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. 279 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.
Who makes it
Every Boring Tool is built and maintained independently — not by a large company — which is exactly why it can stay lean, free, and clear of the sign-up walls, watermarks and upsells that clutter most “free tool” sites. The full source code is public on GitHub, so anyone can read exactly how each tool works and confirm for themselves that files are processed on your own device rather than uploaded somewhere.
If you hit a bug, spot something wrong, or wish a particular tool existed, email contact@everyboringtool.com — a real person reads it, and the small, specific requests are usually the ones that turn into the next tool.
Common questions
- What is Every Boring Tool?
- Every Boring Tool is a free collection of small, practical online utilities — PDF and image tools, unit and format converters, everyday calculators, developer and SEO helpers, word games and more. Each one does a single boring job well, with no account and no clutter.
- Is it really free? Is there a catch?
- Yes, it is free, with no paid tier and no subscription. It can stay free because the tools run on your own device rather than on expensive servers. We plan to add modest advertising to cover hosting and development time, and that will always be disclosed here and in the Privacy Policy.
- Do I need to sign up or create an account?
- No. There is no sign-up, no email and no login anywhere on the site. You open a tool and use it straight away.
- Are my files and data private?
- Almost every tool is client-side code, which means your browser does the work and nothing you select is transmitted anywhere. A few tools genuinely need to talk to something else — the word games use a dictionary on our server, and a couple fetch resources from a third party — and each of those is named individually in the Privacy Policy rather than hidden behind a blanket promise.
- Are there any usage limits?
- No. There are no daily caps, no file-count limits and no features held back behind a paywall. Use any tool as much as you need.
- Do the tools work on a phone?
- Yes. Everything runs in a normal web browser on desktop, tablet or phone, and there is nothing to install.