We designed this app to have nothing to leak.
Every tool on Honest Online Tools runs entirely inside your browser. Your files are read, processed, and written back out on your own device. They are never transmitted to us or to anyone else.
You can verify this yourself
Open your browser's developer tools and go to the Network tab, then use any tool on this site with a file of any size. You'll see the page and its code load, a small anonymous page-view ping to our analytics — and then nothing else. No request ever carries your file data or its contents, because our code never makes one. This isn't a promise you have to take on faith; it's something you can check.
Hosting isn't the same as uploading
We host the Honest Online Tools app itself on Vercel, the same way any website is hosted. That means Vercel serves you our static code — HTML, JavaScript, fonts — the same code for every visitor. It has nothing to do with your files: those never leave the browser tab you're using, so there's nothing about them for Vercel, or us, to receive.
We track anonymous page views
We use Vercel Analytics to see which pages get visited — for example, which tool is most popular. It records the page URL and nothing tied to you as an individual: no cookies, no accounts, no file names, and no file contents. It fires once when a page loads, completely separate from whatever you do with a tool on that page.
If that ever changes, we'll say so
Honest Online Tools is an alpha, and we may eventually add features that genuinely need a server — accounts, saved history, heavier processing than a browser can handle. If we do, we'll label those features clearly, explain exactly what data they touch, and keep them opt-in and separate from the local, no-upload tools you use today. We won't quietly change what "processed locally" means.