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DontTouch My Vid.
§01 · Bulletin 100% client-side

Don't touch my vid

Your videos. Your phone. Your iPad. Your laptop. No exceptions. The only video tool that won't fuss and fart around when your file is large — no upload, no queue, no "we'll email you when it's done", no permissions, no sign-up, no watermark, no size cap. Drop in. Get out.

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§01b · Comparison

The only one that won't fuss and fart around.

Every "free online video compressor" we tried demanded something — an email, a notification, a sign-up, a watermark-removal upgrade. Ours demands nothing. Drop the file. Get the file.

Most other tools Fart
  • "Enter your email to receive your file"
  • "Allow notifications to know when ready"
  • "Free up to 200MB · upgrade for more"
  • "Sign in with Google to continue"
  • "Your file is #847 in the queue"
  • "Watermark removed on Premium"

Plus the inconvenient bit: your video sits on a stranger's server, in a stranger's queue, getting compressed by a stranger's CPU. "We'll delete it in 24 hours" is a policy.

DontTouchMyVid Just works
  • No email asked, no email sent.
  • No notification permission ever requested.
  • Any file size. No upgrade path.
  • No sign-in. No account. No password.
  • No queue — your CPU does it now.
  • No watermark. None. The output is the output.

Drop the file in. Your CPU does the work, in this tab, on your machine. The download fires when it's done. Close the tab and every trace evaporates.

§02 · Tools

6 tools, zero servers.

Everything runs inside your browser tab. 1 live today — the rest are on the way, and they'll never upload a single frame either.

Tool · 01

Compress.

Shrink a multi-gigabyte talking-head clip down to a sane size. Chunked encoding so 2GB+ files don't explode the tab.

Compress a video → Local only
Tool · 02

Convert.

MP4, MOV, WebM, MKV — feed in one, get out another. Hardware-accelerated where your browser supports it.

In the oven Coming soon
Tool · 03

Trim.

Top and tail a clip without re-encoding the bits you keep. Frame-accurate handles, lossless export.

In the oven Coming soon
Tool · 04

Mute.

Strip the audio track entirely, or just silence one channel. Keeps the video stream byte-perfect.

In the oven Coming soon
Tool · 05

Extract audio.

Pull the soundtrack out as MP3 or WAV. Handy for podcast clips, voice memos, music rips from concert footage.

In the oven Coming soon
Tool · 06

Rotate.

Fix sideways phone footage in one click. 90° steps without re-encoding when your container supports it.

In the oven Coming soon
§03 · Why we built this

Most "free" video compressors quietly upload your footage to someone else's server. We thought that was creepy.

Talking heads, family clips, screen recordings, interviews, drafts you don't want anyone seeing yet — people handle their most personal videos in the browser. So we made tools that are honest about where the encoding happens.

  • 01
    No uploads

    Your footage stays on your device.

    The tool code runs entirely inside your browser. There is no endpoint to upload to, because we never built one.

  • 02
    No accounts

    No email, no password, no "free trial".

    You shouldn't need a login to compress a screen recording. We agree.

  • 03
    No watermarks

    Your video comes out clean.

    No logo in the corner, no "Processed by…" intro card, no resolution cap or free-tier limit nudging you to pay.

  • 04
    No tracking

    We don't know what you're doing here.

    No analytics pixels inside the tools, no third-party scripts peeking at your videos. The site is a static bundle. That's it.

§02 · Procedure

Three steps.

Three steps. None of them involve a server.

  1. Step 01 1

    Pick a video.

    Drag a clip onto the tool, or browse from your device. Nothing is sent anywhere — the tool lives inside this tab.

  2. Step 02 2

    Your browser does the work.

    WebCodecs, mp4box and a Web Worker do the heavy lifting right here. Nothing gets sent anywhere, because there's nowhere for it to go — we don't run a server.

  3. Step 03 3

    Download the result.

    You get a fresh MP4 to save. Close the tab and every trace of what you did evaporates with it.

§04 · FAQ

FAQ.

Short answers. Anything missing? Tell us.

So you really can't see my videos?
Correct. The tool code runs entirely inside your browser. There is no endpoint to upload to and no server-side processing step — the site is a static bundle served from a CDN. Open your browser's network tab while you compress: the only requests you'll see are for the page's own assets.

Is there a file-size limit?
No hard cap. The practical ceiling is your machine's RAM, which means multi-gigabyte clips work fine on a modern desktop. Two design choices matter: the file is read in streamed chunks rather than loaded all at once, and the actual encoding runs in a Web Worker so the page stays responsive and the worker's memory is independent of the rest of the tab. WebCodecs uses the GPU where available, so re-encoding is quick.

Why doesn't the site ask for an email or a notification permission?
Because we don't need either. Compressors that demand an email do it so they can mail you a download link when their server finishes your job. We don't run a server — the work happens right here, in this tab, on your CPU. The download fires the moment it's ready, in the same tab you started in. No queue, no email, no "allow notifications?" popup, no sign-up, no account, no upgrade nag.

Which formats does the compressor accept?
Today: MP4 / MOV / M4V containers with H.264 (avc1) or HEVC (hvc1) video, and AAC audio. The output is always MP4 (H.264 + AAC). WebM, MKV and audio-only formats are on the roadmap.

Why is it free?
Because a flat HTML/JS bundle on a CDN costs us almost nothing to serve, and we plan to show a couple of unobtrusive ads around the content. No paywall, no freemium trap, no "upgrade for files over 200MB" routine.

Does it work on iPhone or iPad?
Yes, with caveats. Safari from iOS / iPadOS 17.4 onward supports WebCodecs, so the pipeline runs. The real ceiling is RAM: iPad Pro (8–16GB) handles 1–2GB clips comfortably; phones and base iPads (4–6GB shared) run out of room earlier. Short clips are fine on anything; multi-gigabyte talking-head footage is happier on a laptop or an iPad Pro.

When will the other tools launch?
Compress is live. Convert, Trim, Mute, Extract audio and Rotate are in active development — each one ships when it works properly, not before.