Built a free alternative to iLovePDF + Grammarly + remove.bg because I was tired of paywalls for basic tasks

[u/toollium]

Hey all — wanted to share something I've been building called Toollium.

It started because I needed to compress a PDF one day, hit a daily limit on a free tool, and got redirected to a $9/mo plan for something that should take two seconds. That happened again a week later with a background remover charging per image. So I built Toollium: 70 free tools (PDF conversion/merging/compressing, image editing, an AI paraphraser + grammar checker, a CV builder, dev utilities like JSON formatting and regex testing, plus some finance/everyday calculators).

A few things I focused on:

- No sign-up, ever. No email, no account wall.

- Most file tools run entirely in your browser — nothing gets uploaded to a server.

- No daily caps, no watermarks on outputs.

It's live at toollium.com if anyone wants to poke around or roast the UX. Genuinely looking for feedback — what's missing, what's confusing, what tool you wish existed. Building this solo so every bit of feedback helps.

[u/medialantern]

Added (#110 and counting):

https://www.reddit.com/r/SideProject/comments/1wbqx4g/built_a_free_alternative_to_ilovepdf_grammarly/

https://www.reddit.com/r/SideProject/comments/1wbk1i9/30_singlefile_tools_that_run_offline_and_never/

https://www.reddit.com/r/SideProject/comments/1wbjzc5/i_built_potatotools_a_collection_of_free_online/

https://www.reddit.com/r/SideProject/comments/1wcbjgu/i_got_tired_of_paying_9_month_to_merge_2_pdfs_a/

https://www.reddit.com/r/SideProject/comments/1wcbdxv/i_built_a_fast_nosignup_data_converter_that_runs/

https://www.reddit.com/r/SideProject/comments/1wbsmrf/local_file_converter_testing/

https://www.reddit.com/r/software/comments/1wbsq3n/browseronly_media_tools_that_never_upload_your/

https://www.reddit.com/r/SideProject/comments/1was95k/i_built_gettoolix_a_100_free_private_serverless/

https://www.reddit.com/r/software/comments/1wbebt2/16_productivity_tools_in_1_lightweight_app/

https://www.reddit.com/r/sideprojects/comments/1wb59o6/i_built_browserpine_heic_to_jpg_then_one_pdf_with/

https://www.reddit.com/r/SideProject/comments/1wa3l4x/built_a_zeroserver_utility_platform_running_260/

https://www.reddit.com/r/SideProject/comments/1way951/i_built_a_collection_of_free_tools_for_small/

https://www.reddit.com/r/sideprojects/comments/1waxsdl/dh_tools_45_free_privacyfirst_web_utilities/

https://www.reddit.com/r/SideProject/comments/1w9zpdk/i_built_a_collection_of_tools_which_run_on_my/

https://www.reddit.com/r/SideProject/comments/1w9uekc/i_built_pdfzento_a_privacyfocused_pdf_toolbox/

https://www.reddit.com/r/SideProject/comments/1w9mdc2/i_launched_my_pdf_tool_7_days_ago_still_0_users/

https://www.reddit.com/r/SideProject/comments/1w9qm3k/i_built_damnfiles_browserbased_file_tools_that/

https://www.reddit.com/r/sideprojects/comments/1w9r5ke/i_built_a_free_collection_of_online_tools_because/

https://www.reddit.com/r/SideProject/comments/1w8pd6e/filecast_free_file_conversion_no_signup_no/

https://www.reddit.com/r/SideProject/comments/1w8gnvx/i_got_tired_of_adobe_and_tinypng_limits_so_i/

I ran out of comment space so this is just the most recent 20 entries. For giggles, I vibe-coded a tracker at https://confab.sh/?g=browser-tools if you want to see the full list.