About

A valet takes your things, handles them carefully, and gives them back. That is the whole idea, and it is also the technical constraint.

What this is

Tools and guides for material you already have — a file, something pasted, a web address. Everything runs in your own browser. Nothing is uploaded, no account is required, and nothing is kept afterwards.

There are currently 17 tools published, with more added steadily. Each one ships alongside an explanation of what it does and, more usefully, what it will not do.

Why local processing

Most online tools work by uploading your file to a server. For a lot of material that is a genuine disclosure: PDFs are contracts and payslips, CSV files are customer lists, and photos carry the coordinates of where they were taken.

Browsers have been able to do this work themselves for years. The reason most tools still upload is that a server is easier to build and easier to charge for — not that it is necessary.

What you will not find

No sign-up wall, no watermark on the free version, no credit system, and no resolution downgrade unless you pay. Not as a promise about future intentions — the tools run on your machine, so there is no per-use cost to recover.

The guides

Roughly half of what is here is written rather than interactive. That is deliberate. Most file problems are not solved by running a tool; they are solved by understanding why å turned into Ã¥, or why a spreadsheet destroyed the leading zeros in a column of postcodes.

Verifying the claims

Everything above is checkable.Here is how to confirm a web tool really runs locally — including this one.