Changelog
Every visible change to the site is listed here, newest first. Dates are the day it went live.
DNS Lookup now reports DNSSEC validation failures and failed lookups instead of showing them as missing records.
QR Code Generator can put a logo in the middle of the code. Each change is test-scanned on the page.
Added Speech to Text in a new Audio Tools category: transcribe recordings and videos in 35 languages, check each line against the audio, download TXT, SRT, VTT or Word.
Added Video to GIF: choose the seconds on a film strip, see the GIF size before converting, and add crop, text, stickers or a watermark.
Added DNS Lookup: every record of a domain, its mail setup and expiry date in one query.
Added IP Lookup: your public IP, address owners and a CGNAT check.
The eight blog articles are now also in Japanese, Spanish, Portuguese, German, French and Russian. The About, Privacy, Contact, Changelog and blog pages have a new layout: a table of contents beside long pages, and article cards on the blog index.
The home page has a file box: drop a file there or pick one with the button, and it lists what can be done with that file. Text is darker and headings heavier in the light theme.
New home page: four workstations — documents & admin, design & images, marketing & video, research & text. Every object on the desks opens a tool; the full tool list for each role sits beside it.
The site has a new address: works.tools. Old is.tools links keep working and forward here automatically, with the same page and language.
New: a blog — eight articles on the formats and mechanics behind everyday file jobs (what HEIC is, JPG vs WebP vs AVIF with measured sizes, getting a PDF under a size limit, why a video plays sideways, Base64 vs encryption, and more), in English, Simplified and Traditional Chinese.
Remove background handles hair edges better: the alpha now follows individual strands and the old background colour mixed into edge pixels is removed, so there is no pale halo on dark or transparent backgrounds.
PDF Sign gains a paging seal: one seal image is cut into vertical strips, one per page at the right edge, the same height on every page; long documents can be sealed in groups. A selected signature or seal now shows its real width and height in mm, live while resizing, and the numbers can be typed in.
Home page redesigned: search box and category shortcuts up top with the latest changes beside them; each category opens with a short paragraph on what its tools do; popular tools in a side column.
Added a message form on the Contact page; each submission gets a reference number.
New: Text Compare shows every difference between two texts or files, side by side or unified, with word-level highlighting.
New: Trim Video keeps one section of a video, fast without re-encoding or exact to the frame.
New: Video to Image — save any frame of a video as a full-resolution image.
Add Page Numbers to PDF now takes Cyrillic, Chinese, Japanese and Greek templates.
Russian added.
New: Remove Audio, which takes the sound out of a video.
New: Video to MP3 — takes the sound out of a video.
New: Rotate Video — turns a sideways clip upright without re-encoding.
Image Compressor keeps the picture as it is and only shrinks the file; a Compress button replaces automatic compression.
Image Resizer now only changes the size; format and quality moved to the tools named after them.
New: QR code reader — reads QR codes from a picture or screenshot.
JSON Formatter now highlights the right line for more kinds of error.
Unlock PDF now names the kind of protection as soon as a file is dropped.
Japanese, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, German and French added.
Remove Background added.
Image to Text ( OCR ), Unlock PDF and Protect PDF added.
Organize PDF, Page numbers, Watermark PDF, Sign PDF, Rotate Image and Watermark image added.
Image Cropper, Compress PDF, HEIC to JPG, category pages and site search added.
Site moved to a static build, with the language in the URL.
