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Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-15

PDF HQ Keeps Your Files on Your Device

pdfhq.app ↗ · Useful Tools · score 84.0
Open: public page gives enough substance to understand the site $Paid: pricing, booking, ecommerce, subscription, or paid access is visible ADAds: visible ad load or ad-supported content Pretty: notable design, copy, craft, or presentation Pro: polished, finished-feeling, serious, or operationally mature Niche: specific audience, workflow, or unusually focused use case Human: personal, local, community, civic, handmade, or real-person signal !Suspicious: scammy, spammy, trust theater, finance fog, or credibility concern

A browser-based suite of 42 PDF tools for merging, splitting, compressing, converting, editing, signing, and securing documents.

Why it surfaced

PDF HQ makes a concrete privacy promise: its tools read files on the user's device and upload nothing. The unusually broad toolkit includes less-common jobs such as repairing damaged PDFs, removing metadata, linearizing files for the web, converting PDFs to Markdown, and splitting documents by size.

The Two-Tonne Temperature Problem

August 15’s newborn domains include a live-aboard hydrogen airship with a two-tonne lift problem, a Japanese toolbox that explains its assumptions, an advisory-by-advisory Hawaiʻi hurricane archive, and a wedding-gift game about ungrateful poultry.

This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-15 Domain Arrivals issue.