CloudConvert alternative
The CloudConvert alternative for PDF work you would rather keep on your own machine.
CloudConvert is a serious conversion engine: by its own count, 212 formats across 11 categories, a documented API with cloud-storage import and export, and ISO 27001 certification from TÜV Süd for operator Lunaweb GmbH's information security management system — made in Munich, and "trusted since 2012" in its own words. Filozy is much narrower — 39 PDF tools, nothing else — but every one of them runs inside your browser, so the document never reaches a server. Here is where each one is the better choice, using their statements and ours.
What CloudConvert says about your files
These summaries link to CloudConvert's published information. Plans, features and wording change; check the linked sources before choosing a service.
- CloudConvert's privacy policy states that "your selected files are transferred to and temporarily stored on CloudConvert's servers". On deletion it says: "Your files are deleted immediately and irreversible from our servers when using the delete button. This will happen automatically at the latest after 24 hours." The delete control is the "×" button on the right beside the download button. CloudConvert privacy policy
- CloudConvert's security page states that "Each conversion runs in a separate, isolated container." and that "Files are kept only for processing and deleted immediately afterwards." — CloudConvert "intentionally does not provide any permanent storage". It adds that "All transfers from and to CloudConvert are SSL encrypted", that "The ISMS of Lunaweb GmbH has received ISO 27001 certification from TÜV Süd", and that it will sign a data processing agreement on request. CloudConvert security and compliance page
- The privacy policy's hosting section names Amazon Web Services EMEA SARL, OVH GmbH and Hetzner Online GmbH as hosting providers and states that "The location of the servers is geographically in Germany." It continues: "If you are using our service from the US, we are using servers geographically in the US" — naming OVH US LLC — and "We select the geographically nearest servers based on your IP address location." CloudConvert privacy policy, section 9 (Hosting)
- The pricing page lists a Free plan at €0 with 10 conversion credits per day, a 1 GB maximum file size, a 5-minute maximum processing time, 5 concurrent tasks and low processing priority. Paid credits come as one-time packages ("One-time payment. Credits never expire.") or monthly subscriptions, and both list unlimited file size, unlimited processing time, unlimited concurrent tasks and high priority. On cost it says packages and subscriptions "typically consume one credit per minute of conversion time" and that "By default, conversions consume at least one credit, with additional credits charged for every extra minute if the conversion takes longer than one minute." The per-type figure is that floor, not a surcharge: at least 1 credit for a general conversion, 2 for Office or iWork to PDF, and 4 for PDF to Office. It also states that "Team billing is available, so organizations such as companies or schools can use one central billing account with unlimited team members." CloudConvert pricing page
What Filozy does instead
Filozy's document tools process the files on your device and save the results locally, without uploading your document to our server. Multi-step workflows can temporarily store a result in your browser to carry it to the next tool; see the privacy policy for cleanup details. The website and supporting engine files still require ordinary web requests.
Tools for similar tasks
Each row pairs a task, not identical features or output. Check the tool's limits and your exported file.
| On CloudConvert | On Filozy |
|---|---|
| Merge PDF | Merge PDF |
| Split PDF Pages | Split PDF |
| Extract PDF Pages | Extract PDF pages |
| Rotate PDF Pages | Rotate PDF |
| Compress PDF | Compress PDF |
| PDF OCR | OCR PDF |
| Encrypt PDF | Protect PDF |
| Decrypt PDF | Unlock PDF |
| Convert to PDF/A | Convert PDF to PDF/A |
| Add Watermarks | Watermark PDF |
| File Metadata | Edit PDF metadata |
| PDF to DOCX | PDF to Word |
| DOCX to PDF | Word to PDF |
| PDF to XLSX | PDF to Excel |
| XLSX to PDF | Excel to PDF |
| PPTX to PDF | PowerPoint to PDF |
| PDF to JPG | PDF to JPG |
| JPG to PDF | JPG to PDF |
| PDF to MD | PDF to Markdown |
| Convert to PDF/X | Not offered |
| Save Website as PDF | Not offered |
| Video Converter | Not offered |
| Audio Converter | Not offered |
| Create Archive | Not offered |
When CloudConvert is the better choice
- You need anything that is not a PDF. CloudConvert says it handles 212 formats across 11 categories — Documents, Images, Video, Audio, Spreadsheets, Slides, E-books, Archives, Vector, CAD and Fonts. Filozy only touches PDFs, plus a few Office and image formats going into and out of them.
- You need OCR in a language other than English. CloudConvert's PDF OCR identifies languages by "standardized three-letter codes (called ISO 639-2 Alpha-3)" and accepts several in one job, its API giving "eng,fra,deu" as the example. Filozy's OCR recognises English only, and its interface is English only too.
- You want conversions to run without a person at the keyboard. CloudConvert has a documented REST API, an MCP server for "ChatGPT, Claude, and other MCP clients", and no-code connectors for Zapier, Make, Power Automate and n8n. Its documented import and export operations cover S3, Azure Blob Storage, Google Cloud Storage, OpenStack and SFTP; Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive and SharePoint are reached through those no-code connectors rather than as direct operations. Filozy has no API and no cloud storage.
- The file is very large or the device is small. CloudConvert accepts files up to 1 GB on the free plan, and its packages and subscriptions list unlimited file size and unlimited processing time. A phone doing the same work in a browser tab can run out of memory on a very large scan, and Filozy has no server to fall back on.
- You need an app, or something to put on a company account. CloudConvert publishes an iOS app for iPhone and iPad (seller Lunaweb GmbH, iOS/iPadOS 18.0 or later), says team billing lets organisations such as companies or schools use one central billing account with unlimited team members, and will sign a data processing agreement on request. Filozy has no native apps, no accounts and no team features.
Questions people ask
Does CloudConvert upload my files, and how long does it keep them?
Yes — the conversion runs on their servers. CloudConvert's privacy policy says your selected files are transferred to and temporarily stored on its servers, that they are "deleted immediately and irreversible from our servers when using the delete button" (the "×" beside the download button), and that this happens "automatically at the latest after 24 hours". Its security page is tighter still: each conversion runs in a separate, isolated container, "Files are kept only for processing and deleted immediately afterwards.", and the service intentionally provides no permanent storage — so 24 hours is a ceiling, not a retention period. Servers are in Germany, with US servers used for people accessing from the US. Filozy works the other way round: the PDF is opened by code running in a Web Worker on your own machine, and each job ends with a receipt reading something like "3 pages · 412ms · 0 document bytes sent" that you can check yourself in DevTools → Network.
Is Filozy free, and how does that compare with CloudConvert's free plan?
Filozy is free with no account, no daily quota and no file-size cap beyond what your device's memory can hold — there is no server bill to cover, because your computer does the work. CloudConvert's pricing page lists its Free plan at €0 with 10 conversion credits per day, a 1 GB maximum file size, a 5-minute maximum processing time, 5 concurrent tasks and low processing priority. Credits run at about one per minute of conversion time, with a minimum that depends on the job type — at least 1 credit for a general conversion, 2 for Office or iWork to PDF and 4 for PDF to Office. That figure is a floor rather than an extra charge on top, so a PDF-to-Office job that finishes inside a minute costs 4 credits, and two of them use 8 of the 10 free daily credits.
What can CloudConvert do that Filozy cannot?
A great deal outside PDFs. CloudConvert states it handles 212 formats across 11 categories — Documents, Images, Video, Audio, Spreadsheets, Slides, E-books, Archives, Vector, CAD and Fonts — and it also converts a website to PDF or captures it as a PNG or JPG screenshot, creates ZIP, RAR, 7Z and TAR archives, and makes thumbnails. It has a REST API, an MCP server, no-code connectors, documented cloud-storage import and export, OCR in many languages, and an iOS app for iPhone and iPad. Filozy is 39 PDF tools in a browser tab: no API, no cloud storage, no native apps, no team features, English-only OCR and an English-only interface.
Can Filozy replace CloudConvert for PDF to Word, or for signing?
For a clean single-column document, yes, and the file never leaves your machine. But Filozy's PDF-to-Word puts each line back where it was drawn rather than rebuilding paragraphs, headings or tables, so newsletters and pages with sidebars keep their look but will need tidying up afterwards if you want to edit them, and a server-side converter with more processing power often reconstructs those better. On signing: Filozy's sign tool places a drawn, typed or uploaded signature on the page. It does not issue certified or digital signatures, which need a certificate authority and a timestamp service, so if your recipient requires a cryptographically verifiable signature neither tool here is the answer — CloudConvert does not list a document-signing tool.
If nothing is uploaded, is Filozy completely offline with no network requests?
No, and we would rather say so plainly. Your document never leaves your device, but filozy.com is an ordinary website: it is served through Cloudflare and uses cookieless Cloudflare Web Analytics, which is described in our privacy policy. Page assets and the tool's code do travel over the network — your PDF does not. Open the Network tab while you run a job and you will see the page load, and no document bytes leaving.