About

The idea

Most small jobs — resize an image, count some words, turn a link into a QR code, get a PDF into something you can edit — don't need an app, an account or a subscription. They need one page that loads fast, does the thing, and gets out of the way.

That's all Gwibbo is. One page per job. Open it, use it, close it. Nothing to install and nothing to cancel later.

Why nothing gets uploaded

Every tool here runs inside your browser tab. When you drop in a PDF, it's read and rebuilt by code running on your own machine — the file never travels anywhere. Same for the text you paste and the codes you generate.

That isn't something you have to take on faith. Open your browser's network panel while you use a tool and watch: nothing goes out. Or load the page, disconnect from the internet, and carry on working — the tools keep going.

Three useful things fall out of that. It's quick, because there's no upload, no queue and no round trip to a server. It's private, because we can't lose, leak or be compelled to hand over a file we never received. And there's no size limitbeyond what your own device can cope with.

What we won't do

• Ask you to sign up. There are no accounts, so there's no email to hand over and no password to forget.
• Watermark your work. What you get out is the finished thing, not a sample of the finished thing.
• Put the good bit behind a paywall. Every tool is complete. There is no pro tier holding the useful half hostage.
• Follow you around. No trackers, no advertising cookies, no profile of what you converted last Tuesday. The privacy policy is short for a reason.

Where the limits are

Running everything on your device is the whole point, but it does set the boundaries. A very large file is limited by your own memory rather than ours. Anything needing a server — sending mail, storing your work between visits, reading text out of a scanned page — isn't something these tools do, and we'd rather say so plainly than bury it.

Each tool page is honest about what it handles badly. That section is there because every converter has failure modes and most sites pretend otherwise.

Who's behind it

Gwibbo is a small independent project rather than a company with a roadmap meeting. That's why the tools are narrow, the pages are plain, and there's nobody trying to convert you into a lead.

What's next

The toolbox grows a tool at a time, and the queue is shaped mostly by what people ask for. If there's a small utility you keep hunting for and re-finding some advert-covered version of, tell us about it on the contact page. The good suggestions jump the queue.