Idiot Video Tools is a free, single-purpose website built for one job: helping anyone compress, convert, trim, merge and edit videos without installing software, creating an account, or paying a subscription. We named it "Idiot" tools on purpose — because using it should be that simple. Drop a file in, pick a setting, click a button, and you're done.
Most video editing tools online either force you to upload your file to a stranger's server, hide the real download button behind five ads, or ask for a credit card before you can export anything larger than ten seconds. We wanted a place where every tool listed on the homepage actually works, runs fully inside your own browser tab using modern WebAssembly technology, and never sends your video anywhere.
Every tool on this site is powered by client-side JavaScript and, for the heavier video operations, an in-browser build of FFmpeg compiled to WebAssembly. That means when you compress or convert a video here, the processing happens on your own device — not on our servers. We never see, store, or transmit your files.
No fake tools, no dead pages, no bait-and-switch "pro" upsells. If a tool is listed on our homepage, it works today, for free, with no daily limit games.