I’m not looking for a full PDF editor. Only to do tasks like merging and splitting PDFs, removing pages, or creating a PDF from a bunch of images.
https://www.ilovepdf.com is very handy, but I don’t like the idea of uploading my documents to them, especially if they have sensitive data.
You can try pdf24 too. A German freeware tool that works online or local.
Its insane how hard to find these on google with all the cluttered spam pages.