17 September 2026
Restored the full written guide on every tool page. Between 22 August and 7 September the explanatory sections were cut back one page at a time — the formula, the worked examples, the method, the edge cases, the limitations and the sources — leaving the tool, its FAQs and little else. The writing was never deleted, only switched off, and it is back: text, image, PDF and calculator pages all carry their long-form guide again.
- Calculator pages show their formula, worked examples, assumptions, limitations and published sources again. The worked examples are computed by the calculator itself, so they cannot drift from the tool.
- PDF pages keep their numbered how-to and now carry the rest of the guide after it, instead of ending at the FAQs.
- The DevTools method for verifying that files stay on your device moved to Security and File Processing, where it is longer and better. Every tool page links to it rather than repeating it.
7 September 2026
Rebuilt the hash, cron, QR generator, QR scanner, password, UUID, lorem ipsum, slug and CSV-to-JSON tools on a shared set of controls, so the same job looks the same across the site. The hash generator now hashes a file by its bytes rather than by its name.
6 September 2026
Added the Watermark PDF tool: text or image watermarks with position, opacity, rotation and a live preview.
- Rebuilt the URL encoder and the timestamp converter as two-pane workspaces, and put the color converter and JWT decoder on the same layout.
- Rebuilt the regex tester around flags, match positions and a replacement preview.
- Rebuilt the length converter and the word counter around the tool itself rather than the copy beside it.
5 September 2026
Folded the two separate date tools into one Date Difference Calculator, and rebuilt the EMI, mortgage, paycheck, BMI, GPA, tip and discount calculators around the values you enter and the result they produce.
3–4 September 2026
Brought all twelve image tools onto one workspace design: a dropzone, the files beside their settings, then a result stage with the sizes the batch actually produced. JPG to PDF and PNG to PDF gained the same result stage.
2 September 2026
Removed the Edit PDF tool. The PDF hub now lists ten tools in four groups, and /edit-pdf returns a not-found page rather than a stub. Dropped the separator split mode from Split PDF, and turned the PDF menu into a full-width grouped layout.
31 August 2026
Added the Guides index and built out the text and developer tool cluster.
24 August 2026
Added a Cmd+K launcher, tool chaining so a result can be carried straight into another tool, a recently-used list kept on your device, and an /llms.txt for language models. Published the advertising disclosure in the privacy and cookie policies.
23 August 2026
Published Are free PDF tools safe? — one test PDF sent to thirteen popular online PDF tools with the network panel open, recording which ones uploaded the file and what each privacy policy actually promises about deleting it.
22 August 2026
Added Remove EXIF Data, which shows a photo’s hidden metadata before stripping it. Added the live network-activity counter to every tool page. Removed the PDF redaction tool; /redact-pdf redirects to the PDF hub.
21 August 2026
Folded the separate length, weight and temperature pair pages into their hub converters, so one page covers a conversion and its reverse instead of two near-identical pages competing for the same question.
19–20 August 2026
Published the owner and company identity: who runs the site, the registered company behind it, and how to report an error.
15 August 2026
Added a browser-based background remover with transparent PNG output and a selection of plain studio background colors. Started the platform-wide navigation, trust, content-quality, accessibility, and technical SEO review.
13 August 2026
Strengthened the text tools and reorganized the navigation. Rebuilt the image resizer as a preview workspace with platform aspect-ratio presets, improved the PDF merger’s upload gallery and the splitter’s document preview, and gave PDF rotate a page workspace.
24 July 2026
Added interactive image cropping.
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This changelog records material user-facing tool additions, method changes, important corrections, and substantial policy updates. Routine dependency maintenance, formatting, and internal refactoring may not receive individual entries. If something on this list looks wrong, tell me and I will correct it here.