger 1.14.0 ships with an official Windows installer published on GitHub Releases, and the MSI package is the simplest way to install it on a 64-bit Windows PC. This guide walks through the full process: where to get the installer, how to verify the file before you run it, what the setup wizard asks, and how to launch the app for the first time. If you would rather not install anything system-wide, the portable ZIP covered in our portable guide is the alternative.
Step 1: Download the MSI installer
Start from our download page or open the 1.14.0 release on GitHub Releases directly. The file you need is named pdfarranger-1.14.0-windows-installer.msi and it is 63.3 MB. Make sure the filename ends in -windows-installer.msi and not -windows-portable.zip — the ZIP is the portable build, which does not use a setup wizard. Save the file somewhere easy to find, such as your Downloads folder.
Step 2: Verify the SHA-256 hash (recommended)
Before running any installer downloaded from the internet, it is worth spending thirty seconds checking that the file is complete and unchanged. Open Command Prompt in the folder where you saved the MSI, then run:
certutil -hashfile pdfarranger-1.14.0-windows-installer.msi SHA256The command prints the SHA-256 hash of your file. For the official 1.14.0 installer it must match this value exactly:
33ba1c3028cc81eb364b8eed288389fc8a4869c015ce817b9408a3d31e0e90b0If the two strings match character for character, your download is the file published with the 1.14.0 release. If they differ, delete the file and download it again — a mismatch usually means an incomplete or corrupted download.
Step 3: Run the setup wizard
- Double-click pdfarranger-1.14.0-windows-installer.msi to start the setup wizard.
- Step through the wizard pages, read the GPL-3.0 licence if you wish, and keep the default install location unless you have a reason to change it.
- Confirm the installation and wait while the files are copied — on most PCs this takes well under a minute.
- Finish the wizard. PDF Arranger is now registered like any normal Windows program, so it can be uninstalled later from Settings > Apps.
Step 4: Launch and check the install
Open the Start menu, type PDF Arranger, and launch the app. An empty window with an open-file prompt means the install worked. To test it properly, open any PDF: you should see thumbnail previews of every page, and you can try dragging a page to a new position, rotating it, and exporting the result with File > Save As. That round trip — open, rearrange, save — is exactly what PDF Arranger is built for: merging, splitting, reordering, rotating and cropping pages.
Common tips
- No admin project folder needed: PDF Arranger works entirely offline on local files, so you can test it on copies of your documents first.
- Prefer no installation? Use the portable ZIP instead — it runs from an extracted folder and does not use the setup wizard.
- Updating: when a newer release appears, download the new MSI and run it; keeping the version current also keeps the bundled pikepdf and Poppler libraries current.
- Command-line install on several PCs: see our winget guide — winget installs this same official MSI through an unofficial community package.