About Fileoholic
Fileoholic started with a simple frustration: most online image and PDF tools want you to upload your files to their servers. Your photos, your scanned documents, your tax PDFs — all sitting on someone else's machine, who-knows-where, for who-knows-how-long.
Modern browsers can do this work locally. JavaScript and WebAssembly let your phone or laptop compress images, merge PDFs, and decode HEIC photos right in the browser tab — no upload required. So that is what we built.
How it works
Every tool on Fileoholic runs entirely in your browser. When you drop a file into our compressor, your browser reads it into memory, processes it, and gives it back. No part of the file ever travels to our server. We do not have a server that handles files. The site is a static collection of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript hosted on a global CDN.
You can verify this yourself. Open your browser's developer tools, switch to the Network tab, and watch what happens when you process a file. You will see no upload, no request carrying your file. The work happens locally.
What we don't do
- We do not have user accounts.
- We do not store your files.
- We do not send your files anywhere.
- We do not have a "premium tier" with file-size limits or watermarks.
- We do not require an email address to use anything.
How the site is supported
Fileoholic is supported by display ads (Google AdSense) and occasional affiliate links to paid software when our free browser-based tools cannot do what you need. Affiliate links are always disclosed and never change which tools we recommend.
Who runs this
Fileoholic is built and maintained by Abhijit Bhuyan, a software engineer based in India. Got feedback or a tool request? Get in touch.
Open-source libraries
Fileoholic is built on the work of open-source projects. Big thanks to: