Changelog
New tools, fixes, and changes to how existing tools work, newest first. Found something that is wrong or missing? Tell us.
Every page checked against what the tool really does
- PDF Password Protect and Unlock PDF now use real AES-256 encryption and real decryption. Before, both turned every page into a picture, so text could no longer be selected, and the "AES" protection was weak RC4.
- JSON Formatter & Validator can repair broken JSON: comments, single quotes, unquoted keys, missing or extra commas and unclosed brackets.
- Regex Tester and Diff Checker highlight matches with a colour per capture group; the diff checker adds an inline view and opening files from your computer.
- URL Encoder & Decoder and Number to Words real encodeURI and encodeURIComponent modes with a Swap button; numbers to words adds euros and pounds and reads decimals correctly.
- Age Calculator rebuilt: age in hours and minutes, the weekday of your next birthday, an age-difference mode, and no more off-by-one-day dates.
- BMI Calculator and Random Number Generator BMI-for-age percentiles for children and teens from the CDC reference; a lottery number picker.
- Video Compressor and Video Trimmer compress to a target size such as 24 MB for email; trim with timeline sliders and preview the selection.
- Remove Line Breaks and Privacy Policy Generator replace breaks with a comma or your own text and rejoin hyphenated PDF words; privacy policies for apps and online stores with a checklist of the data you collect.
Answers to what people were searching for
- Merge PDF can now put pages together on one page: 2, 4, 6 or 9 per A4 or Letter sheet, or every page joined into one long or wide page. Works with a single PDF too.
- Auto Loan Calculator works backwards as well: enter the monthly payment you can afford and see the highest car price it covers. Adds a yearly and month-by-month amortization table.
- VAT Calculator adds a reverse charge calculator for B2B invoices issued without VAT: output VAT to declare, input VAT to reclaim, and the net amount due.
Every tool checked against what its page promises
- Compress PDF now re-compresses the pictures inside a PDF, with light, medium and heavy levels and several files at once. Before, it only re-saved the file, which rarely made it smaller.
- Timezone Converter rebuilt: search by city, an hour slider, a meeting planner that shades working hours, daylight saving worked out for the chosen date, and shareable links.
- Color Picker adds OKLCH, picking a colour from an image or anywhere on screen, and a real text-on-background contrast checker that suggests the nearest passing colour.
- Image Resizer resizes a whole batch, crops to fill or adds borders instead of stretching photos into a preset shape, and can aim for a maximum file size in KB.
- Image Compressor can save as WebP or JPG, cap the longest side, compare before and after side by side, and never hands back a file bigger than the original.
- Image Format Converter writes real BMP files (it used to save PNG data under a .bmp name), puts transparent areas on white for JPG instead of black, converts HEIC to every format, can keep photo details, and compares file sizes across formats.
- HEIC to JPG Converter adds PNG output and a quality setting, and keeps the capture date and camera details in the JPG.
- Image to PDF accepts WebP, HEIC, GIF, BMP and AVIF, adds orientation, margins and per-page rotation, and places phone photos the right way up.
- PDF to Image adds WebP, resolution from 72 to 600 DPI, page ranges, and a transparent background option.
- Split PDF and Merge PDF split by several ranges at once (e.g. 1-5, 8, 12-15); reorder files with the keyboard as well as by dragging.
- Rotate & Flip Image and Add Watermark rotate by any angle with an automatic crop; choose a watermark font, style and outline.
- Audio Trimmer and Audio Speed Changer fade in and out and save as MP3 or WAV; change speed from 0.25x to 4x, with or without keeping the pitch.
- Video to GIF and Video to MP3 pick the start and end of the GIF; choose the MP3 bitrate.
- Sitemap Generator accepts a priority, change frequency and date per URL, escapes addresses such as query strings with &, and flags duplicates.
- Word to PDF shows a preview and adds Print / Save as PDF, which keeps every character in any language.
- Audio and video tools: the file picker can now be reached with the keyboard and accepts dropped files. Buttons with too little contrast were darkened across the site.
Calculators and text tools corrected
- Salary Calculator uses the 2026 US federal tax brackets, standard deduction and Social Security wage base.
- VAT Calculator updated to current VAT rates, now covering 34 countries.
- Compound Interest Calculator fixed a miscalculation of regular monthly contributions — $100 a month at 6% for 10 years now correctly grows to $16,387.93.
- GPA Calculator and Date Calculator the GPA now updates as soon as a course is edited; date differences no longer drift by a day around daylight saving, and working-day counts can skip US federal holidays.
- Text to Binary and Slug Generator work beyond basic English: the translator encodes any language and emoji as UTF-8, and slugs are transliterated from accented, Georgian, Cyrillic and other scripts instead of coming out empty.
- Password Generator and QR Code Generator add memorable passphrases with an exact strength estimate; add Wi-Fi, contact card, logo and SVG options.
- Regex Tester and Voice Recorder all regex flags work, including dotAll and Unicode; recording works in Safari.
Ten new tools and faster pages
- Fill PDF Form, Watermark PDF, Extract Images from PDF, Bates Numbering, SQL Formatter, gitignore Generator, JSON to TypeScript, SVG to PNG, Blur Part of an Image and Remove Duplicate Lines are new.
- Answers in the FAQ sections showed links and code as raw HTML; they now display properly. Tool pages also download about half as much as before.
Image and PDF additions
Overtime and PDF rotation
- Overtime Calculator is new, with US federal and California rules.
- Rotate PDF shows page previews so you can turn individual pages.
Productivity tools
- Resume Builder, Screen Recorder, Keyboard Tester and Stopwatch are new.
New design and installable tools
- QR Code Scanner, Compare PDF, Spin the Wheel, Image to Text (OCR) and Sign PDF are new.
- Any tool can be installed as its own app and opened offline. Home, category and tool pages were redesigned, with faster search and navigation on phones.
UtilHub launched
- The first collection of browser-based tools went online.