About PrivaQuickTools

Why it exists

The ordinary way to merge two PDFs or trim a video online is to upload the file to a stranger's server, wait, and download the result. For a holiday photo that is fine. For a contract, a payslip, a medical scan, a database dump or an API token pasted into a JSON formatter, it means handing a copy of something private to a service whose retention practices you cannot inspect.

Browsers have been able to do this work themselves for years. This site exists to use that capability for the tasks where it matters, and to be specific about what the approach does and does not achieve — rather than to make broad privacy claims and leave the details unstated.

What is here

The 97 tools are grouped into the categories below. The PDF tools are additionally collected under a single PDF hub.

• Organise PDF Pages (3) — Combine several PDFs into one, split a document into separate files, and rotate pages.
• Edit PDF Content (5) — Annotate, sign, watermark, number and crop PDF pages without uploading the document.
• Optimise PDF Size (1) — Reduce PDF file size in the browser, with an honest report of what was actually saved.
• Convert To and From PDF (3) — Turn images into a PDF, export PDF pages as JPG images, and extract text from scans with OCR.
• Image Tools (8) — Compress, crop, convert, blur faces in, and extract colours from images in your browser.
• Video and Audio Tools (4) — Record your screen, trim video, convert audio, and turn a clip into an animated GIF.
• Developer Tools (15) — Format and validate JSON, test regular expressions, decode tokens, convert data formats and inspect schedules.
• Security Tools (6) — Generate passwords and UUIDs, compute hashes and HMACs, inspect JWTs, and encrypt text.
• Web Tools (4) — Encode URLs and HTML entities, generate QR codes, and inspect what your browser reports about your device.
• Text Tools (3) — Generate placeholder text, convert between naming cases, and count words, characters and reading time.
• Unit Converters (13) — Convert length, weight, temperature, volume, area, speed, time, power, energy, pressure, data and storage units.
• Financial Calculators (8) — Estimate mortgage, loan, car, credit-card, investment and retirement figures with standard formulas.
• Health and Fitness Calculators (8) — Calculate BMI, BMR, calorie needs, macros, body fat, ideal weight and pregnancy dates from published formulas.
• Maths Calculators (8) — Evaluate expressions, work with fractions, percentages, triangles, volumes, statistics and sequences.
• Everyday Calculators (8) — Work out ages, date differences, worked hours, grades, GPA, height conversions and concrete volumes.

How privacy is handled

Privacy here is a property of the architecture rather than a policy about conduct. Files and text are read into the browser tab and processed there; there is no upload endpoint for tool input, so no copy of your document is created on any server and none can be retained, shared or exposed. There are no accounts, and this site's own code sets no cookies.

The exceptions are stated rather than hidden. Four tools download a processing engine from a public CDN on first use, which reveals your IP address to that CDN. Device Info asks this site's own server for the IP address your connection presents. Google Analytics and Google AdSense load only if you grant those categories in the consent banner, and the contact form writes what you submit to a Google Sheet the operator reads. How it works sets out what the design protects against and what it does not, and shows how to verify both in your browser's Network tab.

How it is maintained

The standard applied to every tool is that its page must describe what the tool actually does, including where it is weak. Each tool page states how it handles your data, the limits of its output, and the cases where it will fail. Guides explain the reasoning behind the awkward parts — why a PDF sometimes cannot be compressed, where unit conversions lose precision, what local processing really means.

The clearest illustration of that standard is what happened to two tools that used to be here. Lock PDF and Unlock PDF claimed to add and remove AES password protection. The PDF library this site uses cannot encrypt or decrypt files at all, so both tools failed every single time, while their pages described protection they could not apply. They were not patched or quietly left in place: they were withdrawn, and their URLs now redirect to the PDF editing hub. A tool that cannot do what its page says is removed, because a broken promise about security is worse than a missing feature.

How it is paid for

The tools are free and there is no paid tier. Running costs are covered by advertising through Google AdSense, which loads only for visitors who consent to it. Declining leaves every tool fully functional; nothing on the site is withheld behind a consent choice.

Getting in touch

Bug reports, corrections and suggestions go through the contact form, which is the only contact route: there is no published email address, and the project has no support team, so no response time is promised. A report that names the tool, the browser and what went wrong is the kind that gets fixed. Issues can also be raised on the project's GitHub repository.