Free online tools that work inside your browser
Merge a PDF, shrink a photo, pull the audio out of a video or turn a scan into text you can edit. The work happens on your own device rather than on a server, so nothing is uploaded, nothing waits in a queue and the file is ready in seconds.
- Files stay on your device
- No sign up
- Instant results
The tools people reach for first
These six cover the jobs that come up almost every week, whether you are tidying a report before you send it or getting a photograph down to a size an upload form will accept.
Merge PDF
Drop in several documents, drag them into the order you want, and download one clean file. Pages are copied exactly as they were, so text stays selectable and nothing is re-encoded.
Merge files nowPDF to Word
Turn a document back into something you can edit, with paragraphs, headings and lists carried across rather than dumped as one block of text.
Convert to WordCompress PDF
Bring a heavy file under an email or portal limit. You choose how hard to push it, and the before and after sizes are shown so you can judge the result before saving.
Shrink a PDFImage Compressor
Bring photo file sizes down for a website or a form without the blotchy edges that ruin a picture. Run a whole folder at once and download them together.
Compress imagesBackground Remover
Lift a person or a product off its background and save a transparent PNG ready for a listing, a slide or a letterhead. A before and after slider shows exactly what changed.
Remove a backgroundVideo to MP3
Pull the audio track out of a clip when the picture adds nothing, such as a recorded lecture or an interview. An hour of speech drops from hundreds of megabytes to a few.
Extract audioImage to Text
Read the words out of a photograph, a screenshot or a scanned page and copy them straight into whatever you are writing. Sixteen languages, and nothing is sent away to do it.
Read text from an imageEvery tool, grouped by the job it does
Five families of tools, each built for a particular kind of file. Pick the group that matches whatever is sitting on your desktop right now.
PDF Tools
Combine, separate, shrink and convert documents, including the Office formats people actually need to hand back. No watermarks, no page limits and no queue.
See all PDF toolsImage Tools
Resize, convert and clean up photographs for websites, listings, applications and social posts, plus quick conversions like PNG to JPG and WebP to PNG.
See all image toolsVideo and Audio Tools
Trim clips, lift out the audio and turn short moments into GIFs you can drop into a chat or a ticket.
See all media toolsText and Speech Tools
Move words between pictures, spoken audio and plain text, so you can stop retyping things by hand.
See all text toolsCareer Tools
The documents a job or a small business actually needs, from a resume screening software can read to a properly worded experience letter.
See all career toolsHow a conversion actually works here
There is no queue, no progress email and no waiting room. The whole job happens on the machine you are already sitting at.
Open the tool you need
Every tool has its own page with nothing else competing for space. There is no account to create, no email address to hand over and no trial countdown before you can use it.
Add your file
Drag it in or browse for it. Your browser grants the page permission to read that one file and nothing more. Because there is no upload, a large document starts immediately instead of crawling up your connection first.
Save the result
The finished file appears straight away and downloads to your usual folder. Close the tab and nothing is left behind, here or anywhere else, because nothing was ever stored.
Your files stay on your computer, not on ours
Think about what people actually convert. Signed contracts. Bank statements. Payslips. Medical letters. Passport scans for a visa application. The ordinary route is to upload all of it to a company found through a search result, where it sits on hardware nobody can inspect under a policy almost nobody reads.
Browsers became capable enough to avoid that about a decade ago. Every tool here uses that capability, so your file is opened where it already sits and the result is written on the same machine.
- Nothing is transmitted Your contract, payslip or family photograph is read by the page itself. It never crosses the network, so there is nothing for anybody to store, leak or delete later.
- Results in seconds The slow part of an online converter was always the upload and the queue behind it. Remove both and a job that used to take a minute finishes about as fast as you can click.
- Works with the connection off Once a tool page has loaded, most of them keep working with your wifi switched off. That is also the simplest way to prove no server is involved.
- No accounts and no limits There is no daily cap, no watermark on the output and no upgrade prompt sitting between you and a finished file.
The standards every tool here has to meet
A converter is only useful if you can trust the file that comes out of it. These are the rules each tool is held to before it goes live and every time it is updated.
Processing stays local
If a job can be done in the browser, it is done in the browser. No tool here quietly sends your file to a server as a shortcut, and any future exception would be stated plainly on that tool page rather than buried in a policy.
Tested on awkward files
Every tool is checked against the inputs that break things, including scanned documents, PDFs exported by very old software, photographs straight off a phone and recordings made in a noisy room.
Speed is a feature
Pages load fast and stay responsive while a file is being processed. Nothing here pulls in a heavy library until the moment you actually ask for the job, so opening a tool costs you almost nothing.
Works on the browser you have
Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari are all supported on desktop and mobile. Where a browser genuinely cannot run a tool, the page says so on arrival instead of failing halfway through the job.
Clear about limits
Where a tool trades quality for size, cannot open a format, or will struggle on a phone, the page tells you before you start. You should never be surprised by the file you download.
Kept up to date
Browsers change what they support and file formats move on. Tools are revisited when that happens rather than left to quietly break in the background.
What people ask before their first conversion
Yes. There is no paid tier, no credit system and no watermark added to your output. The site is paid for by advertising on the pages, which is why you will see ad slots around the tools rather than a paywall in front of them.
Nothing, because it never left your device. The tool reads the file in your browser, produces the result there and hands it straight to your downloads folder. Closing the tab clears everything from memory.
Open your browser developer tools, switch to the network panel and use any tool on the site. You will see the open source library it needs come down and nothing go up. A simpler test: load a tool page, switch your connection off, and use it. Most of them carry on working, which would be impossible if a server were involved.
We do not impose one. The practical limit is your own device memory, so a phone handles a smaller video than a desktop with plenty of RAM. For documents and photographs this rarely becomes an issue, and where a tool has a sensible ceiling it tells you the number and the reason.
No. Everything runs in a normal browser tab on Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari, on desktop and on mobile. There is no extension to add and no application to download.
Only where you ask it to. Merging and splitting copy your pages exactly as they are, so nothing changes at all. Compression trades some quality for a smaller file by design, and those tools let you choose how far to go and show you the result before you save it.
Browsers can only read what they already understand. MKV, AVI, WMV and HEIC have never had decoders in browsers, so no page can open them. Converting to MP4 or JPEG in any desktop application first solves it, and the tool says so rather than failing quietly.
Yes. Your files remain entirely yours and we make no claim over anything produced with these tools. Use them for client work, listings, coursework or anything else.
Pick a tool and get it done
No account to create and nothing to install. Choose the job you need, drop your file in, and have the result back before you have finished reading this sentence.