All tool categories

Which category do you need?

The split is by the kind of file you are holding, not by the kind of job you are doing. That is worth knowing because several jobs appear in more than one place: converting a photo into a PDF starts in the image tools, while pulling a page out of a PDF as a photo starts in the PDF tools.

PDF tools

Use these when a PDF already exists and you need to change its shape: joining several files into one, splitting a long document, removing or reordering pages, rotating scans that came in sideways, making the file smaller so it fits an upload limit, or adding page numbers, a watermark or a signature. This category also covers converting a PDF into another format, and turning a scan into selectable text with OCR.

Image tools

Use these when the file is a photo or graphic. The three jobs that come up most are resizing to specific dimensions, compressing to get under a size limit, and converting between formats such as JPG, PNG, WebP and HEIC. There are also tools for cropping, rotating, adding text or a logo, stripping camera metadata before you share a photo, and generating icon sets at the sizes apps and websites expect.

Document tools

The newest and smallest category, for editing the text inside a document rather than rearranging its pages. It is still growing, so it holds fewer tools than the other two.

Something these categories share

Every tool listed here runs inside your browser. Your file is read from your device, processed on your device, and saved back to your device — it is never uploaded to us. Nothing needs an account, and nothing adds a watermark to what you download.

The trade-off is that speed depends on your own hardware rather than on a server, and a handful of operations are not possible in a browser at all. Each tool page states its own limits, and we leave out tools we cannot do properly instead of shipping a version that half-works.