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Free tools for students: scan notes to PDF, merge and compress assignments, convert PDF to Word, transcribe lectures, count words and meet upload limits.

A free toolkit for YouTubers, TikTokers and Instagram creators: thumbnails, vertical video, subtitles, compression, music and more, all in the browser with no watermark.

Free tools for small businesses and online shops: product photos with white backgrounds, logos and favicons, contracts and invoices as PDF, QR codes and short links.

How SaveForMeNow's tools process images, PDFs, video and audio inside your browser instead of uploading them, which tools use a server, and how to check for yourself.

How to make JPG, PNG and WebP images smaller without visible quality loss, which compression level to pick, and real before-and-after sizes.

Crop photos to a square, 4:5, 16:9, 9:16 or any free shape, one by one or in a batch, without losing quality. Which ratio each platform uses.

Why animated GIFs are so big and how to shrink them by reducing width, colours and frame rate, while keeping the animation. Plus when to use MP4 instead.

Take and make passport, visa and ID photos at home in 35 × 45 mm, 2 × 2 inch and other sizes, with a plain background and a 6 × 4 inch print sheet.

Make small or blurry photos high resolution with AI upscaling (2× or 4×), or enlarge logos and graphics instantly. Which upscaler to use and what to expect.

Remove grain and colour speckles from night, indoor and high-ISO photos while keeping edges sharp. Which strength to use and what causes image noise.

Remove date stamps, text, captions, stray logos and small unwanted objects from your own photos with AI inpainting, free and on your device.

Remove a photo's background automatically and get a transparent PNG or a white background, free and without uploading. Tips for clean edges on people and products.

How to resize a photo for Instagram without cropping: fit the whole picture into a 4:5 or 1:1 post with a border, the exact sizes Instagram uses, and Reel cover tips.

Resize images by pixels, percent or a ready-made preset without stretching them. What Keep proportions does, and how resizing changes file size.

Rotate photos 90 or 180 degrees, flip or mirror them, and fix pictures that look sideways in some apps. Works for one photo or a whole batch.

Sharpen soft or slightly blurry photos with an unsharp mask. What amount, radius and threshold do, the best settings, and how to avoid halos.

Add a text or logo watermark to photos in bulk. Best position, size and opacity, how to stop people cropping it out, and which tool to use.

The right YouTube thumbnail size (1280 × 720, under 2 MB), why YouTube rejects thumbnails, and how to make one from any image or video still.

What HEIC files are, why Windows and websites reject them, and three ways to open or convert iPhone photos to JPG.

The right width, file size and format for images in email newsletters and signatures, and how to prepare them in one step.

How to get a photo under an exact limit like 20 KB, 50 KB, 100 KB or 1 MB for forms and uploads, and what to do if it still won't fit.

Photos from phones can reveal exactly where they were taken. How to check a photo for GPS location, remove it before sharing, and stop your phone adding it.

The image sizes used for Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, YouTube, X, LinkedIn and Pinterest posts, profiles and banners, with a tool to resize to each one.

Which image format makes the smallest files, and when should you use each? Real file sizes for the same photo saved as PNG, JPG and WebP, plus where AVIF fits.

Turn tables in PDF invoices, bank statements and reports into an Excel spreadsheet with real numbers, and convert Excel or CSV files back to PDF. Free and private.

Convert a Word document (.docx) to PDF for free, keeping headings, lists, tables and pictures. What converts well, how to handle .doc files, and how to make the PDF smaller.

Edit a PDF for free: add text anywhere, tick boxes, add dates, white out mistakes and fill in PDF forms, without installing software or uploading the file.

Stamp CONFIDENTIAL, DRAFT, SAMPLE or your name across every page of a PDF. Choose size, angle, colour and transparency, centred or tiled.

Number PDF pages with your choice of position, format ("Page 1 of 10"), starting number and size, and skip the cover page. Free and in your browser.

Convert a PDF to an editable Word (.docx) document for free, keeping text, headings and bold type. What converts well, what doesn't, and what to do with scanned PDFs.

Save every page of a PDF as a JPG or PNG image at 72, 150 or 300 DPI. Which resolution and format to choose for screens, sharing and printing.

Turn JPG, PNG and phone photos into one PDF, one image per page, on A4, Letter or pages that fit each image. Also how to scan documents with your phone.

Combine several PDFs into one file in the order you choose, without losing quality or adding a watermark. Plus how to merge only some pages.

Put a password on a PDF with AES-256 encryption, optionally block printing and copying, and remove a password you know. Free and done on your device.

Reorder PDF pages by dragging, rotate sideways pages, and delete pages you don't need, without losing quality. Free, no watermark, nothing uploaded.

Sign a PDF in your browser by drawing, typing or uploading your signature, then add initials and the date. Free, no account, and the document stays on your device.

Extract pages from a PDF, save one page, split every page into its own file, or split every few pages. How page ranges like 1-3, 5, 8- work.

Email attachment limits for Gmail, Outlook and Yahoo, and how to shrink a PDF to fit without making the text unreadable.

Every iOS, Android and PWA app icon size you need, why iOS icons must be square and opaque, what adaptive and maskable icons are, and how to generate them all from one image.

Put a caption, title or label on a photo with your choice of font, colour, size and style, and keep it readable on busy backgrounds. Free, no watermark.

Blur or pixelate faces and number plates, and black out names, addresses and ID numbers in photos and screenshots before sharing. Which method is actually safe.

Convert a PNG, JPG or SVG into an ICO file with several sizes inside (16 to 256 px) for website favicons and Windows icons. Which sizes to include.

Find the dominant colour of an image or extract a full colour palette with HEX, RGB and HSL codes, and export it for CSS, Tailwind or design apps.

Make a classic meme with bold top and bottom text on any picture, with no watermark and no sign-up. Font, size and outline tips, and how to share it.

Combine 2 to 9 photos into one collage in a grid, rows, columns or feature layout, sized for Instagram, Stories or A4 print. Free, no watermark.

Round the corners of images or turn a square photo into a circle with a transparent background, for profile pictures, avatars and web design.

The right Open Graph link preview image size (1200 × 630), the meta tags Facebook, LinkedIn, X and WhatsApp read, and how to make a full website asset pack from your logo.

Which favicon files a website needs in 2026, what each one is for, the HTML to add, and how to check your favicon is working.

What srcset and sizes do, why they speed up pages, and copy-and-paste HTML for responsive WebP images with a JPG fallback, alt text and lazy loading.

What aspect ratio means, how to calculate it from width and height, common ratios like 16:9, 9:16, 4:5 and 1:1, and how to resize without stretching.

What a Base64 image and data URI are, how to use them in HTML, CSS and email, when embedding is a bad idea, and how to convert Base64 back into an image file.

Find an image's width and height in pixels, its aspect ratio, megapixels and file size, for one image or many at once. Dimensions vs file size explained.

How to check the DPI of an image online, on Windows, Mac and phones, what the number means for printing, and how to change an image to 300 DPI without losing quality.

Extract text from screenshots, photos and scanned documents with free OCR in your browser, in English and a dozen other languages. Tips for accurate results.

What DPI really means, why it doesn't change how an image looks on screen, how big a photo can be printed, and how to change DPI without losing quality.

What EXIF metadata is, what it can reveal about a photo (camera, settings, date, GPS location), how to view it and how to remove it.

Character and word limits for X posts, Google meta descriptions, Instagram captions, LinkedIn posts and essays, plus how to count words, characters and reading time.

How HEX, RGB and HSL colour codes relate, how to convert between them, and what WCAG contrast ratios mean for readable text.

Compare two versions of a text, document or code and highlight every addition and removal, line by line or word by word. Private: nothing is uploaded.

How long a strong password should be, how strength in bits works, why random beats clever, and how to generate secure passwords safely on your own device.

The most common JSON errors (trailing commas, single quotes, unquoted keys) and how to fix them, plus how to format, validate and minify JSON in your browser.

Sentence case, Title Case, UPPERCASE, camelCase, snake_case, kebab-case and more, with examples of when to use each, and how to convert text instantly.

What lorem ipsum is, where it comes from, why designers use placeholder text, and how to generate paragraphs, sentences or words as text or HTML.

Convert MOV, MKV, AVI and other videos to MP4 so they play on any phone, computer and TV. Which format to choose, and whether converting loses quality.

Crop a landscape video to vertical 9:16 for TikTok, Reels and Shorts, square 1:1 or 4:5 for Instagram, keeping the part you choose. No black bars, no watermark.

Join two or more video clips into one MP4 in the order you choose, even with different sizes and formats. Why merging takes time and how to make it faster.

Record your screen, a window or a browser tab with your microphone and tab sound, without installing anything. No watermark and no time limit.

Remove the audio from MP4, MOV, WebM and MKV videos in seconds without re-encoding, so quality stays exactly the same. Also how to keep or replace the sound.

Fix a sideways or upside-down video by rotating it 90° or 180°, or mirror a selfie video. Saved as an MP4 that plays the right way up in every app.

Make a video faster (up to 4×) or slow motion (down to 0.25×) while voices keep their normal pitch. How long the result will be and how to make a timelapse.

Transcribe video and audio to text with Whisper AI in your browser, and make SRT or VTT subtitles for YouTube and social media. Free, around 100 languages, nothing uploaded.

Discord's free upload limit is 10 MB. How to get a clip under it without making it unwatchable, with the settings that matter and what to do for longer videos.

How to get the sound out of a video as MP3, M4A or WAV, which format to choose, and how to keep the quality without making huge files.

How to cut the start and end off a video on a phone or computer, get exact times, and keep the file small, without installing an editor.

How to turn part of a video into a looping GIF, which settings keep it small, and when a short video is a better choice.

Three ways to make a video file smaller, what each one does to quality, and a real example that cut a 1280 × 720 clip by 77%.

Cut an MP3, M4A or WAV file to the part you want by start and end time, add fade in and fade out, and save as MP3, M4A, WAV or an iPhone ringtone.

Make a ringtone from any song or video for iPhone (M4R, up to 40 seconds) or Android (MP3), with fades, and how to add it to your phone.

Make MP3 and other audio files smaller by lowering the bitrate, and when to use mono. Best settings for voice notes, podcasts, lectures and music.

Join MP3, M4A, WAV, OGG and FLAC files into one track, back to back or with a 2 or 5 second crossfade, and save as MP3, M4A or WAV.

Record your voice in the browser on a phone or computer, with a level meter, pause and resume, and save it as MP3. Tips for clear voice recordings.

MP3, M4A (AAC), WAV, FLAC and OGG compared: quality, file size and compatibility, which bitrate to choose, and how to convert between them.

Save public videos from Instagram, Facebook, X, Pinterest, Vimeo and more as MP4 or MP3 on iPhone, Android or a computer. What works, what doesn't, and what's legal.

Shorten a long URL for free with no account, choose your own ending, and turn it into a QR code. Short links never expire and redirect straight to your page.

How big to print a QR code so it scans reliably, which colours work, how much error correction to use, and how to test it before printing.

Barcode types explained: EAN-13, UPC-A and Code 128, which to use for products, stock and shipping, how check digits work, and how to make and print barcodes that scan.

How to calculate percentages: X% of a number, what percent one number is of another, percentage increase and decrease, discounts and adding tax, with worked examples.

How to calculate exact age in years, months and days from a date of birth, find your age on a specific date, and count total days lived. Includes leap-year rules.

How to convert a time between time zones, plan meetings across countries, and handle daylight saving time and half-hour offsets, with a free world clock.

Pick a random name or winner fairly with a spinning wheel: classroom picks, giveaways, teams and decisions. How to make it fair and pick several winners.

How to scan a QR code on a phone, laptop or from a screenshot, read barcodes, and check where a QR code links before opening it to avoid scams.

Use a free online notepad that saves notes automatically in your browser: quick lists, drafts and ideas, with no account, plus how to keep notes safe and move them between devices.

Turn text into speech for free in your browser: listen to articles, notes and your own writing in many languages, change speed and pitch, and add more voices to your device.

A quick unit conversion chart for length, weight, temperature, volume and data, with the exact factors (inches to cm, lbs to kg, °F to °C) and a free converter for any value.

Instagram has no download button for Reels. How to save a public Reel as MP4 on iPhone, Android or a computer, what can't be saved, and how to use it fairly.