Privacy
Your files stay on your device.
Not as a policy we promise to follow, but as a property of how the product is built. This page explains the mechanism and how to check it.
What happens to a file you open
- 1
You pick a file. The browser hands TryToPDF a reference to it — the bytes stay where they already were, on your disk.
- 2
When you press the button, those bytes are read into memory and passed to a background worker inside your browser.
- 3
The worker does the work: merging, compressing, splitting, converting. This is ordinary code running on your processor.
- 4
The result is handed back as a download. Nothing about it is transmitted at any point.
At no point is the document sent anywhere. There is no upload step, because there is nowhere for it to be uploaded to.
How to check, without trusting us
Disconnect your internet
Open a tool, let it load, then turn your connection off and process a file. Anything that needed a server would stop working. These tools do not.
Watch the Network tab
Open your browser's developer tools, switch to Network, and process a document. No request is made while it runs.
Read the response headers
Every page is served with a Content-Security-Policy that restricts connections to this origin. Your browser enforces that — it is not something we can quietly change per request.
What we do and don’t collect
Never
- Your documents
- Their contents or any part of them
- Filenames or file hashes
- Passwords you type
- Anything you enter into a tool
Anonymous usage
- Which tool was used
- How many files, in size ranges
- How long it took
- Whether it succeeded, and the error code if not
These are held on your device while you work and only sent afterwards — never during processing. No cookies, no advertising identifiers, no third-party scripts. Documents themselves are a separate matter, covered below.
The one thing that is kept
So that a refresh or an accidental tab close does not lose your work, and so a result can be carried into the next tool without you choosing the file again, recent documents are stored in your browser’s own storage on this device.
- They never leave the device. There is no code path that reads this storage and sends anything.
- They are removed automatically after 24 hours, and only the ten most recent are kept.
- You can clear them at any time, or switch the whole thing off, from the tools page.
- Clearing your browser's site data removes them, like anything else a site stores.
This is the only part of TryToPDF that writes your documents to disk, and it is the reason this section exists rather than being left for you to discover.
No account, no storage
TryToPDF has no accounts, no sign-in and no document storage. There is no database holding your files, because your files are never sent to one. Nothing to breach, nothing to subpoena, nothing to delete.
More detail on the technical guarantees is on the why trust us page.