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New tools, and changes to the ones already here. Newest first, and every entry links the page it is about, so nothing on this list is an announcement you cannot immediately go and use.
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Every tool now keeps working after you disconnect — and we test it
Open any tool, switch off your Wi-Fi, and the job still finishes, because the work was never going to the network in the first place. That is now checked on every release in two different browsers rather than being something we assert.
see the measurementsRun the whole thing inside your own network in one click
If you already have a home server or an office box, the install is now a single entry in its app catalogue — no command line. Useful where uploading the document is itself the problem: legal, medical, payroll, anything under review.
run it yourselfLarge files no longer hit a ceiling
The fixed size limit is gone. Big inputs are read in pieces instead of all at once, so the practical limit is your own machine rather than a number we picked.
compress a large PDF
iPhone photos convert without leaving your computer
HEIC is the format an iPhone saves photos in, and most things that are not an Apple device refuse to open it. Both conversions decode the photo in the tab.
convert a HEIC photoThe whole catalogue is two clicks from the front page
Nineteen category pages now sit between the home page and the tools, so finding the right one no longer depends on guessing its name.
browse from the topWhole folders at once, not one file at a time
Batch pages for the three jobs people repeat most: shrinking a stack of PDFs, converting a camera roll of iPhone photos, and renaming files in bulk.
do a batchThe site refuses to load over an unencrypted connection
A promise that your file stays on your machine can be stripped out in transit if the page arrives unencrypted. Plain requests are now redirected before anything loads.
what is enforced
Put a tool on your own site, free
Any tool here can be embedded in someone else’s page with no key and no account. It costs nothing to give away because the work runs in your reader’s browser, not on a server.
grab a snippetA PDF compressor that works on a plane
One page built to be used with no connection at all: open it once and it keeps working after the network is gone, including the engine that does the compressing.
compress with no network
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