Guides & how-tos
Hands-on, no-fluff walkthroughs for getting the most out of every Tooldrop tool — free, private, and right in your browser.
Turn every page of a PDF into a high-resolution PNG image, free and entirely in your browser — no upload, no sign-up.
A step-by-step guide to compressing a PDF in your browser with the free Tooldrop Compress PDF tool, with no upload and no sign-up.
Combine several PDFs into a single file in seconds using Tooldrop's free, private, in-browser Merge PDF tool.
A fast, private way to split a PDF or extract a page range right in your browser, with no sign-up and no upload.
A friendly roundup of the 10 best free PDF tools on Tooldrop — merge, split, compress, watermark and more, mostly in your browser with no upload and no sign-up.
Image
A fast, private walkthrough for turning a PNG into a smaller JPG right in your browser — no upload, no sign-up.
A fast, private way to convert JPG to WebP in your browser and shrink image weight by roughly 25-35% with no sign-up.
Shrink JPG, PNG, and WebP files for faster-loading pages using a free, private, browser-based image compressor.
A quick, private way to resize any image to exact width and height in your browser, no upload or sign-up needed.
Strip hidden EXIF, GPS, and camera metadata from any photo right in your browser — free, private, and done in seconds.
A quick, no-fuss guide to rotating a JPG, PNG or WebP by 90, 180 or 270 degrees right in your browser, with the original quality kept and nothing uploaded.
A plain-English walkthrough for cropping a JPG, PNG, or WebP to the exact region you want — by dragging a box or typing precise pixel values — without uploading your file anywhere.
Stamp your name or brand onto any photo in seconds. Tooldrop's Watermark Image tool draws a text watermark right in your browser, so your file never leaves your device.
Pull the exact HEX or RGB code from any pixel in a photo or screenshot using Tooldrop's free, browser-based image color picker — no upload, no sign-up.
A clear, no-jargon guide to choosing between JPG, PNG, and WebP — with a quick decision checklist and free in-browser converters.
A friendly roundup of Tooldrop's free image tools — compress, resize, convert, crop, watermark and more — that run in your browser with no upload and no sign-up.
QR Codes
Generate a scannable WiFi QR code in seconds, free and entirely in your browser, so your password never leaves your device.
Make a free, editable QR code whose destination you can change anytime without reprinting — and watch the scan count.
Turn your contact details into a scannable vCard QR code for your business card, free and entirely in your browser.
A static QR code bakes the destination into the pattern; a dynamic one points to a short link you can edit and track. Here's how to choose the right one.
Text
A quick, step-by-step walkthrough for creating a truly random, secure password with Tooldrop's free in-browser Password Generator.
A quick walkthrough of Tooldrop's free, private Word Counter — paste your text and see words, characters, sentences and reading time update live.
Paste two versions of any text into Tooldrop's Diff Checker and see every added and removed line highlighted instantly, right in your browser.
A quick walkthrough for switching text between UPPERCASE, lowercase, Title Case, camelCase and more using Tooldrop's free in-browser Case Converter.
Paste a messy list, de-duplicate it in one step, and copy a clean result. Here is how to remove duplicate lines in your browser, free and with no upload.
Developer
Paste any JSON Web Token to read its header and payload in seconds — free, private, and entirely in your browser.
Paste messy JSON, beautify or minify it, and catch errors instantly with this free in-browser JSON formatter.
Paste a JSON array of objects and get clean, spreadsheet-ready CSV in seconds — free, private, and entirely in your browser.
A step-by-step guide to testing regular expressions with Tooldrop's free, browser-based Regex Tester, with live matches and capture groups.
Learn how to check color contrast against WCAG AA and AAA with Tooldrop's free, in-browser color contrast checker — enter two colors and read the ratio instantly.
Pick two colors, set an angle, and copy a ready-to-paste CSS gradient — previewed live in your browser with no sign-up and no upload.
A clear, no-fluff guide to converting decimal to binary, hexadecimal and octal using Tooldrop's free Number Base Converter, with all four bases shown at once.
Need a unique identifier? Here's how to generate one or a hundred random v4 UUIDs in seconds with Tooldrop's free, browser-based UUID generator — no sign-up, nothing uploaded.
A plain-English guide to Base64: what it is, when to use it, and how to encode and decode text in seconds with Tooldrop's free, in-browser tool — no uploads, no sign-up.
MD5 is fast but cryptographically broken; SHA-256 is the modern default. Here's how to choose between them, and where each still makes sense.
A practical roundup of Tooldrop's free, browser-based developer tools — JSON formatting, JWT decoding, regex testing, hashing and more — with no sign-up and no upload.
SEO
A step-by-step walkthrough for building search and social meta tags with Tooldrop's free, in-browser Meta Tag Generator.
A quick, accurate walkthrough for building properly encoded UTM tracking links with Tooldrop's free, browser-based UTM Link Builder.