# 1FileTool

> Published content for https://1filetool.com.
> Full markdown of every article: https://public-api.stoicsoft.com/v1/sites/1filetool/llms-full.txt

## Articles

- [Remove image backgrounds offline — no upload, no subscription](https://1filetool.com/blog/remove-backgrounds-offline): 1FileTool v1.8.0 adds on-device Background Removal: cut out image backgrounds fully offline, batch a whole folder at once, and export transparent PNGs — with nothing ever uploaded.
- [Read any document aloud and clean up audio — all on your device](https://1filetool.com/blog/on-device-ai-read-aloud-audiobooks): 1FileTool's new AI Tools turn documents into natural speech, make chaptered audiobooks, and clean up noisy recordings — entirely offline, with nothing uploaded.
- [Drop Folders Straight Into 1FileTool](https://1filetool.com/blog/drop-folders-into-1filetool): 1FileTool v1.3.1 lets you drop or select whole folders so each tool can collect supported files, skip duplicates, and build cleaner batches locally.
- [Automate Repetitive File Jobs with Workflow Recipes](https://1filetool.com/blog/automate-repetitive-file-jobs): Chain compress, rename, strip, and zip into a saved Workflow Recipe you run in one click — or let a watched folder run it for you. The four-tool job becomes one pass.
- [Convert PDF to Word — and Back — Without Uploading a File](https://1filetool.com/blog/pdf-to-word-offline): 1FileTool now converts PDFs into editable Word documents and back again — with OCR for scanned pages, batch folders, and Folder Monitor automation — all on your own machine, nothin
- [Star Your Favorite Tools — and One Tool Now Handles One File or Fifty](https://1filetool.com/blog/favorite-tools-unified-batch): Pin the tools you use most to your Home dashboard, and skip the single-versus-batch guessing game — every tool now takes one file or a whole folder, with a tidier list and tabbed s
- [Watch Any Folder. Process Files as They Arrive.](https://1filetool.com/blog/folder-monitor-auto-process-files): The Folder Monitor watches any folder and automatically applies a tool to every new file — compress, convert, strip metadata — in the background, without you having to touch the to
- [Edit PDFs Visually and Save Your Tool Settings as Presets](https://1filetool.com/blog/pdf-editor-tool-presets): 1FileTool now has a visual PDF editor — see pages as you rearrange, annotate, and watermark. Plus tool presets: save your settings once and apply them in one click, across every to
- [273 File Tools. Everything Processed Locally.](https://1filetool.com/blog/273-file-tools-processed-locally): 1FileTool brings 273 tools for PDFs, images, video, audio, text, and more into one app — with every operation running entirely on your device. No uploads, no subscriptions.

## Structured content

- [One app. Every file. 273 tools, all processed locally.](https://public-api.stoicsoft.com/v1/content/1filetool/changelog/v1.0.0): changelog
- [Visual PDF Editor, Tool Presets, Clipboard Paste & Drag Out](https://public-api.stoicsoft.com/v1/content/1filetool/changelog/v1.0.2): changelog
- [Markdown Tools & Editor, Folder Monitor, SVG to PNG](https://public-api.stoicsoft.com/v1/content/1filetool/changelog/v1.0.3): changelog
- [PDF Compression & Video Tools Now Fully Built-In](https://public-api.stoicsoft.com/v1/content/1filetool/changelog/v1.0.4): changelog
- [Batch Compress — Real-Time Per-File Progress](https://public-api.stoicsoft.com/v1/content/1filetool/changelog/v1.0.5): changelog
- [Favorites, unified batch tools, and a cleaner workflow](https://public-api.stoicsoft.com/v1/content/1filetool/changelog/v1.1.0): changelog
- [PDF to Word & Word to PDF](https://public-api.stoicsoft.com/v1/content/1filetool/changelog/v1.2.0): changelog
- [Workflow Recipes](https://public-api.stoicsoft.com/v1/content/1filetool/changelog/v1.3.0): changelog
- [Folder Selection](https://public-api.stoicsoft.com/v1/content/1filetool/changelog/v1.3.1): changelog
- [On-device AI (read-aloud, audiobooks, voice cleanup), silence cutting, and true redaction](https://public-api.stoicsoft.com/v1/content/1filetool/changelog/v1.5.0): changelog
- [Quiet Updates, Clearer Pro](https://public-api.stoicsoft.com/v1/content/1filetool/changelog/v1.6.0): changelog
- [Background Updates & Flexible Pro Licensing](https://public-api.stoicsoft.com/v1/content/1filetool/changelog/v1.7.0): changelog
- [On-Device Background Removal](https://public-api.stoicsoft.com/v1/content/1filetool/changelog/v1.8.0): changelog
- [AI Tools](https://public-api.stoicsoft.com/v1/content/1filetool/feature/ai-tools): feature
- [Audio Tools (16 tools)](https://public-api.stoicsoft.com/v1/content/1filetool/feature/audio-tools): feature
- [Background Removal](https://public-api.stoicsoft.com/v1/content/1filetool/feature/background-removal): feature
- [File Tools (23 tools)](https://public-api.stoicsoft.com/v1/content/1filetool/feature/file-tools): feature
- [Folder Monitor](https://public-api.stoicsoft.com/v1/content/1filetool/feature/folder-monitor): feature
- [Folder Selection](https://public-api.stoicsoft.com/v1/content/1filetool/feature/folder-selection): feature
- [Image Tools (37 tools)](https://public-api.stoicsoft.com/v1/content/1filetool/feature/image-tools): feature
- [Markdown Editor](https://public-api.stoicsoft.com/v1/content/1filetool/feature/markdown-editor): feature
- [Markdown Tools (10 tools)](https://public-api.stoicsoft.com/v1/content/1filetool/feature/markdown-tools): feature
- [Visual PDF Editor](https://public-api.stoicsoft.com/v1/content/1filetool/feature/pdf-editor): feature
- [PDF Tools (42 tools)](https://public-api.stoicsoft.com/v1/content/1filetool/feature/pdf-tools): feature
- [Power Tools (85 tools)](https://public-api.stoicsoft.com/v1/content/1filetool/feature/power-tools): feature
- [Text Tools (30 tools)](https://public-api.stoicsoft.com/v1/content/1filetool/feature/text-tools): feature
- [Tool Presets](https://public-api.stoicsoft.com/v1/content/1filetool/feature/tool-presets): feature
- [Video Tools (25 tools)](https://public-api.stoicsoft.com/v1/content/1filetool/feature/video-tools): feature
- [Archiving & preservation workflows](https://public-api.stoicsoft.com/v1/content/1filetool/wiki_topic/archiving-preservation): wiki_topic
- [Batch audio & media conversion](https://public-api.stoicsoft.com/v1/content/1filetool/wiki_topic/batch-audio-media-conversion): wiki_topic
- [Batch renaming & file workflow automation](https://public-api.stoicsoft.com/v1/content/1filetool/wiki_topic/batch-rename-automation): wiki_topic
- [Image & SVG conversion](https://public-api.stoicsoft.com/v1/content/1filetool/wiki_topic/image-svg-conversion): wiki_topic
- [Local OCR & document scanning](https://public-api.stoicsoft.com/v1/content/1filetool/wiki_topic/local-ocr-scanning): wiki_topic
- [Why local file tools beat cloud SaaS](https://public-api.stoicsoft.com/v1/content/1filetool/wiki_topic/local-vs-cloud-file-tools): wiki_topic
- [No-upload PDF workflows](https://public-api.stoicsoft.com/v1/content/1filetool/wiki_topic/no-upload-pdf-workflows): wiki_topic
- [File privacy & metadata hygiene](https://public-api.stoicsoft.com/v1/content/1filetool/wiki_topic/privacy-metadata-hygiene): wiki_topic