Why I built 360 file tools that never upload your files
November 1, 2026•227 words
Every time I needed to merge two PDFs or shrink a photo, the free site on top of the search results wanted my file on its server first. Sometimes it also wanted an email, or it put a watermark on the result. That bothered me, because those files are often private.
So I built OpenFile. It is a free and open source toolkit with more than 360 file tools for PDF, images, video, audio, fonts, archives, eBooks, data files and code. The work happens inside your browser tab with WebAssembly, so nothing...
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