About

Tools that work on your device, not ours

The short version

OrchidLines is a collection of free utilities — image editing, converters, calculators, developer tools and more — that all run inside your web browser. When you drop a file onto a OrchidLines tool, that file is read from your own disk into your own browser’s memory, processed there, and handed straight back to you. It is never uploaded anywhere.

Why that matters

Almost every other “online converter” works the opposite way. You upload your file, their server does the work, and you download the result. That model has costs, and those costs get passed on to you as restrictions:

  • File size caps, because bandwidth and storage cost money.
  • Daily limits and queues, because CPU time costs money.
  • Sign-up walls and paid tiers, to recover those costs.
  • A privacy question you can’t answer — your file is now on someone else’s computer, and you are trusting a policy document about what happens to it next.

Because OrchidLines never receives your files, none of those costs exist for us, and none of those restrictions exist for you. Process a thousand images. Use it all day. Drop in a 400 MB video. We are not paying for any of it.

How is this technically possible?

Browsers have quietly become very capable. The same engine that renders your photos and plays your videos is available to web pages through standard APIs:

  • Canvas decodes, resizes, crops, filters and re-encodes images.
  • Web Audio cuts, mixes, and processes sound in real time.
  • WebCodecs gives pages direct access to the hardware video encoder and decoder.
  • WebAssembly runs real compiled libraries — the same ones that power desktop software — at close to native speed.
  • WebCrypto provides audited, hardware-accelerated encryption and hashing.
  • WebGPU runs AI models on your graphics card, locally.

None of these need a server. They just needed someone to build the interface.

Verify it yourself

Do not take our word for it. Open any tool, press F12 to open your browser’s developer tools, and switch to the Network tab. Now use the tool. You will see the page’s own files load and you will see advertising requests — and you will not see your file transferred anywhere, because it isn’t.

The stronger test: load a tool page, then turn off your internet connection entirely, then use the tool. It still works. A tool that needed a server could not do that.

So how is it free?

Advertising on the page, and nothing else. There is no premium plan, no watermark you have to pay to remove, no export limit, and no account. We do not sell data about you — and since your files never reach us, there is no file data to sell in the first place.

If you use an ad blocker, the tools still work exactly the same. We are not going to hold a JPEG hostage.

What OrchidLines is not good at

Being honest about the limits is part of the deal:

  • Very large files are bound by your device’s memory. A phone will struggle where a laptop won’t.
  • The first use of an advanced tool (AI, video encoding) may download a one-time engine or model. After that it is cached and instant.
  • Professional print work needing 16-bit colour or exotic colour profiles is outside what browsers expose.
  • Nothing syncs between your devices, because nothing is stored anywhere but your device.

Get in touch

Found a bug, or want a tool that isn’t here yet? We would like to hear it — see the privacy page for contact details.