We're launching Arawa PDF: a privacy-first PDF suite with 70+ tools, AI features, and a strict one-hour file-deletion policy. Here's what it is and why we built it.
Today we're launching Arawa PDF — a complete PDF toolkit in the browser. Merge, split, compress, convert, edit, sign, OCR, summarise, translate. Seventy-plus tools, almost all of them free to use without an account, and every uploaded file deleted after one hour.
If you've ever needed to do something quick to a PDF — combine two scans, strip a password, drop a watermark, sign a contract — you know how the existing options feel: slow uploaders, surprise paywalls, accounts demanded for basic actions, files that stick around on someone else's server for who-knows-how-long. We've used them all. We didn't like any of them.
So we built the opposite.
Seventy-plus tools, organised into seven categories: organise, optimise, convert to PDF, convert from PDF, edit, security, intelligence. The full list is on the homepage, but the headline ones:
• Merge, split, organise, rotate, remove pages, extract pages, add page numbers, add watermarks.
• Compress, repair, OCR (make scanned PDFs searchable), convert to PDF/A for archival.
• Word ↔ PDF, Excel ↔ PDF, PowerPoint ↔ PDF, JPG ↔ PDF, HTML → PDF — both directions for the office formats.
• Edit PDF, redact PDF, compare two PDFs, fill and sign forms.
• Protect (add password), unlock (remove password if you have it), sign a PDF with audit trail.
• AI: Summarise a PDF, translate a PDF.
Almost everything works without an account. Every tool is free to use, no account required.
Every file you upload — and every file we generate from it — is permanently deleted from our storage one hour after processing. This isn't a marketing line. It's a scheduled job that runs every few minutes and ruthlessly clears anything older than the TTL. There's no "keep my files" toggle — it applies to everyone. We don't keep backups beyond the one-hour window.
The reason is simple: the longer your documents sit on someone else's server, the more chances there are for something to go wrong. We made the design choice that minimises that surface area.
Arawa PDF is built by a small independent team. We're not VC-backed. We're not chasing an acquisition. We charge a fair Premium price for power users, and we make the free tier good enough that most people never need to pay.
We operate the entire stack ourselves on infrastructure we control. No third-party uploaders, no opaque "PDF API" middlemen, no ad networks. The only outside parties touching your data are: Stripe (when you pay), Anthropic (when you click an AI tool), and our SMTP provider (for verification emails). Each one is named in the Privacy Policy.
The launch product is feature-complete for the core PDF workflows. What's next over the coming months: a desktop app (so you can run everything locally without uploading), a public API for developers, bulk-action improvements, and more languages. We'll post updates here.
If you've got a tool you wish existed, or a workflow that current PDF apps make painful, we want to know. Email support@arawapdf.com. We read everything.
Thanks for being here. Now go try a tool.