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Most online PDF tools upload your file to a server and ask you to trust a deletion policy. OnDevicePDF processes files in your browser instead — 22 of 23 tools run entirely on-device (WebAssembly), free, no account, works offline. And we publish exactly which feature is the exception, per-tool. Launching soon.
Hey Product Hunt 👋
I built OnDevicePDF because of a small, uncomfortable moment I think everyone's had: you drag a PDF into a free online tool — a contract, a tax form, a medical record — and you have no idea what just happened to it. Was it uploaded? Stored? Copied? You're trusting a deletion policy you never read.
So I built the version I wanted: 25+ PDF tools (merge, split, compress, convert, OCR, sign, redact, protect) where the file is processed right in your browser. For 22 of the 23 tools, nothing is uploaded — there's no server to send it to. No account, no watermarks, works offline after the first load.
The part I'm most proud of isn't a feature — it's the honesty. A lot of "private" tools claim "100% local" and hope nobody checks. I didn't want to do that. There's exactly one tool (the advanced PDF Editor) that uses a temporary, auto-deleted backend for six specific operations like OCR and complex text edits — and instead of hiding it, we publish a page listing exactly which tool that is and why: https://www.ondevicepdf.com/data...
Building it, the biggest shift was realizing "browser-based" isn't the selling point anymore — plenty of tools do that now. The trust comes from being specific about where your file goes, tool by tool. That's the thing I'd want as a user, so that's what I made.
It's free. I'd genuinely love your feedback — especially where it breaks or where you don't believe a privacy claim. Poke holes in it. 🙏
— Ravi
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About OnDevicePDF on Product Hunt
“25+ PDF tools that never upload your files”
OnDevicePDF was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 0 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #26 on the daily leaderboard. Most online PDF tools upload your file to a server and ask you to trust a deletion policy. OnDevicePDF processes files in your browser instead — 22 of 23 tools run entirely on-device (WebAssembly), free, no account, works offline. And we publish exactly which feature is the exception, per-tool. Launching soon.
OnDevicePDF was featured in Web App (122.9k followers), Productivity (656.2k followers) and Privacy (11.2k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 190.5k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
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