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Your files stay on your computer. Do not take our word for it.

Every other site that does this asks you to trust a sentence in a privacy policy. This one can be checked in about a minute, by you, right now. Here is how.

requests this page made to anywhere else
requests to this site — the page you are reading

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Three ways to check, hardest first

  1. Pull the plug. Open the tools, use one once so your browser has the files, then turn off your Wi-Fi or switch on aeroplane mode and reload the page. It still opens, and every tool still works. Software that sends your files somewhere cannot do that.
  2. Watch the network yourself. Press F12 (⌥⌘I on a Mac), open the Network tab, then merge, convert or compress something. You will see the page and its code load once, and then nothing — no upload, whatever the file size. Compare that with any site that has a progress bar during "processing".
  3. Read what is running. Right-click anywhere and choose View page source. There is no analytics tag, no tracker, no third-party script. This very page loads nothing at all — no font, no stylesheet, no script from outside — which is why the number above can be zero.

What we do and do not do

Send your files to a serverNever. There is no server to send them to.
Ask for an account, an email, or a paymentNo. None of the tools are gated.
Set cookies, or run analytics or advertisingNone of the three.
Limit file size or how many files you may doNo — the limit is your own computer's memory.
Keep anything after you close the tabNothing. Your files were only ever in this tab's memory.
Store one small thing on your deviceYes — which of the three colour themes you picked, so the page does not forget it. It lives in your browser and never leaves it.
Keep a copy of the site so it works offlineYes — your browser caches the code, the same way it caches any page. You can clear it any time from your browser's settings.

Why this is possible at all

Browsers grew up. Reading a PDF, decoding a photograph, recognising letters in a scan, drawing a CAD file — all of that now runs perfectly well inside a tab, on your own processor. The usual reason a file-conversion site uploads your document is not that it must; it is that a server is easier to bill for and easier to measure. We chose the harder build and kept the files where they started.

One honest caveat: the recognition models and the drawing decoder are large, so the first time you use those particular tools your browser downloads that code from this site — code coming down, never your files going up. After that they work offline too.