About YourPDFTools
A small independent team. Based in Australia. Building browser-only PDF tools since 2025.
YourPDFTools is a small independent team of engineers working on one simple problem: making everyday PDF tasks free, fast, and actually private.
We started this project in 2025after getting tired of the state of online PDF tools. Every time we needed to merge two bank statements for a loan application, redact a contract, or compress a scan to fit an email, we had to upload the document to some service we'd never heard of, tick a privacy policy we hadn't read, and hope it got deleted afterwards. The alternative was paying Adobe roughly $15 a month for tasks a web browser is perfectly capable of doing on its own.
So we built the tool we actually wanted. Every feature on this site runs entirely in your browser. Your files never leave your device. There is no server-side processing, no queue, no upload progress bar — because there is nothing being uploaded. You can verify this yourself: open your browser's network inspector, drop a PDF into any of our tools, and watch. Nothing leaves.
How this site is different
Nothing uploaded
Every tool uses client-side JavaScript. Your PDFs, contracts, tax returns and scans stay on your own laptop or phone.
No limits
No file size caps, no daily usage limits, no watermarks on the output, no signup wall, no nagging to upgrade.
Free forever
The core tools will always be free. Advertising pays the hosting bill so you don't have to.
What we don't do
A lot of "free" online tools are free in the sense that a lobster trap is free. They hook you in and charge at the other end. That's not us.
- No accounts, no signups. Every tool works without logging in or handing over an email address.
- No file uploads.Nothing you drop onto this site is ever sent to our servers. We don't have file servers.
- No watermarks. The PDFs you download from here are clean, with no branding stamped on them.
- No fake free tier.We don't let you do a "preview" and then lock the download behind a paywall.
- No file-content tracking. We use standard analytics (anonymous page views) so we know which tools are popular, but we never see the contents of your documents.
How we build it
All PDF manipulation runs through the open-source pdf-lib and Mozilla PDF.js libraries, executed inside your browser's JavaScript engine. OCR uses Tesseract.js with language models downloaded on demand.
The site itself is a Next.js application deployed on Vercel with a CDN in front. The browser downloads the PDF engine code exactly once and caches it. After that, every tool runs offline.
If you want to check our word, open your browser's DevTools → Network tab, load any tool, drop a file in, and watch the requests. You won't see a single byte of your document leave.
How we pay the bills
Running this site costs money — hosting, domain, CDN bandwidth, the occasional coffee at 2am while we debug a cursed PDF edge case. We cover those bills with display advertising, served through Google AdSense.
Ads are kept out of the way: never inside a tool workspace, never blocking an action button, never between you and your download. They sit in the page margins on desktop and as a dismissible anchor on mobile. If you hate ads, feel free to run an ad blocker — the tools will work just the same.
Get in touch
Bug report? Feature request? Want to tell us which tool we missed? We'd love to hear from you. Drop us a line at hello@yourpdftools.com or use the contact form. We read every email and usually reply within a day.