Privacy & Verifiability
No data leaves your device
All processing happens in your browser. No files, images, or documents are ever uploaded to a server.
Analytics & cookies
We use a single privacy-friendly analytics cookie (Google Analytics, with IP anonymization) to understand which tools people find useful. It only loads after you click “Accept” in the cookie banner — decline and no analytics cookie is set. This never includes your files or their contents; your documents are always processed entirely on your device.
You can change your mind anytime by clearing this site's data in your browser settings, which resets the banner.
Advertising
GoodWebTools is free and funded by ads served by Google AdSense. Ads appear on the website only — never inside your files, and never in the browser extension or the results of a tool.
Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your previous visits to this website and other websites. Google’s advertising cookies let Google and its partners show you ads based on those visits.
In the European Economic Area, the UK and Switzerland, you are asked for consent before personalised ads or advertising cookies are used. If you decline, Google may still show non-personalised ads, which use cookies only for things like frequency capping and fraud prevention.
We also use Google Ads measurement to see how many visitors arrive from our own ads.
Ad scripts never receive your files, text or tool results — those are processed on your device and are not sent anywhere.
Opt out of personalised advertising in Google’s My Ad Center, or opt out of other vendors’ personalised ads at aboutads.info.
Learn how Google uses information from sites that use its services.
Verify it yourself
- Open Developer Tools (F12)
- Go to the Network tab
- Use any tool and process a file
- Watch: your file is never sent — the only external requests are the page’s own ads and analytics, which never contain it
Works offline
After first use, tools work with your network completely off. This is the strongest proof that nothing leaves your device.
Open source
The code is open source on GitHub — you can audit it yourself or run it locally: slaveofcode/goodwebtools.
Browser extension (GoodWebTools Companion)
The optional Chrome extension follows the same rule: your data stays on your device.
- It only acts when you use it — a right-click action, a popup button, the side panel, a recording or a hotkey. It does not read pages in the background or collect your browsing history.
- An image, text or URL you send to a tool goes from the extension straight to the GoodWebTools tab it opens, inside your browser. It is kept for at most 5 minutes and used once.
- Recordings and full-page screenshots are stored only in the extension’s storage on your device, and replaced by the next one. Favorites, recent tools, pinned tools and settings are stored in your browser.
- “Insert a strong password” makes the password on your device and types it into the field you right-clicked. It is not stored, copied or sent anywhere.
- Its only network requests are: loading GoodWebTools pages, refreshing the tool list from goodwebtools.com, and fetching the images, video or audio you choose to send or save.
- There are no analytics, ads or tracking in the extension. Access to other websites is optional, asked for only when a feature needs it, and can be removed at any time in Chrome’s extension settings.