Tools that respect
your time and data.
Toolorah is a growing collection of 53+ free online tools — for text, code, design, conversion, and PDFs. No signup, no dark patterns, no nonsense. Just tools that work, built by people who were tired of the alternatives.
We believe the small utilities you reach for every day shouldn’t cost you your privacy, your patience, or your attention. So we build them the way they should be: fast, private, and genuinely free — and we keep them that way.
The principles behind every tool
Privacy by default
Most primary tool inputs are processed in your browser. Features that need a connection identify what they send and where it goes before you use them.
Fast, not flashy
No bloated ads, no popups, no waiting on a spinner. Open a tool, get your result, move on with your day.
No dark patterns
No fake countdowns, no buried unsubscribe links, no “free” tools that hold your output hostage behind a paywall.
Built for everyone
Developers, writers, students, designers. If it saves you a few minutes, it belongs in the toolbox — free to use, no signup.
The exceptions, by name
46 of the 53 tools never open a network connection at all — the work happens in the page you already have open. Seven can make a network request under the circumstances described below. This is every one of them, and exactly what it sends.
- Currency converter A request for the day’s exchange rates. The amount you typed is not part of it — the conversion is done in the page after the rates arrive.
- Crypto converter A request for current coin prices. As above, the amount stays in the page.
- Domain checker The domain name you typed. There is no way to check availability without asking the registry.
- Word counter — thesaurus lookup only The single word you look up. Counting, reading time, and every other statistic never leave the page; only pressing the thesaurus opens a connection.
- QR generator — tracked codes only The destination URL, plus a scan record (time, coarse location, device type) each time someone scans the code. An ordinary QR code is drawn in the page and sends nothing.
- PDF editor — choosing a font A request for the font file itself. Your document is never part of it and never leaves the page.
- Image to text (OCR) — first use of a language A request for that language’s trained data, a few megabytes, cached by your browser afterwards. Recognition itself runs in the page via WebAssembly; your image is never transmitted.
Choices you can check
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Nothing is uploaded to be processed
46 of the 53 tools do their work in your browser. Close the tab and the data is gone — there is no copy on our side to delete, to leak, or to be asked for.
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Third-party requests are named, not denied
The interface typefaces are served from our own domain rather than a font CDN. Three things do reach third parties, and pretending otherwise would be the easiest claim here to disprove: pages carrying ads load Google AdSense, the PDF editor fetches your chosen font from jsDelivr, and OCR downloads its language data from a public CDN. The table above says what each one sends.
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Server features are named, not hidden
The AI assistant, the API, saved history and team workspaces need an account and a server, because they cannot work any other way. They are listed here rather than buried in a policy page.
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Six languages
The interface is translated into German, English, Spanish, French, Chinese and Hindi. Machine-translated pages say so, on the page.
Where the money comes from
Toolorah is currently free to use. We intend to support eligible public pages with advertising, and we never sell tool inputs or account data.
Nothing you put into a tool is sold or shared, and for 46 of them we never receive it in the first place. Paid subscriptions are not currently available. When billing launches, our policies will be updated with the payment provider and applicable terms.
The short version
It started with frustration
Every “free” online tool seemed to come with layers of ads, a forced signup, or a watermark on the output. We just wanted to count some words.
So we built our own
One clean tool, then another. Each one fast, private, and free — the kind of utility we actually wanted to use ourselves.
And kept going
Today Toolorah is 53+ tools across text, code, design, conversion, and PDFs — with new ones shipping every week.
Have an idea, or just want to say hi?
We read every message — feature requests, bug reports, and the occasional thank-you.