A toolbox that runs on your device, not on ours
KitYards is a collection of twenty-one small, single-purpose web tools. Each one does one job — count the words in a draft, merge a stack of PDFs, work out what 18% of a number is — and each one loads in about a second, without an account, an email address or an install. There is no free tier and no paid tier, because there is nothing to charge for: the work happens on your own computer.
That last point is the reason the site exists. The usual model for a free online tool is to upload your file to a server, process it there and give you a download link. It is convenient for whoever runs the site and a poor deal for you, because your contract, your ID scan or your unpublished draft ends up on a machine you do not control. Modern browsers no longer need that arrangement: they can resize an image, hash a file or rebuild a PDF locally. Every tool here does exactly that.
What is in the toolbox
Writing and text
For anyone working to a word limit or a character count. Live counting for essays, meta descriptions and social posts, placeholder text for layouts that have no copy yet, and Markdown converted to clean semantic HTML you can paste into a CMS.
Documents and images
The tools most likely to be handling something you would rather not upload. Merge PDFs into a single file, turn photos of documents into a proper PDF, and resize or convert images to get under an upload limit — all without the file leaving your device.
Developer utilities
The everyday conversions that interrupt real work. Encode and decode Base64, format and validate JSON, move data between CSV and JSON with a parser that handles quoted fields properly, generate checksums, and tidy up CSS or JavaScript.
Design and everyday
Convert colours between HEX, RGB, HSL and CMYK with a WCAG contrast check built in, generate QR codes for Wi-Fi, URLs and contact cards, create genuinely random passwords, and do the percentage arithmetic that VAT and discounts demand.
Why it matters that nothing is uploaded
When you drop a file into a tool on this site, your browser reads it into its own memory with the FileReader API, transforms it there, and hands the result back to you through a temporary local URL. There is no upload step because there is nowhere to upload to: KitYards is a static site with no application server and no database. Images are processed with the Canvas API, often in a Web Worker so the page stays responsive; PDFs are rebuilt with pdf-lib; hashes come from the browser's own Web Crypto implementation; passwords use crypto.getRandomValues rather than the predictable Math.random.
You do not have to take our word for any of it. Open your browser's developer tools, switch to the Network tab, and use any tool here — you will see the page load and then nothing more. For the strongest test, load a tool page once and disconnect from the internet: it keeps working, because everything it needs is already on your device.
What you will not find here
- No account, no email address, no verification step before you can use anything.
- No file size caps, page limits or watermarks used to push you toward a paid plan — there is no paid plan.
- No upload of the content you process, and therefore no retention policy to read and no breach that could expose it.
- No tracking of what you paste, convert or generate. The advertising that funds the site sits around the tools and has no access to what is inside them.
- No dark patterns: every tool is complete on its own page, and every feature is available to everybody.