About OLD TOOLS

Our Technology

We leverage modern web technologies like HTML5 Canvas, WebAssembly, and high-performance JavaScript APIs to perform complex operations — image compression, format conversion, resizing, cropping, watermarking, and more — directly on your device's hardware, with no server-side file processing involved.

This approach protects your privacy as a direct consequence of how the tools are built, not as an added-on promise, and it also means results appear almost instantly since there's no upload or server round trip to wait for.

Why I Built OLD TOOLS

I'm Suraj Kumar, the founder and developer of OLD TOOLS. Like a lot of people, I regularly needed to compress a photo, convert a file format, or resize an image for a form — small, everyday tasks. What frustrated me was that almost every free tool online required uploading the file to an unknown server first, just to get a simple result back.

For a quick screenshot that's a minor inconvenience. For a scanned ID document, a signed form, or a private photo, it's a real privacy concern — and it shouldn't be the trade-off you have to accept just to resize an image.

So I built OLD TOOLS around a different approach: every tool runs directly in your browser using standard web APIs, so your file is processed on your own device and never uploaded anywhere. What started as a handful of image tools has grown into a suite of $57+ free tools covering images, PDFs, and text utilities.

Our Mission

The mission is simple: give people useful, professional-quality file tools without asking them to trade away their privacy. Your files belong to you, and no online tool should require you to hand over sensitive images or documents just to compress or convert them. Privacy here isn't a checkbox — it's the architecture.

Who We Are

OLD TOOLS is built and maintained independently by a single developer. It's not backed by outside investors or a larger company — just one person building tools they wanted to exist, and improving them based on how people actually use them.

Suraj Kumar

Founder & Developer

I build and maintain OLD TOOLS end-to-end — from the tools themselves to the privacy-first architecture behind them. My focus is on keeping every tool genuinely useful, fast, and free, without asking anyone to give up their privacy to use it.