Workforge is a suite of free web tools that run entirely in your browser. No signup. No watermark. No file uploads to servers you do not control. No tracking cookies planted in your session so someone can retarget you with an ad later.
If that sounds obvious, take a walk through the current landscape of "free" online tools. Almost every one of them asks you to hand over your file to a stranger's machine before it will do the work. Almost every one of them slaps a watermark on the output. Almost every one of them gates the useful feature behind a signup, or a trial, or a "free" tier that caps you at three uses per day. That is the tax you pay for pretending the tool is free.
Workforge is my attempt to charge nothing and take nothing. When you open a Workforge tool, the actual computation -- merging PDFs, converting an image, generating an invoice -- happens on your device. The file never leaves your browser. There is no upload endpoint for me to leak or subpoena. The privacy claim is not a promise; it is a consequence of how the code is written.
What is here today
At launch we ship 22 tools across four categories: PDF utilities, image utilities, developer utilities, and finance utilities. The PDF suite covers the common workflows -- merge, split, rotate, compress, reorder pages, add page numbers, convert to and from JPG. The image suite handles background removal, HEIC conversion, compression, WebP conversion, favicon generation, bulk resizing, and social card design. The developer utilities convert between JSON, CSV, YAML, Excel, Markdown, and HTML. The finance tool generates browser-side PDF invoices with editable line items.
All 22 tools work offline once the page is loaded. All 22 tools run on your device using JavaScript and WebAssembly. All 22 tools are indexed by search engines but never index you.
Why it exists
I have spent twenty-two years running operations for other people's companies. When I need to do something small on the internet -- compress a PDF before emailing it to a client, convert a Mac screenshot to JPG for a Windows recipient, merge three signed pages into one document -- I want a tool that respects two things: my time and my file. Almost nothing does both.
The current market answers that gap with a race to the cheapest possible sales funnel. Free tier, upsell, freemium, credit card required to remove the watermark. Workforge answers it by not being a funnel at all. There is no tier. There is no upsell. There is no watermark. The business model, if there is one, is that Workforge is useful enough that some fraction of people who use it will also want the paid product I am building on top of the same platform. That paid product is not any of the 22 tools you see today.
What is coming
The plan is to keep shipping browser-only tools, to keep publishing writeups on how they are built and why, and to build a small ecosystem of paid products (starting with Clausebox for contract review) that share the same privacy stance. If a tool ever ships that quietly uploads your file, I have lost the plot. Hold me to it.
How to use this site
Every tool lives at a stable URL. Bookmark the one you use most. If you want to know when new tools ship, follow the changelog or the roadmap. If you want to reach out, the contact page lands in my inbox and my Discord.
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