13 free tools that usually come with a price tag

13 free tools that usually come with a price tag

Most online tools give you a taste for free, then ask for a card. A short link here, three QR codes there, 20 images per session, and the rest behind a monthly plan. Our tools work the other way: every one of them is free, with no account, no trial that runs out and no watermark.

Many of them also run entirely in your browser. Your images, passwords and files never leave your device, which is rare for tools of this kind.

URL Shortener

Make short links of max 8 characters, public or hidden, with your own code, an end date, a QR code and click stats by day, country and source. Bitly's free plan gives you 5 links a month; its Core plan is $10 a month (billed yearly) for 100 links, and Growth is $35 month-to-month.

QR Code Generator

Make QR codes for links, Wi-Fi, contact cards and more, with your own colours and logo, and download them in print quality. Paid QR services commonly charge $5–$50 a month; QR Code Generator PRO costs about $12.50 a month for 50 codes.

SEO Problem Finder

Crawl a whole website and find duplicate titles, broken links, canonical errors, orphan pages, redirect chains and sitemap errors. Site audits like this are usually part of SEO suites: Semrush starts at $139 a month and Ahrefs Starter at $29 a month.

Image Compressor

Shrink, resize and convert images between nine formats, with no upload limit and nothing sent to a server. TinyPNG's free tool stops at 20 images per session and 5 MB per image; Web Pro costs $39 a year.

JPEG XL Converter

Turn 40+ formats into .jxl – JPG, PNG, HEIC, RAW, PSD, TIFF, SVG and more – right in the browser. Few online converters handle RAW and PSD at all, and fewer do it without uploading your files.

Weather Widget

Build a weather widget with live forecasts from yr.no for your website or info screen. Elfsight's weather widget is free for only 200 views a month; its Basic plan is $6 a month and Pro is $12 a month.

Bootstrap Builder

Design cards, navbars, heroes, pricing tables and forms with your own colours, then copy clean Bootstrap 5 code. Desktop alternatives such as Bootstrap Studio cost $29 for a licence.

Text to GIF

Make animated text with 30 animations, 40 fonts, rainbow colours and glow, and download it as a GIF with no watermark.

Password Generator

Make strong passwords, passphrases and PIN codes with your device's secure random generator. Nothing is sent or stored, and you see how long each password would take to crack.

World Clock

See the time around the world on a live map, convert between time zones and plan meetings across countries.

Day Counter

Count days and working days between two dates, with weekends and Norwegian public holidays worked out for you. Add days to a date to find a deadline, and share the result as a link.

Percent & VAT Calculator

Work out percentages and VAT both ways, with 2026 rates for 39 countries – Norway, every EU country, the UK and more – in the right currency.

Norwegian Calendar

See the whole year with Norwegian public holidays, week numbers and the number of working days in each month.

What the same jobs cost elsewhere

Paying monthly for just the first four services below comes to about $192 a month – more than $2,300 a year (USD, one plan each).

Why free?

The tools are paid for by a few ads on the page, not by your data. There is no sign-up, no email list and no cookie wall to get past. Open a tool, use it, and close it.

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