About Every Boring Tool
Everything simple and boring.
Why this exists
Most small jobs online are genuinely boring: merge two PDFs, resize an image, work out a percentage, count characters for a bio, convert a file. The tools that do them are easy to find and unpleasant to use — buried under adverts, gated behind a sign-up, capped at three files a day, or quietly uploading your documents to a server you know nothing about.
Every Boring Tool is the opposite of that. 177 tools, no account, no upsell, and a deliberate bias towards doing the work inside your own browser so your files stay with you.
How it is built
Almost every tool is client-side code: your browser does the work using JavaScript and WebAssembly, and nothing you select is transmitted anywhere. That is why the tools are fast, why there are no usage limits, and why we can afford to give them away.
A handful of tools genuinely need to talk to something else to function — the word games use a dictionary on our server, and two tools fetch resources from a third party. Rather than make a blanket promise we cannot keep, we name each of those individually in the Privacy Policy.
What the tools are and are not
These are practical everyday utilities, not professional instruments. The calculators are useful for estimates and sanity checks, but they are not financial, medical, legal or engineering advice, and results should be verified before anything important depends on them. The Terms of Use set this out in full.
How it stays free
There is no paid tier and no subscription. The site is free to run because the tools run on your device rather than on expensive servers. We plan to add modest advertising to cover hosting and development time; when we do, it will be disclosed here and in the privacy policy, and it will not be allowed to get in the way of actually using a tool.