About GARGLOO
Gargloo (gargloo.com) is a free, privacy-first utility platform. It started with a simple annoyance: every time you need to shrink a PDF or convert an image, you land on a page that demands an upload, an email address, or your patience. We think basic file utilities should feel like a good pocketknife — always there, always free, never asking questions.
The technical repository may still be called FileForge in places — that is an internal name. The public brand is GARGLOO. Wherever a tool can run entirely in your browser, it does: no accounts, no uploads, no waiting rooms.
What we believe
Privacy is architecture, not a promise
We don't ask you to trust us with your files — the tools physically can't receive them. Processing happens in your browser.
No accounts
Nothing on this site requires signup. Your recents and favorites live in your own browser storage, controllable and deletable at any time.
No fake anything
No invented user counts, testimonials or 'trusted by 2 million' badges. When a feature is coming soon, it says so plainly. When data doesn't exist yet, we don't display numbers.
Fast is a feature
Local processing means there are no queues and no artificial delays. Heavy libraries load only for the tool that needs them.
The business model
66 tools today, more shipping regularly. The site is supported by clearly separated advertising that never sits between you and your work — and never will. Optional future revenue (a Pro tier for heavy batch jobs, affiliate recommendations marked as such) follows one rule: if paying or clicking something would ever be a worse experience than not doing it, we designed it wrong.
Who's behind this
To be completed before public launch — operator / team name — see Contact for how to reach us. We publish no invented company history, team bios, customer counts, awards or testimonials — only what is verifiably true.
How tools are built and tested
Every tool ships with automated checks: the registry validates that slugs, links and FAQs are consistent; unit tests cover conversion math, text engines and validators; and each release must pass lint and a full production build. New categories (like Converters and Generators) only launch when every tool in them genuinely works — never as placeholders.