You No Longer Need to Sign In for Any Tool, Including File-Based Ones
Every tool, including PDF, image, video and audio tools, now works with no sign-in, up to 10 trial usages a day.
Until now, file-based tools (anything that works with a PDF, image, video, or audio file) asked you to sign in before your very first use. Everything else on the site, such as calculators, generators, and converters, never required an account. That distinction is gone. Every tool now works with no sign-in at all, up to 10 trial usages a day.
Why it required sign-in before
The honest reason: without an account, there was no reliable way to count "this person has used their 10 trial usages today." Someone could clear their browser and reset the count. Requiring sign-in was the straightforward way to make the daily limit real and fair across everyone using the site.
The problem is that this created a specific bad experience. Someone lands on a file tool for the very first time, hasn't used anything yet, and gets asked to sign in before they have tried it. That runs against the point of the site: every file-based tool already processes entirely in your browser, with nothing uploaded anywhere. Asking for an account before you have done anything sends a mixed signal, even though nothing about how the tools work was going to change.
What changed
Every visitor now gets a random, anonymous identifier the first time they use a file-based tool. It is generated and stored in your own browser, with no personal information attached to it. The daily limit of 10 trial usages tracks against that identifier instead of an account.
You are asked to sign in only once you have used up today's trial usages and want a plan for unlimited access. At that point the reason is obvious, instead of appearing as an unexplained gate before you have tried anything.
In practice that means:
- Open any PDF, image, video, or audio tool and start working right away.
- Your files stay in the browser tab. They are never sent to our servers.
- Your daily count lives in your browser, so it resets each day without any account history behind it.
- When the daily trial usages run out, you can choose a Day Pass or Monthly Pro, or come back tomorrow.
Your daily trial usages are tracked per browser, not per person. If you use a private or incognito window, or a VPN that keeps changing your connection, your usage may not be tracked the way you expect. For the smoothest experience, a regular browser window works best.
What it means for workplaces and shared computers
If you work on a locked-down machine or a shared computer, the change helps. There is no account to create, no password to remember, and nothing tied to your name. You open the page, use the tool, and close it. On a shared computer, clearing the browser data removes the anonymous identifier along with everything else.
Teams that already use a plan can still sign in to keep unlimited access across devices. The change only removes the sign-in wall for people who have not decided yet.
The trade-off, stated plainly
Someone could clear their browser data or use a private window to get more than 10 trial usages a day. We are not trying to close that off. The goal of the daily limit has always been fairness, not airtight enforcement. The trust cost of gating every first-time visitor before they had tried anything was a worse trade than the small number of people who would bother resetting a browser identifier for a few extra usages.
If you use the site heavily, a plan is simpler than working around the limit: the Day Pass covers a single busy day, and Monthly Pro covers regular work. Both are listed on the pricing page.
See why that matters even more on a locked-down work network