We removed the upload
Most online tools take your file, send it to a server, do the work there and hand it back. That leaves a copy of your file on somebody else’s disk and a promise about what happens to it next. We got rid of the promise by getting rid of the copy.
How it works
Browsers stopped being document viewers a long time ago. A modern tab can decode a JPEG, run a WebAssembly image codec, hash a file and re-encode a video — at speeds that were server-only work five years ago. All 39 tools here are built on that: JavaScript and WebAssembly that read the file from your disk, transform it in memory, and write the result back. No request is made because none is needed.
The honest test is the one we put on the homepage. Open a tool, let the page finish loading, turn off your Wi-Fi, and use it. It still works.
What this actually buys you
- No queue. Nothing is waiting on a shared worker pool, so a busy Tuesday is the same speed as a quiet Sunday.
- No size cap. The limit is your own machine’s memory, not a 50MB rule written to protect somebody’s bandwidth bill.
- Nothing to leak. We hold no copy, so there is none to lose in a breach, none to hand over on request, and none sitting in a backup a year from now.
- Work you can do on a plane. Loaded once, every tool keeps working offline.
What it costs you
Honesty runs both ways. Local processing means a very large file is limited by your RAM rather than by a server’s, a slow laptop is a slow tool, and a crashed tab loses the result — because there is no copy on our side to recover. Work on copies, not on your only version of something.
How it is paid for
It used to be advertising. That script has been removed: it set third-party cookies, profiled visitors, and it made a site whose whole argument is “nothing leaves your browser” into a site that leaked a visitor to an ad network on every page load. We could not defend the contradiction, so we ended it.
The tools stay free — running on your machine costs us close to nothing, so metering them would be an artificial limit rather than a real one. What we sell is on the pricing page: batch processing, saved presets, and history that follows you across devices. Things a stateless anonymous tab genuinely cannot do.
Who builds it
bram is made by Tekhx, a small software studio. We build the tools we wanted to exist and could not find without an account wall.
Found a bug, or want a tool that is not here? Tell us — a person reads it.