About
Small tools should be private, open and free to use.
Compressing a PDF or resizing a photo shouldn't need an upload, an account or a subscription. Free the Tools is a growing set of everyday tools that run entirely in your browser, built in the open by Sapience Design and anyone who wants to help.
The pledge
- No strings. No limits, no sign-up, no ads.
- Private. Tools run on your device. Every page carries a security policy that stops it from sending data to any other server, and our automated tests fail if one tries.
- Open. All code is public under AGPL-3.0. You can read it, run it yourself, or improve it.
- No tracking. No analytics, no cookies. Saved tools stay in your own browser.
How a tool gets here
- Someone requests a tool on GitHub. Others vote with a 👍.
- A maintainer accepts it and marks it wanted.
- A contributor builds it from the template and opens a pull request.
- Automated checks run and a maintainer reviews it.
- Once merged, it goes live here with the builder's name on it.
Who is behind it
Free the Tools is an initiative of Sapience Design, a product design studio. Sapience maintains the project, reviews contributions and pays for the domain. Hosting is free on Cloudflare.
For developers and AI agents
The full catalogue is available as JSON at /api/tools.json, described by an OpenAPI file, with a plain-text summary at /llms.txt. Each tool's logic lives in a plain module you can run yourself; some also ship a command-line version.
Licence and name
The code is AGPL-3.0, copyright Sapience Design and contributors. The Free the Tools name and the Sapience name and logo are trademarks and are not covered by the code licence. See licences and trademarks.
Security
Found a vulnerability? Please report it privately through GitHub's private reporting, not in a public issue. Our security policy explains what happens next.