SNB DEV
Go looking for a free PDF merger online and count how many of them make you create an account, verify an email, or watch a countdown before they'll hand back your own file. That pattern exists because it works as lead generation — not because it makes the tool better. We built ours the other way.
Two tools, two different privacy tradeoffs
The PDF merger has to touch a server. There's no way around it — real PDF manipulation (merging page trees, rebuilding cross-reference tables) isn't something a browser can do entirely on its own without shipping a very large library to every visitor. Your files get uploaded, merged, and the result comes straight back to you. Nothing is stored, and there's no account behind it — but it's honest to say the files do leave your device briefly.
The image compressor makes no such trip. It resizes and re-encodes your images entirely in your browser tab using the Canvas API — nothing is ever uploaded, which we can say plainly because there's simply no upload code path for it to travel through. That one we'd stake more on.
What "no signup" actually costs us
Every SaaS playbook says the same thing: gate the tool, capture the email, follow up. We're not doing that, which means these tools don't feed a mailing list or a sales pipeline directly. That's a real cost, not a rounding error — free tools are supposed to be a growth engine, and we're deliberately using a slower, less measurable version of it.
What we're betting on instead
The bet is simple: if a tool is actually useful and doesn't waste your time, using it tells you something true about the people who built it — that we can ship something small and make it work properly, without needing your contact details to justify the effort. That's a more honest pitch than a landing page, and it's one you can verify yourself in under a minute.
Try them
Both tools are on the Tools page — no signup, no email wall, and now you know exactly what happens to your files when you use them.