About

We built Everyday Tools because small jobs — merge a PDF, shrink a photo, convert a unit — should take a minute, not an account. No sign-up, no paywall, no email just to use a tool.

Who built this

This site is run by a small editorial team, listed on every page as the Everyday Tools Editorial Team. We are not a PDF company, not a photo company, and not a software firm. We got tired of free tools that ask you to upload your files to a server first, then make you wait, then ask for your email. So we built the tools we wanted to use ourselves: pick a file, do the job in your browser, download the result. Every page carries a byline and a last-updated date.

Why the tools run in your browser

Most free PDF and image tools work by sending your file to their server, doing the job there, and sending the result back. That means a copy of your document or photo sits on a computer you do not control, even if only for a minute. These tools work the other way round. The PDF tools use the pdf-lib and pdf.js libraries, kept on this site. The image tools use your browser's built-in canvas. The everyday calculators are plain JavaScript. Nothing is uploaded, nothing is stored, and nothing is seen by anyone else. Close the tab and the files are gone.

What the site has

Four PDF tools: merge PDF files into one, split a PDF into pages or a page range, compress a PDF, and convert PDF pages to JPG. Three image tools: resize an image, compress an image with a quality slider, and convert between PNG, JPG and WebP. Six everyday tools: a unit converter, an age calculator, a percentage calculator, a BMI calculator, a word counter, and a password generator. Two guides explain the ideas behind the tools — how to compress a PDF, and the differences between image formats — with real numbers from files we tested ourselves.

How we check the tools

Every worked example on the site was checked by running the real code. The PDF merge, split and compress tools were run end to end in Node on small test PDFs, and the numbers on those pages are the numbers that came out. The image examples use real files we made and measured: the same test photo saved as PNG, JPG and WebP. The calculator examples were run through the same code the pages use. If a reader tells us a number looks wrong, we check it against the code first and fix the page if we got it wrong. You can report a problem on the Contact page.

What this site does not do

This site does not store your files, your photos, or your numbers. It does not give medical advice — the BMI calculator is a rough guide, and the page says so. It does not give financial or legal advice. It does not sell anything. If a tool has limits, the page says so plainly — for example, that re-saving a text PDF may not shrink it at all, because the text was already packed tight.