Relaunching Toolia

Back in 2024 I shipped the first version of Toolia: a small, genuinely free online toolbox with no ads and no tracking. It worked, but it always felt like a first draft. So I tore it down and rebuilt it from scratch.

The new Toolia leans into what it really is, a set of small utilities for your files, and wraps them in a terminal. You get a prompt, a searchable tool list, and each tool opens like you are running a little program. It is a bit playful, and it is also faster and much easier to grow.

The core promise is unchanged, just sharper. There are ten tools now, split across images and PDFs. For images: cropping, scaling, format conversion, compression to a target size, rounded corners, favicon (ICO) creation, and color palette extraction. For documents: merging PDFs, removing pages, and adding watermarks.

Every one of them runs entirely in your browser. Files are read, edited and exported on your own device and never reach a server, so once the page loads the tools keep working offline. No uploads, no accounts, no limits, and still free forever.

The one thing that leaves your machine is a single cookieless page view through Plausible. It tells me which tools people actually use, without building a profile of anyone. Plenty of “free” tools quietly pay for themselves with your data. Toolia does not, and it will not start.

If there is a tool you keep wishing existed, tell me. Toolia grows one useful tool at a time, and the next one could be yours.

Try the new build at toolia.dev.