openconvert

A tool you don't have to take on faith.

In March 2025 the FBI warned people away from online file converters; many of them were malware. Do you want your confidential files uploaded to somebody else's server? We did not, so we built the open-source tool we wanted to use.

complete privacy

No file escapes your computer.

Every conversion runs locally; no file is ever sent to a server. Optional AI models can be downloaded to unlock the advanced tools.

What each model does →

The OpenConvert settings screen, showing each on-device model with its size, licence, an enable switch, and a control that deletes it and reclaims the disk space. The OpenConvert settings screen, showing each on-device model with its size, licence, an enable switch, and a control that deletes it and reclaims the disk space.
who

Clura srls.

A small company in Italy, built by Fabrizio Blasio, an aerospace engineering student, with the goal of making privacy-focused software that solves everyday problems. Company details on the imprint; anything else, contact.

licence

Apache-2.0, in plain words.

  • Use it commercially. Sell things made with it.
  • Modify it, fork it, ship your fork.
  • Patents are granted with the code.
  • No warranty; the licence text is the contract.

The binary is free forever with no feature gates. Revenue comes from what organisations need around running it: SLAs, attested builds, fleet policy. Nothing needed to convert a file is paid, and the engine is never relicensed. If you are an enterprise looking to integrate it, talk to us. Full text →

attribution

Built on their work.

EngineDomainLicenceLink mode
FFmpeg / libav* audio · video LGPL-2.1+ dynamically linked
libvips images LGPL-2.1+ dynamically linked
LibreOffice (headless) documents MPL-2.0 separate process
Pandoc markup GPL-2+ separate process
Calibre ebook-convert ebooks GPL-3 separate process
pdfium pdf BSD-3 dynamically linked
lcms2 colour MIT dynamically linked
image-rs · Symphonia pure-Rust paths Apache-2.0 / MPL-2.0 in-process
ONNX Runtime inference MIT dynamically linked

Models carry their own registry with hashes and commercial-use status: the table →