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Processed in your browser

PDF tools that never upload your files.

Merge, compress, split and convert PDFs without your documents leaving your device. Free, no account, and it keeps working when your internet doesn’t.

Your device

or drop one anywhere in this frame

Nothing uploaded · nothing stored

  • No uploads
  • No account
  • No ads
  • No daily limits
  • Works offline

Verifiable, not claimed

Your files stay on your device.

Every PDF site says your documents are safe. Here are three ways to check ours without taking our word for it.

  • Turn off your internet

    Load a tool once, then disconnect. Merge, split and compress keep working. Nothing that needs a server can survive that test.

  • Watch the network tab

    Open your browser's developer tools and process a file. No request is made, because the page is served with a policy that forbids one.

  • Read the policy header

    Tool pages ship a Content Security Policy restricting connections to this origin. Uploading isn't declined by us — it's refused by your browser.

No connection required

Works even without internet.

The first time you open a tool, its processing engine is downloaded and kept on your device. After that the tool runs whether you are connected or not — on a plane, on a train, or on hotel wifi that has given up.

Tools that need a connection are labelled clearly. We do not claim offline support for anything we have not tested with the network switched off.

Cached on this device

  • Merge PDFOffline ready
  • Split PDFOffline ready
  • Compress PDFOffline ready
  • Rotate PDFOffline ready
  • Organize PDFOffline ready

Before you start

Questions people ask first

Is TryToPDF really free?

Yes, and there is no version of it that is not. There are no accounts, no paid tier, no daily limits and no file-size caps beyond what your own device can hold. That is possible because there are no servers doing the work: the tools run inside your browser, so there is no per-file cost for anyone to recover.

Are my files uploaded to a server?

No. Every tool runs entirely inside your browser tab, and the page is served with a Content-Security-Policy that forbids it from sending your document anywhere. You do not have to take that on trust — open your browser's developer tools, watch the Network tab, and process a file. Nothing carrying the document goes out.

Will there be a watermark on my PDF?

Never. Nothing here stamps a watermark, a logo or a footer onto your document, at any file size or page count. The only tool that adds a watermark is Watermark PDF, which does it because you asked it to and with the text you chose.

Do I need to sign up or install anything?

Neither. There is no account to create, because there is no server holding one, and nothing to install — every tool is a web page. You can start using any of them within a second of arriving.

Does it work without an internet connection?

Yes, once you have visited the site once. The tools and the processing engines are stored on your device, so you can turn off your connection and keep working. The offline page lists exactly which tools are ready on the device you are reading this on.

Is there a file size limit?

There is no limit we impose, because there is no server paying for the work — the only ceiling is what your own device can hold in memory. In practice a laptop handles documents of several hundred megabytes comfortably, and a phone rather less, so a very large job may be worth splitting into parts on mobile.

How many files can I process in a day?

As many as you like. Daily limits exist on other services to ration server capacity and to push people towards a paid tier. Neither applies here: your device does the processing, so there is nothing to ration and nothing to upsell.

Can I edit the text inside an existing PDF?

You can add text on top of a page, fill in form fields, highlight, redact and sign. What you cannot do here is reflow an existing paragraph as though it were a word processor document — a PDF stores text as positioned glyphs rather than as editable prose, and any tool that claims to edit it freely is really reconstructing the page and guessing. If you need to rewrite the content, convert to Word, edit there, and convert back.

Which browsers does it work in?

Any current version of Chrome, Edge, Firefox or Safari, on desktop and on mobile. The tools use WebAssembly and Web Workers, which have been standard for years. Very old browsers will load the pages and be unable to run the tools, and they say so rather than failing silently.

Do you keep a copy of my file, or any record of it?

No, because we never receive one. Nothing about your document reaches us — not the contents, not the filename, not its size, not the text inside it. The anonymous usage counts we do collect record which tool was opened and whether it succeeded, and nothing that could identify you or your document.

What happens to my file when I close the tab?

It is gone from the page immediately. Your document is held in the tab's memory while you work and released when the tab closes — the original on your disk is never modified, and results are only saved where you choose to download them. Nothing is left behind in a cache or a queue.

How is this different from iLovePDF, Smallpdf or Adobe?

Those services upload your document to their servers and process it there, which is why they need accounts, daily limits and paid tiers. TryToPDF does the work on your own machine instead. The trade is honest: you get privacy, no limits and offline use, and you give up the server-side rendering fidelity that a few conversions would benefit from.