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Small, focused tools that answer one question each — what something actually costs over time, and how two products really differ once you line up the facts. Free, no sign-up, nothing to install.
Domains
2 toolsWork out what a domain really costs you and which registrar to buy it from.
Privacy & Security
1 toolCompare privacy products on facts you can check, not marketing claims.
Writing
1 toolMeasure a piece of writing before you submit it, send it or publish it.
Sharing
1 toolTurn a link, a network or a contact card into something people can scan.
Images
1 toolShrink photos for web or email without losing the detail that matters.
Documents
2 toolsTurn a fixed document back into something you can actually edit.
Free PDF to Word Converter
Convert a PDF into an editable Word file — text, headings, lists and tables, converted in your browser and never uploaded.
Open tool →Free KDP Book Resizer
Resize a book interior PDF to common KDP trim sizes, then run a print preflight check — all in your browser, never uploaded.
Open tool →What these free tools are for
Every one of the free tools on this page started as something we needed while writing an article. They stayed small on purpose: each one answers a single question and then gets out of the way. There is no account to create, no trial that runs out, and no upsell at the end of the result.
The domain tools get used the most. The renewal calculator works out what a name actually costs over five or ten years rather than in the first twelve months, and the registrar comparison lines up the rows that usually differ — renewal price, transfer terms, WHOIS privacy. If you are buying your first domain, ICANN’s summary of registrants’ benefits and responsibilities is worth ten minutes before you do.
The writing, image and document tools cover jobs that normally send people hunting for a paid app: counting words and reading time, shrinking an image before it goes on a page, turning a PDF back into an editable document, and resizing a book interior to a KDP trim size.
What these free tools will not do
None of these free tools replaces the professional software in its category, and none of them pretends to. The comparison tools show only figures a provider has published; they cannot verify a claim about speed, uptime or logging. The document tools handle common, well-formed files well and can struggle with awkward ones — a PDF made from scans, for example, has no text layer to pull out in the first place.
Where the result matters — a print file going to a printer, or a price you are about to commit to for five years — treat the output of any of these free tools as a first pass and check it against the source. Each of the free tools has its own page, and each page spells out what it checks and what it leaves alone.
How these tools get their numbers. Every price, limit and feature in these tools is read off the provider’s own public pricing or documentation pages and re-checked by hand before it goes in. Where we could not confirm something, the cell is left blank rather than guessed.
Prices change without notice, so treat a figure here as correct on the date shown on each tool and confirm on the provider’s site before you buy.