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About ConvertPicto

What this is

ConvertPicto is a collection of 41 small, focused image tools — converters, compressors, a resizer, an image-to-PDF maker and a few developer utilities. Every one of them runs entirely inside your web browser.

Why 'in your browser' matters

Most online image tools upload your file to a server, process it there, and send the result back. That's slower than it needs to be, and it means a copy of your file — which might be a passport scan, a contract, a private photo — passes through someone else's infrastructure.

Here, your browser does the work using its built-in Canvas API. The file is read from your disk into memory, processed, and offered back as a download. It never touches a network connection. You can verify this yourself: load a tool, switch off your Wi-Fi, and it keeps working.

Open source

ConvertPicto is open source under the MIT licence. The complete source — the static-site generator, the client-side image engine and the test suite — is on GitHub.

That means the privacy claim above is not something you have to take on trust. You can read exactly what the code does, check that there is no upload endpoint anywhere in it, and run the whole site yourself if you want to.

How it's funded

The site is supported by ads. There's no premium tier, no sign-up, no watermark, and no limit on how many files you process.

Who makes it

ConvertPicto is designed, built and maintained by Ihtisham Khalil, an independent web developer. It started as a small converter built for personal use, after getting tired of image tools that either uploaded files to a server, added a watermark, or hid the download behind a sign-up. Every tool here is added and tested by hand, and the whole site runs on a single shared engine so a fix in one place fixes every tool.

Questions, bug reports and format requests are welcome at contact@ihtishamkhalil.com.