About Freetol
Simple, free tools for everyday work with PDFs, images, text and numbers.
What Freetol is
Freetol is a website of 25 free online tools for jobs that come up every day: making a PDF smaller, joining or splitting PDFs, resizing and converting photos, counting words, and working out ages, percentages and dates.
The name comes from “free tools”, and the idea is simple: open a tool, do the job, and get on with your day. There is nothing to install and no account to create.
How we build tools
A tool is only listed as ready after it has been built and tested. We test each one with automated checks on phone-sized and desktop-sized screens, including opening the files it creates to make sure they are correct.
The tools
Freetol’s 25 tools are grouped into 7 categories:
- PDF Tools: PDF Merger, PDF Splitter, PDF to JPG, JPG to PDF, PDF Compressor
- PDF & Office Tools: PDF to Word, PDF to Excel, PDF to PowerPoint, Word to PDF, Excel to PDF
- Image Tools: Image Resizer, Image Compressor, Image Cropper
- Converters: JPG to PNG, PNG to JPG, Unit Converter
- Calculators: Age Calculator, Percentage Calculator, BMI Calculator, Discount Calculator
- Text Tools: Word Counter, Character Counter, Case Converter
- Everyday Utilities: QR Code Generator, Date Difference Calculator
You can also browse everything on the All tools page.
Who runs Freetol
Freetol is an independent project run by the Freetol Team from Pakistan. The website is written in English for people around the world.
Questions, problems and ideas for new tools are welcome. See the Contact page.
How we write and check our guides
The tools, help text and guides on Freetol are written and checked by the Freetol Team. Before anything is published:
- every tool is tested with real files and real numbers, on phones and computers, and its limits are written on its page;
- facts in guides, such as phone settings, file formats and formulas, are checked against official documentation, which is linked where it helps;
- calculators use published definitions, such as the World Health Organization’s adult BMI categories and the exact international unit conversion factors;
- each guide shows the date it was last updated.
If you find a mistake, please tell us on the Contact page and we’ll correct it.
How Freetol is funded
Freetol is free to use. At the moment the website shows no advertising and has no sponsors.
To cover running costs in future, Freetol may show advertising or include affiliate links to products and services. If that happens, ads will be clearly separated from the tools, affiliate links will be disclosed, and the Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy will be updated first. The tools will stay free.
Open-source software
Freetol is built with these free, open-source projects. We are grateful to the people who make them.
| Project | Used for | Licence |
|---|---|---|
| pdf-lib | Creating and editing PDFs (merge, split, compress, JPG to PDF, Word and Excel to PDF) | MIT License |
| PDF.js (Mozilla) | Reading and showing PDF pages (PDF to JPG, PDF to Word, Excel and PowerPoint) | Apache License 2.0 |
| docx | Creating Word files (PDF to Word) | MIT License |
| docx-preview | Showing Word documents (Word to PDF) | Apache License 2.0 |
| html2canvas-pro | Drawing document pages as pictures (Word to PDF) | MIT License |
| ExcelJS | Creating and reading Excel files (PDF to Excel, Excel to PDF) | MIT License |
| PptxGenJS | Creating PowerPoint files (PDF to PowerPoint) | MIT License |
| JSZip | Reading and writing Office files, used by docx-preview and PptxGenJS | MIT License (or GPLv3) |
| Tesseract.js, with the Tesseract OCR engine and its English language data | Reading text on scanned pages (OCR) in PDF to PowerPoint | Apache License 2.0 |
| qrcode-generator | QR codes | MIT License |
| fflate | ZIP downloads | MIT License |
| Familjen Grotesk and Figtree | Fonts | SIL Open Font License 1.1 |
| Astro | Building the website | MIT License |
These projects include smaller libraries of their own. The exact versions, licences and copyright notices of everything the website sends to your browser are listed in our third-party software notices.