Why this is free
Your PDF is processed by your own browser, not by our servers. There is no upload to pay for, no compute to bill and no storage to rent — so there is no reason to charge you at the download button. No account, no watermark, no file limit, no trial that expires.
Precisely
What “free” means here.
- No signup — no email, no account, no “continue with Google”
- No watermark — the file you download is the file you made
- No file limit for browser-based tools — no daily cap, no queue
- No paywall at download — the result is never held pending payment
- No upload — for browser-based tools the file never leaves your device
Being straight about it
The part thatisn’t free.
Some formats cannot be handled in a browser. Office conversions (PDF↔Word, Excel, PowerPoint) need a real Office engine, and heavy OCR on long scanned documents is impractical client-side. Those run on a server, which means the file is uploaded. When that happens the page says so before you start, and the file is deleted the moment your download begins — never kept, logged or reused.
Those six conversions also carry a 25 MB file size cap, stated plainly on each of those pages rather than discovered at the download step. It exists because — unlike every browser-based tool here — this is compute we pay for per file, and an unlimited upload endpoint is an open cost with no bottom. Nothing else about them is limited: no account, no watermark, no payment step.
We would rather name those tools than make a blanket promise that is not true everywhere. A privacy claim with a quiet exception in it is worth less than an honest one with a stated boundary.
So what do you get out of it?
Reach, honestly. Tools that are genuinely free get used, linked to and recommended, and that is the asset worth having. If we ever add a paid tier it will be for things this page does not cover — never a toll gate in front of a download you have already made.