Free online tools for images, PDFs and more
Pixpoo is a collection of small, single-purpose tools for the everyday work that pictures and documents create — nothing to install, no account to open, and nothing added to what you download.
Most of what people do to an image or a document is not creative work. It is a requirement somebody else set: an upload form that refuses anything over two hundred kilobytes, an application that wants a portrait measured in millimetres, a mailbox that bounces attachments above a certain weight, four scans that have to arrive as one file. Those are not design problems. They are arithmetic, and they should take one screen and one button.
That is the whole idea behind the site. Each tool does a single job, tells you what a setting will cost before you commit to it, and hands the file straight back. Where the work genuinely is creative, the photo editor and the whiteboard behave like the applications they are.
What is here
| Area | Size | For |
|---|---|---|
| Image toolkit | 6 tools | One named change to a picture |
| PDF toolkit | 21 tools | Pages, formats, signatures, passwords, scans |
| Photo editor | One canvas | Editing you want to watch happen |
| Whiteboard | 61 templates | Diagrams, planning, thinking out loud |
| Passport photos | 202 specifications | Portraits cut to an official size, in 197 countries |
How it is built, and why that matters to you
The unusual thing about Pixpoo is where the work happens. All 21 PDF tools, the whiteboard and the passport photo maker run entirely inside your browser: the file is read from your own disk, changed in memory on your machine, and written back by the browser. It is never uploaded, which means there is no transfer to intercept and nothing on our side to store. It also means those tools keep going if your connection drops mid-job.
The image toolkit is the deliberate exception. Resize, crop, compress, convert and upscale send the picture to a server, because the library doing that work produces better results than a browser can. It is held in memory for the seconds the job takes and returned immediately, never written to disk and never kept. The photo editor and the watermark tool sit in between, working locally and only reaching out for a few uncommon export formats. Our Privacy Policy sets out precisely which tool does which.
How it pays for itself
Advertising, and nothing else. There is no paid tier, no export credits, no resolution held back and no feature waiting behind an upgrade — what a tool produces is what you get, with nothing stamped on it. A rate limit keeps automated scripts from crowding out people, and working through a folder of your own photographs will not come near it.
We would rather say that plainly than let “free” imply the servers run on goodwill.
Where the tools fall short
Every tool page here carries a section on what its tool cannot do, because the alternative is a visitor discovering it at the point of failure. A few of the honest limits worth knowing up front:
- Compression is lossy. Compressing a PDF rebuilds every page as an image, so the text stops being selectable. That is a fair trade on a scan and a poor one on a report.
- Enlargement cannot invent detail. Upscaling produces a larger, cleaner rendering of what is already there. Unreadable text stays unreadable.
- Text recognition is a best effort. Clean, straight, adequately sized pages read well; faint faxes and photographs of screens do not, and handwriting is out of scope entirely.
- Compliance is not ours to promise. A passport photo can match a template here and still be refused by the office reviewing it, and an electronic signature is not a certified digital one.
- Browser-side tools are bounded by your device. No upload limit, but a several-hundred-page scan is happier on a computer than a phone.
What we are working on
The written material behind each tool is being rebuilt with measured numbers rather than adjectives — what a compression level actually costs in resolution, what a quality setting does to a file in kilobytes, where a limit really sits. Where measuring something has revealed that a control did not do what its label promised, we have changed the label or the control.
The team is small. If a tool is missing, or something is broken, or a page claims something that is not true, tell us on the contact page — the last of those is the one we most want to hear about.