Why did I just upload my entire document to a website… just to compress it?

We upload our resumes.

Our photos.

Our PDFs.

Our personal documents.

Just to merge two files. Compress a PDF. Resize an image. Convert a document.

And somewhere along the way, we stopped asking a simple question:

Why does this file need to leave my device at all?

It shouldn't.

If your browser can do the work, why should your file have to travel to a server first?

That question is why I built Inerate Tools.

Inerate is a growing collection of everyday file tools that run directly in your browser whenever possible — so you can work with your files without handing them over to a server.

Merge. Split. Compress. Convert. Resize. Sign. And more.

No upload queue.
No cloud storage.
No account required.

Just open a tool, do what you came to do, and keep your files with you.

The idea is simple:

You shouldn't have to give away your file to use a tool.

I'm building Inerate around that idea, and I'd genuinely love to know:

Does this matter to you?

And if it does, what's the first file operation you'd want to do without uploading your file?