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Practical Web Tools: 1,400+ free utilities that run entirely in your browser (no uploads, no signup) (practicalwebtools.com)

submitted 6 days ago by joey_builds@eviltoast.org to c/webdev@programming.dev

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I've been building this on and off for the past year - it started because I got tired of "free" PDF tools that upload your files to who-knows-where or watermark page 2.

Everything runs client-side: a PDF suite (edit/merge/split/sign/OCR), image and audio converters, 200+ calculators, and some AI tools that lean on local models where possible. No accounts, no file size gates, and it works offline once installed (PWA).

The webdev-relevant bits: most of the heavy lifting is WASM (ffmpeg.wasm, tesseract), plus service workers for offline. Honestly the hardest part was memory management on large files in Safari.

Would genuinely like feedback - especially on what tools are missing. If you want to poke at the audio/video side, https://practicalwebtools.com/studio is the fun part.

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[-] lightrain@forum.storstad.net 7 points 6 days ago

There’s this bouncer who won’t let me in because I won’t make myself available to be manipulated by advertising.

[-] Seralth@piefed.seralth.com 6 points 5 days ago

Ad block detectors should be illegal and people using them should have to eat surströmming

[-] msage@programming.dev 1 points 5 days ago

Eat through their nose.

[-] bruzzard@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

I walked away the samw way I walk away from "no-cash" stores. They can keep thief website and lattes to themselves.

[-] desmosthenes@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

feedback is don’t use adblock detection. it’s 2026, shared on lemmy, and you claim it’s client side anyway.

[-] Kissaki@programming.dev 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Is it free (title claim) if I'm blocked from accessing it? I don't think so. At least not freely accessible.

Is it free if I pay with personal data, tracking, and information about me being sold? I don't think so. (The block popover certainly doesn't give any information about their ad practices but I can only assume it'll be a big network tracking users.)

this post was submitted on 22 Oct 2026

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