Lizely

You've got a signed contract and a stack of forms that need to become one PDF, and the first tools you find all want the files sent off to a server. Lizely's Merge PDF tool skips that part. You browse for two or more PDFs or drag them onto the page, reorder them with the up and down arrows, remove any you don't need and download the merged file.

According to the page, there's no upload step, no server round-trip and no account. The files are read into memory in your browser and combined there. That's the reason to pick a tool like this: with local processing, the file doesn't leave your device.

Merge PDF is one tool among many. The home page leads with an image compressor, a resizer, a JPG to PNG converter and a cropper. You can also drop a file anywhere on that page and be handed a matching tool, which is a nice touch.

The menu keeps going with image, PDF and text tools, plus calculators and colour tools. Developer tools sit next to encoding and crypto and SEO and webmaster tools. Generators, finance calculators, and audio and video tools round it out.

Some sections sit apart from the utilities. There's a Fortune and Divination category, mini games and a daily AI Insights feed. The interface comes in English and Traditional Chinese.

Every tool is free and works without signing up. The privacy policy, effective July 5, 2026, calls itself a general policy for a solo-run free tools site. It says the site doesn't upload, receive or store the files you process, and that it currently runs no analytics, advertising or third-party tracking pixels.

Signing in with Google is optional. If you do, the site receives your email address and name and keeps one authentication cookie. Server logs record standard technical details such as your IP address, and no person or company is named as the operator. If you often need a quick file fix and would rather keep documents on your own machine, it's worth a bookmark.