About Converte
Converte is a file converter that works in an unusual way: it does not upload your files anywhere.
The problem with the usual converters
Most online converters work the same way: you upload your file to a server, someone processes it there, you download it, and you trust that they delete it when they say they do.
That means waiting for two transfers, depending on your internet speed and, above all, handing a document that might hold a payslip, a contract or a personal photo to a company you do not know.
How Converte works
Modern browsers can run compiled code at high speed through WebAssembly. That makes it possible to bring the very same conversion engines a server would use straight into your browser.
When you pick a file it is read into your device memory, converted right there, and the result is downloaded from there. Your internet connection is only used to load the page.
The practical upshot is no queue, no upload wait and nothing to delete afterwards, because we never receive anything in the first place.
What we use under the hood
All well-known open-source projects: pdf-lib and pdf.js for PDF, libheif for iPhone HEIC photos, SheetJS for spreadsheets, libavif for AVIF and fflate for archives.
The limits, stated plainly
This approach has an honest cost: there are conversions the browser cannot do yet. PDF to Word with faithful layout, or Office formats between themselves, need LibreOffice running on a server. When a conversion has limitations we say so on its own page, rather than letting you find out at download time.
There is also a size ceiling: since everything happens in your device memory, very large files can exhaust it, especially on phones.
How it is funded
By the ads on the page. There is no paid tier, no accounts, no daily limits and no watermarks. If you find the ads annoying we understand you using a blocker; the site will keep working just the same.
Who is behind it
Converte is built and maintained by Nathanael Mateo Rodríguez, under the commercial name TINtÚ Herramientas Digitales, from the Dominican Republic.
If you hit a bug, miss a format or want to suggest something, write to contacto@converte.top.
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