About PixelVault
PixelVault is a free image toolkit that runs entirely in your browser. It exists for one reason: the everyday image chores — compressing, converting, resizing, cropping, blurring, watermarking, stripping metadata — shouldn’t require handing your photos to a stranger’s server.
Privacy-first: every image is processed locally in your browser. Nothing is uploaded, stored or transmitted to any server.
Why it exists
Search for “convert HEIC to JPG” and you’ll find dozens of “free” sites that upload your photos to servers you know nothing about, cover the page with ads, and paywall anything useful like batch processing. For work your own computer can do in milliseconds, that trade always felt wrong.
So PixelVault does it the other way around: the site is just a set of tools that run on your device. No accounts, no ads, no upsells — and your images never leave your machine.
How it works
Modern browsers ship remarkably capable image APIs, and PixelVault is a static site that uses them: when you drop an image on a tool, your own browser decodes it, processes it and re-encodes it locally. There is no backend at all — the site is delivered from a CDN edge and the work happens on your device.
A strict Content-Security-Policy blocks every page from talking to any other server, so the privacy promise is enforced by your browser rather than taken on trust. The details are in the privacy policy.
Free, and staying that way
Tools like these don’t require heavy computation or costly hosting — your own device does all the work. Locking such features behind a paywall never felt right. The vision for PixelVault is simple: let people use these tools without forcing unnecessary payments on them.
Get in touch
Questions, bug reports or tool ideas are always welcome at hi@pixel-vault.app. A human reads every message.