About Free the Tools
Everyday tools should not cost money.
They should not come with ads.
They should not put your files at risk.
They should not be hard to find.
So here they are: one place, every tool, free for everyone.
Small tools for everyday jobs, like making a PDF smaller or turning a photo into a JPG. Each one works inside your browser, so your files stay on your device.
- Your files stay on your device
- The tools run on your own device. Every page carries a security policy that stops it sending data to any other server, and our automated tests fail if one tries.
- No account
- We don't ask who you are. No cookies, no IDs, no analytics scripts. We count visits and how often each tool is used, never what you put into it. See exactly what's counted.
- Free to use
- No limits, no watermarks, no ads and no paid version.
- Open source
- The code is public under AGPL-3.0, so anyone can check what each tool does, run it themselves or improve it.
How a tool gets here
- Someone suggests a tool. No account is needed.
- A maintainer accepts it and gives it a page marked “Not built yet”. Others press “I want this”.
- 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 Design maintains the project, reviews contributions and pays for the domain. Hosting is free on Cloudflare.
Why it is free
Your device does the work, and the pages are plain files, so a million visitors cost about what one does. That is why the tools can stay free, with no limits and no ads.
Donations pay for the domain and for the time it takes to build tools, review them and keep the site safe. A donation never unlocks anything. Companies can sponsor a tool someone has asked for, and the tool page thanks them by name.
Works with AI assistants
Claude, Cursor and other AI assistants can run these tools on your own computer, free and with no login. Your files are never uploaded. Every job an assistant does is recorded in your library, on your device.
How much can a browser do?
More than most people expect. Ghostscript, the engine behind professional PDF software, runs inside the page as WebAssembly. So do qpdf, the PDF library pdf-lib, and the image codecs, and every tool keeps working offline once you have opened it. Every year the gap between "needs a server" and "runs on your device" gets smaller, and we add tools as it closes.
Next on the list: files bigger than your memory, text recognition for scans, translation, and pages in more languages. Jobs that still need a server, such as rebuilding a PDF as an editable Word file, wait until a browser engine can do them. We do not add a server to get there.
For developers
The full catalogue is available as JSON at /api/tools.json, described by an OpenAPI file, with a plain-text summary for language models at /llms.txt and every tool's details at /llms-full.txt. Each tool's logic lives in a plain module you can run yourself.
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. The tools are provided as they are, without warranty, as the AGPL says. Check the output yourself before relying on it. 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.