browsermade is a small set of file tools that run entirely inside your web browser. Nothing you drop into them is uploaded, because there is no server to upload it to.
Why it exists
Most free converters online work the same way: you hand over your file, it travels to a company's server, something happens to it there, and you download the result. That is fine for a holiday snap. It is less fine for a passport scan, a bank statement, a medical letter, or a photo with your home address embedded in its GPS data.
Browsers can now do this work themselves. Image decoding, compression, and file writing all run locally at reasonable speed. So these tools are built that way instead — the file is opened by your own browser, processed by your own processor, and saved back to your own disk. It never crosses the network.
That is not a promise about how data is handled. It is a property of how the tools are built, and you can verify it: open your browser's network tab while converting, or disconnect from the internet after the page loads. Everything still works.
How the tools work
Each tool is a single self-contained page, usually under 30 KB, with no framework and no tracking. A few technical decisions are worth spelling out, because they are what make these different from the alternatives:
- HEIC to JPG uses libheif compiled to WebAssembly — the same open-source library behind most HEIC support — running in a pool of background threads. EXIF metadata is extracted from the original container and re-injected into the JPEG, so capture dates survive.
- Image compressor finds a target file size by binary-searching encoder quality, and automatically reduces dimensions when quality alone cannot reach a small enough size. If re-encoding would produce a larger file than the original, it returns the original instead.
- Remove EXIF & GPS edits the file structure directly rather than re-saving the image, so the compressed image data comes out byte-for-byte identical. Removing metadata costs you nothing in quality.
- JPG to PDF embeds your JPEG's existing compressed data straight into the PDF, because that is exactly what the format's DCTDecode filter expects. No decoding, no re-encoding, no bloat.
No accounts, no limits, no ads on your files
There is nothing to sign up for and no cap on how many files you convert. Because the work happens on your device, extra usage costs nothing to run, so there is no reason to meter it.
Who makes it
browsermade is built and maintained by one person, as an independent project. It is not a company, and there is no team behind a support queue — if you email, you reach the person who wrote the code.
Bug reports are genuinely welcome, particularly if a file fails to convert. Browsers differ in awkward ways — Safari cannot write WebP files at all, for instance — and specific examples are what get those cases fixed. If a file will not convert, saying which browser and which format helps more than anything else.
Privacy
There are no analytics, no cookies, and no third-party tracking on this site. The full detail is on the privacy page.