About Cwtch.es

Free, browser-based tools built around one simple idea: your files are yours, and they should stay that way.

Nothing you upload ever leaves your browser

Every tool here — the video editor, the background remover, the PDF toolkit, all of them — runs entirely on your own device. When you drop in a photo, a video, or a document, it's processed right there in your browser tab using the same technology that powers the page itself. It's never sent to a server, never stored anywhere by us, and never seen by anyone but you.

This isn't a policy we promise to follow — it's how the tools are actually built. There's no upload button pointing anywhere, because there's nowhere for it to point.

No accounts, no sign-up, no tracking your files

You won't be asked to create an account or hand over an email address to use any tool on this site. Come back next week, next year, or never again — nothing about you or what you've made is tied to an identity or stored between visits, beyond the ordinary, anonymous analytics most websites use to see how many people are visiting.

The one thing that does get counted

Each tool sends a single anonymous signal when you successfully finish something — export a video, download a GIF, that kind of thing — so we can show public usage stats for the site. That's genuinely the only network request any tool makes on your behalf. It carries no IP address, no session, no filename, and nothing about what you actually made — just a running total per tool, nothing tied back to you or your visit.

Free, and staying free

Building and running all of this costs real time and money, and the way that gets covered is ads — the same as most free sites. We don't sell your data, because we don't have any to sell; the ads here are just ordinary display advertising, not anything built on top of what you upload or create.

If you use an ad blocker, every tool still works exactly the same — the only difference is a small watermark on what you download, as a way of keeping the lights on for everyone else.

Something not working, or missing?

This is a growing collection of tools, and it gets better based on what people actually need. If something's broken, confusing, or you've got an idea for a tool that should exist, we'd genuinely like to hear it.