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- Base URL: https://gochronos.com
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- Updated: 2026-09-14
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## Time & Planning

### Calendar

URL: https://gochronos.com/calendar

Multi-system calendar with Gregorian, Hindu, Saka, Hijri and Hebrew date conversion. Navigate any month across five calendar systems with a single click.

**How to Use the GoChronos Calendar** — Browse dates, view public holidays and jump to any month using the GoChronos interactive calendar.

1. **Open the Calendar.** Go to gochronos.com/calendar on any device — no account or app required.
2. **Navigate months.** Click the left or right arrows to move between months, or click the month/year heading to jump directly to any year.
3. **Select a country for holidays.** Choose your country from the dropdown to overlay public holidays on the calendar grid.
4. **Click any date.** Click a date cell to see its details, calculate a countdown to that date or copy it in a custom format.

**Q: Which calendar systems does the GoChronos calendar support?**

A: GoChronos Calendar supports Gregorian (standard Western), Hindu Vikram Samvat, Saka (Indian National Calendar), Hijri (Islamic Lunar), and Hebrew calendar systems simultaneously.

**Q: What is the Saka calendar?**

A: The Saka calendar is the Indian National Calendar, officially adopted by the Indian government in 1957. It is a solar calendar with months based on the zodiac. The year begins in Chaitra (around 22 March) and is 78 or 79 years behind the Gregorian year.

**Q: What is the Hijri calendar?**

A: The Hijri (Islamic) calendar is a purely lunar calendar consisting of 12 months in a year of 354 or 355 days. It is used to determine the dates of Islamic holidays such as Ramadan and Eid, and starts from the year of the Prophet Muhammad's migration to Medina (622 CE).

**Q: Can I convert a date between different calendar systems?**

A: Yes. Enter any date in any supported calendar system and GoChronos instantly shows the equivalent date in all other systems. You can navigate forward and backward through months in any calendar.

### Cron Translator

URL: https://gochronos.com/date-calculator/cron

Translate cron expressions into plain English and preview the next run times.

**How to Parse a Cron Expression** — Use the GoChronos Cron Parser to convert a cron expression into plain English and preview scheduled run times.

1. **Open the Cron Parser.** Go to gochronos.com/date-calculator/cron.
2. **Enter your cron expression.** Type a standard 5-field or 6-field (with seconds) cron expression, e.g. 0 9 * * 1 for every Monday at 09:00.
3. **Read the description.** The parser shows a plain-English description immediately, e.g. 'Every Monday at 9:00 AM'.
4. **Check next run times.** The next 10 scheduled execution times are listed so you can verify the schedule is correct.
5. **Select a timezone.** Choose a timezone from the dropdown to show all run times in your local time.

**Q: What is a cron expression?**

A: A cron expression is a string of 5 fields (minute, hour, day of month, month, day of week) that defines a repeating schedule for automated tasks such as server jobs or CI pipelines.

**Q: How do I read '0 9 * * 1-5'?**

A: This means 'run at 09:00 on every weekday (Monday–Friday)'. Fields left to right: minute (0), hour (9), day of month (*=every), month (*=every), day of week (1-5=Mon–Fri).

**Q: What does */15 mean in a cron expression?**

A: */15 means 'every 15 units'. In the minute field, */15 runs at minutes 0, 15, 30 and 45 of every hour.

**Q: Can the cron translator show future run times?**

A: Yes. After translating the expression, the tool shows the next several scheduled run times so you can verify the schedule is correct before deploying.

### Unix Timestamp

URL: https://gochronos.com/date-calculator/timestamp

Convert Unix epoch seconds or milliseconds to and from human-readable dates.

**How to Convert a Unix Timestamp to a Date** — Use the GoChronos Unix Timestamp Converter to translate between epoch time and human-readable dates.

1. **Open the Timestamp Converter.** Go to gochronos.com/date-calculator/timestamp. No account required.
2. **Paste a Unix timestamp.** Enter a Unix timestamp (seconds since 1 Jan 1970) into the timestamp field. The tool auto-detects seconds vs milliseconds format.
3. **Read the human-readable date.** The equivalent UTC date/time and your local timezone date/time appear instantly below the input.
4. **Convert a date to timestamp (reverse).** Enter a date and time in the date picker to convert it back into a Unix timestamp.

**Q: What is a Unix timestamp?**

A: A Unix timestamp (epoch time) is the number of seconds elapsed since 00:00:00 UTC on 1 January 1970. It is the standard way to represent moments in time in computing and APIs.

**Q: How do I convert a Unix timestamp to a readable date?**

A: Enter the timestamp (seconds or milliseconds) in the Unix Timestamp Converter. The tool shows the equivalent date and time in UTC and in your local timezone.

**Q: What is the difference between second and millisecond timestamps?**

A: Standard Unix timestamps are in seconds (10 digits, e.g. 1700000000). JavaScript's Date.now() returns milliseconds (13 digits). The converter detects the format automatically.

**Q: What is the Unix timestamp Year 2038 problem?**

A: Signed 32-bit timestamps overflow on 19 January 2038 (the 'Year 2038 problem'). Systems using 64-bit storage handle timestamps well beyond the year 292 billion.

### Date Calculator

URL: https://gochronos.com/date-calculator/workdays

Date & time differences, add or subtract any unit (down to minutes), working days with holiday exclusion — all in one place.

**How to Count Working Days Between Dates** — Calculate the number of business days between two dates, excluding weekends and public holidays.

1. **Open the Workdays Calculator.** Go to gochronos.com/date-calculator/workdays.
2. **Enter start and end dates.** Use the date pickers to select the date range.
3. **Select a country.** Choose your country from the dropdown to automatically exclude its public holidays.
4. **Read the workday count.** The result shows total calendar days, weekends excluded, public holidays excluded and the final workday count.

**Q: How are business days calculated?**

A: Business days are weekdays (Monday–Friday) excluding official public holidays for the selected country. GoChronos supports holiday calendars for the US, UK, India, Canada, Australia and Germany.

**Q: Are bank holidays included?**

A: Yes. Public and bank holidays for the chosen country are automatically excluded. Select your country from the dropdown to use the correct holiday calendar.

**Q: Does it count the start and end date?**

A: The default counts the start date as a business day but excludes the end date (exclusive end). Both endpoints can be toggled.

### Holidays

URL: https://gochronos.com/holidays

Browse public holidays, bank holidays and national observances by country and year. Covers 60+ countries with filterable calendars and printable year views.

**How to Look Up Public Holidays by Country** — Use GoChronos to find all public holidays for any country and year.

1. **Open the Holidays tool.** Go to gochronos.com/holidays.
2. **Select a country.** Choose any country from the searchable dropdown.
3. **Select a year.** Use the year picker (defaults to the current year).
4. **Browse the list.** All public holidays for the selected country and year are listed with names, dates and day of the week.
5. **Export.** Click Download CSV to save the holiday list for use in a calendar app or spreadsheet.

**Q: How many countries are supported?**

A: GoChronos public holidays database covers 60+ countries including the US, UK, India, Australia, Canada, Germany, France, Japan, Brazil, and most of Europe, Asia and the Americas.

**Q: What types of holidays are included?**

A: National public holidays, bank holidays, federal holidays, regional observances and major religious holidays. Some entries include school holidays and optional regional variations.

**Q: How current is the holiday data?**

A: Holiday data is updated annually and covers multiple years, allowing you to look up holidays for past and future years. GoChronos sources data from authoritative government and ISO calendars.

**Q: Can I view holidays for a future year?**

A: Yes. Select any country and year from the dropdowns to see its complete holiday calendar. The calendar view also highlights weekends so you can spot long weekends at a glance.

### Meeting Planner

URL: https://gochronos.com/meeting-planner

Find the best overlapping window for attendees across multiple time zones.

**How to Plan a Meeting Across Time Zones** — Use GoChronos Meeting Planner to find the best overlap time and share a calendar invite across timezones.

1. **Add participants and timezones.** Enter each participant's name and their city or timezone. The planner supports any number of participants.
2. **Read the overlap heatmap.** The 24-hour heatmap highlights green where all participants share business hours. Darker green means more coverage.
3. **Click a time slot to select it.** Click any green slot to select it as the meeting time. The selected time shows each participant's local equivalent instantly.
4. **Export to your calendar.** Click 'Export' to add the meeting to Google Calendar, download an ICS file for Outlook, or copy calendar details.
5. **Share the planner link.** Click 'Share' to copy a URL that pre-fills the planner for anyone you send it to — no account required.

**Q: How do I find the best meeting time across time zones?**

A: Add your participants and their timezones to the Meeting Planner. The interactive heatmap highlights overlapping business hours in green, making it easy to spot a slot that works for everyone.

**Q: What does the overlap heatmap show?**

A: The heatmap shows a 24-hour grid where green indicates business hours (typically 9am–6pm) for all participants simultaneously. Darker green means more participants are in their working hours at that time.

**Q: Can I export a meeting to Google Calendar or Outlook?**

A: Yes. Once you select a meeting time, GoChronos generates a calendar event. You can export it directly to Google Calendar, Outlook or download an ICS file compatible with Apple Calendar and any other calendar app.

**Q: How do I share a meeting planner link?**

A: Click the Share button to copy a URL that encodes all your selected timezones and meeting time. Anyone opening the link sees the same planner pre-filled — no account required.

### Personal

URL: https://gochronos.com/personal

Find your exact age in years, months, days and hours, and track birthdays, anniversaries and life milestones. Fully private — runs in your browser.

**How to Use GoChronos Personal Tools** — Access personalised calculators and planners using the GoChronos Personal tools section.

1. **Open Personal tools.** Go to gochronos.com/personal.
2. **Browse the tools.** See the available personal tools — age calculator, travel planner, health calculators and more.
3. **Click a tool.** Click any card to open the selected tool.
4. **Enter your details.** Each tool has specific inputs — fill them in to see your personalised result instantly.

**Q: What personal tools does GoChronos offer?**

A: GoChronos Personal tools provide utilities for individual use: Age Calculator, Time Zone Converter, Sunrise/Sunset Planner, Moon Phase Calendar, Star Map, Trip Planner and more.

**Q: Are the personal tools private?**

A: Yes. All tools run locally in your browser. Personal data such as dates of birth, locations and travel plans is never transmitted to any server.

### Team Roster

URL: https://gochronos.com/team-roster

Track your distributed team's local time and working hours in one shared view.

**How to Create a Team Roster** — Use the GoChronos Team Roster tool to build, manage and export a structured team member list.

1. **Open the Team Roster tool.** Go to gochronos.com/team-roster.
2. **Add team members.** Click Add Member and enter each person's name, role and any additional details.
3. **Reorder the list.** Drag and drop member cards to arrange them in the desired order.
4. **Edit or remove members.** Click Edit on any member card to update details, or Remove to delete them from the roster.
5. **Download as CSV.** Click Download CSV to export the full roster for use in spreadsheets or other apps.

**Q: What is the GoChronos Team Roster tool?**

A: The Team Roster tool helps you build and manage a list of team members with names, roles and optional details. Use it for sports teams, work squads, event committees, classroom groups and any situation requiring a structured member list.

**Q: Can I export the roster?**

A: Yes. Download the roster as a CSV file for easy import into spreadsheet applications or other tools.

**Q: Is roster data stored privately?**

A: Yes. Roster data is saved to your browser's localStorage only. No data is uploaded to any server.

**Q: Is the team roster tool free?**

A: Yes. Completely free on GoChronos.

### Pomodoro & Focus

URL: https://gochronos.com/timers/pomodoro

25/5/15 focus sessions with a beautiful circular timer and daily session counter.

**How to Use the Pomodoro Focus Timer** — Use GoChronos Pomodoro Timer to improve focus using the Pomodoro Technique.

1. **Set your session durations.** Configure focus session length (default 25 min), short break (5 min) and long break (15 min) to match your preference.
2. **Click Start Focus.** Press Start to begin your first work session. The timer counts down from your set duration.
3. **Work without interruption.** Focus on a single task until the timer rings. Avoid switching tasks or checking social media during the focus period.
4. **Take your break when prompted.** Click Start Break when the session ends. After four completed sessions, a longer break is suggested automatically.
5. **Track completed sessions.** The session counter shows how many Pomodoros you have finished, helping you measure daily productivity.

**Q: What is the Pomodoro Technique?**

A: The Pomodoro Technique is a time management method alternating focused work sessions (traditionally 25 minutes) with short breaks (5 minutes). After four sessions, take a longer break of 15–30 minutes.

**Q: Can I customise the focus and break durations?**

A: Yes. Set custom durations for focus sessions, short breaks and long breaks to match your workflow.

**Q: Will I hear a sound when a session ends?**

A: Yes. An audio alert plays at the end of each focus or break period. You can mute it from the timer controls.

**Q: Does the Pomodoro timer keep running if I switch tabs?**

A: Yes. The timer runs in the background even when you navigate away from the tab.

### Multi-Timer & Presets

URL: https://gochronos.com/timers/presets

Run multiple named timers simultaneously. Kitchen, workout and focus presets included. Custom timers with interval/round support.

**How to Use a Preset Timer** — Launch a timer in one click using the GoChronos Preset Timers page.

1. **Open Timer Presets.** Go to gochronos.com/timers/presets.
2. **Browse presets.** See common durations including 1 min, 3 min, 5 min, 10 min, 25 min (Pomodoro) and 60 min.
3. **Click a preset.** The countdown starts immediately with the selected duration — no configuration needed.
4. **Save a custom preset.** Enter a custom time (e.g. 9 minutes) and a label (e.g. 'Pasta') and click Save Preset.
5. **Manage your presets.** Edit or delete saved presets using the icons next to each custom entry.

**Q: What is the Timer Presets page?**

A: The Timer Presets page provides one-click access to common timer durations: 1, 3, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 45 and 60 minutes. Click any preset to start the countdown immediately — no configuration needed.

**Q: Can I save custom presets?**

A: Yes. Enter a custom duration and label (e.g. 'Pasta — 9 min') and click Save. Your presets persist across visits via localStorage.

**Q: Is the timer presets page free?**

A: Yes. Free on GoChronos, works fully offline.

### Stopwatch & Countdown

URL: https://gochronos.com/timers/stopwatch

Precision stopwatch with lap timing and a countdown timer to any date or duration — in one focused workspace.

**How to Use the Stopwatch & Countdown Timer** — Time events and count down to any date or duration using the GoChronos Stopwatch & Countdown page.

1. **Open the page.** Go to gochronos.com/timers/stopwatch. Both stopwatch and countdown are on the same page.
2. **Use the Stopwatch.** Click Start (or press spacebar) to begin counting up. Click Lap to record splits. Click Stop to pause; Start again to resume.
3. **Switch to Countdown.** Click the Countdown tab to switch modes.
4. **Set a duration countdown.** Enter hours, minutes and seconds and click Start. An alarm sounds when time reaches zero.
5. **Set a date countdown.** Switch to Date mode and pick a future date and time. The timer counts down days, hours, minutes and seconds.
6. **Share the countdown.** The target date is encoded in the URL — copy and share the link for others to see the same countdown.

**Q: How accurate is the GoChronos stopwatch?**

A: The GoChronos stopwatch uses the browser's performance.now() API for sub-millisecond timing, displayed to 3 decimal places. It is as precise as any software-based stopwatch.

**Q: Can I record lap times?**

A: Yes. Click the Lap button while the stopwatch is running to record a split. Each lap shows its individual duration and the cumulative elapsed time.

**Q: Can I set a countdown to a specific date and time?**

A: Yes. Switch to Countdown mode and enter any future date and time to count down days, hours, minutes and seconds until that exact moment.

**Q: Can I set a simple duration countdown like 10 minutes?**

A: Yes. In Countdown mode enter hours, minutes and seconds. The timer counts down and shows an alert when it reaches zero.

**Q: Can I share a countdown link with others?**

A: Yes. The target date is encoded in the URL, so copying and sharing the page URL lets others see the same countdown.

**Q: Does the stopwatch keep running if I switch tabs?**

A: Yes. Both the stopwatch and countdown continue in the background even if you switch browser tabs or minimise the window.

**Q: Is the stopwatch & countdown free?**

A: Yes. GoChronos Stopwatch & Countdown is completely free, ad-free and requires no account.

### Timezone Converter

URL: https://gochronos.com/timezone-converter

Convert any time between cities, UTC offsets and IANA zones in one click.

**How to Convert Time Between Timezones** — Use the GoChronos Timezone Converter to translate a time from one timezone to any other instantly.

1. **Open the Timezone Converter.** Go to gochronos.com/timezone-converter. No account or installation required.
2. **Select the source timezone.** Click the source timezone field and search for or select your origin city or UTC offset (e.g. UTC+5:30 for IST).
3. **Enter the time you want to convert.** Set the time using the time picker. The converter uses the current time by default.
4. **Add the destination timezone.** Click 'Add timezone' and search for the target city or offset (e.g. America/New_York for EST/EDT).
5. **Read the converted time.** The equivalent time in every added timezone appears instantly. The tool accounts for daylight saving time automatically.

**Q: How do I convert a time to a different timezone?**

A: Enter the source time and select your source timezone, then choose the destination timezone. The converted time appears instantly, accounting for UTC offsets and daylight saving time.

**Q: What is the difference between UTC and GMT?**

A: UTC (Coordinated Universal Time) is the modern standard for civil timekeeping. GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) is a historical timezone based at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich. They share the same zero offset but UTC is the scientific standard used in computing.

**Q: What is a UTC offset?**

A: A UTC offset is the difference in hours and minutes between a timezone and UTC. For example, UTC+5:30 means the local time is 5 hours and 30 minutes ahead of UTC, as used in India (IST).

**Q: Does daylight saving time affect timezone conversions?**

A: Yes. GoChronos timezone converter accounts for daylight saving time (DST) transitions automatically using the IANA timezone database, so conversions are always accurate for the chosen date and time.

**Q: How do I convert IST to EST?**

A: IST (India Standard Time) is UTC+5:30. EST (Eastern Standard Time) is UTC−5, making IST 10 hours 30 minutes ahead of EST. During US Eastern Daylight Time (EDT, UTC−4), the difference is 9 hours 30 minutes.

### Sky Events

URL: https://gochronos.com/travel/sky

Meteor showers, eclipses and other celestial events to look forward to this year.

**How to View the Night Sky Star Map** — Explore the night sky for any location and time using the GoChronos interactive star map.

1. **Open the Night Sky tool.** Go to gochronos.com/travel/sky.
2. **Set your location.** Click Use My Location or type a city name or coordinates.
3. **Set date and time.** Defaults to the current moment. Adjust to plan a future observation session.
4. **Explore the map.** Drag to rotate the sky view and scroll or pinch to zoom. Constellations are outlined and labelled.
5. **Search for an object.** Type a planet, star or constellation name in the search bar to centre the map on that object.

**Q: What is the GoChronos Night Sky tool?**

A: The Night Sky tool displays an interactive star map showing the positions of stars, constellations, planets and the Milky Way as they appear from any location on any date and time — useful for stargazing planning and astronomy education.

**Q: How accurate is the star map?**

A: Star positions are calculated from standard stellar ephemeris data and are accurate to within arc-minutes — sufficient for naked-eye observation, constellation identification and casual stargazing with binoculars.

**Q: Can I search for a specific planet or constellation?**

A: Yes. Type a planet name (e.g. Jupiter), a star name (e.g. Sirius) or a constellation name (e.g. Orion) to centre the map on that object.

**Q: Is the night sky tool free?**

A: Yes. Free on GoChronos, works offline after the initial page load.

### Sun & Moon

URL: https://gochronos.com/travel/sun

Sunrise, sunset, golden hour and twilight times plus moon phase, illumination and moonrise/moonset — all in one page.

**How to Look Up Sunrise, Sunset and Moon Phase** — Find precise sunrise, sunset, twilight times and moon phase data for any location and date with GoChronos.

1. **Open the Sun & Moon tool.** Go to gochronos.com/travel/sun.
2. **Enter a location.** Type a city name or coordinates, or click Use My Location.
3. **Choose a date.** Use the date picker (defaults to today).
4. **Read the sun times.** Sunrise, solar noon, sunset, civil twilight, nautical twilight and astronomical twilight times are shown on the Sun tab.
5. **Switch to Moon tab.** Click the Moon tab to see the current phase name, illumination percentage, moonrise and moonset times.
6. **View the annual graph.** Scroll down to see a graph of how sunrise and sunset times shift across the entire year.

**Q: What does the GoChronos Sun & Moon tool calculate?**

A: The tool calculates precise sunrise, sunset, solar noon, civil twilight, nautical twilight and astronomical twilight times, plus moon phase name, illumination percentage, and moonrise/moonset times — all for any location and any date.

**Q: What is civil twilight?**

A: Civil twilight is the period just before sunrise and just after sunset when the sun is between 0° and 6° below the horizon. There is enough natural light for most outdoor activities without artificial lighting.

**Q: How is sunrise calculated?**

A: Sunrise is calculated from the sun's declination (which varies through the year due to Earth's axial tilt), the observer's latitude and longitude, and standard atmospheric refraction at the horizon (approximately 0.833°). GoChronos uses the SunCalc library, accurate to within 1 minute.

**Q: What are the 8 moon phases?**

A: New Moon, Waxing Crescent, First Quarter, Waxing Gibbous, Full Moon, Waning Gibbous, Last Quarter and Waning Crescent. The cycle repeats approximately every 29.53 days (one synodic month).

**Q: How long is a lunar cycle?**

A: One complete lunar cycle (new moon to new moon) is approximately 29.53 days, known as a synodic month. This differs from the orbital period of 27.32 days because Earth is also moving around the Sun.

**Q: Is the Sun & Moon tool free?**

A: Yes. Free on GoChronos, works offline.

### Trip Countdown

URL: https://gochronos.com/travel/trip

Plan an upcoming trip with a live countdown, destination details and packing checklist.

**How to Plan a Multi-City Trip** — Use the GoChronos Trip Planner to build a multi-destination itinerary with accurate local times.

1. **Open the Trip Planner.** Go to gochronos.com/travel/trip.
2. **Add your first city.** Click Add City and type your departure or first destination city.
3. **Add more cities.** Click Add City again for each stop on your itinerary.
4. **Set dates and times.** Enter your planned arrival or departure date and time at each city.
5. **View local times.** Each city displays the local date and time for your scheduled visit, with DST handled automatically.
6. **Share the itinerary.** Copy the URL to share your trip plan with travel companions.

**Q: What is the GoChronos Trip Planner?**

A: The Trip Planner helps you plan a multi-destination itinerary, showing the local date and time at each city for your scheduled visits, automatically handling time zone differences and DST transitions.

**Q: Can it calculate time differences between cities?**

A: Yes. Add multiple cities to your itinerary and the planner shows the local time at each destination alongside your home time zone, flagging DST offsets where applicable.

**Q: Is the trip planner free?**

A: Yes. Free on GoChronos, no sign-up required.

### World Clock

URL: https://gochronos.com/world-clock

Live world clock with current times in hundreds of cities, an interactive day/night map, UTC offsets and quick timezone comparisons. Ad-free, works offline.

**How to Use the GoChronos World Clock** — Track the current time in multiple cities simultaneously using the GoChronos World Clock.

1. **Open the World Clock.** Go to gochronos.com/world-clock.
2. **View default clocks.** Key world cities are displayed by default with their current local times and UTC offsets.
3. **Add a city.** Click Add City and type any city name to add it to your dashboard.
4. **Reorder clocks.** Drag and drop clock cards to arrange them in your preferred order.
5. **Convert a specific time.** Click any clock's time display to enter a hypothetical time and see the conversion across all clocks simultaneously.
6. **Remove a city.** Hover over any clock card and click the × icon to remove it.

**Q: What is a world clock?**

A: A world clock displays the current local time in multiple cities or time zones simultaneously, allowing you to instantly compare what time it is anywhere in the world without manual calculation.

**Q: What is the difference between a world clock and a timezone converter?**

A: A world clock shows the current time in many cities at once, typically in a live dashboard. A timezone converter lets you enter a specific time and see its equivalent in other zones. GoChronos provides both tools.

**Q: Does the GoChronos world clock work offline?**

A: Yes. GoChronos is a Progressive Web App. Once installed or cached, the world clock works fully offline using your device's system clock for accurate local times.

**Q: How many cities are available on the world clock?**

A: GoChronos world clock supports hundreds of cities worldwide across all IANA timezone regions, including major cities in every continent.

**Q: Is the GoChronos world clock free?**

A: Yes. The world clock is completely free, ad-free and requires no account or sign-up. All data is processed locally in your browser.

## Documents & PDF

### Compare Documents

URL: https://gochronos.com/documents/compare

Two versions of a document in, every difference out as tracked changes — word by word, formatting and moves included — with a side-by-side view; or combine two reviewers' copies into one.

**How to Compare Two Word Documents** — Every difference as tracked changes, on your device.

1. **Add the original.** Choose the earlier version — .docx, .odt, .rtf, .md, .html or .txt.
2. **Add the revised version.** Choose the later version (or, for Combine, each reviewer's copy of the original).
3. **Compare.** Paragraphs are aligned and diffed word by word in a Web Worker; nothing is uploaded.
4. **Review.** Read the side-by-side view and the change list, open the result in the Word Editor to accept or reject, or download it as a .docx with tracked changes.

**Q: How does the comparison work?**

A: Both files are opened into the editor's document model on your device. Paragraphs are aligned first — identical ones matched, edited ones paired by similarity, identical text that moved recognised as a move — then each pair is compared word by word, with formatting differences noted. The result is the revised document with every difference as a tracked change, the same shape Word's Compare produces.

**Q: Can I accept or reject the differences?**

A: Yes. Open the result in the Word Editor: every difference is a tracked change with the reviewing pane, next/previous, accept and reject, and it saves back to .docx with the changes intact.

**Q: What does Combine do?**

A: Combine takes the original plus two reviewers' copies and merges both sets of edits into one document, each change under its reviewer's name — Word's Combine, on the model.

**Q: Is anything uploaded?**

A: No. The diff runs in a Web Worker in your browser; the files never leave the device.

**Q: Is this the same as the PDF compare tool?**

A: No. PDF compare works on rendered pages and text layers; this tool works on the document model, so it knows about paragraphs, formatting and moves and produces tracked changes rather than a picture.

### Convert Documents

URL: https://gochronos.com/documents/convert

Word, OpenDocument, Rich Text, PDF, Markdown, HTML, EPUB and plain text, converted by the editor's own codecs on your device — several files at once into a zip.

**How to Convert a Document to Another Format** — Word, ODT, RTF, PDF, Markdown, HTML or EPUB — without uploading.

1. **Add the files.** Drop one or more documents on the page — .docx, .odt, .rtf, .pdf, .md, .html, .epub or .txt — or try the generated sample.
2. **Pick the target.** Choose Word, PDF, OpenDocument, Rich Text, Markdown, HTML, plain text or EPUB. Landing pages such as DOCX to ODT arrive with the target already chosen.
3. **Convert.** Each file is opened by the editor's reader and written by its writer on your device; anything the target format cannot hold is listed with the result.
4. **Download.** Save each result, download them all as a zip, or open a Word result straight in the editor.

**Q: Is my document uploaded to convert it?**

A: No. The file is read and rewritten inside your browser by the same engine the Word Editor uses — a Web Worker does the parsing and packing, and the download comes straight from your device.

**Q: Which formats can I convert between?**

A: In: Word (.docx/.dotx), OpenDocument (.odt/.ott), Rich Text (.rtf), PDF, Markdown, HTML, EPUB and plain text. Out: Word, PDF, OpenDocument, Rich Text, Markdown, HTML, plain text and EPUB.

**Q: How faithful is the conversion?**

A: A conversion is exactly open-and-save-as: styles, lists, tables, pictures, footnotes, headers and footers carry over wherever the target format can hold them. Anything it cannot is listed next to the result rather than dropped silently.

**Q: Can I convert a PDF to Word here?**

A: A PDF opens as a text-layer reconstruction — paragraphs, headings and bullets inferred from position and size, no pictures or tables — and the result says so. Scanned PDFs need the OCR tool first. The dedicated PDF to Word page does the same job with its own controls.

**Q: What about .doc, Pages and Google Docs files?**

A: Word 97–2003 (.doc) and Apple Pages are binary formats without an open specification, so the page points you at Word, LibreOffice or Pages to save as .docx first; Google Docs is downloaded as .docx or .html from Google Docs itself.

**Q: Can I convert several files at once?**

A: Yes. Drop as many as you like; each is converted in turn and the results download one by one or together as a zip built on your device.

### Word Editor

URL: https://gochronos.com/documents/editor

Open, write and save real .docx files with pages, styles, tables and track changes — the document never leaves your browser.

**How to Edit a Word Document Without Uploading It** — Open, edit and save a .docx entirely in your browser.

1. **Open the file.** Drop a .docx on the editor or pick it from disk. It is read in a background thread and never sent anywhere.
2. **Read the notes.** If the file uses something the editor cannot show, a short sheet lists it before you start editing.
3. **Edit.** Write with real pages, styles, tables and track changes, using the same shortcuts as Word.
4. **Save.** Save back to the same file on disk, keep it in My Documents, or export as .docx, PDF, Markdown or HTML.

**Q: Does my document get uploaded to a server?**

A: No. The file is opened, edited and saved inside your browser. Grammar checking, rewriting and summarizing run on-device too, so confidential drafts, contracts and medical notes never leave the machine.

**Q: Can I open a .docx that came from Microsoft Word?**

A: Yes. Word files open with their styles, page setup, headers, footers, tables and images. Anything the editor cannot represent is listed in a short notes sheet when the file opens, so nothing is dropped silently.

**Q: Will the file still open in Word after I save it?**

A: Yes. The editor writes a standard .docx that Word, Google Docs and LibreOffice all open. Fonts are declared by their Word names, so Word uses its own Calibri or Times New Roman.

**Q: Does it work offline?**

A: Yes. After the first visit the editor, its fonts and its grammar engine are stored on the device, so writing, saving and exporting need no connection.

**Q: Is it free, with no sign-up?**

A: Yes. No account, no page limit, no watermark and no paid tier.

**Q: Where are my documents kept?**

A: In this browser's storage, listed on the My Documents page. You can also save any document to a file on disk and keep working on that file directly.

**Q: Does it write my text for me?**

A: No. The tools improve writing you have already written — grammar, rewriting your own sentences, summaries, dictation and read-aloud. It does not draft essays on your behalf.

**Q: Which browsers are supported?**

A: Current Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari. A few conveniences, such as saving straight back to the same file on disk, depend on browser support and the page says when one is unavailable.

### My Documents

URL: https://gochronos.com/documents/library

Every document you have written, stored in this browser: open, rename, export or delete — no account, no sync to a server.

**How to Find and Recover Your Documents** — Everything the editor keeps on this device, in one place.

1. **Open My Documents.** Recent documents are listed first with their last-edited time and size.
2. **Search or filter.** Search by title or content, filter by folder or tag, or open the starred ones.
3. **Recover unsaved work.** A document closed mid-typing keeps its autosave; open it and accept the restored version.
4. **Export or clear.** Export any document or the whole library, and see storage use on the Workspace page.

**Q: Where are these documents stored?**

A: In this browser's storage on this device. They are not uploaded and do not sync to other devices unless you export them.

**Q: What happens if I close the tab while typing?**

A: The editor autosaves as you type. When you come back, the document is listed here with the last autosaved content, and the editor offers to restore anything newer than the last explicit save.

**Q: Can I get my documents out?**

A: Yes. Each document exports as .docx, PDF, Markdown, HTML or plain text, and the whole library can be exported at once.

**Q: Will clearing my browser data delete them?**

A: Yes, like any site data. The Workspace page shows exactly how much space documents take and lets you export before clearing.

**Q: Can I organise them?**

A: Folders, tags and full-text search are part of the library. Documents you star stay at the top.

### Mail Merge

URL: https://gochronos.com/documents/mail-merge

A spreadsheet and a letter in; personalised letters, labels, envelopes, PDFs or e-mail drafts out — with rules, filters and an address block that knows where the postcode goes.

**How to Mail Merge Without Word** — A spreadsheet and a letter in, personalised documents out.

1. **Choose the data.** Open a CSV, TSV, Excel or OpenDocument spreadsheet, or a JSON file. The first row names the fields.
2. **Choose the document.** Start from a merge template, a document in My Documents, or the one you have open in the editor.
3. **Insert the fields.** Drop merge fields, an address block and a greeting line where they belong, with formatting switches for money and dates.
4. **Preview and filter.** Step through the records, filter and sort them, and see which ones a rule will skip.
5. **Finish.** Produce one document with every record, a file per record, PDFs, a label sheet, envelopes or .eml drafts — all built on your device.

**Q: Do I need Word for a mail merge?**

A: No. The merge runs in your browser: the document, the data and the results all stay on this device, and the output opens in the Word Editor or downloads as .docx, PDF, a label sheet or .eml drafts.

**Q: Where does the data come from?**

A: A CSV or TSV file, an Excel or OpenDocument spreadsheet, a JSON file, or a list you type. The first row is the field names; every field becomes a merge field you can insert.

**Q: Can I filter or sort the records?**

A: Yes. Filter on any field (is, contains, greater than, blank and so on), sort by up to two fields, and remove duplicates before the merge runs. The preview shows exactly which records will produce output.

**Q: Does it print labels and envelopes?**

A: Yes. Nine Avery stocks (A4 and US Letter) and eight envelope sizes are built in, each as a real document with the stock’s own margins, so the sheet prints where the labels actually are.

**Q: Can it send the e-mails?**

A: No, and that is deliberate: sending would mean a server. An e-mail merge writes one .eml draft per record, which Outlook, Thunderbird and Mail open as a ready-to-send draft.

**Q: Will Word still re-run my merge?**

A: Yes. Merge fields are saved as real MERGEFIELD fields, so a document exported to .docx can be re-merged in Word against another data source.

### Document Templates

URL: https://gochronos.com/documents/templates

Letters, reports, memos, invoices and academic papers as properly formatted documents — start from one instead of a blank page.

**How to Start a Document from a Template** — A formatted document in one click.

1. **Pick a template.** Browse letters, reports, memos, invoices and papers, or search by tag.
2. **Open it.** The template opens in the Word Editor as a new document with its page setup and styles already applied.
3. **Fill it in.** Replace the placeholder text; styles keep the formatting consistent as you type.
4. **Save or export.** Keep it in My Documents, save to disk, or export to .docx or PDF.

**Q: Are the templates free?**

A: Yes. Every template is free to use, edit and export, with no sign-up and no watermark.

**Q: What is in a template?**

A: A real document: page size and margins, named styles, headers and footers, and placeholder text, so it opens ready to fill in rather than as a picture to copy.

**Q: Can I save my own template?**

A: Yes. Any document can be saved as a template, and your templates are listed under Mine, stored on this device.

**Q: Do templates work offline?**

A: Yes. Templates ship with the app, so the gallery works without a connection.

**Q: Is there a résumé template?**

A: Résumés have their own builder with ATS scoring, so the résumé entry hands you to the Resume Builder rather than duplicating it here.

### Add Border

URL: https://gochronos.com/pdf-image/add-border

Frame a photo with a solid border — any width, any color, square or rounded.

**How to Add a Border to an Image** — Solid frames in any width and color.

1. **Drop the photo.** The border preview appears instantly.
2. **Set width, color, corners.** Sliders for width and corner radius, any color.
3. **Download the framed photo.** The canvas grows — your image stays full resolution.

**Q: Can I make rounded frames?**

A: Yes — set a corner radius and both the frame and the photo corners round together evenly.

**Q: Does the border shrink my image?**

A: No — the canvas grows by the border width; the photo itself stays at full resolution.

**Q: Is the photo uploaded?**

A: No — the frame is drawn on your device.

### Add Image to PDF

URL: https://gochronos.com/pdf-image/add-image

Stamp a logo, signature or photo onto your PDF — pick corner, size and opacity.

**How to Add an Image to a PDF** — Logo, signature or photo — positioned precisely.

1. **Drop the PDF.** Then choose the PNG or JPG to stamp.
2. **Position it.** Pick a corner or center, size as % of the page, and opacity.
3. **Stamp and save.** Apply to every page or just the first or last.

**Q: Where can I place the image?**

A: A 9-point grid (corners, edges, center) with size and opacity control — on every page, or just the first or last.

**Q: Which image formats work?**

A: PNG (with transparency) and JPG.

**Q: Is anything uploaded?**

A: No — the stamp is drawn into the PDF on your device.

### Add Text / Meme

URL: https://gochronos.com/pdf-image/add-text

Positioned, outlined captions — including the classic top/bottom meme layout.

**How to Add Text to an Image** — Captions with position control, or the classic meme layout.

1. **Drop the image.** Or start from the sample.
2. **Write and place.** Nine positions, size, color and outline — or meme mode's top/bottom all-caps.
3. **Render and save.** Text wraps automatically and exports at full resolution.

**Q: Can I make classic memes?**

A: Yes — meme mode gives you all-caps impact-style top and bottom text with the traditional black outline.

**Q: Where can the text go?**

A: Nine anchor positions — corners, edges and center — with size, color and outline controls, and automatic wrapping.

**Q: Is the image uploaded?**

A: No — text is drawn onto a canvas on your device.

### Batch Processor

URL: https://gochronos.com/pdf-image/batch

One recipe applied to every image — resize, convert, strip metadata, rename — out as a single zip.

**How to Batch Resize and Convert Images** — One recipe applied to every file, out as a single zip.

1. **Drop the whole folder.** Add as many images as you like — JPG, PNG, WebP, HEIC, AVIF and more.
2. **Build the recipe.** Choose a size, an output format, whether to strip EXIF and GPS, and a rename pattern. The exact names you'll get are previewed before you commit.
3. **Process and download.** Everything runs in your browser and arrives as one zip — or as separate files if you prefer.

**Q: How many images can I process at once?**

A: There is no limit set by us. Files are decoded one at a time and released before the next one, so what you can process is bounded by your device's memory rather than by a quota — hundreds of photos is routine.

**Q: Does removing EXIF re-compress my photos?**

A: No. On JPG, PNG and WebP the metadata is cut out of the container and the pixel data is copied through untouched, so a photo loses its GPS tag without losing a generation of quality. Only a resize or a real format change re-encodes anything.

**Q: Are my images uploaded anywhere?**

A: No. Every decode, resize, re-encode and the zip itself happen in this browser tab. The tool works with your network disconnected, and closing the tab is all it takes to be rid of the files.

**Q: What happens to files my browser can't read?**

A: They are reported by name in the result with the reason, and the rest of the batch still completes — one unreadable file never costs you the other fifty.

### Black & White

URL: https://gochronos.com/pdf-image/black-white

Grayscale, partial desaturation, or a hard two-tone threshold.

**How to Make an Image Black & White** — Grayscale or a hard two-tone threshold.

1. **Drop the photo.** Converted per-pixel on your device.
2. **Choose the mode.** Grayscale with a strength slider, or pure black & white with a threshold.
3. **Convert and save.** Live preview, then download.

**Q: What's the difference between the two modes?**

A: Grayscale converts colors to tones (with a strength slider for partial desaturation); pure black & white applies a hard threshold — every pixel becomes either black or white.

**Q: Which luma formula is used?**

A: Rec. 601 weights (0.299 R, 0.587 G, 0.114 B) — the standard photographic grayscale.

**Q: Is the photo uploaded?**

A: No — the conversion is per-pixel math on your device.

### Chart Maker

URL: https://gochronos.com/pdf-image/chart-maker

Paste a table, get a clean bar, line, pie or scatter chart — exported as SVG or PNG.

**How to Make a Chart from CSV** — Bar, line, pie or scatter — exported as SVG or PNG.

1. **Paste your data.** CSV, TSV or a copied spreadsheet table — headers in the first row.
2. **Shape the chart.** Pick the form, the label column and the series; add a title and theme.
3. **Export.** Crisp SVG for scaling, 2× PNG for pasting — hover any mark for its value.

**Q: What data can I paste?**

A: CSV, TSV or a table copied straight from a spreadsheet — the first row is treated as headers and numeric columns are detected automatically.

**Q: Are the colors accessible?**

A: Yes — the palette is validated for color-vision deficiency and contrast in both themes, and every chart carries a legend, direct labels and hover values.

**Q: What export formats are there?**

A: Crisp SVG (scales to any size) and 2× PNG for pasting into documents and slides.

### Collage Maker

URL: https://gochronos.com/pdf-image/collage

Clean grid layouts — feature spreads, film strips, story formats — exported as one image.

**How to Make a Photo Collage** — Grids, feature spreads and film strips — one exported image.

1. **Drop your photos.** Two or more; order follows the list.
2. **Choose layout and canvas.** Seven layouts, four canvas shapes, margins, gaps, background and rounded cells.
3. **Export the collage.** One clean image — no watermark, ever.

**Q: Which layouts are available?**

A: Side-by-side, stacked, 2×2 and 3×3 grids, two feature layouts, and a film strip — on square, landscape, portrait or story canvases.

**Q: Is there a watermark?**

A: Never — GoChronos tools don't watermark anything.

**Q: Are my photos uploaded?**

A: No — the collage renders on a canvas on your device.

### Combine Images

URL: https://gochronos.com/pdf-image/combine

Stitch photos side by side or stacked — sizes matched, nothing upscaled.

**How to Combine Images** — Side by side or stacked, sizes matched automatically.

1. **Drop two or more images.** Reorder them with the arrows.
2. **Pick the layout.** Side by side or stacked, with gap width and color.
3. **Combine and download.** Aspect ratios preserved; nothing upscaled.

**Q: How are different-sized photos handled?**

A: Side-by-side matches every photo to the smallest height; stacked matches the smallest width. Aspect ratios are preserved and nothing is upscaled.

**Q: Can I control the order?**

A: Yes — reorder with the arrows in the file list; the preview updates live.

**Q: Is anything uploaded?**

A: No — stitching happens on a canvas in your browser.

### Compare PDFs

URL: https://gochronos.com/pdf-image/compare

Load two PDFs and see exactly what changed — side-by-side pages, a visual difference heatmap, and a word-level text diff.

**How to Compare Two PDF Files** — Use GoChronos to compare two PDFs page by page — visually and by text — entirely in your browser.

1. **Open the compare tool.** Go to gochronos.com/pdf-image/compare. No account or upload required.
2. **Load both PDFs.** Drop the original PDF into slot A and the modified version into slot B.
3. **Navigate pages.** Use the page arrows to step through the documents; the current page is compared automatically.
4. **Choose a view.** Switch between Side by side, Difference (a red heatmap of changed pixels), and Text changes (added/removed words).
5. **Review the summary.** Each page shows the percentage of pixels that differ and the count of added and removed words.

**Q: How does the PDF comparison work?**

A: Both PDFs are rendered and analyzed entirely in your browser. For each page you get three views: the two pages side by side, a visual difference heatmap that highlights changed pixels in red, and a word-level text diff that lists exactly which words were added or removed.

**Q: Are the files uploaded anywhere?**

A: No. Rendering (PDF.js) and diffing run locally in your browser — neither PDF leaves your device, so it's safe for confidential contracts and drafts.

**Q: Can it compare documents with different page counts?**

A: Yes. Pages are compared by position; if one file has more pages, the extra pages are shown as present on one side only. The text diff still runs on whichever pages exist.

**Q: What kinds of changes can it detect?**

A: The visual heatmap catches any change to the rendered page — text edits, moved images, formatting, colors. The text diff specifically reports added and removed words, which is ideal for reviewing wording changes between versions.

### Convert Image

URL: https://gochronos.com/pdf-image/convert

Re-encode any image as PNG, JPG, WebP or AVIF with a quality dial — result screen shows the size delta.

**How to Convert an Image** — Convert PNG, JPG, WebP or AVIF in three steps, on your device.

1. **Upload an image.** Drop an image into the upload zone or click to browse. Nothing is uploaded — the file opens in your browser.
2. **Pick the target format.** Choose PNG, JPG, WebP or AVIF and set the quality for lossy formats.
3. **Convert and download.** Click Convert — the result screen shows the size change, and Download saves the new file.

**Q: Which formats can I convert between?**

A: PNG, JPG, WebP and (in supporting browsers) AVIF, in any direction. The quality dial applies to lossy formats like JPG, WebP and AVIF.

**Q: Is my image uploaded anywhere?**

A: No. The conversion runs entirely in your browser using the canvas engine — you can watch the network panel and see nothing leaves your device.

**Q: Why is my converted file bigger than the original?**

A: Re-encoding a heavily compressed image into a different format can grow it. Try WebP or AVIF at quality 0.8–0.9 for the best size/quality balance.

**Q: Is it free?**

A: Yes — free, no account, no daily limits, and it works offline once the app is cached.

### Crop PDF

URL: https://gochronos.com/pdf-image/crop

Trim margins off every page — cut scanner borders and whitespace before printing.

**How to Crop a PDF** — Trim margins off every page at once.

1. **Drop the PDF.** It opens locally in your browser.
2. **Set the margins.** Top, bottom, left and right as a percentage of the page.
3. **Crop and download.** Every page's visible area is trimmed in one pass.

**Q: How does cropping work?**

A: Set top/bottom/left/right margins as a percentage and they're trimmed from every page's visible area at once.

**Q: Is the cropped content gone forever?**

A: No — cropping sets the page's crop box, which viewers respect but which can be un-cropped later. For permanent removal use Redact in the PDF editor.

**Q: Is the file uploaded?**

A: Never — the crop happens on your device.

### Crop Image

URL: https://gochronos.com/pdf-image/crop-image

Cut to any aspect — square avatars, 16:9 covers — with a draggable fine-tune box.

**How to Crop an Image** — Aspect presets or a hand-drawn region.

1. **Drop the image.** Decoded on your device — HEIC included.
2. **Choose the crop.** Square, 16:9 or other presets, zoom in, or drag an exact box visually.
3. **Crop and save.** The kept region is copied at full resolution.

**Q: Which aspect ratios are built in?**

A: Free-form, square, 4:3, 3:4, 16:9, 9:16 and 3:2 — plus a draggable crop box for exact regions.

**Q: Does cropping lose quality?**

A: No — the kept region is copied at full resolution, pixel for pixel. Only the export format's own compression applies.

**Q: Is the image uploaded?**

A: No — cropping happens on a canvas in your browser.

### EPUB Converter

URL: https://gochronos.com/pdf-image/ebook

Turn an e-book into a printable PDF, or build a real EPUB from PDF, text or Markdown.

**How to Convert EPUB and PDF E-books** — Both directions, DRM-free, on-device.

1. **Pick a direction.** EPUB → PDF for printing, or PDF/text/Markdown → EPUB for e-readers.
2. **Drop the file.** Chapters and headings are read locally.
3. **Convert and download.** A printable PDF, or a valid EPUB 3 for any modern reader.

**Q: Which direction does it convert?**

A: Both: EPUB → printable PDF, and PDF / text / Markdown → a valid EPUB 3 that works in Apple Books, Kobo and Calibre.

**Q: Do DRM-protected books work?**

A: No — DRM can't and won't be bypassed. This is for open, DRM-free books.

**Q: What survives the conversion?**

A: Chapters, headings and text. Publisher CSS styling and embedded images aren't reproduced — it's a text-focused conversion.

### PDF Editor

URL: https://gochronos.com/pdf-image/edit

Sign (incl. certificate digital signatures), fill and create form fields, truly redact, add Bates numbers, sanitize, and reorder pages — no uploads, no watermarks.

**How to Sign and Edit a PDF in Your Browser** — Use the GoChronos PDF Editor to sign documents, fill forms, annotate, whiteout and reorganize pages — nothing is uploaded.

1. **Open the PDF Editor.** Go to gochronos.com/pdf-image/edit. No account or upload needed — the file is processed on your device.
2. **Load your PDF.** Drag and drop the PDF or click to browse. Password-protected files prompt for their password and open locally.
3. **Sign or fill.** Use the signature tool to draw, type or upload your signature and click to place it. Interactive form fields are editable directly on the page.
4. **Annotate and edit text.** Highlight, underline or strike out text, add text boxes, shapes, arrows, freehand drawing, sticky notes and stamps. Use the Edit text tool to click an existing line and retype it in a matched font, or measure distances and areas with a calibrated scale.
5. **Redact sensitive content.** Use the Redact tool to select text or drag boxes, or open Search & Redact to find every email, phone number, SSN, card number or custom pattern automatically — including scanned pages via OCR. Redactions permanently remove the content on download.
6. **Manage pages and layout.** In the sidebar, drag thumbnails to reorder pages, rotate or delete pages, or insert blank ones. Page layout can arrange the file N-up, as a booklet, scaled to A4/Letter, or split wide spreads.
7. **Download.** Click Download to choose options — flatten forms, redacted-page quality, OCR to make scans searchable, accessibility tags, headers/footers with Bates numbering, watermark, compression, encryption and metadata/JavaScript/attachment sanitizing — then save. The original file on disk is never modified. You can also batch-process many PDFs at once.

**Q: Is my PDF uploaded when I edit it?**

A: No. The entire editor — rendering, signing, form filling, annotation and export — runs locally in your browser using PDF.js and pdf-lib. Your document never leaves your device, which makes it safe for contracts, medical records and other confidential files.

**Q: How do I sign a PDF?**

A: Click the signature tool, then draw your signature with a mouse, finger or stylus, type it in a script font, or upload a photo of your signature (the white background is removed automatically). Click anywhere on the page to place it, then drag or resize it. Signatures can be saved on your device for one-click reuse.

**Q: Can I fill out PDF forms?**

A: Yes. Interactive form fields (text boxes, checkboxes, radio buttons and dropdowns) are detected automatically and become editable in place. Turn on 'Flatten forms' before downloading to bake your answers into the page so they can no longer be changed.

**Q: Does the editor add a watermark or limit file size?**

A: No watermarks, no page limits, no sign-up. Because processing is local there is no server-imposed file-size cap either — very large PDFs are only limited by your device's memory.

**Q: Can I rearrange, rotate or delete pages?**

A: Yes. The page sidebar shows every page as a thumbnail — drag to reorder, and use the buttons on each thumbnail to rotate it, delete it, or insert a blank page after it. Every action supports undo/redo (Ctrl+Z / Ctrl+Shift+Z).

**Q: Can I edit the text that is already in the PDF?**

A: Yes — the Edit text tool lets you click a line of existing text to touch it up: the original is covered with a background-matched box and an editable copy is placed on top, pre-filled with the original words and matched to the original font family, size, weight, style and colour. It's ideal for fixing typos, dates or names. It doesn't reflow whole paragraphs (embedded subset fonts rarely contain every glyph needed), and because the tool covers rather than deletes, use Redact when text must be truly removed.

**Q: Can I measure distances and areas on a PDF?**

A: Yes. The Distance tool measures a straight length by dragging, and the Area tool measures an irregular polygon (click each corner, double-click to close) reporting both area and perimeter. Set a real-world scale from a preset, an exact ratio, or by calibrating against a line of known length — perfect for drawings, blueprints and floor plans. A Comments panel lists every markup with jump-to and delete.

**Q: Can I make a scanned PDF searchable (OCR)?**

A: Yes. Turn on 'Make searchable (OCR)' in the download dialog and the editor runs on-device OCR over every page that has no text layer, adding an invisible, positioned text layer so the document becomes searchable and its text selectable. Pages that already contain text are left untouched, so nothing is degraded. Everything runs locally — no uploads.

**Q: Can I make the PDF more accessible?**

A: Yes. The Accessibility option tags the exported file with a document title and language (catalog /Lang and DisplayDocTitle) so screen readers announce it correctly and readers show the title instead of the filename.

**Q: Can I print several pages per sheet, make a booklet, or resize pages?**

A: Yes. Page layout offers N-up (2, 4, 6, 9… pages per sheet in a grid), saddle-stitch booklet imposition, scale/resize every page to A4 or Letter in any orientation, and split wide spreads down the middle into single pages — downloaded as a new PDF.

**Q: Can I process several PDFs at once?**

A: Yes. Batch process lets you drop in many PDFs and apply the same operations — watermark, sanitize, compress and password — to all of them at once, downloading the results as a ZIP. Like everything else, it runs entirely in your browser.

**Q: Is the redaction real, or just a black box on top?**

A: Real. Many tools draw a rectangle over the text while the words remain selectable underneath. GoChronos re-renders each redacted page with the boxes burned into the pixels and deletes the original page content, fonts and annotations from the file, so the redacted data cannot be recovered by copy-paste or text extraction. An optional OCR pass makes the remaining visible text searchable again.

**Q: Can I automatically find and redact emails, SSNs or card numbers?**

A: Yes. Search & Redact scans the whole document for exact text, a regular expression, or built-in patterns (email addresses, phone numbers, Social Security numbers, Luhn-validated credit card numbers), shows every match for review, and redacts the ones you keep. Scanned pages can be included via on-device OCR.

**Q: What does the sanitizer remove?**

A: Four independent toggles: document metadata (author, title, dates, XMP), JavaScript (document, page and form-field scripts), embedded file attachments, and external links/actions. Removed objects are genuinely deleted from the file, not just unlinked.

**Q: Does it support Bates numbering?**

A: Yes. Add sequential Bates numbers (custom prefix, start number and zero-padding) in any corner, plus free-text headers and footers with {page}, {pages}, {date} and {filename} placeholders — with an option to start stamping after a cover page.

**Q: Can I add a certificate-based digital signature?**

A: Yes. Upload your PKCS#12 (.p12/.pfx) certificate, and the document is signed with a real cryptographic PKCS#7 signature (SHA-256/384/512) that covers the whole file — Acrobat and other readers can validate it. The signature can be invisible or a visible block. Everything happens on your device; the private key is never uploaded. RSA signing certificates are supported.

**Q: Can it verify a signed PDF?**

A: Yes. When you open a digitally signed PDF, the editor checks the cryptographic signature, confirms the document content matches what was signed (tamper detection), reports whether the signature covers the whole file, and shows the signer's certificate details — all locally.

**Q: Can I create fillable form fields?**

A: Yes. Add text fields, checkboxes, dropdowns and signature fields by drawing them on the page, then set each field's name, whether it's required, and options — they become real interactive AcroForm fields in the exported PDF.

**Q: Can I password-protect or encrypt the PDF?**

A: Yes. In the download dialog you can encrypt the file (AES-256) with a password required to open it, plus an optional owner password and permission controls for printing, copying and editing. Opening a protected file and exporting without encryption removes the password.

**Q: Can I compress or shrink the PDF?**

A: Yes. Turn on Compress in the download dialog to recompress embedded JPEG images at a quality and maximum resolution you choose — vector text and other content are left untouched.

**Q: Can I add clickable links?**

A: Yes. The hyperlink tool lets you draw a clickable region that opens a web URL or jumps to another page in the document.

**Q: Can I combine PDFs or add pages from another file?**

A: Yes. Use 'Insert PDF' in the page panel to append another PDF's pages into the document, then reorder, rotate or delete them like any other page before exporting.

### Enhance & Upscale

URL: https://gochronos.com/pdf-image/enhance

One-click auto enhance, denoise, sharpen and AI super-resolution with batch mode and undo history.

**How to Enhance or Upscale a Photo** — Auto-fix, denoise, sharpen and AI-upscale a photo on your device.

1. **Upload a photo.** Drop a photo in — or queue several with batch mode.
2. **Auto-enhance or fine-tune.** One click analyzes and fixes exposure, color and noise; sliders and the AI upscaler are there for finer control.
3. **Compare and download.** Check the before/after slider, step back through history if needed, and download the result (or the whole batch as ZIP).

**Q: What does auto-enhance do?**

A: It analyzes your photo (exposure, color cast, noise) and plans a correction: levels, white balance, denoise and sharpening — applied in one click, with undo history.

**Q: How does the AI upscaler work?**

A: Real-ESRGAN super-resolution runs in your browser via WebGPU (with a WASM fallback). The model downloads once (~size shown before download) and is cached for offline use.

**Q: Are my photos private?**

A: Completely. Enhancement and upscaling run on your own hardware — photos never leave your device.

**Q: Can I process many photos at once?**

A: Yes — batch mode queues photos with per-photo progress and downloads everything as a ZIP.

### Extract PDF Images

URL: https://gochronos.com/pdf-image/extract-images

Pull every embedded photo out of a PDF at original quality — no screenshots.

**How to Extract Images from a PDF** — The original embedded files, not screenshots.

1. **Drop the PDF.** It's scanned for embedded raster images locally.
2. **Extract.** JPEGs come out as stored; other bitmaps convert to PNG.
3. **Save.** Download images individually or all at once as a zip.

**Q: What quality are the extracted images?**

A: Original embedded quality — JPEGs come out byte-for-byte as stored, other bitmaps convert to PNG. No screenshots, no recompression.

**Q: Why were some images skipped?**

A: Vector graphics aren't image files, and rare encodings (fax/JBIG2) can't be converted — the tool extracts what's genuinely extractable.

**Q: Is the PDF uploaded?**

A: No — extraction runs in your browser.

### Flip & Rotate

URL: https://gochronos.com/pdf-image/flip-rotate

Turn in 90° steps and mirror horizontally or vertically — clean geometry, no cropping.

**How to Rotate or Mirror an Image** — Clean 90° geometry with live preview.

1. **Drop the image.** Everything happens in this tab.
2. **Turn or mirror.** Rotate left/right in 90° steps, mirror horizontally or vertically, combine freely.
3. **Apply and download.** Save as PNG, JPG or WebP.

**Q: Does rotating degrade the image?**

A: 90° steps are exact geometry — every pixel is preserved, just repositioned. Only the export format's compression applies.

**Q: Can I mirror and rotate together?**

A: Yes — combine either mirror with any rotation; the preview shows the exact result.

**Q: Is anything uploaded?**

A: No — it's a canvas transform on your device.

### GIF Maker

URL: https://gochronos.com/pdf-image/gif-maker

Frames in, animation out — per-frame timing, loop control, GIF or lossless APNG.

**How to Make a GIF from Images** — Ordered frames, per-frame timing, GIF or APNG.

1. **Drop your frames.** Two or more images; reorder with the arrows.
2. **Set timing and size.** Per-frame delays, loop mode, output width and color depth.
3. **Build and download.** GIF for everywhere, or lossless APNG — encoded on your device.

**Q: GIF or APNG — which should I pick?**

A: GIF plays absolutely everywhere but is limited to 256 colors per frame. APNG keeps full color and real transparency, plays in every modern browser, and shows the first frame elsewhere.

**Q: Can frames have different durations?**

A: Yes — every frame has its own millisecond delay, plus an all-at-once slider.

**Q: Are my images uploaded?**

A: No — encoding runs in a background thread on your device.

### Image Tools

URL: https://gochronos.com/pdf-image/image

Convert between PNG, JPG and WebP, resize or compress images, or crop a passport/visa photo to an exact country size — all in your browser.

**How to Compress, Convert or Enhance an Image** — Use the GoChronos Image tool to compress, convert, resize or restore and upscale images in the browser.

1. **Open the Image tool.** Go to gochronos.com/pdf-image/image.
2. **Upload an image.** Drag-and-drop or click Upload to select a JPEG, PNG, WebP, GIF or BMP file — drop multiple files to queue a batch.
3. **Choose an operation.** Select Convert format, Resize / Compress, Enhance photo or Passport photo from the operation tabs.
4. **Set parameters.** For conversion choose output format (JPEG, PNG, WebP or AVIF). For resize enter new dimensions or a percentage. For enhance, click Auto Enhance for a one-click result, switch on old-photo restoration mode to remove scratches and dust, or pick the Classical engine (a preset like Restore, Upscale 2×/4×, Max Quality, or manual denoise/levels/sharpen/upscale controls) or the AI Super-Res engine for a neural Real-ESRGAN upscale with a selectable 1×/2×/4× output scale and an optional AI denoise strength. For a passport or visa photo, pick a country/document (or enter a custom size), then drag/zoom the photo to line up with the head-position guide — or click Auto-detect & fit face in supported browsers — and optionally generate a multi-copy print sheet.
5. **Preview the result.** A live preview — including a zoomable, pannable before/after comparison slider for Enhance — shows the output alongside a file-size comparison. Re-run Enhance with different settings and step back and forth through the undo/redo history at any time.
6. **Download.** Optionally set an exact export size or crop ratio, then click Download — or, for a batch, download every result together as a ZIP file.

**Q: What can the GoChronos Image tool do?**

A: The Image tool supports lossy and lossless compression, format conversion (JPEG, PNG, WebP, AVIF), resizing by dimensions or percentage, batch processing of multiple images at once, photo enhancement — either a classical restoration pipeline (denoise, auto white-balance, sharpening, up to 4× Lanczos upscaling) or a true AI super-resolution mode powered by Real-ESRGAN with a selectable 1×/2×/4× output scale and an adjustable AI denoise strength — and a dedicated passport/visa photo maker. A one-click Auto Enhance mode picks sensible settings for you, and every enhancement is kept in an undo/redo history. All processing is done in the browser — no upload required.

**Q: How does the photo enhancer work?**

A: The enhancer offers two engines. Classical mode runs a restoration pipeline — a bilateral denoise filter, histogram-based auto-levels/white-balance correction, Lanczos upscaling and unsharp-mask sharpening — accelerated by WebGPU when your browser supports it, with an automatic CPU fallback otherwise. AI Super-Res mode instead runs Real-ESRGAN, a neural network trained for photo super-resolution (its training data includes blurred degradations, so it also handles mild deblurring), via onnxruntime-web (WebGPU, or WASM on the CPU), with a 1×/2×/4× output scale you choose — the model always computes its native 4× result internally, then resamples down for 1×/2×, so restoration and detail synthesis are handled together regardless of the scale picked. An optional AI denoise strength (Medium/Strong) blends in a second checkpoint trained specifically for heavier denoising on noisy or low-light photos — it's a separate opt-in download, not bundled by default. Pick a preset (Restore, Upscale 2×/4×, Max Quality) or tune each classical stage manually, then compare the result with a zoomable, pannable before/after slider.

**Q: What does Auto Enhance do?**

A: Auto Enhance analyzes the photo for resolution, blur, noise and faces, then automatically picks the classical or AI engine and a matching set of settings — no manual tuning needed. It's a single click for both a single image and every image in a batch queue.

**Q: What is old-photo restoration mode?**

A: Old-photo restoration mode adds a scratch and dust removal pass aimed at scanned prints — useful alongside denoise, auto white-balance and sharpening for cleaning up aged or damaged photographs before upscaling.

**Q: Can I undo an enhancement and try different settings?**

A: Yes. Every time you run Enhance, the result is added to a non-destructive history — step backward and forward through previous results, or jump straight to any earlier step, without re-uploading the original photo.

**Q: Can I enhance multiple photos at once?**

A: Yes. Drop multiple files onto the Enhance panel to queue a batch — each image is processed in turn with its own progress indicator, and you can download every result together as a single ZIP file.

**Q: What input image formats are supported?**

A: JPEG, PNG, WebP, GIF, BMP and SVG are supported for input. SVG files are rasterised before processing.

**Q: What output formats are available?**

A: Output can be saved as JPEG (with adjustable quality), PNG (lossless), WebP or AVIF (when your browser supports AVIF encoding). WebP and AVIF offer significantly better compression than JPEG/PNG for the same visual quality.

**Q: Can I export an enhanced photo at an exact size?**

A: Yes. The Export size controls let you crop to a preset aspect ratio (1:1, 4:3, 3:2, 16:9 or 9:16) and/or resize to an exact width/height in pixels. This only affects the downloaded file — the on-screen preview always shows the enhancer's untouched output.

**Q: Is the image tool free?**

A: Yes. Completely free on GoChronos, no upload to any server.

**Q: Which countries' passport photo sizes does the passport photo maker support?**

A: Named presets are provided for the United States, United Kingdom, Schengen Area/EU, India, Canada, Australia, Japan and China, plus a generic ICAO 35×45mm preset covering most other countries and a fully custom size (width, height and head-height range in millimetres). Each preset shows the required dimensions in mm/inches/pixels, the head-height range and the required background color, with a link to the source guidance — always double-check current requirements with the destination country's official source before submitting.

**Q: Can it automatically detect and crop my face for a passport photo?**

A: Where supported, Auto-detect & fit uses your browser's own built-in Shape Detection FaceDetector API — an on-device feature of Chromium-based browsers (Chrome/Edge) — to estimate a starting crop, with no image ever uploaded or any model downloaded. It's a starting point to fine-tune against the on-screen head-position guide, not a guaranteed-compliant result. In browsers without that API, drag and zoom the photo against the guide manually.

**Q: Can I print multiple copies of my passport photo on one page?**

A: Yes. The print sheet option tiles multiple copies of the cropped photo onto a 4×6in, 5×7in, A4 or US Letter page (in portrait or landscape) with thin cut guides, sized to fit as many copies as the paper allows.

### Images to PDF

URL: https://gochronos.com/pdf-image/images-to-pdf

Turn photos and scans into one PDF — camera scan mode, auto-enhance, contact sheets and searchable OCR text.

**How to Turn Images into a PDF** — Photos and scans into one PDF — optionally searchable.

1. **Add images or scan with your camera.** Drop photos in any order, or use camera scan mode to capture pages one after another.
2. **Arrange and enhance.** Reorder pages, auto-enhance scans, pick page size and layout (including contact sheets).
3. **Build and download.** Optionally enable OCR for a searchable text layer, then build the PDF and download.

**Q: Can I scan documents with my phone camera?**

A: Yes — camera scan mode captures pages one after another with auto-enhancement tuned for documents.

**Q: Can the PDF be made searchable?**

A: Yes — enable OCR and an invisible text layer is added so the PDF can be searched and copied from.

**Q: Are my photos uploaded?**

A: No. Image processing, PDF assembly and OCR all run on your device.

**Q: Is there a page or file limit?**

A: No artificial limits — batches are bounded only by your device's memory.

### Merge PDFs

URL: https://gochronos.com/pdf-image/merge

Combine multiple PDFs into one — reorder, rotate and pick pages before merging.

**How to Merge PDFs** — Combine several PDFs into one file, privately.

1. **Add your PDFs.** Drop two or more PDF files — they open locally, nothing uploads.
2. **Order and pick pages.** Drag files into order, rotate pages, and choose exactly which pages to include.
3. **Merge and download.** Click Merge — the combined PDF downloads straight from your browser.

**Q: Can I reorder pages before merging?**

A: Yes — drag files into order, rotate pages, and pick exactly which pages of each file to include.

**Q: Is there a file size limit?**

A: No artificial limit — merging happens in your browser's memory, so very large jobs are bounded only by your device.

**Q: Are my PDFs uploaded?**

A: No — files are combined locally with pdf-lib. Nothing is transmitted, ever.

**Q: Is it free?**

A: Yes — free, unlimited merges, no account, works offline.

### Photo Metadata (EXIF)

URL: https://gochronos.com/pdf-image/metadata

See everything a photo carries — GPS, device, timestamps — and strip it without touching a pixel.

**How to View and Remove Photo Metadata** — See what a photo leaks, then strip it losslessly.

1. **Drop a photo.** Every EXIF field is read locally — GPS gets a clear warning.
2. **Review what it carries.** Location, device, timestamps, author and software fields, grouped and explained.
3. **Strip and verify.** Metadata blocks are cut out without re-encoding pixels, and the output is re-read to prove it's clean.

**Q: What can hide in a photo's metadata?**

A: GPS coordinates of where it was taken, your camera or phone model, serial numbers, timestamps, author fields and editing software — this tool shows all of it before you share.

**Q: Does removing metadata recompress my photo?**

A: No — for JPEG, PNG and WebP the metadata blocks are cut out of the file directly; pixels are never re-encoded, so quality is untouched.

**Q: How do I know it worked?**

A: The tool re-reads its own output and reports what remains — you'll see "0 identifying fields" rather than a promise.

### OCR — Image & PDF to Text

URL: https://gochronos.com/pdf-image/ocr

Extract text from any image or PDF in 35+ languages. Download as TXT, MD, HTML, PDF or DOCX. Large PDFs run in page batches.

**How to Extract Text from an Image Using OCR** — Use GoChronos OCR to extract text from images and PDFs entirely in your browser — nothing uploaded.

1. **Open the OCR tool.** Go to gochronos.com/pdf-image/ocr. No sign-up needed.
2. **Upload your image or PDF.** Click 'Choose File' or drag and drop your image (JPEG, PNG, WebP) or scanned PDF onto the upload area.
3. **Select language (optional).** If your document is not in English, select the correct language. Choosing the right language improves accuracy significantly.
4. **Start recognition.** Click 'Extract Text'. Tesseract OCR loads and processes your file locally in the browser.
5. **Copy or download the result.** The extracted text appears in the output panel. Click Copy to clipboard, or Download as .txt to save the result.

**Q: What image formats does the OCR support?**

A: GoChronos OCR supports JPEG, PNG, WebP, BMP and GIF image files, as well as PDF documents.

**Q: Is my document uploaded to a server?**

A: No. All OCR processing runs entirely in your browser using Tesseract.js (WebAssembly). Your documents never leave your device and are never stored, transmitted or processed on any server.

**Q: How many languages does the OCR support?**

A: 40+ languages including English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic, Hindi, Chinese (Simplified & Traditional), Japanese, Korean and Russian.

**Q: How accurate is browser-based OCR?**

A: High-resolution scans with good contrast typically achieve 95%+ accuracy for printed text. Handwriting, low contrast or unusual fonts will reduce accuracy.

**Q: Can I extract text from a scanned PDF?**

A: Yes. Upload your scanned PDF and the tool processes each page locally. For digital (text-selectable) PDFs, the PDF Text Extractor is faster and more accurate.

### Organize PDF Pages

URL: https://gochronos.com/pdf-image/organize

Reorder, rotate and delete pages on a visual thumbnail grid, then save a clean copy.

**How to Reorder or Delete PDF Pages** — Visual page management, no upload.

1. **Drop the PDF.** Every page renders as a thumbnail.
2. **Rearrange.** Move pages with arrows, rotate in 90° steps, delete with undo.
3. **Save a clean copy.** Pages are copied losslessly into the new file.

**Q: What can I do to the pages?**

A: Reorder them with arrows, rotate in 90° steps, delete pages (with undo), and save a clean copy.

**Q: Does quality degrade?**

A: No — pages are copied losslessly into the new file, never re-rendered.

**Q: Is my PDF uploaded?**

A: No — everything runs in your browser.

### Add Page Numbers

URL: https://gochronos.com/pdf-image/page-numbers

Stamp clean page numbers on every page — plain, Page X, X of Y, or roman numerals.

**How to Add Page Numbers to a PDF** — Footer-style numbering in four styles.

1. **Drop the PDF.** It never uploads.
2. **Pick a style.** Plain, Page X, Page X of Y, or roman numerals.
3. **Stamp and save.** Numbers land on every page like a printed footer.

**Q: Which numbering styles are there?**

A: Plain (3), Page 3, Page 3 of 12, and roman numerals (iii) — stamped like a printed footer.

**Q: Can I number a merged document?**

A: Yes — merge first, then add numbers here, and they'll run continuously across the combined file.

**Q: Is my PDF uploaded?**

A: No — numbering happens in your browser.

### Passport Photo

URL: https://gochronos.com/pdf-image/passport

Crop to official passport and visa sizes with face-guided framing and printable sheets — nine presets covering 30+ countries.

**How to Make a Passport Photo** — Official-size passport and visa photos with face-guided cropping.

1. **Pick your country and document.** Choose a preset — US, UK, Schengen, India, Canada, Australia, Japan, China or the ICAO generic — and the official size and head-position guides load automatically.
2. **Upload a photo.** Face detection pre-frames the crop to the guideline; adjust by hand if needed.
3. **Download photo or print sheet.** Export a single photo at exact size, or a print-ready sheet with multiple copies.

**Q: Which countries are supported?**

A: Nine presets: the US, UK, India, Canada, Australia, Japan and China, plus one Schengen preset that covers all 29 member states and an ICAO generic fallback for everywhere else — 30+ countries in total, each with its head-position and background guidance.

**Q: Does it detect my face automatically?**

A: Yes — on-device face detection pre-frames the crop to the official guideline; you can fine-tune it by hand.

**Q: Can I print multiple photos on one sheet?**

A: Yes — export a print sheet (e.g. 4×6) with the right number of copies at exact physical size.

**Q: Is my photo uploaded?**

A: No. Face detection and cropping run in your browser — biometric photos never leave your device.

### PDF Tools

URL: https://gochronos.com/pdf-image/pdf

Generate PDFs from text or images, merge multiple PDFs, or split & extract pages.

**How to Convert Text or Images to PDF** — Use GoChronos to write or paste content and export to PDF, Word, Markdown or HTML — or convert photos and camera scans into a PDF — all in your browser. Also merge, split and extract text from existing PDFs.

1. **Open the Text to PDF tool.** Go to gochronos.com/pdf-image/pdf. The Text to PDF editor opens by default — no account or upload required.
2. **Write or paste your content.** Type directly into the rich-text editor, paste formatted text, or import a Markdown/.txt file. Use the toolbar for headings, lists, tables and page breaks.
3. **Pick a template and configure layout.** Choose a starting template, then set page size, margins, font, headers/footers, page numbers, letterhead, watermark or a table of contents from the options panel.
4. **Add optional extras.** Draw an e-signature, embed a QR code, or password-protect the file with viewer and owner permissions before export.
5. **Preview and download.** Click Preview to check the rendered pages, then Download to save as PDF — or export to Word (.docx), Markdown or HTML instead.
6. **Or switch to Images to PDF.** Select the Images to PDF section instead to upload photos or capture them with your camera, then rotate, crop and reorder each page.
7. **Configure and export the image PDF.** Optionally apply a scan mode, contact-sheet layout, watermark, password protection or a searchable OCR text layer, then download the combined PDF.

**Q: Are my PDF files uploaded to a server?**

A: No. All PDF processing — writing, merging, splitting and text extraction — runs entirely in your browser using PDF.js and @cantoo/pdf-lib. Your files never leave your device.

**Q: Is there a maximum file size for PDF merging?**

A: There is no enforced server-side limit since processing is local, but very large PDFs (hundreds of MB) may be slow depending on your device's RAM. Most typical PDFs merge instantly.

**Q: Can I reorder pages when merging PDFs?**

A: Yes. After uploading multiple PDFs, every page renders as a thumbnail you can drag to reorder, rotate or delete individually — including interleaving pages from different files in any order — before combining them. An undo/redo stack (buttons or Ctrl+Z / Ctrl+Shift+Z) covers the whole editing session.

**Q: Can I shrink the file size when merging PDFs?**

A: Yes. Turn on Compress in the Merge tool to recompress embedded JPEG images at a quality and maximum resolution you choose — vector text and other content are left untouched. It only touches images that are actually JPEGs, so an already-optimized file just won't shrink further.

**Q: Can a merged PDF have bookmarks or a table of contents?**

A: Yes. Turn on Add bookmarks in the Merge tool to generate one bookmark per source file, pointing at the page where that document starts in the combined output.

**Q: Can I password-protect a merged PDF, or merge files that already have a password?**

A: Yes to both. The Merge tool's Security tab encrypts the combined output with a password and printing/copying/editing permissions, and if one of your source files is itself password-protected, you'll be prompted to unlock it in place before merging.

**Q: Can merging make scanned pages searchable?**

A: Yes. The Merge tool's OCR tab detects which pages are scanned images with no existing text layer and recognizes their text via Tesseract, embedding it invisibly so the merged PDF becomes searchable and text-selectable — pages that already have real text are left as-is. Recognition runs entirely in your browser.

**Q: Can I merge several sets of files into several output PDFs at once?**

A: Yes. Build one merge job, click Add to queue, then build the next — repeat as needed. Processing the queue downloads every job as one ZIP file, all sharing the same compression/watermark/security settings.

**Q: Is my PDF data safer here than on Smallpdf or iLovePDF?**

A: Every PDF operation on GoChronos — merge, split, compress, OCR, encryption — runs entirely in your browser. Unlike upload-based tools such as Smallpdf or iLovePDF, your files are never sent to a server, so there's nothing to store, log, or leak; closing the tab leaves no trace of what you processed.

**Q: How do I extract text from a PDF?**

A: Upload your PDF and select the Extract Text option. For digital (text-selectable) PDFs, text is extracted immediately and accurately. For scanned PDFs with images of text, use the OCR tool instead.

**Q: What is the difference between Split and Extract?**

A: Split divides a PDF into one or more new PDF files — by page range, fixed page count, equal parts, one file per page, or custom breakpoints you click to place. Extract pulls all text content from the document as plain text. Both run locally in your browser.

**Q: What ways can I split a PDF?**

A: Five: extract a custom page range into one file, split every N pages, divide into a fixed number of roughly equal files, export every page as its own file, or click between page thumbnails to mark exactly where each split should happen. Splitting into more than one file downloads them together as a ZIP.

**Q: Can I reorder, rotate or delete pages before splitting?**

A: Yes. The Split tool renders every page as a thumbnail you can drag to reorder, rotate individually, or remove before choosing how to split — the same page-editing controls the Merge tool offers.

**Q: Do compression, watermarking, page numbering and passwords work on split files too?**

A: Yes. Every file the Split tool produces goes through the same Compress, Watermark, Page numbers and Security options as Merge, applied identically to each output file — including OCR to make scanned pages searchable.

**Q: Can I write a document and export it to formats other than PDF?**

A: Yes. The Text to PDF editor lets you write or paste content, format it with the rich-text toolbar, and export to PDF, Word (.docx), Markdown or HTML — all generated locally in your browser.

**Q: Can I password-protect a PDF I create?**

A: Yes. The Security tab lets you set a password with separate viewer and owner permissions (printing, copying, editing) before downloading the PDF. The password is applied locally and never transmitted anywhere.

**Q: Can I add a signature, watermark or letterhead to my document?**

A: Yes. You can draw an e-signature directly in the editor, add a text or image watermark, and upload a letterhead image — all applied during local PDF generation.

**Q: Can I convert multiple text or Markdown files to PDF at once?**

A: Yes. Use Batch export to upload several .md or .txt files; each is converted and the results are bundled into a single ZIP file for download.

**Q: Does the AI writing assist feature send my text to a server?**

A: No. AI writing assist uses your browser's on-device Chrome Prompt API when available. Nothing you write is ever sent to a server — if on-device AI isn't supported in your browser, the feature is simply unavailable.

**Q: Can I convert photos or scanned images into a PDF?**

A: Yes. Switch to the Images to PDF section, upload photos or drag them in, then rotate, crop and reorder each page before exporting. Multiple images are combined into a single downloadable PDF.

**Q: Can I scan documents straight from my phone's camera?**

A: Yes. The Images to PDF section includes a built-in camera capture mode so you can shoot a whole batch of pages back-to-back without leaving the page, then convert them straight to PDF.

**Q: Can the camera scan mode auto-enhance each photo as I shoot it?**

A: Yes. Turn on Auto Enhance in the camera capture dialog and each shot is analyzed and enhanced in the background right after capture — using the same classical or AI engine selection as the main Image tool's Auto Enhance — before you continue to the next page.

**Q: Can a PDF made from photos be searchable?**

A: Yes. Enable OCR when converting images to PDF and an invisible, searchable and copyable text layer is added over each scanned page. Recognition runs locally via Tesseract — nothing is uploaded.

**Q: Does converting images to PDF support scan cleanup and multi-photo layouts?**

A: Yes. Apply a grayscale or black-and-white scan mode with automatic contrast cleanup, and lay out multiple photos per page as a 2-up or 4-up contact sheet before exporting.

**Q: Will I lose my progress if I close the tab while converting images to PDF?**

A: No. Your in-progress batch — images, crop/rotation edits and settings — autosaves locally as you work, and GoChronos offers to resume it the next time you open the tool.

### PDF to Excel

URL: https://gochronos.com/pdf-image/pdf-to-excel

Pull tables out of a PDF into a real spreadsheet — one sheet per table page.

**How to Extract Tables from a PDF** — Statements and reports into a spreadsheet.

1. **Drop the PDF.** Table detection runs on your device.
2. **Extract.** Rows and columns are clustered from the text positions — one sheet per table page.
3. **Download.** Excel or CSV — check the result against the original before relying on it.

**Q: What kind of tables does it handle?**

A: Simple grid tables — columns that line up down the page, like statements and reports. Merged cells and decorative layouts won't reconstruct cleanly.

**Q: What's in the output?**

A: An .xlsx with one sheet per table page (or a combined CSV), with the detected rows and columns.

**Q: Are my statements uploaded?**

A: No — table detection runs entirely on your device.

### PDF to Word

URL: https://gochronos.com/pdf-image/pdf-to-word

Turn a PDF back into an editable .docx — headings, bullets and paragraphs reconstructed.

**How to Convert PDF to Word** — Editable structure, rebuilt on-device.

1. **Drop the PDF.** Scanned files are detected and routed to OCR first.
2. **Convert.** Headings, bullets and paragraphs are inferred from the text layout.
3. **Download .docx.** A real Word file, editable anywhere.

**Q: How good is the conversion?**

A: Headings, bullets and paragraphs are reconstructed from the PDF's text layout into clean, editable Word content — it's structured text, not a pixel-perfect visual clone.

**Q: What about scanned PDFs?**

A: They're detected automatically and you're pointed to the OCR tool first — a scan has no text to convert until it's recognized.

**Q: Is my document uploaded?**

A: No — extraction and the .docx build both happen in your browser.

### Pixelate

URL: https://gochronos.com/pdf-image/pixelate

Mosaic the whole image or a region — quick redaction that can't be sharpened back.

**How to Pixelate an Image or Region** — Real redaction that can't be sharpened back.

1. **Drop the image.** Nothing uploads.
2. **Pick area and block size.** Whole image, center block or middle band; bigger blocks hide more.
3. **Pixelate and download.** The covered detail is permanently discarded.

**Q: Can pixelation be reversed?**

A: No — each block replaces its pixels with their average, permanently discarding the detail. That's what makes it real redaction, unlike a light blur.

**Q: Can I pixelate just part of the image?**

A: Yes — whole image, a center block, or a horizontal band across the middle.

**Q: Is the image uploaded?**

A: No — and for real privacy, also strip the EXIF metadata with the Photo Metadata tool.

### Profile Photo Maker

URL: https://gochronos.com/pdf-image/profile-photo

One photo becomes every platform's avatar — smart face framing, studio backdrop, accent ring.

**How to Make a Profile Photo for Every Platform** — One photo → LinkedIn, GitHub, X, WhatsApp sizes.

1. **Drop a photo of yourself.** The face is found and framed automatically where supported.
2. **Style it.** Zoom and nudge the framing, swap in a studio backdrop, add an accent ring, pick circle or square.
3. **Build all sizes.** Every platform size renders identically and downloads as one zip.

**Q: Which sizes does it produce?**

A: LinkedIn 400, GitHub 460, X 400, WhatsApp 500 and a 1024px master — all as PNGs in one zip, framed identically.

**Q: How does the face framing work?**

A: Your browser's built-in face detector finds the largest face and the crop centers it with proper headroom. No detector? You get a centered crop plus zoom and nudge controls.

**Q: Can it replace my messy room behind me?**

A: Yes — the on-device background remover cuts you out and puts a studio color or gradient behind you. The photo never uploads.

### Protect PDF

URL: https://gochronos.com/pdf-image/protect

Password-protect a PDF with real AES encryption and printing/copying permissions.

**How to Password-Protect a PDF** — Real AES encryption in your browser.

1. **Drop the PDF.** The file and password both stay on your device.
2. **Set the password.** An open password, optional owner password, and printing/copying permissions.
3. **Encrypt and save.** The output demands the password everywhere — keep it safe, there's no recovery.

**Q: Is this real encryption?**

A: Yes — AES encryption via the PDF standard's security handler, plus printing/copying/editing permissions. Not a soft lock.

**Q: What if I forget the password?**

A: The file cannot be opened — by us or anyone. There is no backdoor; store the password safely.

**Q: Does my password go anywhere?**

A: No — encryption happens in your browser; the password never leaves your device.

### QR Codes

URL: https://gochronos.com/pdf-image/qr

Generate a QR code for any text or URL, or read a QR code from an uploaded image.

**How to Generate a QR Code** — Create a customised QR code for any URL, text or contact using the GoChronos QR Code Generator.

1. **Open the QR Code Generator.** Go to gochronos.com/pdf-image/qr.
2. **Enter your content.** Type a URL, plain text, phone number, email address or vCard data.
3. **Customise the appearance.** Choose foreground and background colours, error correction level (L/M/Q/H) and output size.
4. **Preview the QR code.** The QR code preview updates live as you type.
5. **Test the code.** Scan the preview with your phone camera to verify the content before downloading.
6. **Download.** Click Download PNG or Download SVG to save the QR code for print or digital use.

**Q: What types of data can a QR code store?**

A: URLs, plain text, email addresses, phone numbers, Wi-Fi credentials (SSID + password), vCards (contact info), SMS messages and GPS coordinates.

**Q: How much data can a QR code hold?**

A: Up to 4,296 alphanumeric characters. Longer data creates denser codes that are harder to scan reliably — URLs under 100 characters scan best.

**Q: What error correction levels are available?**

A: L (7% damage tolerance), M (15%), Q (25%) and H (30%). Higher correction makes codes scannable even if partially obscured or damaged, but increases density.

**Q: How do I decode a QR code from an image?**

A: Switch to the decode tab, upload or drag-drop an image containing the QR code, and the encoded content is extracted instantly.

### Remove Background

URL: https://gochronos.com/pdf-image/remove-background

AI cutouts on your device — transparent PNG, studio fills, or a blurred backdrop. Photos never upload.

**How to Remove an Image Background** — On-device AI cutout with your choice of new background.

1. **Drop your photos.** Up to 12 at once — the 4.4 MB model downloads once and everything runs locally.
2. **Pick the background.** Transparent, solid, gradient, another photo, or a blur of the original — plus edge softness and defringe.
3. **Remove and download.** Compare before/after, then save PNGs or the whole batch as a zip.

**Q: Does my photo get uploaded to a server?**

A: No — the segmentation model (4.4 MB) downloads to your browser once and every photo is processed on your device. That's the whole point of this tool.

**Q: What backgrounds can I put behind the cutout?**

A: Nothing (transparent PNG), a solid color, a two-color gradient, another photo, or a blurred version of the original — and switching styles never re-runs the AI.

**Q: What does it work best on?**

A: Photos with a clear subject: people, products, pets. Fine hair and glass edges are genuinely hard; the edge-softness and defringe controls help.

### Resize & Compress

URL: https://gochronos.com/pdf-image/resize

Shrink dimensions or hit a target file size with quality presets — savings shown before you download.

**How to Resize or Compress an Image** — Hit exact dimensions or a target file size in three steps.

1. **Upload an image.** Drop your image into the tool — it stays on your device.
2. **Choose preset, target size or custom.** Pick a quality preset, enter a target file size (like 200 KB), or set exact pixel dimensions.
3. **Process and download.** The before/after sizes and savings are shown — download when happy.

**Q: Can I compress an image to an exact file size?**

A: Yes — target-size mode searches for the quality level that lands your image under the size you ask for (e.g. 100 KB).

**Q: Does resizing reduce quality?**

A: Shrinking dimensions discards pixels by definition, but the encoder settings keep the result crisp. For enlargements, use the Enhance tool's AI upscaler instead.

**Q: Is the photo uploaded?**

A: No — resizing and compression run on your device. Nothing is sent to any server.

**Q: Is it free?**

A: Yes — free, unlimited, offline-capable.

### Restore Old Photo

URL: https://gochronos.com/pdf-image/restore

Repair scratches and dust, recover faded colors, calm grain — optionally AI-upscaled 2×.

**How to Restore an Old Photo** — Scratch repair, color recovery and grain control on your device.

1. **Drop the scan.** Old prints, slides and scans — nothing uploads.
2. **Pick the damage preset.** Old print, faded colors or grainy scan — or tune each repair yourself.
3. **Restore and compare.** Drag the before/after divider, optionally finish with an AI 2× upscale, and download.

**Q: What kinds of damage can it fix?**

A: Surface damage: scratches and dust, faded or color-shifted prints, and scanner grain. Presets cover the common cases; Custom exposes each control.

**Q: Can it reconstruct blurry faces?**

A: No — and it won't pretend to. Face-reconstruction models with acceptable licenses are still hundreds of megabytes, too heavy to ship in a browser today.

**Q: Is the photo uploaded?**

A: Never — restoration runs in a background thread on your device, so family photos stay yours.

### Round Corners

URL: https://gochronos.com/pdf-image/round-image

Round the corners or crop to a perfect circle — with true PNG transparency.

**How to Round Image Corners** — Rounded rectangles or perfect circles with transparency.

1. **Drop the image.** Processed on your device.
2. **Pick the shape.** Rounded corners with a roundness slider, or a perfect circle crop.
3. **Download the PNG.** True alpha transparency — clean on any background.

**Q: Are the corners really transparent?**

A: Yes — results save as PNG with a true alpha channel, so they sit cleanly on any background.

**Q: Can I make a perfect circle?**

A: Yes — circle mode center-crops to a square first, so the result is exactly round.

**Q: Is the image uploaded?**

A: No — clipping happens on a canvas in your browser.

### Split PDF

URL: https://gochronos.com/pdf-image/split

Extract pages or split a PDF into parts — by range, every N pages, or hand-picked, straight to a ZIP.

**How to Split a PDF** — Extract pages or break a PDF into parts.

1. **Upload a PDF.** Drop your PDF in — it is read locally.
2. **Choose how to split.** Extract a range, split every N pages, or hand-pick pages; text-extract mode pulls just the words.
3. **Download the parts.** Single outputs download directly; multi-part splits arrive as a ZIP.

**Q: How can I split a PDF?**

A: Three ways: extract a page range, split every N pages, or hand-pick pages. Multi-part outputs download as a ZIP.

**Q: Can I extract just the text?**

A: Yes — the text-extract mode pulls the text content of your chosen pages into a copyable document.

**Q: Are my PDFs uploaded?**

A: No — splitting happens entirely in your browser.

**Q: Is it free?**

A: Yes — free and unlimited, with no account.

### Image Splitter

URL: https://gochronos.com/pdf-image/split-image

Slice one image into an exact grid — Instagram grids, puzzles, sprites — zipped.

**How to Split an Image into a Grid** — Exact tiles for Instagram grids, puzzles and sprites.

1. **Drop the image.** Sliced on your device.
2. **Set rows and columns.** Up to 10×10 — the tile size updates live.
3. **Split and download the zip.** Tiles are named row-by-column and reassemble pixel-perfect.

**Q: Do the tiles reassemble exactly?**

A: Yes — tiles partition the source exactly, remainder pixels included, so edge-to-edge they reproduce the original pixel for pixel.

**Q: What's it useful for?**

A: Instagram grid posts, puzzle pieces, sprite sheets, or printing a large image across pages.

**Q: Is the image uploaded?**

A: No — slicing happens on your device, and the tiles zip locally too.

### Text to PDF

URL: https://gochronos.com/pdf-image/text-to-pdf

Write or paste text and export a polished PDF — the Word Editor on a PDF preset, with real pages, headings, letterhead and a table of contents.

**How to Create a PDF from Text** — Write, style and export a polished PDF in your browser.

1. **Write or paste your text.** Use the rich editor — headings, lists, bold/italic, and Markdown or DOCX import.
2. **Style the document.** Add a letterhead, watermark, page numbers, table of contents or a signature block.
3. **Export the PDF.** Click Export — the PDF is generated locally with selectable text and downloads instantly.

**Q: What formatting is supported?**

A: Headings, bold/italic, lists, tables of contents, letterheads, watermarks, page numbers and signatures — a full document workflow.

**Q: Can I import existing text?**

A: Paste from anywhere, or import Markdown and DOCX content — the editor converts it into styled PDF-ready text.

**Q: Is my document uploaded?**

A: No — the PDF is generated in your browser. Drafts autosave locally so you can pick up where you left off.

**Q: Is it free?**

A: Yes, with no watermarks, no page limits and no account.

### Unlock PDF

URL: https://gochronos.com/pdf-image/unlock

Remove the password from a PDF you own — enter it once, save an unprotected copy.

**How to Remove a PDF Password** — For files whose password you know.

1. **Drop the protected PDF.** Password-protected files are accepted here.
2. **Enter the password.** The current password — this tool never guesses or cracks.
3. **Save unprotected.** An identical copy without encryption downloads locally.

**Q: Can it crack a forgotten password?**

A: No — and it never will. This removes protection from files whose password you already know.

**Q: What do I get?**

A: An identical PDF saved without encryption, so it opens everywhere without prompting.

**Q: Is the password sent anywhere?**

A: No — decryption happens entirely on your device.

### Image to SVG

URL: https://gochronos.com/pdf-image/vectorize

Trace a raster into scalable vector paths — sharpest on logos, icons and flat art.

**How to Convert an Image to SVG** — Trace raster art into scalable vector paths.

1. **Drop a PNG or JPG.** Logos and flat art work best.
2. **Pick a style.** Balanced, detailed, posterized or line art — plus a color count.
3. **Vectorize and download.** A real layered SVG, traced in a background thread.

**Q: What images vectorize well?**

A: Logos, icons, drawings and flat art with clear edges. Photographs become a stylized poster look — that's the nature of tracing, and the Posterized preset leans into it.

**Q: What do I get?**

A: A real SVG with layered color paths — infinitely scalable, editable in any vector editor.

**Q: Is the image uploaded?**

A: No — tracing runs in a background thread on your device.

### Watermark PDF

URL: https://gochronos.com/pdf-image/watermark

Stamp a diagonal text watermark — DRAFT, CONFIDENTIAL, your name — across every page.

**How to Watermark a PDF** — Diagonal text across every page.

1. **Drop the PDF.** Processed on your device.
2. **Write the stamp.** DRAFT, CONFIDENTIAL, your name — set opacity, size and color.
3. **Apply and download.** The watermark is drawn into every page.

**Q: What can I customize?**

A: The text, opacity, font size and color — stamped diagonally across every page.

**Q: Can the watermark be removed later?**

A: It becomes part of each page's content — not trivially removable, but not cryptographic protection either. For real protection, also use Protect PDF.

**Q: Is my file uploaded?**

A: No — watermarking runs entirely on your device.

### Word to PDF

URL: https://gochronos.com/pdf-image/word-to-pdf

Convert .docx documents to clean PDFs — headings, lists, tables and images.

**How to Convert Word to PDF** — DOCX to clean PDF, privately.

1. **Drop .docx files.** One or many — nothing uploads.
2. **Convert.** Headings, lists, tables and images are laid out onto PDF pages.
3. **Download.** Single files save directly; batches arrive as one zip.

**Q: What converts well?**

A: Text-first documents: headings, lists, tables, inline images and links come through cleanly. Complex layouts (columns, text boxes, exact fonts) may differ.

**Q: Can I convert many files at once?**

A: Yes — drop several .docx files and download all the PDFs as one zip.

**Q: Does the old .doc format work?**

A: No — only .docx (Word 2007+). Re-save older files as .docx first.

## Media

### Audio Converter

URL: https://gochronos.com/audio/converter

Convert between formats, compress sizes with quality presets, or extract the soundtrack from a video.

**How to Convert, Compress or Extract Audio Online** — Use the GoChronos Audio Converter to change formats, shrink file sizes or pull audio out of a video.

1. **Load a file.** Drop an audio file — or a video for extraction — onto gochronos.com/audio/converter. It's processed entirely in your browser.
2. **Pick a job.** Choose Convert (format, sample rate, mono/stereo), Compress (quality presets with a live size estimate), or Extract (soundtrack from MP4/MOV/WebM).
3. **Choose output settings.** Select MP3 or WAV, and for MP3 pick a bitrate. Compress mode shows the estimated size for each preset.
4. **Export.** Export the converted, compressed or extracted audio to your device.

**Q: How do I convert audio to MP3 or WAV online?**

A: Load your file into the GoChronos Audio Converter, pick MP3 or WAV output (and bitrate for MP3), and export. It decodes MP3, WAV, FLAC, M4A/AAC and OGG entirely in your browser — no upload.

**Q: Can I compress an audio file to make it smaller?**

A: Yes. The Compress mode offers five quality presets from 320 kbps down to 64 kbps with a live size estimate, so you can shrink a file before exporting. Voice is usually transparent at 96 kbps.

**Q: Can I extract the audio from a video?**

A: Yes. The Extract mode pulls the soundtrack out of MP4, MOV and WebM videos and saves it as MP3 or WAV — the video is decoded locally and never uploaded. AVI and MKV aren't browser-decodable.

**Q: Can I change the sample rate or convert to mono?**

A: Yes. The Convert mode lets you resample (16 kHz–48 kHz) and switch between mono and stereo.

**Q: Is the Audio Converter free?**

A: Yes. Free on GoChronos, processed on your device, works offline.

### Audio Cutter

URL: https://gochronos.com/audio/cutter

Trim a section, auto-remove silent gaps, or split a recording into parts — three cutting jobs on one loaded file.

**How to Cut, Trim or Split Audio Online** — Use the GoChronos Audio Cutter to trim a section, remove silent gaps or split a recording — all in your browser.

1. **Load your audio file.** Drop an MP3, WAV, FLAC, M4A or OGG file onto gochronos.com/audio/cutter, or tap to browse. It's decoded on your device, never uploaded.
2. **Choose a job.** Pick Trim to keep a section, Remove silence to auto-cut quiet gaps, or Split to divide the recording into parts. The loaded file stays put when you switch jobs.
3. **Adjust on the waveform.** Drag the start/end handles to trim, tune the silence threshold and padding, or set the number of parts and split mode.
4. **Preview.** Build a preview to hear the result before exporting.
5. **Export.** Export as MP3 or WAV, or download split parts individually or as a ZIP.

**Q: How do I cut or trim an MP3 online?**

A: Load your file into the GoChronos Audio Cutter, drag the start and end handles on the waveform to the section you want to keep, then export as MP3 or WAV. Everything runs in your browser — no upload.

**Q: Can it remove silent gaps automatically?**

A: Yes. Switch to the Remove silence mode and the tool detects silent gaps by loudness threshold and trims them, with adjustable threshold, minimum gap and padding so cuts don't sound abrupt.

**Q: Can I split one recording into several files?**

A: Yes. The Split mode divides a recording into equal parts, fixed-length chunks, or automatically at silent gaps, and lets you download the parts individually or all at once as a ZIP.

**Q: Do I lose quality when trimming?**

A: No. Trimming and silence removal are sample-accurate edits. Exporting to WAV is lossless; MP3 re-encodes at your chosen bitrate.

**Q: Is the Audio Cutter free?**

A: Yes. Free on GoChronos, processed on your device, works offline.

### Audio Merger

URL: https://gochronos.com/audio/merger

Combine multiple tracks into one file — back to back with crossfade, or overlaid as a mix.

**How to Merge Audio Files Into One** — Use the GoChronos Audio Merger to combine multiple tracks sequentially with a crossfade or overlaid as a mix.

1. **Add your files.** Drop two or more audio files onto gochronos.com/audio/merger. Mixed formats and sample rates are normalised automatically.
2. **Order the tracks.** Drag tracks to set the play order, or remove any you don't want.
3. **Choose a mode.** Pick sequential (one after another, with an optional crossfade) or overlay (all tracks play together, peak-normalised).
4. **Preview and export.** Build a preview, then export the combined track as MP3 or WAV.

**Q: How do I merge audio files into one?**

A: Add two or more files to the GoChronos Audio Merger, drag to reorder them, then export a single combined track as MP3 or WAV. Mixed formats and sample rates are normalised automatically.

**Q: Can I crossfade between tracks?**

A: Yes. In sequential mode you can set a crossfade duration so each track blends smoothly into the next instead of cutting abruptly.

**Q: Can I overlay tracks instead of joining them end to end?**

A: Yes. Overlay mode plays all tracks simultaneously from the start (voice over a music bed, for example) and peak-normalises the result so it can't clip.

**Q: Is the Audio Merger free?**

A: Yes. Free on GoChronos, processed on your device, works offline.

### Noise Remover

URL: https://gochronos.com/audio/noise

Clean hum, hiss and background noise with an on-device AI model or a manual spectral gate.

**How to Remove Background Noise From Audio** — Use the GoChronos Noise Remover to clean hum, hiss and background noise on-device with an AI model or a manual spectral gate.

1. **Load a noisy recording.** Drop your file onto gochronos.com/audio/noise. It's processed entirely in your browser.
2. **Choose an engine.** Pick the speech AI (RNNoise) for voice recordings, or the spectral gate for full manual control on any audio.
3. **Tune it (spectral gate).** Optionally set the reduction amount and sensitivity, or point the tool at a noise-only section so it learns the noise profile.
4. **Preview and export.** Denoise to preview the result, then export the cleaned audio as MP3 or WAV.

**Q: How do I remove background noise from a recording?**

A: Load your file into the GoChronos Noise Remover and choose an engine: a speech-tuned AI model (RNNoise) for voice, or a manual spectral gate for full control. Both run entirely on your device.

**Q: What kinds of noise can it remove?**

A: Hum, hiss, wind and steady background noise. The AI engine is tuned for speech (podcasts, interviews, voice memos); the spectral gate works on any audio and can learn the noise profile from a section you select.

**Q: Does the audio get uploaded to a server?**

A: No. The ~100 KB AI model and the spectral processing both run in your browser — your recording never leaves your device.

**Q: Is the Noise Remover free?**

A: Yes. Free on GoChronos, processed on your device, works offline.

### Speed Changer

URL: https://gochronos.com/audio/speed

Speed up or slow down audio from 0.5× to 4× without chipmunk pitch — or with it, your call.

**How to Speed Up or Slow Down Audio** — Use the GoChronos Speed Changer to change audio tempo from 0.5× to 4×, with pitch preserved if you want.

1. **Load your audio.** Drop a file onto gochronos.com/audio/speed. It's processed on your device.
2. **Set the speed.** Choose a speed from 0.5× to 4× with the slider or a preset button.
3. **Choose pitch behaviour.** Keep Preserve pitch on so voices stay natural, or turn it off for tape-style varispeed.
4. **Preview and export.** Play the live preview, then export the re-timed audio as MP3 or WAV.

**Q: How do I speed up or slow down audio?**

A: Load your file into the GoChronos Speed Changer, choose a speed from 0.5× to 4×, preview it live, then export. Great for lecture review and language practice.

**Q: Does changing the speed change the pitch?**

A: Only if you want it to. With Preserve pitch on (the default), voices stay natural using SoundTouch time-stretching. Turn it off for classic tape-style varispeed where pitch shifts with speed.

**Q: Is the Speed Changer free?**

A: Yes. Free on GoChronos, processed on your device, works offline.

### Subtitle Converter

URL: https://gochronos.com/audio/subtitles

Convert between SRT, VTT, SBV, ASS and plain text, and shift or rescale subtitle timing.

**How to Convert and Re-time Subtitles** — Use the GoChronos Subtitle Converter to convert between SRT, VTT, SBV, ASS and text, or fix out-of-sync captions.

1. **Add your subtitles.** Paste subtitle text or load a file at gochronos.com/audio/subtitles. The input format is auto-detected.
2. **Choose convert or fix timing.** Pick Convert format to change between SRT, VTT, SBV and plain text, or Fix timing to re-sync.
3. **Set the output or offset.** For conversion, choose the output format. For timing, shift all cues by seconds or rescale by a percentage to fix frame-rate drift.
4. **Copy or download.** Copy the result or download the converted subtitle file.

**Q: Which subtitle formats can I convert between?**

A: The GoChronos Subtitle Converter reads and writes SRT, VTT (WebVTT) and SBV (YouTube), reads ASS/SubStation Alpha, and can produce a clean plain-text transcript. Plain text can also be turned into estimated-timing subtitles.

**Q: How do I fix out-of-sync subtitles?**

A: Use the Fix timing mode to shift every cue earlier or later by a number of seconds, or rescale timing by a percentage to correct frame-rate drift (for example 25 fps subtitles played at 23.976 fps).

**Q: Does it work without uploading my file?**

A: Yes. Subtitle conversion is pure text processing that runs entirely in your browser — nothing is uploaded.

**Q: Is the Subtitle Converter free?**

A: Yes. Free on GoChronos, works offline.

### Speech to Text

URL: https://gochronos.com/audio/transcribe

Live dictation with the browser's on-device model — never cloud recognition. Export TXT or timed SRT.

**How to Transcribe Speech to Text On-Device** — Use GoChronos Speech to Text to dictate a live transcript using the browser's on-device recognition — no audio is uploaded.

1. **Open the tool.** Go to gochronos.com/audio/transcribe in a browser that supports on-device recognition (Chrome 139+ on desktop).
2. **Pick a language.** Select your language; if its on-device pack isn't installed, download it once so recognition then runs offline.
3. **Start dictation.** Press Start dictation and speak — text appears live as you talk.
4. **Export.** Copy the transcript, or download it as TXT or as a timed SRT subtitle file.

**Q: Does the speech-to-text tool send my voice to a server?**

A: No. GoChronos Speech to Text uses the browser's on-device recognition mode exclusively — it never falls back to cloud recognition. If on-device processing isn't available, the tool stays disabled rather than uploading your audio.

**Q: Which browsers support on-device dictation?**

A: Chrome 139+ on desktop supports on-device speech recognition. The tool checks availability and, when needed, offers to download the language pack once so recognition then runs offline.

**Q: Can I export the transcript?**

A: Yes. You can copy the transcript, download it as a plain-text TXT file, or export a timed SRT subtitle file that uses each segment's real dictation timing.

**Q: Is the dictation tool free?**

A: Yes. Free on GoChronos, on-device, works offline once the language model is installed.

### Text to Speech

URL: https://gochronos.com/audio/tts

Read any text aloud with your device's built-in voices — on-device voices only, nothing uploaded.

**How to Convert Text to Speech Online** — Use GoChronos Text to Speech to read any text aloud with your device's built-in voices — free and private.

1. **Open the tool.** Go to gochronos.com/audio/tts and type or paste the text you want read aloud.
2. **Pick a voice.** Choose from the on-device voices your system provides. Only local voices are listed so your text never leaves the device.
3. **Adjust speed and pitch.** Set the rate, pitch and volume to taste.
4. **Play.** Press Speak to hear it. You can pause and resume at any time.

**Q: Is the text-to-speech really free with no limits?**

A: Yes. GoChronos Text to Speech uses your device's built-in voices, so there are no character limits, credits or accounts — and your text is never sent to a server.

**Q: Why are only some voices listed?**

A: The tool deliberately shows only on-device voices. Network-backed voices would stream your text to a vendor server, which breaks the privacy-first rule, so they are hidden.

**Q: Can I download the speech as an MP3?**

A: No. The browser's speech API plays audio but doesn't expose it as a downloadable stream, so a fully on-device tool can't capture it to a file. It's for reading text aloud.

**Q: Can I change the speed and pitch?**

A: Yes. Rate, pitch and volume are all adjustable, and you can pause and resume playback.

### Compress Video

URL: https://gochronos.com/video/compress

Shrink a video for chat and email — quality presets, live progress, working cancel.

**How to Compress a Video** — Quality presets with live progress and cancel.

1. **Drop the video.** The engine downloads once, then stays cached.
2. **Pick a quality.** Balanced, Smaller or Tiny, with an optional 720p cap.
3. **Compress.** Watch real progress, cancel any time, and see the exact size saving.

**Q: How much smaller will my video get?**

A: Typically 50–80% with the Smaller preset, depending on the source. The result screen shows the exact saving against your original.

**Q: Can I stop a long compression?**

A: Yes — Cancel stops the encoder immediately and frees the memory; nothing is left half-written.

**Q: Is there a watermark?**

A: No. GoChronos never watermarks anything, and there's no size cap or signup.

### Convert Video

URL: https://gochronos.com/video/convert

MOV, MKV, AVI, WebM, GIF in — MP4, WebM, MKV out. Lossless remux whenever codecs allow.

**How to Convert a Video** — MOV, MKV, AVI, WebM, GIF in — MP4, WebM, MKV out.

1. **Drop the video.** Any common container.
2. **Pick the target.** MP4 and MKV try a lossless remux first; WebM always re-encodes.
3. **Convert.** Remuxes are instant and quality-identical; re-encodes show live progress.

**Q: What does 'lossless remux' mean?**

A: When the source's video and audio codecs are already legal in the target container (H.264 in MOV → MP4, for example), the streams are just repackaged rather than decoded and re-encoded. It's instant and the quality is identical.

**Q: Which formats can I convert?**

A: MOV, MKV, AVI, WebM, MP4 and even GIF as input; MP4, WebM and MKV as output.

**Q: Why does WebM always take longer?**

A: There's no lossless path into WebM from typical sources, so it re-encodes to VP8 + Opus. That's real work, and WASM makes it slower than a native app would be.

### Extract Frames

URL: https://gochronos.com/video/frames

Still images out of any video — full-resolution bursts, zipped. No engine download.

**How to Extract Frames From a Video** — Full-resolution stills, zipped — no engine download.

1. **Drop the video.** Your browser's own decoder handles it.
2. **Choose how many frames.** Up to 60, evenly spaced, as JPG or PNG.
3. **Extract.** Every frame arrives at full resolution in one zip.

**Q: Does this need the video engine download?**

A: No — frame extraction uses your browser's own video decoder, so it works immediately with nothing to download.

**Q: What resolution are the frames?**

A: Full source resolution, saved as JPG or lossless PNG and delivered as a zip.

**Q: Can I pick exact moments?**

A: This tool captures evenly spaced frames across the whole video. For an exact moment, trim to that range first, then extract.

### Merge Videos

URL: https://gochronos.com/video/merge

Join clips back to back — instant stream-copy when they match, auto re-encode when not.

**How to Merge Videos** — Join clips back to back, losslessly when possible.

1. **Drop two or more clips.** Reorder them with the arrows.
2. **Merge.** Matching codecs join by stream copy; mismatched ones are re-encoded automatically.
3. **Download.** One MP4, joined on your device.

**Q: Do the clips need to match?**

A: Not necessarily. If they share a codec and resolution the merge is an instant stream copy; if they differ, everything is re-encoded to one uniform H.264 file automatically.

**Q: How do I control the order?**

A: Reorder the list with the arrows before merging — clips join top to bottom.

**Q: Is there a limit?**

A: Memory is the limit: keep the combined size under roughly 1 GB on desktop, less on mobile.

### Mute Video

URL: https://gochronos.com/video/mute

Strip the audio track by stream copy — instant, lossless, any size.

**How to Mute a Video** — Instant, lossless audio removal.

1. **Drop the video.** Nothing to configure.
2. **Remove audio.** The audio track is dropped by stream copy.
3. **Download.** Video quality is byte-identical to the original.

**Q: Does muting re-encode the video?**

A: No — the audio track is simply dropped and every video byte is copied through. It's instant even on large files, with zero quality change.

**Q: Can I get the audio back?**

A: Not from the muted copy — keep your original, or use Video to MP3 first if you want to save the soundtrack.

**Q: Is the file uploaded?**

A: No — the video never leaves your device. Muting happens locally, which is also why it finishes as fast as your disk can copy the file.

### Resize Video

URL: https://gochronos.com/video/resize

1080p, 720p, 480p or 360p — aspect preserved, audio untouched.

**How to Resize a Video** — Change resolution with the aspect ratio preserved.

1. **Drop the video.** Processed on your device.
2. **Choose a height.** 1080p, 720p, 480p or 360p — the width follows automatically.
3. **Resize and download.** The audio track is copied over untouched.

**Q: Does resizing hurt quality?**

A: Scaling down is generally clean — detail is reduced but artifacts are minimal at these presets. Scaling up adds pixels without adding detail, so the tool warns you when the source is already smaller than the target.

**Q: What happens to the audio?**

A: It's copied across untouched — only the video stream is rescaled.

**Q: Is the file uploaded?**

A: No — rescaling runs on your device.

### Video to GIF

URL: https://gochronos.com/video/to-gif

Clip → looping GIF or animated WebP with a two-pass palette for crisp colors.

**How to Turn a Video Into a GIF** — Two-pass palette for crisp, band-free colors.

1. **Drop the video.** Preview it in the player.
2. **Pick the range and size.** Start, length, frame rate and width — plus GIF or animated WebP.
3. **Make the animation.** Pass one builds the palette, pass two renders against it.

**Q: Why do these GIFs look better than other converters'?**

A: Two-pass encoding: the first pass builds a 256-color palette tailored to your exact clip, the second renders against it. One-pass converters reuse a generic palette, which is where banding and muddy colors come from.

**Q: GIF or WebP?**

A: GIF plays absolutely everywhere. Animated WebP keeps full 24-bit color and is usually far smaller — every modern browser plays it.

**Q: How long a clip can I convert?**

A: Up to 15 seconds per run here; GIF sizes grow fast, so shorter and narrower keeps the file sane.

### Video to MP3

URL: https://gochronos.com/video/to-mp3

Pull the soundtrack out — MP3, lossless M4A copy, or WAV.

**How to Extract Audio From a Video** — MP3, lossless M4A copy, or WAV.

1. **Drop the video.** The soundtrack is read locally.
2. **Pick a format.** MP3 for compatibility, M4A for a lossless copy, WAV for editing.
3. **Extract and download.** Play it back right on the page before saving.

**Q: Which format should I pick?**

A: MP3 plays everywhere. M4A is often a lossless copy of the video's existing AAC track — the fastest and highest-quality option when it applies. WAV is uncompressed, for editing.

**Q: Does it work on any video?**

A: Any video the engine can read — MP4, MOV, MKV, WebM, AVI and more. Audio-to-audio conversions (M4A → MP3, for instance) are handled by the Audio Converter.

**Q: Is my video uploaded?**

A: No — the audio is extracted in your browser.

### Trim Video

URL: https://gochronos.com/video/trim

Cut a clip out — lossless keyframe cuts in seconds, or frame-exact with re-encode.

**How to Trim a Video** — Lossless keyframe cuts or frame-exact re-encode, on your device.

1. **Drop the video.** A thumbnail timeline is built with your browser's own decoder — nothing uploads.
2. **Set the range.** Drag the start and end sliders, or type exact timecodes; pick lossless (fast) or frame-exact.
3. **Trim and download.** Lossless cuts finish in seconds even on large files.

**Q: What's the difference between the two cut styles?**

A: Lossless copies the original streams, so it finishes in seconds and the quality is untouched — but the cut lands on the nearest keyframe before your start point. Frame-exact re-encodes, which is slower but starts precisely where you asked.

**Q: Is there a file size limit?**

A: No hard limit, but the engine holds the video in memory — stay under about 1 GB on desktop and 300 MB on mobile browsers.

**Q: Does the video get uploaded?**

A: No — trimming happens entirely in this tab.

## Developer

### JSON Toolkit

URL: https://gochronos.com/code-tools/json

Format, minify and validate JSON. See live structure stats and size differences.

**How to Format and Validate JSON** — Use the GoChronos JSON Formatter to beautify, validate and explore JSON data.

1. **Open the JSON Formatter.** Go to gochronos.com/code-tools/json.
2. **Paste your JSON.** Paste minified or unformatted JSON into the input field.
3. **Set indentation.** Choose 2-space, 4-space or tab indentation using the toggle.
4. **Click Format.** Click Format to beautify the JSON. Syntax errors are highlighted with a description.
5. **Explore the tree view.** Switch to Tree View to navigate nested objects and arrays interactively.
6. **Copy the result.** Click Copy to copy the formatted JSON to your clipboard.

**Q: What does the JSON formatter do?**

A: It takes minified or malformed JSON and outputs it with proper indentation and line breaks. It also validates JSON and reports syntax errors with the exact line and character position.

**Q: How do I minify JSON to reduce its size?**

A: Switch to minify mode in the JSON Toolkit. All whitespace and line breaks are removed, producing the smallest valid JSON string suitable for APIs or storage.

**Q: Can it detect JSON syntax errors?**

A: Yes. Missing commas, unclosed brackets, unquoted keys and other syntax errors are flagged immediately with the specific error location.

**Q: Is my JSON data kept private?**

A: Yes. The JSON Toolkit runs entirely in your browser — your data is never uploaded to any server.

### Code Formatter

URL: https://gochronos.com/code-tools/prettier

Beautify JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, CSS, SCSS, LESS, Markdown and YAML with Prettier.

**How to Format Code with Prettier** — Use the GoChronos Prettier Formatter to apply consistent code style to JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, CSS and more.

1. **Open the Prettier Formatter.** Go to gochronos.com/code-tools/prettier.
2. **Paste your code.** Paste JavaScript, TypeScript, CSS, HTML, JSX, TSX, JSON or Markdown.
3. **Select the language.** Choose the correct parser from the language dropdown for accurate formatting.
4. **Adjust options.** Set print width, tab width, semicolons and quote style to match your project style guide.
5. **Click Format.** Click Format to apply Prettier rules. The formatted code appears in the output panel.
6. **Copy the result.** Click Copy to copy the formatted code.

**Q: What languages does the Prettier formatter support?**

A: JavaScript, TypeScript, JSX, TSX, HTML, CSS, SCSS, Less, JSON, JSON5, Markdown, YAML, GraphQL and Angular/Vue templates — the same languages supported by the official Prettier library.

**Q: Is this the real Prettier library?**

A: Yes. GoChronos runs the actual Prettier library compiled to WebAssembly in your browser. The output is identical to running Prettier from the command line or VS Code extension.

**Q: Can I configure formatting options like print width or tab size?**

A: Yes. Options including print width, tab width, semi-colons, single vs double quotes, trailing commas and bracket spacing can be configured before formatting.

**Q: Is my code uploaded to any server?**

A: No. All formatting runs entirely in your browser via WebAssembly. Your code never leaves your device.

### Regex Tester & Library

URL: https://gochronos.com/code-tools/regex

Test JavaScript regex live with highlighted matches and capture groups, or browse 47+ ready-to-use patterns to load.

**How to Test a Regular Expression** — Use the GoChronos RegExp Tester to build, test and debug regular expressions in real time.

1. **Open the RegExp Tester.** Go to gochronos.com/code-tools/regex.
2. **Enter your pattern.** Type your regular expression in the pattern field (without surrounding / delimiters).
3. **Set flags.** Toggle g (global), i (case-insensitive), m (multiline) and s (dotAll) flags as needed.
4. **Enter test string.** Paste or type the text you want to match against in the test input area.
5. **Review matches.** All matches are highlighted in the test string in real time. Named capture groups appear in the panel below.
6. **Or browse the Pattern Library.** Scroll down to search or filter 47+ ready-made patterns by category, then click Load to drop one straight into the tester.
7. **Copy the pattern.** Click Copy Pattern to copy the regex ready to use in your code.

**Q: How do I test a regex pattern?**

A: Enter your regex pattern in the pattern field and your test string in the text area. All matches are highlighted in real time as you type.

**Q: What regex flags are supported?**

A: All standard JavaScript flags: g (global), i (case insensitive), m (multiline), s (dotAll), u (unicode) and y (sticky). Toggle each with one click.

**Q: How do I see capture group values?**

A: When your pattern includes capture groups (parentheses), each group's matched value is shown separately, numbered from left to right.

**Q: Can I test against multiline text?**

A: Yes. Paste multiline text into the test area. Use the m flag to make ^ and $ match the start and end of each line rather than the entire string.

**Q: Is there a library of ready-made patterns?**

A: Yes. Scroll down to the Pattern Library section for 47+ ready-to-use expressions covering email, URL, phone, date, UUID, password and more. Click Load to drop any pattern straight into the tester above.

**Q: Is the pattern library free?**

A: Yes. Completely free, works offline.

### SQL & XML Formatter

URL: https://gochronos.com/code-tools/sql

Beautify SQL across 10+ dialects, or format/minify XML, SVG, RSS and OPML — both in one tool.

**How to Format SQL Queries and XML Documents** — Use the GoChronos SQL & XML Formatter to reformat SQL with consistent indentation and pretty-print XML.

1. **Open the SQL & XML Formatter.** Go to gochronos.com/code-tools/sql.
2. **Format SQL.** Paste your raw SQL query, choose a dialect (MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, etc.) and click Format.
3. **Switch to XML mode.** Click the XML toggle at the top to switch to XML formatter mode.
4. **Paste your XML.** Paste minified or poorly formatted XML, SVG, RSS or OPML into the input field.
5. **Format or Minify.** Click Format to apply consistent indentation, or Minify to strip all whitespace.
6. **Copy the output.** Click Copy to copy the formatted result to your clipboard.

**Q: What does the GoChronos SQL & XML Formatter do?**

A: It formats SQL with consistent indentation and keyword capitalisation across 10+ dialects. Switch to XML mode to pretty-print or minify any XML, SVG, RSS or OPML document — all in the same browser-based tool with no server upload.

**Q: Which SQL dialects are supported?**

A: The formatter supports standard ANSI SQL and common dialects including MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, BigQuery, Redshift, Spark, Trino and T-SQL (Microsoft SQL Server). Select your dialect in the dropdown for dialect-specific keyword handling.

**Q: Does the formatter modify query logic?**

A: No. The formatter only changes whitespace and capitalisation. It never alters keywords, identifiers, operators or the logical structure of your SQL. The reformatted query executes identically to the original.

**Q: What is the difference between well-formed and valid XML?**

A: Well-formed XML follows all XML syntax rules: every tag is closed, attributes are quoted and there is a single root element. Valid XML additionally conforms to a specific schema (DTD or XSD). The GoChronos formatter checks well-formedness; schema validation is out of scope.

**Q: Can I format SVG, RSS and OPML files?**

A: Yes. The XML formatter mode handles any XML-based format including SVG vector graphics, RSS/Atom feeds, OPML outlines and any custom XML schema.

**Q: Is the SQL & XML formatter free?**

A: Yes. Completely free, no sign-up required, and works offline after the page loads. No data is transmitted to any server.

### Data Cleaner

URL: https://gochronos.com/data-tools/clean

Trim whitespace, drop duplicates and empty rows, normalize case, find & replace per column.

**How to Clean Messy Spreadsheet Data** — Trim, dedupe and normalize without uploading.

1. **Add the messy file.** Drop a CSV or Excel file and preview what's there.
2. **Pick the fixes.** Trim whitespace, drop empty/duplicate rows, normalize a column's case, find & replace.
3. **Review and export.** See exactly how many cells changed, then export clean CSV or Excel.

**Q: What can it fix?**

A: Stray whitespace, runs of spaces, fully empty rows, duplicate rows, inconsistent case in a column, and find & replace in one or all columns.

**Q: How do I know what changed?**

A: The result reports exactly how many cells were modified and how many rows were removed, with a preview before you export.

**Q: Is my data uploaded?**

A: Never — cleaning runs in a background thread on your device.

### Excel Converter

URL: https://gochronos.com/data-tools/excel-convert

Convert Excel workbooks to CSV, TSV or JSON — or build a styled .xlsx from plain data.

**How to Convert Excel to CSV or JSON** — Change spreadsheet formats privately, in your browser.

1. **Drop your file.** Add an Excel, CSV or TSV file — it parses in a background thread, nothing uploads.
2. **Pick sheet and format.** Choose the sheet, preview the first 100 rows, and pick CSV, TSV, JSON or styled Excel output.
3. **Convert and save.** Click Convert and download the result — multi-sheet workbooks can export every sheet at once.

**Q: Which formats can I convert between?**

A: Excel (.xlsx/.xls) to CSV, TSV, semicolon-CSV or JSON — and CSV/TSV back to a styled .xlsx with bold frozen headers.

**Q: Does it handle multiple sheets?**

A: Yes — pick any sheet from a workbook, or convert every sheet at once (one file each, or one combined workbook).

**Q: Is my spreadsheet uploaded?**

A: No — parsing happens in a background thread of your browser. Financial data never leaves your device.

**Q: What about legacy encodings?**

A: Files that aren't UTF-8 (older exports) can be re-read as Windows-1252 with one click.

### Excel to PDF

URL: https://gochronos.com/data-tools/excel-to-pdf

Turn a sheet into a clean paginated PDF table with repeated headers and page numbers.

**How to Turn a Spreadsheet into a PDF** — A clean, paginated table — on your device.

1. **Drop the sheet.** Add an Excel or CSV file and pick the sheet.
2. **Set the page.** Portrait or landscape, scaled to width or actual size.
3. **Build and download.** Get a paginated PDF with repeated headers and page numbers.

**Q: What does the PDF look like?**

A: A clean paginated table: repeated header row, zebra striping, page numbers, portrait or landscape, scaled to the page width.

**Q: Are cell colors and formulas preserved?**

A: No — this renders your data as a readable report table. Formulas are exported as their values; styling is not reproduced.

**Q: Is there a row limit?**

A: PDFs are capped at 5,000 rows for readability — the cap is stated on the last page if hit.

### Merge Sheets

URL: https://gochronos.com/data-tools/merge-sheets

Stack CSV/Excel files into one table, or join two on a shared key column.

**How to Merge Spreadsheets** — Stack files or join them on a key — locally.

1. **Add two or more files.** Drop CSV or Excel files; pick the sheet for each workbook.
2. **Stack or join.** Stack rows (columns matched by header) or left-join two files on a key column you map.
3. **Check and export.** Preview the result — including any unmatched count — and export CSV or Excel.

**Q: How are columns matched when stacking?**

A: By header name — the result has the union of all columns, and files missing a column get blanks there.

**Q: Can I join like VLOOKUP?**

A: Yes — a left join of two files on a key column you pick in each; unmatched rows are kept with blanks and honestly counted.

**Q: Do my files upload?**

A: No — merging happens entirely in your browser.

### Split CSV / Excel

URL: https://gochronos.com/data-tools/split

Break a big sheet into row-count chunks or one file per column value — zipped for you.

**How to Split a CSV or Excel File** — Break a big sheet into parts without uploading it.

1. **Add the sheet.** Drop a CSV or Excel file and preview it.
2. **Choose the split.** By row count (e.g. 1,000 rows per file) or by a column's values (one file per region, status…).
3. **Download the zip.** All parts arrive as one zip, each with the header row repeated.

**Q: How can I split a sheet?**

A: Two ways: into chunks of N data rows (header repeated in each), or into one file per distinct value of a column — like one CSV per region.

**Q: How do I download hundreds of parts?**

A: Everything arrives as a single zip, built in your browser.

**Q: Is there a size limit?**

A: No artificial one — parsing runs in a background thread, so big files won't freeze the page; very large files are bounded by device memory.

### Structured Data

URL: https://gochronos.com/data-tools/structured

Convert between JSON, YAML, XML, TypeScript, JavaScript, query strings, .env files and JSONL.

**How to View and Convert Structured Data** — Use the GoChronos Structured Data Viewer to inspect, validate and convert JSON, YAML, TOML and XML.

1. **Open the Structured Data Viewer.** Go to gochronos.com/data-tools/structured.
2. **Paste or upload data.** Paste JSON, YAML, TOML or XML, or click Upload File to load from disk.
3. **Choose output format.** Select the target format (e.g. JSON → YAML) using the Format dropdown.
4. **Explore the tree.** Switch to Tree View to expand and collapse nested objects and arrays interactively.
5. **Download the output.** Click Download to save the converted or formatted file.

**Q: What is the Structured Data Viewer?**

A: The GoChronos Structured Data Viewer lets you paste or upload JSON, YAML, TOML or XML and instantly visualise it as a collapsible tree, validate it for syntax errors, convert between formats and copy a prettified version.

**Q: What is the difference between JSON, YAML and TOML?**

A: JSON is a lightweight data-interchange format widely used in APIs. YAML is a human-readable superset of JSON often used for configuration files. TOML is a minimal config format designed to be unambiguous and easy to parse, used by Rust's Cargo and many CI systems.

**Q: Can I convert between JSON, YAML and TOML?**

A: Yes. The Structured Data Viewer imports any supported format and exports to any other. For example: paste YAML and download it as JSON, or paste TOML and download it as YAML.

**Q: Is the structured data viewer free?**

A: Yes. Completely free, no account required, works offline after the initial page load.

### Tabular Data

URL: https://gochronos.com/data-tools/tabular

Reformat CSV, swap CSV ↔ TSV, and convert between CSV and Markdown tables.

**How to Edit Tabular Data (CSV / TSV)** — Use the GoChronos Tabular Data Editor to view, sort, filter and edit CSV and TSV files.

1. **Open the Tabular Data Editor.** Go to gochronos.com/data-tools/tabular.
2. **Paste or upload CSV/TSV.** Paste your CSV or TSV text directly, or click Upload File.
3. **Edit cells.** Click any cell to edit its value inline. Changes appear in the output immediately.
4. **Sort and filter.** Click a column header to sort by that column. Use the filter bar to show only rows matching a keyword.
5. **Download.** Click Download CSV or Download TSV to save your edited data.

**Q: What is the Tabular Data Editor?**

A: The GoChronos Tabular Data Editor renders CSV and TSV files as an interactive spreadsheet-like table, letting you view, sort, filter and edit cells, then download the result as CSV or TSV.

**Q: What is the difference between CSV and TSV?**

A: CSV (Comma-Separated Values) uses commas as field delimiters. TSV (Tab-Separated Values) uses tab characters. TSV is less common but avoids issues when field values themselves contain commas.

**Q: Can I edit cell values in the tabular editor?**

A: Yes. Click any cell to edit its value inline. Changes are reflected immediately in the downloadable output.

**Q: Is the tabular data editor free?**

A: Yes. Free on GoChronos, no server upload, works offline.

### Text Encryption

URL: https://gochronos.com/devsec/cipher

Encrypt and decrypt any text with a passphrase. AES-256-GCM with PBKDF2 (200k SHA-256 rounds).

**How to Encode Text with a Cipher** — Use the GoChronos Cipher tool to encode and decode text using Caesar, ROT13, Atbash or Vigenere ciphers.

1. **Open the Cipher tool.** Go to gochronos.com/devsec/cipher.
2. **Enter your plaintext.** Type or paste the text you want to encode.
3. **Choose a cipher type.** Select Caesar, ROT13, Atbash or Vigenere from the cipher dropdown.
4. **Set the key.** For Caesar, drag the shift slider (1–25). For Vigenere, type a keyword. ROT13 and Atbash need no key.
5. **Read the ciphertext.** The encoded output appears instantly.
6. **Decode.** To decode, paste ciphertext and click Decrypt (or reverse the Caesar shift).

**Q: What is the Caesar cipher?**

A: The Caesar cipher is one of the oldest substitution ciphers. Each letter is shifted by a fixed number of positions in the alphabet. For example, with a shift of 3: A becomes D, B becomes E, Z becomes C. It was used by Julius Caesar for private correspondence.

**Q: Is the Caesar cipher secure?**

A: No. With only 25 possible key values the Caesar cipher can be broken by brute force in under a second. It is useful for educational demonstrations and simple puzzles only — never for real security.

**Q: What is ROT13?**

A: ROT13 is a Caesar cipher with a shift of 13. Since the English alphabet has 26 letters, applying ROT13 twice returns the original text. It is widely used on forums and social media to hide spoilers and puzzle solutions.

**Q: What other ciphers does GoChronos support?**

A: Beyond Caesar and ROT13, the tool supports Atbash (reverse-alphabet substitution), the Vigenere cipher (keyword-based polyalphabetic cipher) and simple text reversal.

**Q: Is the cipher tool free?**

A: Yes. Completely free, runs in your browser, no sign-up needed.

### Hash & HMAC

URL: https://gochronos.com/devsec/hash

MD5, SHA-1/256/384/512 of text or files, plus keyed HMAC for message authentication.

**How to Generate a Hash Digest** — Use the GoChronos Hash Generator to compute MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256 and SHA-512 digests.

1. **Open the Hash Generator.** Go to gochronos.com/devsec/hash.
2. **Enter your input.** Type or paste the text you want to hash.
3. **Select an algorithm.** Choose MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256, SHA-384 or SHA-512 from the dropdown.
4. **Read the hash.** The hexadecimal digest appears immediately.
5. **Copy.** Click Copy to copy the hash to your clipboard.
6. **Hash a file.** Upload a file using the file picker to compute the cryptographic hash of its raw bytes.

**Q: What hash algorithms are supported?**

A: MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256, SHA-384, SHA-512 and HMAC variants (HMAC-SHA256, HMAC-SHA512). All algorithms run locally using the Web Crypto API and the browser's SubtleCrypto interface.

**Q: Is MD5 still safe to use?**

A: MD5 is cryptographically broken and should not be used for security purposes such as password hashing or digital signatures. It is still useful for checksums, file integrity verification and non-security data fingerprinting.

**Q: What is HMAC and when would I use it?**

A: HMAC (Hash-based Message Authentication Code) uses a secret key with a hash function to produce a message authentication code. It verifies both data integrity and authenticity. Common uses include API request signing and webhook verification.

**Q: Are my inputs uploaded to a server?**

A: No. All hashing runs in your browser using the Web Crypto API (SubtleCrypto). Your input data is never transmitted to any server.

**Q: Can I hash a file rather than text?**

A: Yes. Use the file input option to hash any file locally. The tool computes the hash directly from the file bytes without uploading anything.

### ID Generators

URL: https://gochronos.com/devsec/ids

UUID v4 / v7, ULID (sortable), NanoID (custom alphabet), and Twitter Snowflake — copy or bulk export.

**How to Generate Unique IDs and Tokens** — Generate UUID, ULID, NanoID and custom random identifiers using the GoChronos ID Generator.

1. **Open the ID Generator.** Go to gochronos.com/devsec/ids.
2. **Choose a format.** Select UUID v4, UUID v7, ULID, NanoID, CUID or custom random string.
3. **Set quantity.** Enter how many IDs to generate (1 to 1,000).
4. **Click Generate.** The IDs appear in the output panel instantly.
5. **Copy or download.** Click Copy All or Download to save the IDs as a plain-text file.

**Q: What is the GoChronos ID Generator?**

A: The GoChronos ID Generator creates unique identifiers in multiple formats: UUID v4 (random), UUID v7 (time-ordered), ULID, NanoID, CUID and custom-length random strings. Useful for database primary keys, authentication tokens and test data.

**Q: What is the difference between UUID v4 and UUID v7?**

A: UUID v4 is completely random with no time component. UUID v7 encodes a Unix millisecond timestamp in its most-significant bits, making generated IDs naturally sortable by creation time — ideal for database primary keys where index locality matters.

**Q: What is a ULID?**

A: ULID (Universally Unique Lexicographically Sortable Identifier) is a 128-bit identifier whose first 10 characters encode the current Unix timestamp in milliseconds. ULIDs sort lexicographically in creation order and are URL-safe, unlike UUIDs.

**Q: How many IDs can I generate at once?**

A: The generator can produce up to 1,000 IDs in a single click. Copy all to clipboard or download as a plain-text file.

**Q: Is the ID generator free?**

A: Yes. Completely free, works offline, no account required.

### JWT Toolkit

URL: https://gochronos.com/devsec/jwt

Decode, sign (HS256/384/512) and verify JSON Web Tokens. Shows claims, expiry, validity.

**How to Decode and Inspect a JWT** — Use the GoChronos JWT Decoder to inspect the header, payload and expiry of any JSON Web Token.

1. **Open the JWT Decoder.** Go to gochronos.com/devsec/jwt — or open gochronos.com/devsec/jwt#token=YOUR_TOKEN to decode straight from the URL.
2. **Paste the JWT.** Paste your JSON Web Token (the three-part dot-separated string) into the input field. It decodes live as you type — no button needed.
3. **Inspect the header.** The decoded algorithm (alg) and token type (typ) are shown in the Header panel, each with a plain-English description.
4. **Read the claims.** Every claim (sub, iat, exp, iss and vendor claims like tid or scp) is listed with its value and an explanation of what it means; timestamps are shown as local dates.
5. **Check expiry status.** The tool highlights whether the token is expired, not yet valid or still active, with relative time based on the exp and nbf claims.

**Q: What is a JSON Web Token (JWT)?**

A: A JWT is a compact, URL-safe string used to securely transmit claims between parties. It consists of three Base64-encoded parts separated by dots: header (algorithm), payload (claims) and signature.

**Q: Does the JWT decoder verify the signature?**

A: The Decode tab displays the header and payload without signature verification. Use the Verify tab to check the signature — with the shared secret for HS256/384/512 tokens, or with the issuer's public key (PEM, JWK or JWK Set) for RS/PS/ES tokens.

**Q: Does the decoder explain what each claim means?**

A: Yes. Every recognized claim gets a plain-English description — the RFC 7519 registered claims (iss, sub, aud, exp…), OpenID Connect claims, and common vendor claims from Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD), AWS Cognito, Firebase, Keycloak and Auth0. Timestamp claims are also shown as local dates with relative time.

**Q: Can I decode an expired JWT?**

A: Yes. The decoder shows the raw payload including the 'exp' (expiry) claim regardless of whether the token is expired. Expiry is flagged visually, with relative time ('expired 2 days ago'), judged against your device clock.

**Q: Can I pass a token in the URL?**

A: Yes. Open /devsec/jwt#token=… (also #access_token= or #id_token=) and the token decodes immediately — so the page works as an OAuth redirect target during development. URL fragments are never sent over the network, so the token stays on your device.

**Q: Is my JWT sent to any server?**

A: No. Decoding, signing and verification all run entirely in your browser using the Web Crypto API — your token is never transmitted to GoChronos or any third party. This is safe even for tokens with sensitive payloads.

**Q: What signing and verification algorithms are supported?**

A: Signing supports HS256, HS384 and HS512 (HMAC). Verification additionally supports the asymmetric algorithms RS256/384/512 (RSA), PS256/384/512 (RSA-PSS) and ES256/384/512 (ECDSA) using the issuer's public key.

### Password & Passphrase

URL: https://gochronos.com/devsec/password

Generate cryptographically strong passwords or memorable diceware passphrases. Live entropy and crack-time estimates.

**How to Generate a Strong Password** — Use GoChronos Password Generator to create a cryptographically strong, unique password in seconds.

1. **Set the password length.** Drag the length slider or type a value. 16 characters minimum is recommended; 20+ is ideal for high-security accounts.
2. **Select character types.** Tick uppercase letters, lowercase letters, numbers and symbols. Including all four maximises entropy.
3. **Click Generate.** Click Generate or press Enter. A cryptographically random password is created using your browser's Web Crypto API.
4. **Check the entropy estimate.** The entropy score shows how long a brute-force attack would theoretically take. Aim for 80+ bits for important accounts.
5. **Copy the password.** Click the copy icon to copy the password to your clipboard. Store it immediately in your password manager.

**Q: How long should a password be?**

A: Security experts recommend at least 16 characters. A 20-character random password provides over 130 bits of entropy — computationally infeasible to brute-force.

**Q: What makes a password strong?**

A: Length, randomness and character variety (uppercase, lowercase, numbers, symbols). It must not contain dictionary words, names, dates or predictable patterns.

**Q: What is a passphrase and is it secure?**

A: A passphrase is a sequence of random words (e.g. 'correct horse battery staple'). A 4-word passphrase gives ~44 bits of entropy; 6 words gives ~77 bits — more than most 10-character complex passwords.

**Q: Is the GoChronos password generator cryptographically secure?**

A: Yes. Passwords are generated using the Web Crypto API (window.crypto.getRandomValues). Nothing is transmitted to any server — generation runs entirely in your browser.

**Q: Should I use a password manager?**

A: Yes. A password manager lets you store a unique, long, randomly generated password for every site without needing to memorise them.

### cURL → Code

URL: https://gochronos.com/devtools/curl

Paste any cURL command and get equivalent code in JavaScript, Python, Go, PHP, or Java instantly.

**How to Build a cURL Command** — Use the GoChronos cURL Builder to generate a ready-to-run curl command for any API request.

1. **Open the cURL Builder.** Go to gochronos.com/devtools/curl.
2. **Enter the URL.** Type or paste the API endpoint URL.
3. **Select the HTTP method.** Choose GET, POST, PUT, PATCH or DELETE.
4. **Add headers.** Click Add Header to add Authorization, Content-Type or any custom headers.
5. **Add a request body.** For POST/PUT/PATCH, paste your JSON or form-data body in the Body panel.
6. **Copy the cURL command.** The generated curl command updates live as you type. Click Copy to use it in your terminal.

**Q: What languages can cURL commands be converted to?**

A: JavaScript (Fetch API and Axios), Python (requests), Go (net/http), PHP (cURL extension), Java (OkHttp), Ruby (Net::HTTP) and Node.js.

**Q: How do I convert a cURL command?**

A: Paste your full curl command into the input field and select the target language. The equivalent code appears instantly, ready to copy into your project.

**Q: Will authentication headers be preserved?**

A: Yes. Authorization headers, Bearer tokens, Basic auth (-u flag) and API key headers from the curl command are all included in the converted code.

**Q: Is the conversion accurate for complex curl commands?**

A: GoChronos handles the most common curl flags: -X (method), -H (headers), -d/-data (body), --data-urlencode, -u (auth), -b (cookies) and --compressed. Edge-case flags may require minor manual adjustment.

### IP / DNS Lookup

URL: https://gochronos.com/devtools/dns

Query DNS records for any domain using Google's DNS-over-HTTPS. Also shows your current public IP.

**How to Look Up DNS Records for a Domain** — Use the GoChronos DNS Lookup tool to query A, AAAA, MX, TXT and other DNS records.

1. **Open the DNS Lookup tool.** Go to gochronos.com/devtools/dns.
2. **Enter the domain.** Type the domain name (e.g. example.com) without http:// or www prefix.
3. **Select a record type.** Choose from A, AAAA, MX, NS, CNAME, TXT, SOA or PTR.
4. **Click Lookup.** Results appear within a second, showing all records of the selected type with their values and TTLs.
5. **Interpret results.** Each record shows its TTL (Time to Live) in seconds — how long resolvers cache the record.

**Q: What is a DNS lookup?**

A: A DNS lookup translates a human-readable domain name (e.g. example.com) into its IP address and associated records. DNS records include A (IPv4 address), AAAA (IPv6), MX (mail servers), NS (name servers), CNAME (alias), TXT (arbitrary text) and SOA (zone authority).

**Q: What DNS record types does GoChronos support?**

A: The tool checks A, AAAA, CNAME, MX, NS, TXT, SOA and PTR records. Select the record type from the dropdown to query a specific record type.

**Q: What is an MX record?**

A: An MX (Mail Exchange) record specifies which mail servers accept email for a domain. Multiple MX records can coexist with different priorities; lower priority numbers indicate preferred servers.

**Q: What is a TXT record used for?**

A: TXT records contain arbitrary text. Common uses include domain ownership verification (Google Search Console, GitHub, etc.), SPF (Sender Policy Framework) for email authentication, DKIM public keys and DMARC policies.

**Q: Is the DNS lookup tool free?**

A: Yes. Free on GoChronos, no account required.

### SSL Certificate Checker

URL: https://gochronos.com/devtools/ssl

Look up certificate transparency logs to inspect a domain's SSL certificates — issuer, validity, and SANs.

**How to Check an SSL Certificate** — Use the GoChronos SSL Checker to inspect a domain's TLS certificate validity, expiry and chain.

1. **Open the SSL Checker.** Go to gochronos.com/devtools/ssl.
2. **Enter the domain.** Type the domain name without https:// (e.g. example.com).
3. **Click Check.** The tool fetches the live TLS certificate for the domain.
4. **Review certificate details.** Issuer, subject, Subject Alternative Names, validity period and days to expiry are all shown.
5. **Check the chain.** The tool indicates whether the full certificate chain is valid and trusted by major root CAs.

**Q: What does the GoChronos SSL Checker do?**

A: The SSL Checker fetches the live TLS/SSL certificate for any domain and displays: the issuer and subject, Subject Alternative Names (SANs), validity period, certificate chain status and the exact number of days remaining until expiry.

**Q: How do I know if my SSL certificate is expiring soon?**

A: Enter your domain — the tool shows the expiry date prominently and displays a warning if the certificate expires within 30 days.

**Q: What is a Subject Alternative Name (SAN)?**

A: A SAN is a certificate extension that allows a single certificate to cover multiple domain names (e.g. example.com and www.example.com). All modern certificates use SANs instead of the older Common Name field.

**Q: Does the checker support wildcard certificates?**

A: Yes. The tool displays the full SAN list, which includes wildcard entries like *.example.com, so you can verify exactly which domains the certificate covers.

**Q: Is the SSL checker free?**

A: Yes. Free on GoChronos, no sign-up required.

### CIDR & Subnet Calculator

URL: https://gochronos.com/devweb/cidr

IPv4 subnetting, host range, netmask, wildcard, binary view, subnet split. Plus IPv6 expand/compress.

**How to Use the CIDR Subnet Calculator** — Use the GoChronos CIDR Calculator to analyse any IPv4 or IPv6 network block.

1. **Enter a CIDR block.** Type an IPv4 or IPv6 CIDR block (e.g. 192.168.1.0/24 or 10.0.0.0/8) into the input field.
2. **Read the network details.** The calculator shows instantly: network address, broadcast address, subnet mask, wildcard mask and total address count.
3. **Check the usable host count.** The usable hosts field shows how many IP addresses can be assigned to devices (total minus the two reserved addresses).
4. **Note the usable address range.** The first and last usable host addresses show the exact range available for assignment to devices.

**Q: What is CIDR notation?**

A: CIDR (Classless Inter-Domain Routing) notation expresses an IP address and its network prefix length as one string, e.g. 192.168.1.0/24. The number after the slash is how many bits are fixed in the network address.

**Q: What does /24 mean in CIDR?**

A: A /24 prefix reserves 24 bits for the network and 8 bits for hosts: 256 total addresses, 254 usable hosts (network and broadcast addresses are reserved and cannot be assigned).

**Q: What is the difference between network address and broadcast address?**

A: The network address (first IP) identifies the subnet and cannot be assigned to a host. The broadcast address (last IP) sends packets to all hosts on the subnet and is also unassignable.

**Q: Does the CIDR calculator support IPv6?**

A: Yes. Enter any IPv6 CIDR block (e.g. 2001:db8::/32) to get the network address, prefix length, total addresses and usable range.

### Color Studio

URL: https://gochronos.com/devweb/color

HEX, RGB, HSL, HSV, CMYK, OKLCH. WCAG contrast, color-blindness preview, harmonies and full shade/tint scale.

**How to Pick and Convert a Web Colour** — Use the GoChronos Color Picker to select colours and convert between HEX, RGB, HSL and OKLCH.

1. **Open the Color Picker.** Go to gochronos.com/devweb/color.
2. **Pick a colour visually.** Click and drag on the colour wheel to select hue, saturation and lightness interactively.
3. **Or type a value.** Enter a HEX (#3b82f6), RGB (59, 130, 246) or HSL (217, 91%, 60%) value directly in the input field.
4. **Copy in any format.** Tabs at the bottom show the same colour in HEX, RGB, HSL, OKLCH and any matching CSS named colour. Click to copy.
5. **Check contrast.** Enter a background and foreground colour pair to see the WCAG contrast ratio and AA/AAA accessibility pass/fail status.

**Q: What color formats does the converter support?**

A: GoChronos Color Studio converts between HEX, RGB, RGBA, HSL, HSLA and OKLCH. All formats update simultaneously as you edit any value.

**Q: What is WCAG contrast ratio?**

A: WCAG contrast ratio measures how readable text is against its background. WCAG 2.1 AA requires a minimum of 4.5:1 for normal text and 3:1 for large text; WCAG AAA requires 7:1.

**Q: What is OKLCH and why use it?**

A: OKLCH is a perceptually uniform color space representing colors by Lightness, Chroma and Hue. Changes produce visually consistent steps, making it ideal for design systems and accessible color scales.

**Q: How do I check if two colors pass WCAG accessibility?**

A: Enter your foreground (text) and background colors. The WCAG checker shows the contrast ratio and whether it passes AA and AAA standards for normal and large text.

### Favicon Generator

URL: https://gochronos.com/devweb/favicon

Turn any text, letter, or emoji into a favicon. Pick shape, colors and font, then download at all standard sizes.

**How to Generate a Favicon for Your Website** — Use GoChronos Favicon Generator to create all favicon sizes from text, initials or an emoji.

1. **Open the Favicon Generator.** Go to gochronos.com/devweb/favicon. No account or design software required.
2. **Enter your text, initials or emoji.** Type up to 2-3 characters or paste an emoji. This will appear centred on the icon.
3. **Customise the style.** Choose a background colour, icon shape (square, rounded or circle), font and text colour. The preview updates live.
4. **Preview all sizes.** The preview panel shows your icon at 16, 32 and 64 px to confirm it is readable at the smallest browser tab size.
5. **Download and add to your site.** Click Download All Sizes to get a ZIP of all PNG files, plus an ICO file. Copy the provided HTML link tags and paste them into your site's <head> section.

**Q: What favicon sizes does the generator create?**

A: GoChronos Favicon Generator produces 16×16, 32×32, 48×48, 64×64, 128×128 and 180×180 px PNG files. The 180×180 file is suitable as an Apple Touch Icon.

**Q: Can I use an emoji as a favicon?**

A: Yes. Type or paste any emoji into the text field. It is rendered as an icon on a customisable background shape (square, rounded rectangle or circle) with adjustable padding.

**Q: What is the apple-touch-icon?**

A: The apple-touch-icon (180×180 px) is used when iOS or macOS Safari users add your site to their home screen or bookmarks. GoChronos generates this size alongside standard browser favicon sizes.

**Q: How do I add the generated favicon to my website?**

A: Download the PNG files, place them in your site's public root and copy the HTML link tags provided by the generator — including the <link rel='icon'> and <link rel='apple-touch-icon'> tags.

**Q: Is the GoChronos favicon generator free?**

A: Yes. The favicon generator is completely free, runs in your browser and requires no sign-up. You can generate as many favicons as you need.

### CSS Gradient Generator

URL: https://gochronos.com/devweb/gradient

Linear, radial and conic gradients with unlimited stops, live preview, and copy-ready CSS.

**How to Create a CSS Gradient** — Use the GoChronos Gradient Builder to design linear, radial or conic CSS gradients with a live preview.

1. **Open the Gradient Builder.** Go to gochronos.com/devweb/gradient.
2. **Choose a gradient type.** Select Linear, Radial or Conic.
3. **Add colour stops.** Click along the gradient bar to add colour stops, then click each stop to choose its colour and position.
4. **Adjust the angle.** For linear gradients, set the angle using the dial or type a value in degrees.
5. **Preview.** The full-page preview updates live as you make changes.
6. **Copy the CSS.** Click Copy CSS to get the background-image gradient declaration ready for your stylesheet.

**Q: How do I create a left-to-right CSS gradient?**

A: Use a linear gradient with 'to right': background: linear-gradient(to right, #color1, #color2). The GoChronos gradient generator builds this visually and outputs ready-to-copy CSS.

**Q: What is the difference between linear, radial and conic gradients?**

A: Linear: colors transition along a straight line. Radial: colors radiate outward from a central point. Conic: colors rotate around a central point like a colour wheel.

**Q: Can I add more than two color stops?**

A: Yes. Add as many color stops as you need, each with a custom color and position (0%–100%). The live preview updates instantly.

**Q: How do I copy the CSS gradient code?**

A: Click the copy icon next to the generated CSS. The output is ready to paste directly into a stylesheet including the background property.

### OG Image Generator

URL: https://gochronos.com/devweb/og

Design Open Graph / Twitter Card images (1200×630). Custom colors, text, emoji and brand. One-click PNG download.

**How to Create an Open Graph (OG) Image** — Design a branded 1200×630 px social share image with the GoChronos OG Image Generator and download it as a PNG.

1. **Open the OG Image Generator.** Go to gochronos.com/devweb/og.
2. **Enter your content.** Type a title, subtitle, optional emoji and your domain/brand text.
3. **Pick a theme or customize colours.** Choose a preset background theme, or set the background, title, subtitle, domain and accent colours individually.
4. **Preview live.** The 1200×630 px canvas preview updates instantly as you type or change colours.
5. **Download and copy meta tags.** Click Download PNG to save the image, then copy the generated og: and twitter: meta tag snippet into your page's <head>.

**Q: What is the GoChronos OG Image Generator?**

A: It creates a branded 1200×630 px Open Graph / Twitter Card image from a title, subtitle, emoji and colour theme — entirely in your browser via canvas rendering — then lets you download it as a PNG and copy the matching meta tags.

**Q: What size should an OG image be?**

A: 1200×630 px is the recommended size for Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter/X large-image cards. The generator renders at this exact resolution so the PNG works without cropping on any platform.

**Q: Does it generate the meta tags too?**

A: Yes. A ready-to-paste snippet with og:title, og:description, og:image and the matching twitter:card tags is generated alongside the image — just fill in your final image URL.

**Q: Is the OG Image Generator free?**

A: Yes. Completely free, no sign-up required.

### Color Palette Extractor

URL: https://gochronos.com/devweb/palette

Upload any image and instantly extract its dominant colors. Get HEX, RGB, HSL and export to CSS variables or JS.

**How to Extract a Color Palette from an Image** — Upload any image to the GoChronos Palette Extractor to pull out its dominant colours and export them as code.

1. **Open the Palette Extractor.** Go to gochronos.com/devweb/palette.
2. **Upload an image.** Drag and drop an image file, or click to choose one from your device — a logo, photo or screenshot all work.
3. **Choose how many colours.** Pick 4, 6, 8, 10 or 12 swatches to extract.
4. **Review the swatches.** Each extracted colour is shown with its HEX, RGB and HSL values — click any swatch to copy that value.
5. **Export as code.** Copy the full palette as CSS custom properties, a JavaScript array, or a Tailwind CSS config snippet.

**Q: What is the Color Palette Extractor?**

A: Upload or drop any image and the GoChronos Palette Extractor samples its pixels to find the most dominant colours, showing each as a swatch with HEX, RGB and HSL values.

**Q: How many colours can I extract?**

A: Choose 4, 6, 8, 10 or 12 colours. The extractor uses pixel sampling with a diversity filter so the result favours visually distinct tones instead of near-duplicate shades.

**Q: Can I export the palette to code?**

A: Yes. Export the extracted colours as CSS custom properties, a JavaScript array, or a Tailwind CSS config snippet ready to paste into tailwind.config.js.

**Q: Is the palette extractor free?**

A: Yes. Free on GoChronos, no sign-up required, and your image never leaves your browser.

### Box & Text Shadow

URL: https://gochronos.com/devweb/shadow

Stack multiple shadow layers, inset support, live preview and one-click CSS export.

**How to Create a CSS Box Shadow** — Use the GoChronos Box Shadow Generator to design layered CSS shadows with a live preview.

1. **Open the Box Shadow Generator.** Go to gochronos.com/devweb/shadow.
2. **Adjust offsets.** Use the X Offset and Y Offset sliders to position the shadow relative to the element.
3. **Set blur and spread.** Adjust blur radius for softness and spread radius for size.
4. **Pick a colour.** Click the colour swatch and choose a shadow colour with the desired opacity.
5. **Add layers.** Click Add Layer to stack multiple shadows for depth effects. Toggle Inset for inner shadows.
6. **Copy the CSS.** Click Copy CSS to get the complete box-shadow declaration for your stylesheet.

**Q: What is the CSS Box Shadow Generator?**

A: The GoChronos Box Shadow Generator is an interactive tool for creating box-shadow CSS declarations. Adjust X/Y offset, blur, spread, colour and opacity with sliders and copy the resulting CSS declaration instantly.

**Q: Can I add multiple shadow layers?**

A: Yes. Click Add Layer to stack multiple shadow declarations on the same element, creating complex layered shadow effects commonly used in modern UI design.

**Q: Does it support inset shadows?**

A: Yes. Each layer has an Inset toggle to create inner (inset) shadows, useful for embossed or pressed-button effects.

**Q: Is the box shadow generator free?**

A: Yes. Free on GoChronos, completely browser-based, no account needed.

### Base & Text Encoders

URL: https://gochronos.com/encoders/base

Encode and decode Base64, Base32, Base58, Base85, Morse code and binary — all client-side.

**How to Encode and Decode Base64, Morse Code and Binary** — Use the GoChronos Base & Text Encoders to encode/decode Base64, Morse code, binary and more.

1. **Open the tool.** Go to gochronos.com/encoders/base.
2. **Choose an encoding.** Select a tab: Base64, Base32, Base58, Base85, Morse or Binary.
3. **Select Encode or Decode.** Use the toggle to choose your operation direction.
4. **Paste your input.** Enter plain text (to encode) or the encoded string (to decode) into the input field.
5. **Encode a file (Base64 only).** Click Upload File to encode the binary contents of any file to Base64.
6. **Copy the result.** Click Copy to copy the encoded or decoded output to your clipboard.

**Q: What is Base64 encoding?**

A: Base64 encodes binary data using 64 printable ASCII characters (A–Z, a–z, 0–9, +, /). Every 3 bytes of input produce 4 characters of output, making it about 33% larger than the source. It allows binary data to pass through text-only channels safely.

**Q: What is URL-safe Base64?**

A: Standard Base64 uses + and / which are reserved characters in URLs. URL-safe Base64 replaces + with - and / with _ so the encoded string can be included in URLs and file names without percent-encoding.

**Q: Can I encode files to Base64?**

A: Yes. The GoChronos Base64 tool accepts file uploads and encodes the file's raw bytes to Base64, or decodes a Base64 string back to a downloadable file.

**Q: How does the Morse code encoder work?**

A: Enter any text and the Morse code encoder converts each letter and digit to its standard ITU Morse code representation (dots and dashes). The decoder accepts a Morse string separated by spaces (letters) and slashes (words) and converts it back to plain text.

**Q: What is the binary translator?**

A: The binary translator converts plain text to its 8-bit ASCII binary representation (e.g. 'A' → 01000001) and converts a binary string back to text. Each character is encoded as an 8-bit group separated by spaces.

**Q: Is the Base & Text Encoders tool free?**

A: Yes. Completely free, runs in your browser, no sign-up needed.

### Escape & Entities

URL: https://gochronos.com/encoders/escape

URL, HTML entity, Unicode and string escaping — both directions.

**How to Escape and Unescape Special Characters** — Use the GoChronos Escape tool to encode and decode HTML, JavaScript, CSS and Unicode characters.

1. **Open the Escape tool.** Go to gochronos.com/encoders/escape.
2. **Choose a context.** Select HTML, JavaScript, CSS or Unicode escaping from the dropdown.
3. **Select Escape or Unescape.** Toggle between encoding and decoding modes.
4. **Paste your text.** Enter the text to process in the input field.
5. **Copy the output.** Click Copy to copy the escaped or unescaped result.

**Q: What does the Escape tool do?**

A: The GoChronos Escape tool encodes and decodes special characters in multiple contexts: HTML entities (&amp;, &lt;, &gt;, &quot;), JavaScript string escaping, CSS string escaping and Unicode code-point escaping.

**Q: Why do I need to escape HTML?**

A: Unescaped HTML in user-generated content enables script injection (XSS attacks). Characters < > & " ' must be escaped before inserting user input into HTML documents to prevent malicious script execution.

**Q: What is the difference between URL encoding and HTML encoding?**

A: URL encoding (percent-encoding) converts non-URL-safe characters to %XX sequences for use in query strings and path segments. HTML entity encoding converts HTML-reserved characters to named or numeric entities for safe embedding in HTML markup.

**Q: Is the escape tool free?**

A: Yes. Free on GoChronos, works offline.

### Slug & Base

URL: https://gochronos.com/encoders/generators

URL-safe slug builder and a number-base converter for any base from 2 to 36.

**How to Build a URL Slug or Convert Number Bases** — Use the GoChronos Slug & Base Converter to build URL-safe slugs or convert numbers between any two bases.

1. **Open the tool.** Go to gochronos.com/encoders/generators.
2. **Choose a tab.** Select Base converter to convert numbers, or Slug builder to create a URL slug.
3. **For base conversion.** Enter the value and its source base, then pick the target base (2–36) — or use a Dec ↔ Bin / Dec ↔ Hex preset.
4. **For slug building.** Type or paste any text and it's instantly turned into a lower-case, hyphenated, URL-safe slug.
5. **Copy the result.** Click Copy to copy the converted value or slug to your clipboard.

**Q: What does the Slug & Base Converter do?**

A: It combines two small text-conversion tools in one page: a URL slug builder that turns any text into a clean, URL-safe slug, and a number-base converter that converts a value between any two bases from 2 to 36 (binary, octal, decimal, hexadecimal and beyond).

**Q: How do I convert a number between bases?**

A: Enter the value plus its source base, choose the target base (2–36), and the converted result appears instantly. Quick presets are provided for the most common conversions: decimal ↔ binary and decimal ↔ hexadecimal.

**Q: How does the slug builder work?**

A: Type or paste any text — a title, a name, a sentence — and it's lower-cased, stripped of special characters and joined with hyphens to produce a URL-friendly slug, ready to use in a path or filename.

**Q: Is this the same as the Base64 encoder?**

A: No. This tool's "base" refers to numeric bases (binary, octal, hex, etc.) for representing numbers. To encode text or files as Base64, Base32, Base58 or Base85, use the Base & Text Encoders tool instead.

**Q: Is the Slug & Base Converter free?**

A: Yes. Free on GoChronos, runs entirely in your browser, no sign-up required.

### URL Tools

URL: https://gochronos.com/encoders/web

Parse any URL into protocol, host, path, query and fragment with a query-param table.

**How to URL-Encode and Decode Text** — Use the GoChronos Web Encoder to percent-encode, HTML-encode and decode strings for web contexts.

1. **Open the Web Encoder.** Go to gochronos.com/encoders/web.
2. **Choose the encoding type.** Select URL/Percent-encode, encodeURI, encodeURIComponent or HTML entity encoding.
3. **Select Encode or Decode.** Toggle between encoding and decoding modes.
4. **Paste your input.** Enter the text to encode or decode.
5. **Copy the result.** Click Copy to copy the output ready for use in a URL, HTML attribute or query string.

**Q: What is the GoChronos Web Encoder?**

A: The Web Encoder handles encoding for web contexts: URL/percent-encoding, encodeURI, encodeURIComponent, HTML entity encoding, JavaScript string literals and CSS string escaping. Paste text and get back the correctly escaped version for any target context.

**Q: What is percent-encoding?**

A: Percent-encoding (URL encoding) replaces characters not allowed in URLs with a percent sign followed by two hexadecimal digits. A space becomes %20, an ampersand becomes %26 and so on.

**Q: When should I use encodeURI vs encodeURIComponent?**

A: Use encodeURI to encode a complete URL — it preserves :, /, ?, = and &. Use encodeURIComponent to encode a single query parameter value — it encodes those characters too, preventing them from being interpreted as URL structure.

**Q: Is the web encoder free?**

A: Yes. Free on GoChronos, no sign-up needed.

### Format Converter

URL: https://gochronos.com/keyforge/convert

Convert certificates and keys between PEM and DER, with Base64 and hex views. All local.

**How to Convert Certificate Formats** — PEM, DER and the rest, converted without a shell.

1. **Load the file.** Paste the text or drop the file — the format is detected for you.
2. **Pick the target format.** Choose what the destination system expects. PEM is text; DER is binary.
3. **Download.** Save the converted file. Nothing was uploaded to do it.

**Q: How do I convert between PKCS#1 and PKCS#8?**

A: Paste an RSA private key in the Key tools tab and choose '→ PKCS#8' or '→ PKCS#1'. You can also add or remove passphrase encryption (encrypted PKCS#8, AES-256).

**Q: Can I split a fullchain.pem into individual certificates?**

A: Yes. The Cert tools tab splits a concatenated PEM bundle into separate certificate files, and can also extract the public key from any certificate.

### CSR Generator

URL: https://gochronos.com/keyforge/csr

PKCS#10 Certificate Signing Requests plus the matching private key, ready to submit to any Certificate Authority.

**How to Generate a CSR** — A certificate signing request and its key pair, made in your browser.

1. **Choose the key type.** ECDSA P-256 is the sensible default; use RSA 2048 or higher if a certificate authority requires it.
2. **Fill in the subject.** Enter the common name and every hostname the certificate must cover as subject alternative names.
3. **Download both files.** Send the .csr to your certificate authority and keep the private key somewhere safe. It is never transmitted and cannot be recovered from here.

**Q: Is my private key sent anywhere?**

A: No. The key pair is generated in your browser with the Web Crypto API and never leaves the tab. Close the page without downloading and it is gone for good.

**Q: Which key types can I generate?**

A: RSA at 2048, 3072 or 4096 bits, and ECDSA on the P-256, P-384 and P-521 curves. Pick ECDSA P-256 unless a certificate authority has told you otherwise.

**Q: What do I send to the certificate authority?**

A: The CSR — the .csr file. Keep the private key. Anyone who has your private key can impersonate the certificate it belongs to.

**Q: Can I add subject alternative names?**

A: Yes. Add every hostname the certificate must cover, including the bare domain and the www form if you use both.

### Keystore Encoder

URL: https://gochronos.com/keyforge/encode

Upload a JKS / PKCS#12 / PEM / DER file and get single-line Base64 for CI secrets — plus hex, base64url, data URI and paste-ready GitHub Actions, Kubernetes and .env snippets.

**How to Encode a Keystore** — Key material in the encoding a Java or Android toolchain expects.

1. **Load the material.** Add the certificate and key you need encoded.
2. **Choose the encoding.** Pick the form your toolchain reads.
3. **Verify before you rely on it.** Download the result and confirm it loads in your own toolchain — this saves installing a JDK, not testing.

**Q: Is my keystore uploaded?**

A: No. Encoding runs entirely in your browser, which is the point — a keystore is one of the last things you should paste into someone else's website.

**Q: What is this for?**

A: Turning key and certificate material into the encoded form a Java or Android toolchain expects, without installing a JDK to run keytool once.

**Q: Will the output work with keytool?**

A: It produces the standard encoding those tools read. Verify with your own toolchain before relying on it in a deployment.

### Certificate Inspector

URL: https://gochronos.com/keyforge/inspect

Decode X.509 certs, CSRs and JKS/PKCS#12 keystores — subject, validity, SANs, key details and fingerprints.

**How to Inspect a Certificate or Key** — See exactly what a certificate, CSR or key contains.

1. **Drop the file in.** Certificates, CSRs and public keys are all read locally.
2. **Read the parsed fields.** Subject, issuer, validity, key type and extensions, decoded from the ASN.1 rather than guessed.
3. **Confirm what you have.** Check the fingerprint against the one your certificate authority published before you deploy it.

**Q: How do I check whether a private key matches a certificate?**

A: Paste the certificate, expand 'Optional: paste a private key', paste the key and click Inspect. The tool compares the public keys and tells you whether they form a matching pair — for RSA, ECDSA and Ed25519.

**Q: Can it decode ECDSA and Ed25519 certificates?**

A: Yes. The inspector decodes X.509 certificates, CSRs and JKS/PKCS#12 keystores of any algorithm, showing subject, issuer, validity, SANs, key details and fingerprints.

### Keystore Studio

URL: https://gochronos.com/keyforge/keystore

The keytool replacement: RSA key + self-signed X.509 cert + password-protected JKS and PKCS#12 keystores, generated on your device.

**How to Generate a JKS / PKCS#12 Keystore** — Use KeyForge Keystore Studio to create an RSA key, self-signed certificate and password-protected keystore — the browser equivalent of keytool -genkey.

1. **Paste a command (optional).** Already have the keytool or openssl invocation? Paste it into 'Run a command' — the fields below fill in from its flags, and the keystore is generated on the spot if the command carries a password.
2. **Enter the identity.** Set the alias and keystore file name, then fill in the certificate's Common Name (e.g. your domain) and any other Distinguished Name fields.
3. **Add hostnames (optional).** Add Subject Alternative Names for every domain or IP the certificate should cover.
4. **Choose key size and validity.** Pick RSA 2048/3072/4096 and a validity in days (e.g. 10000 for a long-lived signing key).
5. **Set a keystore password.** Enter a password of at least 6 characters — it protects the private key inside the keystore.
6. **Select output formats.** Choose JKS, PKCS#12 and/or PEM. Then click Generate keystore — everything is produced locally in your browser.
7. **Download and back up.** Save the keystore files and store both the files and the password somewhere durable. Losing a signing key is unrecoverable.

**Q: Is this the same as keytool -genkey?**

A: Yes — it produces the same artifacts as 'keytool -genkeypair -keyalg RSA -keysize 2048 -validity 10000': an RSA key pair, a self-signed X.509 certificate and a password-protected keystore, in both JKS and PKCS#12 formats. The tool even shows you the equivalent keytool command.

**Q: Can I just paste my keytool or openssl command?**

A: Yes. Paste a 'keytool -genkeypair' or 'openssl req -x509' invocation into the Run a command box and every flag it sets — alias, keystore name, key size, validity, signature hash, -dname, SANs, store type — fills in the form. If the command includes a password (-storepass or -passout) the keystore is generated immediately; anything the tool can't honour, like an EC key or JCEKS store, is called out instead of being silently dropped. The command is parsed in your browser tab and never sent anywhere.

**Q: Can I use this for an Android app signing key?**

A: Yes. Generate an RSA keystore (JKS or PKCS#12) with a long validity and back it up carefully — if you lose an Android release signing key you can never update that app again. Because generation is 100% local, the key never leaves your device.

**Q: What's the difference between JKS and PKCS#12?**

A: JKS is Oracle's legacy Java-only format. PKCS#12 (.p12/.pfx) is the modern, cross-platform standard that keytool now defaults to and that OpenSSL, Windows and macOS all read. KeyForge can output both.

**Q: Which key size and validity should I choose?**

A: RSA 2048 is the standard minimum; 3072 or 4096 for higher security. For release signing keys use a very long validity (e.g. 10000 days / ~27 years) so the key outlives the app.

### PKCS#12 Bundler

URL: https://gochronos.com/keyforge/pkcs12

Package a key and certificate chain into a portable .p12 / .pfx — or take an existing one apart back to PEM.

**How to Build a PKCS#12 Bundle** — Package a certificate, its chain and its key into one .p12 file.

1. **Add the pieces.** Load the leaf certificate, any intermediates, and the matching private key.
2. **Set a passphrase.** PKCS#12 files are encrypted. Choose a passphrase you can transfer to the destination server separately.
3. **Export the bundle.** Download the .p12. The assembly runs locally, so the private key never leaves the tab.

**Q: How do I convert a JKS to PKCS#12 (or back)?**

A: Use the 'JKS ↔ P12' tab, upload your keystore and enter the password — the tool auto-detects the direction and converts it, the same result as keytool -importkeystore, entirely in your browser.

**Q: Can I extract the private key and certificate from a .p12?**

A: Yes. The 'Extract' tab decodes a .p12/.pfx back into its private key and certificate(s) as PEM, given the keystore password.

### Config Scaffolder

URL: https://gochronos.com/keyforge/scaffold

Generate .env with strong secrets, composable .gitignore, an open-source LICENSE and common config dotfiles.

**How to Scaffold a TLS Config** — A starting configuration for your server, to read before you deploy.

1. **Describe your setup.** Pick the server and the certificate paths you will use.
2. **Review the output.** Read the generated configuration. Understand every directive before it goes near production.
3. **Deploy it yourself.** Copy it to your server. Nothing here can reach your infrastructure, by design.

**Q: Does this change my server?**

A: No. It writes a configuration file for you to review and deploy yourself. Nothing here can reach your server.

**Q: Which servers are covered?**

A: The generated config targets the common TLS terminators. Read it before deploying — a config you have not read is a config you cannot debug at 3am.

**Q: Are the defaults safe?**

A: The defaults follow current recommendations for protocol versions and cipher suites, but a scaffold is a starting point, not an audit. Test with the certificate inspector afterwards.

### SSH Key Generator

URL: https://gochronos.com/keyforge/ssh

Ed25519, ECDSA and RSA SSH keys in OpenSSH format with fingerprint and randomart — a browser-based ssh-keygen.

**How to Generate an SSH Key** — Use KeyForge SSH Key Generator to create an OpenSSH key pair in your browser.

1. **Choose a key type.** Select Ed25519 (recommended), RSA or ECDSA. For RSA/ECDSA pick a key size or curve.
2. **Set a comment.** Enter a comment such as your email or user@host to identify the key.
3. **Generate.** Click Generate SSH key. The public key, private key, authorized_keys line, fingerprint and randomart appear instantly.
4. **Install the keys.** Save the private key to ~/.ssh and add the .pub line to the server's ~/.ssh/authorized_keys.

**Q: Which SSH key type should I use?**

A: Ed25519 is the modern default — small, fast and very secure. Use RSA (3072/4096-bit) for older servers that don't support Ed25519, and ECDSA when a specific NIST curve is required.

**Q: Are the keys real, working OpenSSH keys?**

A: Yes. The public key is a standard authorized_keys line and the private key is in native OpenSSH (openssh-key-v1) format, ready to drop into ~/.ssh. The tool also shows the SHA256 fingerprint and randomart, exactly like ssh-keygen.

**Q: Can I use these keys with PuTTY on Windows?**

A: Yes. Every generated key also exports a PuTTY .ppk file alongside the OpenSSH format, so you can load it directly in PuTTY/Pageant without running PuTTYgen.

**Q: How do I add a passphrase to the private key?**

A: The generated private key is unencrypted. After saving it, run 'ssh-keygen -p -f id_ed25519' to add a passphrase locally.

### TLS / SSL Certificate

URL: https://gochronos.com/keyforge/tls

Self-signed HTTPS certificates with SANs for localhost, staging and internal services — key, cert and full chain in PEM.

**How to Inspect a TLS Certificate** — Read what a certificate actually says, without uploading it.

1. **Load the certificate.** Paste the PEM text or drop the .crt/.cer file. Parsing happens in your browser.
2. **Read the details.** Check the subject, the issuer, the validity window and every subject alternative name the certificate covers.
3. **Check the chain.** Confirm the intermediate is present. A missing intermediate is the most common reason a certificate works in one browser and not another.

**Q: How do I create a self-signed certificate for localhost?**

A: Set the Common Name (and a DNS SAN) to 'localhost', add 127.0.0.1 as an IP SAN, then generate. You'll get key.pem, cert.pem and fullchain.pem to point your dev server at.

**Q: Why does my browser still warn about the certificate?**

A: Self-signed certificates aren't in the browser's trust store. Add the certificate (or your generated CA) to your OS/browser trusted roots to remove the warning. For public production sites, use a real CA like Let's Encrypt.

**Q: What are Subject Alternative Names (SANs)?**

A: SANs list every hostname and IP a certificate is valid for. Modern browsers validate the hostname against the SANs, not the Common Name, so a server certificate must include each domain/IP as a SAN.

**Q: Can I create a local Certificate Authority like mkcert?**

A: Yes. Tick 'Issue from a new local CA' and the tool creates a root CA plus a leaf certificate signed by it. Trust rootCA.pem once in your OS/browser and every certificate the CA issues is trusted — no per-certificate warnings.

**Q: Does it support ECDSA and Ed25519 certificates?**

A: Yes. Choose RSA for maximum compatibility, or ECDSA (P-256/384/521) and Ed25519 for smaller, faster modern TLS. All are generated and signed locally via the Web Crypto API.

### Markdown ↔ HTML ↔ Text

URL: https://gochronos.com/markdown/convert

Convert Markdown to HTML, HTML back to Markdown, and either format down to plain text.

**How to Convert Markdown to HTML (and HTML to Markdown)** — Use the GoChronos Markdown Converter to transform between Markdown and HTML.

1. **Open the Markdown Converter.** Go to gochronos.com/markdown/convert.
2. **Paste your Markdown.** Enter Markdown text in the left input panel.
3. **View the HTML output.** Converted HTML appears in the right output panel in real time.
4. **Switch to HTML to Markdown.** Toggle the direction arrow to convert HTML back to Markdown.
5. **Copy the output.** Click Copy HTML or Copy Markdown to use the result.

**Q: What does the Markdown Converter do?**

A: The GoChronos Markdown Converter transforms Markdown to HTML and converts HTML or rich-text pastes back to Markdown. It supports full GFM including tables, task lists (- [ ] checkboxes), fenced code blocks with syntax highlighting and strikethrough.

**Q: What is GFM?**

A: GFM (GitHub Flavored Markdown) is GitHub's extension of standard CommonMark Markdown. It adds tables, task lists, fenced code blocks with language-specific syntax highlighting, auto-linked URLs and ~~strikethrough~~ text.

**Q: Can I convert HTML to Markdown?**

A: Yes. Paste HTML into the input and switch to HTML→Markdown mode. The converter produces clean, readable Markdown from most HTML structures.

**Q: Is the Markdown converter free?**

A: Yes. Completely free on GoChronos.

### Dummy Data Generator

URL: https://gochronos.com/markdown/dummy

Generate placeholder text, Markdown, HTML, Lorem Ipsum, JSON or CSV for testing layouts, components and APIs.

**How to Generate Placeholder Text** — Use the GoChronos Dummy Text Generator to create Lorem Ipsum, random English or Markdown placeholder content.

1. **Open the Dummy Text Generator.** Go to gochronos.com/markdown/dummy.
2. **Choose a text type.** Select Lorem Ipsum, Random English, Markdown or HTML snippets.
3. **Set the quantity.** Choose the number of paragraphs, sentences or words to generate.
4. **Click Generate.** The placeholder text appears in the output panel.
5. **Copy.** Click Copy to copy all generated text to your clipboard.

**Q: What is the GoChronos Dummy Text Generator?**

A: The Dummy Text Generator creates placeholder text in multiple formats: classic Lorem Ipsum, random English sentences, random Markdown blocks and random HTML snippets — ideal for prototypes, design mockups and development fixtures.

**Q: What is Lorem Ipsum?**

A: Lorem Ipsum is placeholder text derived from a scrambled passage of Cicero's 45 BC work 'de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum'. It has been used as filler text in print and digital layouts since the 16th century because its letter distribution resembles natural prose.

**Q: Can I specify how much text to generate?**

A: Yes. Choose the number of paragraphs, sentences or words. The output updates instantly without reloading the page.

**Q: Is the dummy text generator free?**

A: Yes. Free on GoChronos, no sign-up required.

### Live Markdown Editor

URL: https://gochronos.com/markdown/editor

Write Markdown on the left and watch a sanitized HTML preview render in real time on the right.

**How to Write and Preview Markdown in the Editor** — Use the GoChronos Markdown Editor for live split-pane Markdown writing with instant HTML preview.

1. **Open the Markdown Editor.** Go to gochronos.com/markdown/editor.
2. **Start writing.** Type Markdown in the left panel using standard syntax (# heading, ** bold, - list, [link](url)).
3. **See the live preview.** The rendered HTML preview appears in the right panel in real time as you type.
4. **Download as .md.** Click Download to save your content as a .md file.
5. **Copy HTML.** Click Copy HTML to copy the rendered HTML output for use in a web page or CMS.

**Q: What is the GoChronos Markdown Editor?**

A: The GoChronos Markdown Editor is a live split-pane editor: type Markdown on the left, see the rendered HTML preview on the right in real time. It supports full CommonMark and GFM syntax including tables, task lists and fenced code blocks.

**Q: Can I export my content from the editor?**

A: Yes. Click Download .md to save your Markdown source, or click Copy HTML to copy the rendered HTML output. Both options are available at any time.

**Q: Does the editor support syntax-highlighted code blocks?**

A: Yes. Fenced code blocks tagged with a language identifier (e.g. ```javascript or ```python) are syntax-highlighted in the preview using a built-in highlighter.

**Q: Is the Markdown editor free?**

A: Yes. Completely free, works fully offline after the initial page load, no sign-up required.

## Text & Writing

### Analysis

URL: https://gochronos.com/text-tools/analysis

Counts, reading time, readability grades, keyword density and offline sentiment.

**How to Analyse Text Statistics** — Use the GoChronos Text Analyser to get word counts, readability scores and more.

1. **Open the Text Analyser.** Go to gochronos.com/text-tools/analysis.
2. **Paste your text.** Enter or paste any text into the input area.
3. **View statistics.** Character count, word count, sentence count, paragraph count and estimated reading time appear immediately.
4. **Check readability.** See the Flesch Reading Ease score plus six readability formulas and a consensus reading grade level for your text.
5. **Review keywords and sentiment.** See the top keywords and phrases with their density, and an offline sentiment reading (positive, negative or neutral).
6. **Review word frequency.** Scroll to the word frequency table to see which words appear most often.

**Q: What does the Text Analyser measure?**

A: The GoChronos Text Analyser counts characters (with and without spaces), words, sentences, paragraphs and unique words. It also shows average word length, average sentence length, estimated reading time and a Flesch Reading Ease score.

**Q: What is the Flesch Reading Ease score?**

A: Flesch Reading Ease (0–100) measures how easy text is to read. Scores above 70 are easy to read (plain English). 60–70 is standard. Below 30 is very difficult (academic, legal or technical writing). It uses average sentence length and average syllables per word.

**Q: Which readability formulas are included?**

A: Six: Flesch Reading Ease, Flesch–Kincaid grade, Gunning Fog, SMOG, Coleman–Liau and the Automated Readability Index, plus a consensus grade level combining them.

**Q: Does it show keyword density and sentiment?**

A: Yes. It lists your most frequent keywords and two-word phrases with their density percentage, and runs an offline lexicon-based sentiment analysis (positive, negative or neutral) — all in your browser, with nothing sent to a server.

**Q: Can I analyse multilingual text?**

A: Character, word and paragraph counts work for any Unicode text. Readability, keyword and sentiment metrics are designed for English prose.

**Q: Is the text analysis tool free?**

A: Yes. Free on GoChronos, works offline.

### Case Converter

URL: https://gochronos.com/text-tools/case

Switch text between sentence, title, UPPER, lower, alternating and inverse case.

**How to Convert Text Case** — Use the GoChronos Case Converter to switch between UPPER, lower, Title, camelCase, snake_case and more.

1. **Open the Case Converter.** Go to gochronos.com/text-tools/case.
2. **Paste your text.** Enter the text you want to convert in the input field.
3. **Choose a case format.** Click UPPER CASE, lower case, Title Case, Sentence case, camelCase, PascalCase, snake_case, kebab-case or another format button.
4. **Copy the result.** The converted text appears instantly in the output field. Click Copy to copy it.

**Q: What text cases does the converter support?**

A: The GoChronos Case Converter supports: UPPER CASE, lower case, Title Case, Sentence case, camelCase, PascalCase, snake_case, kebab-case, SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE, dot.case and aLtErNaTiNg CaSe.

**Q: What is the difference between camelCase and PascalCase?**

A: camelCase starts with a lowercase letter and capitalises subsequent words (e.g. myVariableName) — used for JavaScript variables and functions. PascalCase capitalises every word including the first (e.g. MyClassName) — used for class names and React components.

**Q: What is kebab-case?**

A: kebab-case uses all lowercase letters with hyphens between words (e.g. my-variable-name). It is the standard convention for CSS class names, HTML data attributes and URL slugs.

**Q: Is the case converter free?**

A: Yes. Free on GoChronos, works offline.

### Unicode Fonts

URL: https://gochronos.com/text-tools/fonts

Bold, italic, script, fraktur, small caps, monospace and dozens more font styles.

**How to Generate Unicode Styled Text** — Use the GoChronos Font Generator to create bold, italic, fraktur, script and other Unicode text styles.

1. **Open the Font Generator.** Go to gochronos.com/text-tools/fonts.
2. **Type your text.** Enter your text in the input field at the top.
3. **Browse the styles.** Scroll through the output panel to see your text in bold, italic, monospace, fraktur, script, double-struck, small caps and other Unicode styles.
4. **Copy a style.** Click Copy next to any style variant to copy that Unicode text to your clipboard.
5. **Paste anywhere.** Paste the styled text into social media, messaging apps, emails or any Unicode-capable interface.

**Q: What is the GoChronos Unicode Font Generator?**

A: The Unicode Font Generator transforms standard ASCII text into styled Unicode variants: bold, italic, bold-italic, monospace, fraktur (gothic), script, double-struck (blackboard bold), small caps, circled letters and many more. These styles work in any Unicode-capable app.

**Q: Are these real fonts?**

A: No. They are individual Unicode characters drawn from blocks such as Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols (U+1D400–U+1D7FF). They appear as styled text but are encoded as distinct Unicode code points, not font formatting.

**Q: Will all devices display styled text correctly?**

A: Modern devices with current operating systems support most Unicode blocks. Some older systems or niche apps may show empty squares for characters outside their bundled font coverage.

**Q: Is the font generator free?**

A: Yes. Free on GoChronos, works offline.

### Manipulate

URL: https://gochronos.com/text-tools/manipulate

Find & replace with regex, sort lines, and diff two blocks of text side-by-side.

**How to Manipulate Text** — Use the GoChronos Text Manipulator to reverse, sort, deduplicate, trim and transform text.

1. **Open the Text Manipulator.** Go to gochronos.com/text-tools/manipulate.
2. **Paste your text.** Enter or paste the text you want to process.
3. **Choose an operation.** Select Reverse, Sort Lines, Remove Duplicate Lines, Trim Whitespace, Remove Blank Lines, Add Line Numbers, Add Prefix/Suffix or Wrap at Column.
4. **Apply.** Click Apply (or the operation automatically updates the output in real time).
5. **Copy the result.** Click Copy to copy the processed text.

**Q: What text manipulations does GoChronos support?**

A: The Text Manipulator supports: reverse text, sort lines alphabetically or numerically (ascending/descending), remove duplicate lines, trim leading/trailing whitespace, remove blank lines, add/remove line numbers, add a prefix or suffix to every line and wrap text at a custom column width.

**Q: Can I sort lines numerically?**

A: Yes. The sort function detects numbers and sorts numerically in ascending or descending order, rather than lexicographically where '10' would sort before '9'.

**Q: Is the text manipulator free?**

A: Yes. Free on GoChronos, works offline.

### Roman Numerals

URL: https://gochronos.com/text-tools/roman

Convert any number from 1–3999 or any date into classic Roman numeral notation.

**How to Convert Roman Numerals** — Use the GoChronos Roman Numeral Converter to translate between integers and Roman numeral notation.

1. **Open the Roman Numeral Converter.** Go to gochronos.com/text-tools/roman.
2. **Choose a direction.** Select Number to Roman or Roman to Number using the toggle.
3. **Enter your input.** Type an integer (1–3999) or a Roman numeral string (e.g. XLII).
4. **Read the result.** The conversion appears instantly below the input.
5. **Copy.** Click Copy to copy the result.

**Q: What does the Roman Numeral Converter do?**

A: The GoChronos Roman Numeral Converter converts any integer from 1 to 3,999 to Roman numerals and converts any valid Roman numeral string back to an integer — instantly, in either direction.

**Q: What are the basic Roman numeral symbols?**

A: I = 1, V = 5, X = 10, L = 50, C = 100, D = 500, M = 1000. Combinations follow subtractive notation: IV = 4, IX = 9, XL = 40, XC = 90, CD = 400, CM = 900.

**Q: What is the largest number in standard Roman numerals?**

A: The largest number expressible in standard notation is 3,999 (MMMCMXCIX). Numbers beyond 3,999 require an overline (vinculum) above M to indicate multiplication by 1,000, which is not part of standard modern usage.

**Q: Is the converter free?**

A: Yes. Free on GoChronos, works offline.

### Grammar & Style Checker

URL: https://gochronos.com/writing/grammar

Spelling, grammar, clichés and passive voice — checked by a dictionary that runs inside your tab, never on a server.

**How to Check Grammar and Spelling Privately** — Proofread any text without sending it to a server.

1. **Paste or write.** Type into the editor or paste a draft. The dictionary downloads once, then works offline.
2. **Read the underlines.** Spelling and grammar are underlined in red, style notes in amber and blue. Click one to jump to it.
3. **Apply or dismiss.** Take a suggested fix, ignore the complaint, or add the word to your personal dictionary — all stored on this device.

**Q: Is this really free, with no signup?**

A: Yes. The grammar engine is an Apache-2.0 licensed dictionary that runs in your browser, so there is no per-word server cost to recoup and nothing to sign up for.

**Q: Does my text get sent to a server?**

A: No. The dictionary is downloaded to your browser once and every check runs locally after that — including offline. Confidential drafts, legal text and medical notes never leave the machine.

**Q: Which English does it check?**

A: American, British, Canadian, Australian or Indian — switch the dialect and the spelling rules change with it.

**Q: It flagged a name or a term I use. Can I teach it?**

A: Yes. Add the word to your personal dictionary, or ignore that specific complaint. Both are stored on this device only.

**Q: What is checked besides spelling and grammar?**

A: Style: clichés, filler words, hedging, weak verbs, passive voice and repeated words. Those checks are plain rules and work even where the dictionary isn't available.

### Readability Checker

URL: https://gochronos.com/writing/readability

Grade level and reading ease — plus the specific long sentences responsible, underlined.

**How to Check Reading Level** — Score a document and find the sentences making it hard.

1. **Paste your writing.** Six readability formulas score it as you type; about ten words are needed before the numbers mean anything.
2. **Pick the audience.** General public, professional or academic — the page says whether you are above that level and by how much.
3. **Fix the flagged sentences.** Long sentences are underlined where they are, longest first in the list, so you know where to start.

**Q: Which formulas are used?**

A: Flesch Reading Ease, Flesch–Kincaid Grade, Gunning Fog, SMOG, Coleman–Liau and Automated Readability Index, plus a consensus grade — all computed from your text in the browser.

**Q: What grade level should I aim for?**

A: About grade 8 for general-audience writing, grade 12 for professional documents, and higher only for technical or academic work. Pick the audience and the page tells you whether you are over.

**Q: Why are some sentences underlined?**

A: Sentences over 20 words are amber and over 30 are red — they are where readers most often lose the thread. Blue marks passive constructions.

### Rewrite & Change Tone

URL: https://gochronos.com/writing/rewrite

More formal, more casual or shorter — with a word-level diff of every change.

**How to Change the Tone of Your Writing** — Restate your own sentences more formally, casually or concisely.

1. **Paste your draft.** Add the paragraph, email or message you want to adjust.
2. **Pick the direction.** More formal, more casual, shorter, or fuller.
3. **Check the diff.** Every change is highlighted — accept it as your new draft, or copy just the rewrite.

**Q: Does it generate new content?**

A: No. It restates the sentences you supply. "Fuller" expands contractions and points out which sentences are thin, but it will not invent the missing detail — that is your writing to do.

**Q: Can I see exactly what changed?**

A: Yes — the result is shown as a word-level diff, with additions and deletions marked, so you can check every change before accepting it.

**Q: Does it work without Chrome's AI?**

A: Yes. The rule-based transforms (contraction expansion, filler removal, hedge trimming) are deterministic and available in every browser, offline.

### SEO Title & Description

URL: https://gochronos.com/writing/seo

See the exact truncation search results apply, measure both fields, and get a clean slug.

**How to Write a Title and Meta Description That Fit** — Measure and preview search-result copy before you publish it.

1. **Enter title, description and URL.** Type or paste each field; the length meters update as you go.
2. **Check the preview.** The preview shows exactly where search results would truncate your text.
3. **Add your keyword.** Enter the target phrase to see whether it lands in the title, description and URL — and how early.

**Q: What are the right title and description lengths?**

A: Roughly 30–60 characters for a title and 70–155 for a description — that is what search results display before truncating. The preview shows the exact cut-off point for your text.

**Q: Does this check my live page?**

A: No, and that is deliberate — there is no crawler and no account. You paste the title and description, and it measures and previews them locally.

**Q: Does the slug generator handle accents?**

A: Yes — diacritics are folded, punctuation is dropped, stop words can be removed and the result is lowercase and hyphenated.

### Summarize Text & Documents

URL: https://gochronos.com/writing/summarize

Article, report or PDF down to its key points — extractive, so every sentence is one you wrote.

**How to Summarize an Article or PDF** — Condense a document to its key points in your browser.

1. **Add the text.** Paste it, or open a PDF, Word, Markdown or text file — the document is read inside this tab.
2. **Choose the shape.** Key points, a TL;DR paragraph or a single headline, and set how many sentences to keep.
3. **Copy or download.** Copy the summary or save it as a .txt file. The engine that produced it is named next to the result.

**Q: How does the summary get made?**

A: By default it is extractive: sentences are ranked by how central they are to the document (a TextRank graph) and the top ones are kept in order. That means every sentence in the summary is verbatim from your source — it cannot invent a fact or a claim.

**Q: Can it summarize a PDF or Word file?**

A: Yes — open a PDF, .docx, Markdown, RTF or text file and it is read inside your tab. A scanned PDF has no text layer, and the tool tells you to OCR it first rather than returning an empty summary.

**Q: What does the Chrome on-device AI option add?**

A: In browsers that ship a built-in summarizer, it can rewrite the summary abstractively instead of selecting sentences. It still runs on your device. The output always says which engine produced it.

**Q: Is there a length limit?**

A: No account limits apply. Very long documents just take a moment longer to rank.

### Translate Text

URL: https://gochronos.com/writing/translate

On-device translation where the browser ships a local model — and an honest answer where it doesn't.

**How to Translate Text On-Device** — Translation that runs locally, in browsers that ship a local model.

1. **Check availability.** The page tells you plainly whether your browser has an on-device translator. If it does not, it says so rather than quietly sending your text somewhere.
2. **Pick the languages.** Choose the source and target. Detect language will identify the source for you.
3. **Translate and copy.** The text is translated on your device, so it works offline once the language pack has downloaded. Treat the result as a draft, not a certified translation.

**Q: Why doesn't translation work in my browser?**

A: Translation needs a language model, and the only one a web page can use without a server is the translator Chrome ships built in (Chrome 138+ on desktop). Where that isn't available, this tool can't run — and we won't quietly send your text to a translation API instead.

**Q: Is my text sent to Google when it does work?**

A: No. Chrome's Translator API runs the model on your own machine; the language pack downloads once and then works offline.

**Q: Which languages are supported?**

A: 21 language options are offered, and availability for each pair is checked against your browser before you translate.

### Word Choice & Clichés

URL: https://gochronos.com/writing/word-tools

Clichés, filler, hedging, weak verbs and repetition underlined where they are, with concrete swaps.

**How to Find Clichés and Filler in a Draft** — Spot the tired phrases and weak words in your own writing.

1. **Paste the draft.** Clichés, filler, hedging, weak verbs, passive voice and repetition are underlined in place.
2. **Review each flag.** Take a concrete replacement where one exists, or read the advice where no honest swap does.
3. **Tune the checks.** Mute any check you disagree with — adverbs and passive voice are style choices, not errors.

**Q: What does the score mean?**

A: It is issues per 100 words, not a raw count, so a long essay isn't punished for being long. 100 means nothing was flagged.

**Q: Why do some issues have no suggested fix?**

A: Because an honest one doesn't exist. "Think outside the box" has no drop-in replacement — the fix is to name the actual idea, so the tool says that instead of pasting advice into your document.

**Q: Can I turn off a check I disagree with?**

A: Yes — tap any check in the list to mute it. Adverbs and passive voice in particular are style opinions, not errors.

## Life & Numbers

### Cover Letter Builder

URL: https://gochronos.com/career/cover-letter

Write a cover letter that matches your resume — guided sections, matching templates, and PDF/DOCX export, all offline in your browser.

**How to Write a Cover Letter** — A matching letter, built from the resume you already have.

1. **Pull in your details.** Your contact block and the role come across from the resume builder, so you are not retyping them.
2. **Draft the body.** Work through the opening, the evidence and the close. The editor keeps it to a page, which is where a cover letter should stay.
3. **Match the resume.** Pick the same template so the letter and the resume arrive looking like one document.
4. **Export.** Download as PDF, Word or plain text for a form that wants pasted text.

**Q: Is the cover letter builder free?**

A: Yes — free with no sign-up or watermark, and free PDF, Word (DOCX) and text export.

**Q: Does the cover letter match my resume?**

A: Yes. It automatically inherits your résumé's template design, fonts and colours and pulls in your contact details, so the two documents look like a matched set.

**Q: Is my cover letter private?**

A: Yes. Like résumés, cover letters are stored only in your browser and never uploaded. The optional AI writing assist runs on-device via Chrome's built-in model.

### Job Tracker

URL: https://gochronos.com/career/job-tracker

Track every application on a kanban board — applied, interview, offer — with follow-up reminders. Your pipeline never leaves this device.

**How to Track Job Applications** — One board for every application, stored only on your device.

1. **Add a role.** Record the company, the role and the link. Add the deadline if there is one.
2. **Move it as it moves.** Drag the card between stages as you apply, hear back and interview.
3. **Keep your notes with it.** Put the recruiter's name, the salary range and what you asked in the card, so you have it before the next call.
4. **Export a backup.** The board lives in your browser's storage — export it if you want a copy that survives clearing site data.

**Q: Is the job application tracker free?**

A: Yes — a free, private kanban board with no sign-up, tracking applications from saved to applied, interview, offer and closed.

**Q: Where is my job tracker data stored?**

A: Only in your browser (IndexedDB). Applications, linked résumés and reminders never leave your device.

**Q: Can I score my resume against a job description?**

A: Yes. Paste the job posting onto an application and the tracker matches it against your linked résumé's keywords, and you can set follow-up reminders so nothing slips.

### Resume Builder

URL: https://gochronos.com/career/resume

Build an ATS-friendly resume with professional templates and export it to PDF — everything stays in your browser, no sign-up, no watermark.

**How to Build a Resume** — From blank page to an ATS-checked PDF, entirely on your device.

1. **Start or import.** Begin from a template, or import an existing PDF, Word file, LinkedIn export or JSON Resume — the fields are filled in for you.
2. **Write the content.** Fill in each section. The live preview paginates as you type, so you see the page breaks a recruiter will see.
3. **Check it against the job.** Paste the job description into the ATS checker. It scores the resume out of 100 and lists the keywords it could not find.
4. **Export.** Download as PDF, Word or JSON. Everything stays in your browser — there is no account and nothing uploads.

**Q: Is the GoChronos resume builder really free?**

A: Yes — completely free with no sign-up, no watermark and no paywall on downloads. Every résumé, PDF, DOCX and JSON export is unlimited and free, forever.

**Q: Where is my resume data stored?**

A: Only in your own browser. Résumés are saved to your device's local storage (IndexedDB) and nothing is ever uploaded to a server — GoChronos has no account system and no backend for your data. Back up any time by exporting JSON or a full ZIP.

**Q: Are the resume templates ATS-friendly?**

A: Yes. The templates use clean, single-column-friendly, parseable layouts, and a built-in ATS checker scores your résumé 0–100, flags issues (contact info, section headings, dates, formatting) and matches it against a pasted job description's keywords.

**Q: Can I import my resume from LinkedIn?**

A: Yes. Export your data from LinkedIn ("Get a copy of your data") and drop the ZIP in — GoChronos maps your profile, positions, education and skills automatically. You can also import an existing PDF or Word résumé, a JSON Resume file, or pasted Markdown/plain text.

**Q: Does the resume builder work offline?**

A: Yes. GoChronos is an offline-capable PWA — once the page has loaded, you can create, edit and export résumés with no internet connection. On-device AI assist and speech features run locally too, so your content never leaves your device.

### Duckworth–Lewis–Stern

URL: https://gochronos.com/cricket/dls

Rain-affected revised target using the ICC Standard Edition resource table for ODI and T20.

**How to Calculate a DLS Revised Target** — Use the GoChronos DLS Calculator to find the revised target after a rain interruption.

1. **Open the DLS Calculator.** Go to gochronos.com/cricket/dls.
2. **Enter first innings data.** Input the runs scored and overs used in the first innings (including any interruption details).
3. **Set the second innings overs available.** Enter the total overs available to the chasing team after the interruption.
4. **Enter current match state (if mid-innings interruption).** If the interruption happens during the second innings, input overs completed and wickets fallen at the interruption point.
5. **Read the DLS target.** The revised target and current par score are displayed instantly.
6. **Interpret the result.** If the batting team's score exceeds the par score at the interruption, they are winning on DLS.

**Q: What is the DLS method in cricket?**

A: The Duckworth-Lewis-Stern (DLS) method is the official mathematical formula used to set revised run targets for the team batting second in limited-overs cricket matches that are interrupted by rain or bad light.

**Q: How is the DLS target calculated?**

A: DLS calculates how many 'resources' (overs and wickets) each team has available. If the first innings is completed and the second innings is shortened, the target is revised based on the proportion of resources lost by the interruption.

**Q: What is a 'par score' in DLS?**

A: The par score is how many runs the batting team should have scored at any point in their interrupted innings for the match to be tied under DLS. Being above par means they are on track to win; below par means they are losing.

**Q: When is DLS applied?**

A: DLS is applied in all ICC-recognised limited-overs matches when a rain or bad-light interruption affects either innings and a result is still possible. It requires a minimum of 20 overs (T20) or a prescribed number of overs in ODIs to constitute a match.

**Q: Why is the DLS target sometimes higher than the original target?**

A: If the first innings was interrupted and the batting team loses high-scoring overs (e.g. final power overs), DLS may project a higher total than the team actually scored. The target rises to account for those high-scoring overs the chasing team also loses.

### Net Run Rate

URL: https://gochronos.com/cricket/nrr

Tournament NRR with the official ICC all-out rule (full allotted overs counted when bowled out).

**How to Calculate Net Run Rate** — Use the GoChronos NRR Calculator to compute your team's Net Run Rate across tournament matches.

1. **Open the NRR Calculator.** Go to gochronos.com/cricket/nrr.
2. **Enter runs scored and overs faced.** Input the total runs your team scored and total overs your team faced across all tournament matches.
3. **Enter runs conceded and overs bowled.** Input the total runs your team conceded and total overs your team bowled in those same matches.
4. **Read the NRR.** Your Net Run Rate = (runs per over scored) − (runs per over conceded) is shown immediately.
5. **Interpret the sign.** A positive NRR means your team scores faster than it concedes. A negative NRR means the reverse. Higher NRR improves tournament standing.

**Q: What is Net Run Rate (NRR) in cricket?**

A: NRR is the tiebreaker statistic used in round-robin tournaments to rank teams with equal win counts. It measures average run-scoring rate across all matches minus the average run-scoring rate conceded — a higher NRR indicates a stronger team performance.

**Q: How is NRR calculated?**

A: NRR = (Total runs scored ÷ Total overs faced) − (Total runs conceded ÷ Total overs bowled). A positive NRR means a team scores faster than it concedes; a negative NRR means the reverse.

**Q: Can a team improve its NRR mid-tournament?**

A: Yes. Winning by large margins or restricting opponents cheaply improves NRR significantly. Conversely, losing by large margins or conceding big totals damages NRR. Teams trailing on NRR often need to chase down targets quickly to improve their standing.

**Q: Why is NRR used instead of head-to-head results?**

A: When two or more teams have equal wins, NRR provides an objective ranking based on overall match performance across all games rather than relying solely on the specific head-to-head encounter between the tied teams.

**Q: Is the NRR calculator free?**

A: Yes. Completely free on GoChronos, no sign-up required.

### Overs ↔ Balls

URL: https://gochronos.com/cricket/overs

Two-way converter that understands cricket notation — “5.4” means 5 overs and 4 balls, not 5.4 decimal.

**How to Convert Cricket Overs to Balls** — Use the GoChronos Overs Converter to accurately convert between cricket overs notation and total balls.

1. **Open the Overs Converter.** Go to gochronos.com/cricket/overs.
2. **Enter overs in cricket notation.** Type the overs value using cricket notation (e.g. 19.4 for 19 overs and 4 balls).
3. **Read the ball count.** The total number of legal deliveries is shown instantly (e.g. 19.4 overs = 118 balls).
4. **Convert balls to overs.** Switch to ball-to-overs mode and enter a total ball count to get the equivalent overs notation.

**Q: What does the GoChronos Overs Converter do?**

A: The Overs Converter converts between cricket's notation (e.g. 19.4 overs) and total balls (118 balls). This is essential for accurate run-rate calculations because 19.4 in cricket means 19 overs and 4 balls — not the decimal number 19.4.

**Q: Why does cricket use notation like 19.4 instead of 19.67?**

A: In cricket scoring, 19.4 means 19 completed overs and 4 legal deliveries in the 20th over. The digit after the decimal is a ball count (0–5), not a fraction. Using this as a decimal in calculations produces wrong results — the converter handles this precisely.

**Q: How many balls are in an over?**

A: A standard over consists of 6 legal deliveries. Wides and no-balls are re-bowled and are not counted as part of the over total.

**Q: Is the overs converter free?**

A: Yes. Completely free, works instantly in the browser with no account required.

### Run Rate & Chase

URL: https://gochronos.com/cricket/run-rate

Current run rate, required run rate for the chase, and live projected score from current tempo.

**How to Calculate Run Rate in Cricket** — Compute Current Run Rate and Required Run Rate using the GoChronos Run Rate Calculator.

1. **Open the Run Rate Calculator.** Go to gochronos.com/cricket/run-rate.
2. **Enter runs scored.** Type the total runs the batting team has scored so far.
3. **Enter overs completed.** Type the number of overs bowled in cricket notation (e.g. 15.3 for 15 overs and 3 balls).
4. **Enter target and overs remaining (for RRR).** If calculating Required Run Rate, enter the total target runs and overs remaining.
5. **Read CRR and RRR.** Current Run Rate and Required Run Rate are displayed side by side for instant comparison.

**Q: How is run rate calculated in cricket?**

A: Run rate (CRR) = total runs scored ÷ total overs bowled. For example, if a team scores 150 runs in 25 overs, the run rate is 150 ÷ 25 = 6.0 runs per over.

**Q: How is required run rate calculated?**

A: Required Run Rate (RRR) = runs still needed ÷ overs remaining. If 120 runs are needed in 15 overs, the RRR is 120 ÷ 15 = 8.0 runs per over.

**Q: What is the difference between run rate and required run rate?**

A: Current Run Rate (CRR) measures how fast the batting team has scored so far. Required Run Rate (RRR) measures how fast they must score from this point to win. If RRR > CRR, the team is behind the required pace.

**Q: How does a higher required run rate affect a chase?**

A: As overs decrease and wickets fall, the RRR rises sharply. A team chasing 300 at 6.0 RRR with 10 overs left suddenly faces 12+ RRR if no wickets have fallen — requiring big hitting to stay in the game.

**Q: Is the GoChronos run rate calculator free?**

A: Yes. Enter target, overs completed and runs scored to instantly see current run rate and required run rate. No account needed, works offline.

### Batting & Bowling Stats

URL: https://gochronos.com/cricket/strike-rate

Batting strike rate & average, bowling strike rate, average and economy — every player metric in one place.

**How to Calculate Cricket Strike Rate** — Calculate batting or bowling strike rate using the GoChronos Strike Rate Calculator.

1. **Open the Strike Rate Calculator.** Go to gochronos.com/cricket/strike-rate.
2. **Select Batting or Bowling.** Choose whether you want batting strike rate (runs per 100 balls) or bowling strike rate (balls per wicket).
3. **Enter batting values.** For batting: enter runs scored and balls faced.
4. **Enter bowling values.** For bowling: enter balls bowled and wickets taken.
5. **Read the result.** Batting SR = (Runs ÷ Balls) × 100. Bowling SR = Balls ÷ Wickets. Both are shown with context.

**Q: What is batting strike rate in cricket?**

A: Batting strike rate is the average number of runs scored per 100 balls faced. Formula: (Runs Scored ÷ Balls Faced) × 100. A strike rate of 150 means a batter scored 150 runs for every 100 balls faced.

**Q: What is a good batting strike rate in T20 cricket?**

A: In T20 cricket, a strike rate above 130 is considered good for most batters. Opening batters often target 130–150+. Hard-hitting finishers frequently exceed 150–200 during their innings.

**Q: What is bowling strike rate?**

A: Bowling strike rate = Balls Bowled ÷ Wickets Taken. It measures how many deliveries a bowler needs on average to take a wicket. A lower bowling strike rate indicates a more prolific wicket-taker.

**Q: Is the strike rate calculator free?**

A: Yes. Free on GoChronos with no account required, works offline.

### GPA Calculator

URL: https://gochronos.com/finance/gpa

Unweighted, weighted 4.0+, 5.0 and Indian 10-point CGPA with course list, credit hours and cumulative GPA.

**How to Calculate Your GPA** — Use the GoChronos GPA Calculator to compute weighted or unweighted GPA across any number of courses.

1. **Add your courses.** Click 'Add Course' and enter each course name, the grade you received (A, B+, etc. or a percentage) and the credit hours.
2. **Set your grade scale.** Choose a standard 4.0 scale or enter custom grade-to-point mappings to match your institution's grading system.
3. **Choose weighted or unweighted.** Toggle weighted mode if your school awards extra points for advanced, AP or honours courses.
4. **Read your GPA.** Your cumulative GPA and total credit hours appear instantly, updated as you add or edit courses.

**Q: What is a good GPA on a 4.0 scale?**

A: 3.5–4.0 is excellent, 3.0–3.49 is good, 2.5–2.99 is average. Many graduate programs require a minimum 3.0. The threshold depends on your institution and goals.

**Q: What is the difference between weighted and unweighted GPA?**

A: Unweighted GPA treats all courses equally on a 4.0 scale. Weighted GPA awards bonus points (typically +0.5 or +1.0) for advanced/honours courses, so it can exceed 4.0.

**Q: How is GPA calculated?**

A: GPA = sum of (grade points × credit hours per course) ÷ total credit hours. An A (4.0) in a 3-credit course contributes 12 quality points.

**Q: Can the GPA calculator use custom grading scales?**

A: Yes. Enter letter grades (A, B+, etc.) or percentage grades, then map them to your institution's grade-point values for a fully accurate calculation.

### Loan & Mortgage

URL: https://gochronos.com/finance/loan

Mortgage, auto loan, personal loan, EMI — monthly payment, full amortization schedule and extra-payment savings.

**How to Calculate Loan EMI and Amortization** — Use the GoChronos Loan Calculator to find your monthly EMI and view the full amortization schedule.

1. **Enter the loan amount.** Type the principal amount you want to borrow.
2. **Enter the annual interest rate.** Enter the annual interest rate offered by your bank as a percentage (e.g. 8.5 for 8.5% p.a.).
3. **Set the loan tenure.** Enter the repayment period in months or years (e.g. 240 months for a 20-year home loan).
4. **Read your monthly EMI.** Your fixed monthly instalment (EMI) is shown immediately at the top of the results panel.
5. **View the amortization schedule.** Scroll down to see the full month-by-month breakdown: principal paid, interest charged and outstanding balance for every payment.

**Q: What is EMI?**

A: EMI (Equated Monthly Instalment) is a fixed payment made by a borrower to a lender on the same date each month. Each EMI covers both accrued interest and a portion of the principal, reducing the balance every month.

**Q: How is EMI calculated?**

A: EMI = [P × r × (1 + r)^n] ÷ [(1 + r)^n − 1], where P is the principal loan amount, r is the monthly interest rate (annual rate ÷ 12 ÷ 100), and n is the loan tenure in months.

**Q: What is an amortization schedule?**

A: An amortization schedule is a table showing each monthly payment broken down into principal and interest, along with the outstanding loan balance after each payment.

**Q: Does this loan calculator work for mortgages?**

A: Yes. The GoChronos loan calculator works for any installment loan: home mortgage, auto loan, personal loan or business loan. Enter the loan amount, annual interest rate and tenure.

**Q: What is the difference between flat and reducing interest rate?**

A: A flat rate calculates interest on the full original principal throughout the term. A reducing balance rate calculates interest only on the outstanding balance each month. GoChronos uses the reducing balance method, standard for most bank loans.

### Percentage Calculator

URL: https://gochronos.com/finance/percent

Every variant: X% of Y, what % is A of B, % increase / decrease, reverse percent and discount / markup pricing.

**How to Calculate Percentages** — Use the GoChronos Percentage Calculator to solve all common percentage problems.

1. **Open the Percentage Calculator.** Go to gochronos.com/finance/percent.
2. **Choose a calculation type.** Select from 'What is X% of Y?', 'X is what % of Y?', 'Percentage change from X to Y' or 'Add/subtract X% to/from Y'.
3. **Enter the values.** Fill in the number fields for the selected calculation type.
4. **Read the result.** The answer appears immediately below the inputs.
5. **Try a related calculation.** Switch to another calculation type to solve the inverse or a related problem.

**Q: How do I calculate percentage of a number?**

A: To find X% of a number N, multiply N by X and divide by 100. Example: 15% of 200 = (200 × 15) ÷ 100 = 30.

**Q: How do I calculate percentage change?**

A: Percentage change = ((New Value − Old Value) ÷ Old Value) × 100. A positive result is a percentage increase; negative is a decrease.

**Q: What is the difference between percentage and percentage points?**

A: A percentage expresses a proportion. A percentage point is the arithmetic difference between two percentages. If interest rises from 3% to 5%, that is 2 percentage points but a 66.7% relative increase.

### Tip & Bill Split

URL: https://gochronos.com/finance/tip

Tip calculator with tax, custom percent or quick presets, and even split (or by-share) across any number of people.

**How to Calculate a Tip and Split a Bill** — Use the GoChronos Tip Calculator to compute the tip amount and per-person share for any bill.

1. **Open the Tip Calculator.** Go to gochronos.com/finance/tip.
2. **Enter the bill total.** Type the total bill amount before tip.
3. **Select a tip percentage.** Choose 10%, 15%, 18%, 20% or 25%, or enter a custom percentage.
4. **Enter the number of people.** Type how many people are splitting the bill.
5. **Read the result.** Total tip, total bill and amount per person are all shown instantly.

**Q: How much should I tip at a restaurant?**

A: Standard US tipping: 15% for satisfactory service, 18–20% for good service, 20%+ for excellent. In the UK, 10–12.5% is typical where service charge isn't already included.

**Q: How do I split a bill evenly between multiple people?**

A: Enter the bill total and tip percentage, then set the number of people. The GoChronos Tip Calculator shows each person's share including tip.

**Q: Should I tip before or after tax?**

A: Tipping on the pre-tax subtotal is technically more traditional. Tipping on the post-tax total (the number on the bill) is also widely accepted and simpler in practice.

**Q: Can I round up for easy cash splitting?**

A: Yes. Enable the round-up option to round each person's share to the nearest dollar or pound for easy cash payment.

### BMI Calculator

URL: https://gochronos.com/health/bmi

Body mass index with WHO and Asian cutoffs, healthy weight range and ideal body weight.

**How to Calculate Your BMI** — Use the GoChronos BMI Calculator to find your Body Mass Index in seconds.

1. **Open the BMI Calculator.** Go to gochronos.com/health/bmi on any device — no account or app required.
2. **Select your unit system.** Choose metric (cm / kg) or imperial (feet, inches / pounds) using the toggle at the top.
3. **Enter your height.** Type your height in centimetres, or in feet and inches if using imperial units.
4. **Enter your weight.** Type your weight in kilograms or pounds.
5. **Read your result.** Your BMI score appears instantly, along with your WHO weight category (Underweight, Normal, Overweight or Obese) and a visual scale.

**Q: What is BMI?**

A: BMI (Body Mass Index) is a number calculated from your height and weight. It is a widely used screening tool to identify weight categories — underweight, normal weight, overweight and obese — that may indicate potential health risks.

**Q: What is a healthy BMI range for adults?**

A: According to WHO guidelines, a BMI between 18.5 and 24.9 is considered normal weight. Under 18.5 is underweight; 25–29.9 is overweight; 30 or above is obese. BMI thresholds can differ for some Asian populations.

**Q: How is BMI calculated?**

A: BMI is calculated as weight in kilograms divided by height in metres squared (kg/m²). In imperial units: (weight in pounds × 703) ÷ (height in inches)². The GoChronos BMI calculator handles both metric and imperial conversions automatically.

**Q: Is BMI the same for men and women?**

A: The BMI formula is identical for both sexes, but body fat percentage at the same BMI typically differs. Women naturally carry more body fat. Athletes may show a high BMI due to muscle mass rather than excess fat.

**Q: Is the GoChronos BMI calculator free?**

A: Yes. GoChronos BMI Calculator is completely free, ad-free and works without an account. All calculations run in your browser — no data is uploaded or stored.

### Metabolic Calculator

URL: https://gochronos.com/health/metabolic

All-in-one BMR, TDEE and calorie & macro targets — enter your details once and get a complete metabolic profile.

**How to Calculate Your BMR, TDEE and Daily Calories** — Use the GoChronos Metabolic Calculator to get your BMR, TDEE and calorie & macro targets in one place.

1. **Open the Metabolic Calculator.** Go to gochronos.com/health/metabolic on any device — no account required.
2. **Select your unit system.** Toggle between metric (kg, cm) and imperial (lbs, ft/in).
3. **Enter your details.** Fill in your biological sex, age, height and weight. These inputs are shared across all three tabs.
4. **Read your BMR.** The BMR tab shows your Basal Metabolic Rate using the Mifflin-St Jeor, Harris-Benedict and Katch-McArdle formulas.
5. **Get your TDEE.** Switch to the TDEE tab and select your activity level. Your Total Daily Energy Expenditure plus cut/maintain/bulk targets appear instantly.
6. **Set your macro targets.** Switch to the Calories tab and choose a macro preset (balanced, keto, high-protein, etc.) to see your daily calorie goal and macro split in grams.

**Q: What is BMR (Basal Metabolic Rate)?**

A: BMR is the number of calories your body burns at complete rest to maintain essential physiological functions — breathing, circulation, cell repair and temperature regulation. It represents the minimum calorie intake needed to keep your body alive.

**Q: How is BMR calculated?**

A: GoChronos uses the Mifflin-St Jeor equation, the most accurate widely-used formula: BMR = (10 × weight in kg) + (6.25 × height in cm) − (5 × age in years) + 5 for males, or − 161 for females. It is more accurate than the older Harris-Benedict formula.

**Q: What is TDEE?**

A: TDEE (Total Daily Energy Expenditure) is the total number of calories your body burns in a day, including BMR plus calories burned through activity and digestion. It is calculated by multiplying BMR by an activity factor ranging from 1.2 (sedentary) to 1.9 (very active).

**Q: How many calories do I need per day?**

A: Your daily needs equal your TDEE. For maintenance eat at TDEE; for weight loss create a deficit of 300–500 calories; for muscle gain add 300–500 calories above TDEE.

**Q: What are macros and how are they calculated?**

A: Macros (macronutrients) are protein, carbohydrates and fat. A common starting split is 30% protein / 40% carbs / 30% fat. The calculator converts your calorie target into grams of each macro (protein: 4 cal/g, carbs: 4 cal/g, fat: 9 cal/g).

**Q: Is it safe to eat below my BMR?**

A: Consistently eating below your BMR is not recommended: it can slow metabolism, cause muscle loss and lead to nutritional deficiencies. Safe calorie restriction means eating below your TDEE maintenance level, not below your BMR.

**Q: Is the metabolic calculator free?**

A: Yes. Completely free, runs in your browser, no sign-up required. Your health data is never transmitted to any server.

### Birthday Paradox

URL: https://gochronos.com/random/birthday

Compute collision probability for any group size — closed-form + Monte-Carlo simulation.

**How to Generate a Random Birthday** — Use the GoChronos Birthday Generator to create realistic random dates of birth within any age range.

1. **Open the Birthday Generator.** Go to gochronos.com/random/birthday.
2. **Set an age range.** Enter minimum and maximum ages (e.g. 18 to 65).
3. **Click Generate.** A random date of birth within the specified age range is shown.
4. **Copy the date.** Click Copy to use the birthday in test data, character profiles or class exercises.
5. **Generate more.** Click Generate again for another random birthday in the same range.

**Q: What is the Random Birthday Generator?**

A: The GoChronos Random Birthday Generator picks a random date of birth within a specified age range. Useful for generating realistic test data, creating fictitious characters, privacy-compliant datasets and classroom probability experiments.

**Q: Can I specify the age range?**

A: Yes. Set a minimum and maximum age (e.g. 18 to 65) and the generator outputs a random birthday that falls within those ages as of today's date.

**Q: Is the birthday generator free?**

A: Yes. Free on GoChronos, no sign-up required.

### Coin Flip

URL: https://gochronos.com/random/coin

Flip one or thousands of coins. Streaks, longest run, heads/tails breakdown.

**How to Flip a Coin** — Use the GoChronos Coin Flip tool for a fair, cryptographically random heads-or-tails decision.

1. **Open the Coin Flip tool.** Go to gochronos.com/random/coin.
2. **Click Flip.** The coin animates and lands on Heads or Tails.
3. **View the tally.** A running count of total heads and tails is displayed below the coin.
4. **Flip multiple coins.** Change the coin count (up to 100) to flip several coins simultaneously.
5. **Reset the tally.** Click Reset to clear the history and start fresh.

**Q: What is the GoChronos Coin Flip tool?**

A: The GoChronos Coin Flip simulates a fair 50/50 coin toss. Click Flip to get a random Heads or Tails result with an animated coin graphic. A running tally of all flips in the session is displayed.

**Q: Is the coin flip truly fair?**

A: Yes. The result is determined by crypto.getRandomValues, giving a perfectly uniform 50/50 probability — unlike some physical coins which have slight manufacturing biases that favour one side.

**Q: Can I flip multiple coins at once?**

A: Yes. Set the coin count (up to 100) and flip all simultaneously to see individual results and a summary of how many landed heads vs tails.

**Q: Is the coin flip tool free?**

A: Yes. Free on GoChronos, works offline.

### Dice Roller

URL: https://gochronos.com/random/dice

Roll any mix of d4, d6, d8, d10, d12, d20, d100. Advantage / disadvantage and history.

**How to Roll Dice** — Use the GoChronos Dice Roller for any dice type — d4, d6, d8, d10, d12, d20 and d100.

1. **Open the Dice Roller.** Go to gochronos.com/random/dice.
2. **Choose a dice type.** Select d4, d6, d8, d10, d12, d20 or d100 from the available options.
3. **Set the number of dice.** Enter how many dice to roll simultaneously (e.g. 2d6 for two six-sided dice).
4. **Click Roll.** All dice roll simultaneously and individual results plus the total sum are shown.
5. **Add a modifier.** Enter a +/− modifier to add to the total (useful for D&D ability checks and skill rolls).

**Q: What dice types does the roller support?**

A: D4, D6, D8, D10, D12, D20 and D100 (percentile). Roll multiple dice of the same type and add a modifier to the total.

**Q: Can I roll multiple dice simultaneously?**

A: Yes. Set the quantity for each die type. The roller shows each individual result, the subtotal per die type and the grand total including modifiers.

**Q: Is this suitable for Dungeons & Dragons?**

A: Yes. D&D uses D4, D6, D8, D10, D12 and D20 for attacks, damage, saving throws and ability checks — all supported.

**Q: Is each roll truly random?**

A: Yes. Each result uses Math.random() with browser-level entropy, producing a statistically uniform distribution across all die faces.

### Random Number

URL: https://gochronos.com/random/numbers

Generate one or many random numbers — integer / decimal, unique, sorted, uniform or normal.

**How to Generate Random Numbers** — Use the GoChronos Random Number Generator to create single values or large lists of random integers.

1. **Open the Number Generator.** Go to gochronos.com/random/numbers.
2. **Set the range.** Enter minimum and maximum values for the number range.
3. **Set the count.** Enter how many random numbers to generate (1 to 10,000).
4. **Allow or disallow duplicates.** Toggle the unique option to prevent repeated values in the output list.
5. **Click Generate.** Numbers appear in the output panel instantly.
6. **Copy or download.** Click Copy All or Download to save the numbers as a text file.

**Q: What is the GoChronos Random Number Generator?**

A: The Random Number Generator produces random integers or decimals within any range you specify, using the browser's cryptographic random API for high-quality randomness. Generate single numbers or lists of thousands.

**Q: Can I generate a list of random numbers?**

A: Yes. Specify how many numbers to generate (up to 10,000) and whether duplicates are allowed. Download the list as a text file or copy it to the clipboard.

**Q: What is the difference between uniform and weighted distributions?**

A: Uniform distribution means every number in the range is equally likely. GoChronos generates uniform random integers. For weighted selections across a list of items, use the Random Picker tool instead.

**Q: Is the random number generator free?**

A: Yes. Free on GoChronos, no sign-up needed.

### Name Picker

URL: https://gochronos.com/random/picker

Paste a list, draw one or many — without replacement — or split into balanced teams.

**How to Pick a Random Item from a List** — Use the GoChronos Random Picker for raffle draws, random selections and weighted choices.

1. **Open the Random Picker.** Go to gochronos.com/random/picker.
2. **Enter your items.** Type or paste a list of items, one per line (e.g. team member names, options, tasks).
3. **Set weights (optional).** Add a colon and weight after any item to make it more or less likely (e.g. Alice:3 to triple her probability).
4. **Set how many to pick.** Enter a count for how many items to select.
5. **Click Pick.** The selected item(s) are shown prominently with an animation.
6. **Enable no-repeat.** Turn on no-repeat to remove selected items so they cannot be chosen again in subsequent draws.

**Q: What is the GoChronos Random Picker?**

A: The Random Picker randomly selects one or more items from a list you provide. Useful for raffle draws, winner selection, random task assignment, restaurant decisions and any unbiased choice from a set of options.

**Q: Can I weight some items to appear more often?**

A: Yes. Add a weight to each item (e.g. append :3 to make it three times as likely). The picker normalises weights and applies the correct probability distribution.

**Q: Can I pick without replacement?**

A: Yes. Enable the no-repeat option to draw items without replacing them after each pick — like drawing lottery numbers from a hat.

**Q: Is the picker free?**

A: Yes. Free on GoChronos, works offline.

### Tally Counter

URL: https://gochronos.com/random/tally

Multi-counter with named groups, increment / decrement, totals and reset. Persists locally.

**How to Use the Tally Counter** — Use the GoChronos Tally Counter to track counts digitally with multiple named counters.

1. **Open the Tally Counter.** Go to gochronos.com/random/tally.
2. **Name your counter.** Click the counter label to rename it (e.g. 'Visitors', 'Score', 'Reps').
3. **Increment.** Click the + button or press the spacebar to add 1 to the count.
4. **Decrement.** Click the − button to subtract 1 if you made an error.
5. **Add more counters.** Click Add Counter to track multiple categories simultaneously on one screen.
6. **Reset.** Click Reset to zero any or all counters and start a new counting session.

**Q: What is the GoChronos Tally Counter?**

A: The Tally Counter is a digital hand-tally replacement. Click + to increment, − to decrement and Reset to start over. Multiple named counters can run simultaneously. Ideal for counting visitors, inventory items, reps or any discrete events.

**Q: Can I have multiple counters?**

A: Yes. Click Add Counter to add as many named counters as you need on the same screen to track multiple categories simultaneously.

**Q: Does the tally persist if I reload the page?**

A: Yes. Counter values are saved to localStorage, so your counts survive a page refresh.

**Q: Is the tally counter free?**

A: Yes. Free on GoChronos, works fully offline.

### Decision Wheel

URL: https://gochronos.com/random/wheel

Spin to decide. Add any options, weighted slices, smooth animated wheel with confetti.

**How to Spin a Random Decision Wheel** — Use the GoChronos Wheel Spinner for fun random selections, team assignments and prize draws.

1. **Open the Wheel Spinner.** Go to gochronos.com/random/wheel.
2. **Enter your options.** Type the items for the wheel segments, one per line (e.g. team members, options, prizes).
3. **Customise colours (optional).** Each item automatically gets a distinct colour. Click any segment to change its colour.
4. **Click Spin.** The wheel spins with a physics-based animation and comes to rest on a random item.
5. **Read the winner.** The selected item is highlighted and shown prominently above the wheel.

**Q: How do I add items to the decision wheel?**

A: Type each option into the input field and press Enter or click Add. Items appear as coloured segments on the wheel immediately.

**Q: Can I save my wheel items for later?**

A: Yes. The GoChronos decision wheel saves your items in your browser's local storage, so they persist between sessions.

**Q: Is the wheel spin truly random?**

A: Yes. The spin duration and stopping angle are generated using a random algorithm, making each spin independent and unpredictable.

**Q: Can I use the decision wheel offline?**

A: Yes. GoChronos is a Progressive Web App that works offline once installed.

### Calculator

URL: https://gochronos.com/utility/calc

Basic arithmetic with memory, history tape and keyboard support. Results persist across sessions.

**How to Use the Scientific Calculator** — Use the GoChronos Scientific Calculator to evaluate arithmetic and scientific expressions.

1. **Open the Calculator.** Go to gochronos.com/utility/calc.
2. **Enter an expression.** Click the on-screen buttons or type directly (e.g. sin(30) + sqrt(16) or (3^4 - 7) / 2).
3. **Use scientific functions.** Click the mode toggle to show trigonometry (sin, cos, tan), logarithms (log, ln), powers and root functions.
4. **Read the result.** The calculated answer appears at the top of the display.
5. **Use memory.** Press M+ to store a value in memory, MR to recall it and MC to clear memory.

**Q: What kind of calculator is GoChronos?**

A: The GoChronos Calculator is a full scientific calculator supporting arithmetic, trigonometry (sin, cos, tan and inverses), logarithms (log, ln), powers, roots, factorials, modulo and memory functions (M+, MR, MC).

**Q: Can I type expressions directly?**

A: Yes. Type expressions like (15 * 3 + 7) / sin(30) or sqrt(144) + log(100) directly. The parser handles operator precedence and nested parentheses correctly.

**Q: Is the calculator free?**

A: Yes. Free on GoChronos, works fully offline.

### File Compressor

URL: https://gochronos.com/utility/compress-file

Gzip any file (or decompress a .gz) with a clear before/after size delta.

**How to Gzip a File** — Shrink a file with real gzip, locally.

1. **Drop any file.** Text, logs and exports shrink best; a .gz decompresses instead.
2. **Pick a level.** Fast, balanced or smallest.
3. **See the savings.** The result shows before → after sizes with the percentage saved.

**Q: What compression does it use?**

A: Gzip — the same format servers and command lines use. Drop a .gz to decompress instead.

**Q: Why didn't my file shrink?**

A: Already-compressed formats (JPG, MP4, ZIP) barely shrink again — that's how compression works, not a bug. Text, CSV and logs shrink dramatically.

**Q: Is the file uploaded?**

A: No — everything happens on your device.

### Text Diff Viewer

URL: https://gochronos.com/utility/diff

Line, word and character-level diffs with side-by-side or unified view, ignore whitespace and case options.

**How to Compare Two Text Blocks** — Use the GoChronos Diff tool to highlight differences between any two versions of text.

1. **Open the Diff tool.** Go to gochronos.com/utility/diff.
2. **Paste the original text.** Paste the original (old) version of the text into the left panel.
3. **Paste the modified text.** Paste the updated (new) version into the right panel.
4. **View the diff.** Added lines are highlighted in green, removed lines in red and unchanged lines in neutral colour.
5. **Upload files (optional).** Click Upload File above either panel to load a .txt, .json, .md or other plain-text file.
6. **Copy the diff.** Click Copy Diff to copy the full unified diff output to your clipboard.

**Q: What does the GoChronos Diff tool do?**

A: The Diff tool compares two blocks of text and highlights every difference: added lines in green, removed lines in red and unchanged lines in grey. It uses the Myers diff algorithm — the same algorithm used by Git.

**Q: Can I compare files as well as pasted text?**

A: Yes. Upload two text files (up to approximately 5 MB each) and the tool diffs their contents. Supported file types include .txt, .json, .xml, .csv, .md and any other plain-text format.

**Q: Is the diff algorithm standard?**

A: Yes. The tool uses the Myers diff algorithm which produces minimal, human-readable diffs — the same algorithm used by Git, SVN and most code-review platforms.

**Q: Is the diff tool free?**

A: Yes. Free on GoChronos, works offline.

### Number to Words

URL: https://gochronos.com/utility/numwords

Spell out numbers in English. Supports cardinals, ordinals, decimals, negatives, and check-writing format.

**How to Convert a Number to Words** — Use the GoChronos Number to Words converter to spell out any integer or decimal in English.

1. **Open the Number to Words converter.** Go to gochronos.com/utility/numwords.
2. **Enter a number.** Type any integer or decimal number in the input field.
3. **Read the words.** The number is spelled out in English words immediately below (e.g. 1,234 becomes 'one thousand two hundred thirty-four').
4. **Switch to ordinal.** Toggle to Ordinal mode to get 'first', 'second', 'forty-second' etc.
5. **Copy.** Click Copy to copy the word form to your clipboard.

**Q: What does the Number to Words converter do?**

A: The GoChronos Number to Words converter translates any integer or decimal into its full English word form. For example: 1,234,567 becomes 'one million two hundred thirty-four thousand five hundred sixty-seven'.

**Q: What is the maximum number supported?**

A: The converter supports numbers up to 10^66 (centillion range), covering any realistic use case including large financial figures.

**Q: Can it produce ordinal numbers?**

A: Yes. Toggle to Ordinal mode to get 'first', 'second', 'third', 'twenty-first' etc. instead of cardinal form.

**Q: Is the converter free?**

A: Yes. Free on GoChronos, works offline.

### Unit Converter

URL: https://gochronos.com/utility/units

Length, mass, temperature, volume, area, speed, time, data, energy, pressure and angle — 11 categories, 80+ units. Natural language input supported.

**How to Convert Between Units of Measurement** — Use the GoChronos Unit Converter to convert between metric and imperial units instantly.

1. **Select a unit category.** Choose from Length, Weight, Temperature, Volume, Area, Speed, Pressure, Energy, Data or Time.
2. **Enter your value.** Type the number you want to convert into any unit field. All other units in the category update simultaneously.
3. **Read all equivalent values.** Every unit in the selected category is shown at once — for example, 1 metre shows as 100 cm, 3.281 ft and 39.37 in.
4. **Copy a result.** Click any converted value to copy it to your clipboard.

**Q: What unit categories does the converter support?**

A: Length, weight/mass, temperature, volume, area, speed, pressure, energy, data storage and time.

**Q: How do I convert Celsius to Fahrenheit?**

A: Select Temperature, enter your Celsius value, and the Fahrenheit equivalent appears instantly. Formula: °F = (°C × 9/5) + 32.

**Q: Does it support both metric and imperial units?**

A: Yes. All common SI (metric) and imperial units are supported across every category — feet/metres, pounds/kilograms, miles/kilometres, gallons/litres and more.

**Q: Can I use the unit converter offline?**

A: Yes. The GoChronos unit converter works offline once the PWA is installed.

### Zip & Unzip

URL: https://gochronos.com/utility/zip

Bundle files and folders into a zip, or open one and extract exactly what you need.

**How to Zip or Unzip Files** — Archives without installing anything.

1. **Pick a direction.** Create a zip from files/folders, or open an existing zip.
2. **Configure.** Creating: set compression and name. Opening: browse entries and tick what you need.
3. **Download.** Save the new archive, or extract just the selected files.

**Q: Can I zip a whole folder?**

A: Yes — drop a folder (or pick one with Add a folder) and its structure is preserved inside the archive.

**Q: Can I extract just some files?**

A: Yes — open a zip to browse its contents, tick the files you want, and extract only those.

**Q: Are password-protected zips supported?**

A: Not yet — encrypted archives can't be opened or created in this version.

**Q: Is anything uploaded?**

A: No — compression runs in your browser via a background thread.

## Guides

### Passport Photo at Home: Crop, Background, Print Sheet

URL: https://gochronos.com/guides/passport-photo-at-home

Make a passport photo at home, entirely in your browser: clean up the background, crop to one of nine official size presets, and print a sheet of copies.

**How to make a passport photo at home** — Fix the background, crop to an official size preset and print a sheet of copies.

1. **Flatten the background.** Open Remove Background, drop your photo in, and under "Background" choose "Solid color" rather than "Transparent". Set the colour picker (it starts at #ffffff), then press "Remove background" and save the result.
2. **Pick the country first.** In Passport Photo Maker, open the "Country / document" list and choose your spec before you touch the framing. The panel then shows the size in mm, inches and pixels, plus the required head height in mm.
3. **Line up chin and crown.** Press "Auto-detect & fit face" if you are on Chrome or Edge, then drag the photo and use the zoom slider until the chin sits on the lower dashed line and the top of the head on the upper one.
4. **Set resolution and save.** Choose "300 DPI (standard print)" or "600 DPI (high-res print)", pick JPEG or PNG under Format, then click "Download photo".
5. **Print several copies.** Switch on "Print sheet (multiple copies on one page)", pick a paper size such as "4 x 6 in (standard photo print)", check the copy count it reports, and click "Download print sheet".

**Q: Do my photos get uploaded anywhere?**

A: No. Both tools decode, process and encode the image inside the browser tab. The background remover fetches its segmentation model file once, and you can pin that with the "Save model for offline" button, after which nothing touches the network. There is no account and no sync.

**Q: Which countries and sizes are covered?**

A: Nine presets: United States, United Kingdom, Schengen Area / EU, India, Canada, Australia, Japan, China and a generic ICAO Doc 9303 entry that covers most other countries. They come in four shapes, from 33 by 48 mm for China to 50 by 70 mm for Canada. There is also a "Custom size..." option where you type width, height and the head-height range in millimetres.

**Q: Should I use the AI background remover for a US passport photo?**

A: No. The tool's own note for the United States preset points out that the State Department explicitly disallows AI-touched-up submissions. For a US passport or visa, photograph yourself against a plain white or off-white wall and use only the crop step.

**Q: Why did my careful framing jump back to the centre?**

A: Because the crop is pinned to the target aspect ratio, it resets to a centred best fit whenever that ratio changes, which most preset switches do. Rotating the photo has the same effect. Choose the country and fix the orientation first, then frame.

**Q: How many copies fit on one sheet?**

A: It depends on the spec and the paper. A 35 by 45 mm photo fits six copies on a 4 by 6 inch sheet and thirty on A4. A 51 by 51 mm US photo fits two on 4 by 6 and fifteen on A4. The tool prints the exact count next to the paper selector before you download.

Updated: 2026-08-15

If you need a passport or visa photo and would rather not pay a booth, you can do the whole job here: tidy the background, crop to the exact millimetre size your country asks for, and lay out a printable sheet of copies. Everything runs in your browser tab, so the photo of your face never leaves your machine.

### Compress a Video for Email Without Uploading It

URL: https://gochronos.com/guides/compress-a-video-for-email

Get a video under your mail server's attachment limit: trim the clip first, then compress it to 720p in your browser. Nothing uploads, and there's no watermark.

**How to compress a video for email** — Trim the clip down first, then re-encode it with the 720p cap. All on your device.

1. **Trim the clip.** Drop your clip into Trim Video, then drag the Start and End sliders or type times into the From and To fields. Leave Cut style on Lossless (fast), then download the result.
2. **Open Compress Video.** Drop the trimmed file into Compress Video. The first run fetches the video engine, roughly 31 MB, which is cached for every run after that.
3. **Choose a preset.** Quality starts on Smaller and Resolution on Cap at 720p. Step down to Tiny only if the result is still over your limit.
4. **Compress and download.** Press Compress and watch the progress bar, then press Download. The note under the result tells you what percentage you saved against the source.

**Q: Should I trim the video or compress it first?**

A: Trim first, every time. Cutting a clip in half removes half the bytes and costs nothing in picture quality, because the default trim is a stream copy rather than a re-encode. Compressing harder buys you a similar saving but pays for it in smearing around motion and text.

**Q: How small does the file actually need to be?**

A: Most mail systems stop somewhere between 10 MB and 25 MB, and your recipient's server has its own limit that may be lower than yours. Attachments are also encoded for transport, which adds about a third to the size on the wire, so aim comfortably under whatever number you have been given rather than right at it.

**Q: Why is there a one-time download before I can compress?**

A: Compression runs a full ffmpeg build compiled to WebAssembly, about 31 MB, fetched on first use and then cached. The strip above the drop zone shows the size and offers a Save engine for offline button if you would rather pull it in advance. That download is the program, not your video.

**Q: Does the video get uploaded to a server?**

A: No. Reading the file, building the thumbnail timeline, and the encode itself all happen in the browser tab. The only network request involved is fetching the engine, and that is the same file for everyone.

**Q: Would sending a GIF be smaller than an MP4?**

A: Almost never, beyond a few seconds. GIF is limited to 256 colours per frame and uses very old compression, so a ten-second GIF often ends up larger than the compressed MP4 it came from. Video to GIF offers an animated WebP option instead, which keeps full colour and is usually far smaller.

Updated: 2026-08-15

You have a screen recording or a phone clip that your mail server refuses to accept. This walks through getting it under the limit using two GoChronos tools, in the order that costs you the least picture quality. Both run entirely in your browser tab, so the file never leaves your machine, and neither tool watermarks anything.

### Make Your Resume ATS-Proof: Free 0-100 ATS Checker

URL: https://gochronos.com/guides/make-your-resume-ats-proof

Score your resume 0-100 against 21 ATS checks, match it against a pasted job description, then export Word or plain text. Private, in your browser.

**How to make your resume ATS-proof** — Score, tailor and export a resume that applicant tracking systems can read.

1. **Open a resume.** On My Resumes, create a new resume or press Import to bring in a PDF, Word file, LinkedIn ZIP, JSON, Markdown or text. Clicking a card opens it in the builder.
2. **Choose a safe template.** In the builder top bar open Template and look for the green ATS-safe badge. Five of the ten templates carry it; the rest are captioned 'Stylish - run the ATS check before sending'.
3. **Work the Checks tab.** Click the score chip in the top bar to open the ATS check panel, then the Checks tab. Clear the 'Needs fixing' group first; most rows carry a one-click Fix button.
4. **Paste the job description.** On the Match tab, paste the posting into the 'Paste the job description' box. Matched terms turn green, missing ones amber; clicking a missing chip copies it and names the section it belongs in.
5. **Export the right file.** Use the caret beside Download to open Export options. Word (DOCX) or Plain text for online forms, PDF for a human reader, JSON for a lossless backup.

**Q: What does the ATS score actually measure?**

A: Twenty-one checks in five weighted categories: Contact 15, Structure 25, Dates 10, Content 35 and Format 15. A pass counts 1, a warning counts a half, a failure counts zero, and the category average is multiplied by its weight. Paste a job description and the keyword match is blended into the number at 15 per cent.

**Q: Why does the top-bar number differ from the Resume Score in Overview?**

A: They are two different figures. The chip in the top bar is the ATS check score. The dial on the Overview tab is a composite: ATS 40 per cent, completeness 25, writing 20, and job match 15 when a posting is pasted. With no job description that last weight is shared out across the other three.

**Q: Is my resume or the job description uploaded anywhere?**

A: No. Resumes live in your browser's own storage and every check, keyword extraction and export runs on your device. There is no account and no server copy, which also means a resume only exists in the browser that created it, so keep a backup.

**Q: Can a template be marked ATS-safe and still get flagged?**

A: Yes. The layout check and the font check are separate. The Modern template is ATS-safe but its default Space Grotesk pairing is not on the checker's safe-font list, so the Format category can still warn. Switching to Georgia, Garamond, Helvetica or the Grotesk and Georgia pairing clears it.

**Q: Which export format should I send with an online application?**

A: Word (DOCX) or Plain text. The Word export uses a simplified single-column layout with real Word headings, lists and hyperlinks. Plain text is the raw version for pasting into application forms: headings become uppercase and bullets become hyphens. PDF is for a human reader.

Updated: 2026-08-15

For anyone applying online and wondering whether a machine can read what they wrote. You end up with a resume scored against 21 concrete checks, tailored to one posting's keywords, and exported in the format that particular application actually wants. Everything runs in your browser.

### Remove GPS Data From Photos Before Posting

URL: https://gochronos.com/guides/remove-gps-from-photos-before-posting

See the GPS, camera and timestamp data hiding in your photos, then cut it out in your browser without recompressing a single pixel. Batch a whole folder at once.

**How to remove GPS and camera data from photos** — See what a photo leaks, strip it without recompressing, then repeat for a folder.

1. **Drop one photo.** Open the Photo Metadata Viewer & Remover and drop a file on "Drop a photo here". It takes one photo at a time and reads it on your device.
2. **Read the risk chips.** The Configure step lists what it found as chips: GPS location, Camera / phone model, Capture time, Author name, Editing software, Serial numbers. If there are coordinates, a red row prints them and offers a map link.
3. **Strip and verify.** Press "Remove all metadata". The tool re-reads its own output and reports how many identifying fields are left, so you get a count rather than a promise.
4. **Download the clean copy.** Press "Download clean copy". The file is saved with -clean added to the name, so your original is never overwritten.
5. **Do the rest in bulk.** For a folder of JPGs, PNGs or WebPs, open the Batch Image Processor. "Remove EXIF, GPS and camera data" is already on, so drop the images and press the Process button to get one zip.

**Q: Does stripping metadata reduce photo quality?**

A: No. On JPG, PNG and WebP the metadata blocks are cut out of the file container and the image data is copied through untouched. Nothing is decoded or re-encoded, so the picture is the same picture, just smaller on disk.

**Q: What happens to HEIC photos from an iPhone?**

A: HEIC cannot be edited in place, so the tool draws the image to a canvas and hands back a PNG instead. That does remove every field, but the pixels are re-encoded and the PNG is usually much larger than the HEIC was. The batch processor is stricter. It hands HEIC straight to the browser's own decoder with no fallback, so on a browser that can't read HEIC natively the file is listed as a failure instead of being converted. Do HEIC files in the single-photo tool.

**Q: How do I know the metadata is really gone?**

A: The tool parses its own output after stripping and reports what survived. A clean result says zero identifying fields remain. You can also drop the cleaned file back in as a fresh upload and read it again.

**Q: Could the photo look rotated after stripping?**

A: It can. On JPEG the orientation tag lives inside the same EXIF block that gets removed, so a photo that relied on it may display sideways in some viewers. Check the Orientation row in the Image group before you strip, and if it is not the normal horizontal value, rotate the photo first.

**Q: Does this hide what is visible in the picture itself?**

A: No. Metadata sits beside the pixels, not in them. A street sign, a house number or a face is still there after the strip. Use the Pixelate tool for that. It covers the whole image, a centre block or a horizontal middle band, so it suits a face or a plate near the middle of the frame. Anything off to one side means pixelating the whole picture.

Updated: 2026-08-15

You took a photo at home, and the file quietly recorded where home is. This guide is for anyone about to post pictures publicly, sell something on a marketplace, or send a screenshot to a stranger. You end up with copies that carry no coordinates, no phone model and no serial numbers, at exactly the quality you started with.

### Shrink a PDF to Fit an Email Limit

URL: https://gochronos.com/guides/shrink-a-pdf-to-email-it

Get a PDF under your mail server's attachment cap in the browser: drop the pages you don't need, recompress its embedded JPEGs, and strip the extras.

**How to shrink a PDF so it fits an email limit** — Trim pages, recompress embedded JPEGs and strip extras, all inside your browser tab.

1. **See what's heavy.** Open Extract PDF Images, drop the file in, and press "Extract images". The result list names every embedded raster and shows its size, so you can tell at a glance whether photos are the problem.
2. **Keep the pages you need.** Move to Split PDF. It opens on the "Page ranges" mode, so type your pages into "Pages to extract" in the 1-3, 5, 7-9 style, or click thumbnails to toggle them.
3. **Turn on Compress images.** In the output options below the grid, the "Compress" tab is already selected. Flip the "Compress images" switch, then set Quality (it starts at 75%) and "Max image dimension".
4. **Export and weigh it.** Press "Extract & Download" for one file, or "Split into N files & Download ZIP" for several. The "~X estimated output" line above the button is measured before compression, so check the saved file itself.
5. **Squeeze the whole document.** If you need every page, open the PDF Editor instead, press Download, and use the Compress section plus "Remove attachments" and "Strip metadata" in the Download PDF dialog.

**Q: Why did compression barely change my file size?**

A: The compressor only re-encodes embedded JPEG image streams. A PDF built from text, vector drawings or Flate-encoded bitmaps has no JPEGs to squeeze, so it comes out much the same size. Dropping pages is the reliable lever on that kind of file.

**Q: Does compressing a PDF damage the text?**

A: No. Only JPEG image streams are re-encoded. Vector text and other page content are left untouched, so the document stays selectable and searchable at any quality setting.

**Q: What quality setting should I use?**

A: Start at the default of 75%. For scanned paperwork that only has to be legible, try 50 to 60% with Max image dimension set to Small — 1200px. Below roughly 40% the JPEG blocking starts to show on scanned text.

**Q: Is my PDF uploaded anywhere?**

A: No. Split PDF, Extract PDF Images and the PDF Editor all read the file inside the browser tab and write the result straight back to your machine. There is no account, no server-side processing and no queue.

**Q: Does password-protecting the PDF make it bigger?**

A: Slightly. An encrypted export is written without object streams, because some readers mishandle encrypted ones, and that costs a little structural compression. Turn encryption on only when you actually need it.

Updated: 2026-08-15

A PDF that bounces off an attachment limit is usually one of two problems: too many pages, or too many photos. This guide is for anyone staring at a 30 MB scan they need to send today. You will work out which problem you have, fix it in the browser, and end up with a file you can actually attach.

### Batch-Resize a Folder of Photos for Your Website

URL: https://gochronos.com/guides/batch-resize-photos-for-a-website

Resize, convert and rename a whole folder of photos in one pass, then download the lot as a single zip. Runs in your browser, so nothing is uploaded.

**How to Batch-Resize a Folder of Photos for a Website** — Resize, convert to WebP and rename a whole folder in one pass, out as one zip.

1. **Test one photo first.** Open Resize & Compress Image and load a single typical photo. Try the Medium preset, or switch to Target file size and aim at 200 KB, and look at the Before / After / Saved figures before you commit a whole folder to those settings.
2. **Drop the folder in.** Go to the Batch Processor and drop every image onto the drop zone, which tells you to add as many as you like. Each file appears as a chip you can remove with the X if something crept in by mistake.
3. **Set the size.** In the Size panel pick Fixed width and type your content width, or Fit in a box and set Max width and Max height. Leave "Never enlarge a smaller image" switched on.
4. **Convert and rename.** In Format & privacy set Save as to WebP and drag the quality slider (it starts at 85%). In Names & delivery type a pattern such as blog-{date}-{n:3}, and keep "Remove EXIF, GPS and camera data" on.
5. **Process and download.** Read the "Names you'll get" preview, press Process N images, then press Download zip on the result screen.

**Q: Will it blow up photos that are already small?**

A: No, as long as "Never enlarge a smaller image" stays on, which it is by default. When a resize would make a picture bigger than it started, the batch leaves its pixel dimensions alone. A 400px thumbnail asked to become 2000px wide simply stays 400px wide.

**Q: What do the rename tokens mean?**

A: Five tokens are supported: {name} is the original file name without its extension, {n} is the file's position in the batch starting at 1, {n:3} is that same number zero-padded to three digits, {ext} is the extension the output will really carry, and {date} is today's date as YYYY-MM-DD. Anything else in braces is left exactly as you typed it, so a typo shows up in the preview instead of vanishing.

**Q: Can the batch processor write AVIF?**

A: No. Save as offers Keep original, JPG, PNG and WebP only. If you specifically want AVIF, use Convert Image Format on a single file, which offers AVIF when your browser can encode it.

**Q: What happens to iPhone HEIC photos?**

A: A browser can decode more formats than it can write. If you leave Save as on Keep original and the recipe touches the pixels, a HEIC source comes out as PNG, which is usually far larger than the original. Set Save as to WebP or JPG explicitly for phone photos.

**Q: Are the photos uploaded anywhere?**

A: No. Every decode, resize, re-encode and the zip itself happen in the browser tab. There is no account, no sync and no server round trip, and closing the tab is all it takes to be rid of the files.

Updated: 2026-08-15

You have a folder of photos straight off a camera or a phone, and a website that wants them small, consistently sized and ideally in WebP. This walks you through doing all of it in one pass: test the settings on one photo, apply one recipe to the whole folder, and get a single zip back. Nothing leaves your browser at any point.

### Plan a Meeting Across Time Zones

URL: https://gochronos.com/guides/plan-a-meeting-across-time-zones

Pick a meeting hour that suits every city: read the overlap heatmap, set each person's working hours, then export the slot to .ics, Google Calendar or Outlook.

**How to plan a meeting across time zones** — Use the overlap heatmap, set working hours per city, then export the slot to a calendar.

1. **Add your cities.** Open the Meeting Planner. It starts with New York, London, Kolkata and Tokyo. Use Add city to search for others, the X to drop one, and stop at ten rows, which is the limit.
2. **Set working hours.** Each city row has two small number boxes, set to 9 and 17 by default. Change them to that person's real start and end hour in their own local time.
3. **Read the grid.** The Heatmap view opens by default; the Heatmap / Timeline toggle sits above the grid. Click any hour column to select that slot, or click Use this slot in the Best slot today banner.
4. **Check every local time.** In the Schedule Meeting panel, fill in the Meeting title, pick a Date and one of the six duration buttons. The list underneath shows each city's local time with a work, fringe or asleep badge.
5. **Export the slot.** Click Download .ics for a file any calendar app will open, or Google Calendar or Outlook to open a pre-filled event in that service.

**Q: What do the three shades in the grid mean?**

A: The legend under the heatmap names them Work hours, Fringe (early/late) and Asleep. Work cells carry the site's teal tint, fringe an amber one, asleep plain grey. An hour counts as fringe if it falls within 90 minutes of either edge of the working window you set, or simply if it lands between 07:00 and 23:00 local, so asleep only turns up for hours roughly between 23:00 and 07:00. Switch to Timeline and the same three states are drawn green, amber and grey.

**Q: Where is the guaranteed overlap shown?**

A: Switch to the Timeline view. An Overlap bar appears above the city rows, green on every hour where all cities are inside their working hours. If there is no such hour, the bar is not drawn at all, which is your signal that someone will have to take the call outside their window.

**Q: Can I export the meeting to my calendar?**

A: Yes. Three buttons sit under the local-times list: Download .ics, Google Calendar and Outlook. The .ics file and the Google link both carry a description listing every city's local time for the slot. The Outlook deep link carries only the title, start and end.

**Q: How is the best slot chosen?**

A: Every hour is scored by counting cities in their working hours, weighted three times, plus one point for each city in fringe hours. The highest score wins, and the earliest hour wins a tie. It is a count of people, not a judgement about seniority or fairness across weeks.

**Q: Does my meeting data get uploaded anywhere?**

A: The planner runs entirely in your browser and stores your city list in local storage on your device. The Google Calendar and Outlook buttons are ordinary links that open those services with the event details in the URL, so those two do send the title and times to the vendor you clicked.

Updated: 2026-08-15

You have four people in four countries and one hour to give away. This guide walks you through the GoChronos Meeting Planner: setting each person's real working hours, reading the overlap heatmap, and exporting the chosen slot as an .ics file or a pre-filled Google or Outlook event. Everything runs in your browser.

### How to Proofread a Document Without Uploading It

URL: https://gochronos.com/guides/proofread-a-document-privately

Proofread a whole draft in your browser: spelling and grammar from an on-device dictionary, then cliches and filler, then the sentences that read hard.

**How to Proofread a Document Privately** — Three passes over a draft, with the text never leaving your browser tab.

1. **Bring the text in.** Paste your draft into the editor on the Grammar Checker. For a PDF or .docx, open it on Summarize Text with Open a document, then use the Pipe to button to send the extracted text across.
2. **Wait for Engine ready.** The strip above the editor gives the dictionary's size and shows Engine ready once it has loaded and compiled. Checking then runs roughly two thirds of a second after you stop typing.
3. **Clear the underlines.** Red underlines are spelling, grammar and punctuation, amber is style and word choice, blue is a softer note. Click a suggestion chip to apply it, the X to ignore that complaint, or Add to my dictionary for a name the engine doesn't know.
4. **Cut the filler.** Open Word Choice & Cliches and work down the Word health panel: cliches, filler, hedging, weak verbs, adverbs, repetition and passive voice, each underlined in place. Tap a row to mute a check you disagree with.
5. **Check that it reads.** Open the Readability Checker, set Written for to General public, Professional or Academic / technical, and rewrite what it underlines: amber past 20 words, red past 30, blue for passive constructions.

**Q: Does any of this upload my document?**

A: No. The grammar dictionary is downloaded from the site once and then runs inside a background worker in your own tab, and the style, word and readability checks are plain rules that need no download at all. No request carries a word of your draft. An end-to-end test types a messy sample into every writing tool and fails the build if a single off-origin request appears.

**Q: How big is the grammar dictionary, and when does it download?**

A: About 15.1 MB. It starts downloading when the grammar page opens, before you type, and the strip above the editor shows its size and an Engine ready marker when it has compiled. If it cannot load, the page says so and keeps the style checks running rather than showing a spinner forever.

**Q: Does it work offline?**

A: Once the page and the dictionary are loaded, checking needs no network at all, so a plane or a locked-down network is fine for the rest of the session. The strip also has a Save for offline button. Unlike the OCR and video engines, though, the grammar binary is not pinned by the site's offline cache, so test a cold offline start on your own machine before you rely on it.

**Q: It keeps flagging a name I use. Can I teach it?**

A: Yes. Spelling cards carry an Add to my dictionary button. The word is stored in this browser only, lowercased and matched with punctuation trimmed, up to 2000 entries. There is no sync, no backup and no list to edit in the app, so clearing site data for GoChronos also clears your dictionary.

**Q: Which English does it check?**

A: The English row offers American, British, Canadian, Australian and Indian. One caveat in the current build: the engine is created once, when the page loads, with American selected, and switching the row afterwards does not rebuild it. Treat the picker as a preference rather than a guarantee and check non-American spellings by eye.

Updated: 2026-08-15

If you proofread contracts, medical notes, unpublished chapters or anything else you would rather not paste into a website, this walks through a full pass in GoChronos. Spelling and grammar first, then word choice, then how the thing actually reads, with the text staying inside your browser tab the whole way.

### Extract Text From a Scanned Document

URL: https://gochronos.com/guides/extract-text-from-a-scanned-document

Turn a scan or a photo of a page into editable text with browser-based OCR, then tidy the typos and pull out the key points. Nothing is uploaded.

**How to Extract Text From a Scanned Document** — Run OCR on a scan or photo in your browser, then correct and reuse the text.

1. **Upload the scan.** Open the OCR tool and, under "1. Upload a document", use the drop zone marked "Click to choose, or drop a file here". It takes common image formats and PDFs; the file must be 50 MB or smaller or the Extract button stays disabled.
2. **Pick the language.** Under "2. Pick a language & mode", choose from the dropdown of 38 languages, each listed with its Tesseract code, such as "English (eng)". If a "Save for offline" pill appears, click it to keep that language model on the device.
3. **Choose a mode.** Pick one of the three mode pills: "Printed text", "Handwritten" or "Mixed". Handwritten is the one that genuinely changes the engine's behaviour, switching it to treat the page as a single uniform block.
4. **Extract the text.** Click "Extract text" and watch the progress strip, which names the stage and counts pages for a PDF. A "Cancel" pill sits beside it for as long as the run lasts, so you can stop a long document at any point.
5. **Correct and export.** The result box in "3. Read & download" is a normal editable text area, so fix misreads in place. Then use "Copy", or download as .txt, .md, .html, .pdf or .docx.

**Q: Does my scan get uploaded anywhere?**

A: No. Recognition runs in the tab: Tesseract.js with its WebAssembly core, plus pdf.js to draw PDF pages. The only network traffic is the one-off download of the OCR engine and your chosen language model; the document itself is read from local memory and never sent.

**Q: How many languages can it recognise?**

A: The dropdown carries 38, from English, Spanish and German through Arabic, Hebrew, Hindi, Tamil, Thai, Japanese, Korean and both Chinese scripts. Each is shown with its Tesseract code so you can tell chi_sim from chi_tra.

**Q: Why is the extracted text full of mistakes?**

A: OCR guesses characters from pixels, so anything that blurs the shapes hurts it: low resolution, JPEG artefacts, skew, shadows down the gutter of a book, coloured or textured paper, tight kerning, decorative fonts. A 300 dpi flat scan of clean print reads far better than a handheld photo of the same page.

**Q: Can it read handwriting?**

A: It will try. The Handwritten mode tunes the engine to treat the page as one uniform block, which suits a page of notes, and the tool itself advises clear dark ink on light paper. Expect noticeably lower accuracy than printed text, and expect to proofread every line.

**Q: Does it work offline?**

A: After the first run, largely yes. The page states the engine is roughly a 40 MB download that caches permanently, with each language adding about 1 to 5 MB. For languages served from GoChronos itself there is a "Save for offline" pill that fetches the model ahead of time.

Updated: 2026-08-15

You have a scan, a PDF of a scan, or a photo of a page, and you need the words out of it. This walks you through the browser OCR tool, the two settings that actually change the result, what to do when the scan is poor, and how to get from raw recognised text to something you can use. Everything happens in your browser.

### Sign a PDF Without an Account, Free and Private

URL: https://gochronos.com/guides/sign-a-pdf-without-an-account

Add a drawn, typed or uploaded signature to a PDF in your browser, or sign it with a .p12 certificate, then download the signed file. No account needed.

**How to sign a PDF without an account** — Stamp a signature on a PDF, or sign it with a .p12 certificate, all in your browser.

1. **Open the PDF Editor.** Go to /pdf-image/edit and drop your file on "Drop a PDF here or click to browse". A password-protected PDF asks for its password and is unlocked on your device.
2. **Make your signature.** Click Signature in the toolbar and pick the Draw, Type or Upload tab. When it looks right, press "Place on page".
3. **Position it.** Click the spot on the page where the signature belongs. It drops there, selected, and the editor switches back to Select & move on its own, so you can drag it straight away or pull a corner handle to resize.
4. **Download the signed file.** Click Download, set the output filename in the "Download PDF" dialog, and save. Your original file on disk is untouched.
5. **Or sign with a certificate.** Instead of Download, click "Digitally sign", load a .p12 or .pfx file, press Unlock with its password, then "Sign & download" for a real PKCS#7 signature.

**Q: Do I need an account or an email address?**

A: No. There is no sign-up on GoChronos. Your PDF is opened by the browser tab you are already in, and nothing is uploaded to a server.

**Q: Is this a qualified electronic signature?**

A: No, and you should not describe it as one. A drawn or typed signature is an image stamped onto the page. The certificate option produces a genuine cryptographic PKCS#7 signature, but whether that meets any particular legal standard depends on your jurisdiction and on who issued the certificate. A certificate you generated yourself will not qualify.

**Q: What certificate files can I use?**

A: A PKCS#12 bundle with a .p12 or .pfx extension, holding an RSA private key. If the bundle uses an EC or other key type, the dialog tells you that only RSA signing is supported and the Sign button stays disabled.

**Q: Can I edit the PDF after signing it with a certificate?**

A: Not without breaking the signature. The signature covers every byte of the file except its own container, so any later change invalidates it. That is why the editor applies all your pending edits first and signs the finished bytes last.

**Q: Where is my saved signature kept?**

A: In the localStorage of the browser you drew it in, as a small transparent PNG. Up to six are kept and the oldest is dropped after that. Clearing site data removes them, and they are never sent anywhere.

Updated: 2026-08-15

You have a contract to sign and no wish to hand it to a signing service first. This walks through both ways GoChronos signs a PDF: stamping a handwritten mark on the page, and attaching a real cryptographic signature from a certificate you hold. Both run in your browser tab, and neither asks you to register.

### Edit a Word Document Without Microsoft Word

URL: https://gochronos.com/guides/edit-a-word-document-without-word

Open a .docx, change it, and save a file Word still opens — in a browser tab, with no account and no upload. What carries over, and what to check before you send it.

**How to edit a Word document without Microsoft Word** — Open the .docx in a browser tab, edit it with real pages and styles, and save it back as a .docx.

1. **Open the file.** Go to the Word Editor and drop the .docx onto the page, or press Ctrl+O and pick it from disk. It is parsed in a background thread on your own machine.
2. **Read the notes sheet.** If the file uses something this editor cannot draw, a sheet lists each item before you start. Nothing is dropped silently, so you know what to check later.
3. **Edit with the styles the file brought.** Use the Styles pane (Ctrl+Alt+Shift+S) rather than direct formatting: applying Heading 2 keeps the document consistent and keeps Word's navigation pane working.
4. **Check what a save would change.** Before saving, the compatibility check lists anything that will not survive the round trip, so you can decide rather than discover it at the other end.
5. **Save as .docx.** Ctrl+S writes back to the same file on disk in Chrome and Edge; elsewhere it downloads a new .docx. Either way it is a standard Word file, with no watermark.

**Q: Will the person I send it to be able to open it?**

A: Yes. The editor writes a standard Office Open XML package — the same .docx Word itself writes — with styles, numbering, headers, footers, notes and comments in the parts Word looks for. Word, LibreOffice, Google Docs and Pages all open it.

**Q: Does my document get uploaded anywhere?**

A: No. The file is read, edited and written inside the browser tab, and the heavy parsing runs in a Web Worker on the same machine. Open DevTools, go to the Network tab, clear it and open a document: no request carries your bytes.

**Q: What does not survive the round trip?**

A: Anything the editor cannot represent is counted rather than dropped quietly: the notes sheet on open and the compatibility check before a save both name it. The usual entries are VBA macros, ActiveX controls, SmartArt and embedded OLE objects, which are stated exclusions rather than bugs.

**Q: Can it open a .doc from Word 97?**

A: No, and it says so rather than failing in the zip reader. The old binary .doc is a different, undocumented format; open it once in Word or LibreOffice and save it as .docx, after which everything here applies.

**Q: Is there a limit on pages or file size?**

A: No page limit and no tier. The practical ceiling is your device's memory, which is why very large documents are slower on a phone than on a laptop — the same file, the same code, less room to work in.

Updated: 2026-09-14

You have been sent a .docx and you do not have Word. This walks through opening it, editing it properly rather than approximately, and saving a file the sender can open without noticing anything happened — using a browser tab, no account, and no upload of a document that may not be yours to share.

### Open a .docx on a Chromebook, Offline

URL: https://gochronos.com/guides/open-a-docx-on-a-chromebook-offline

A Chromebook with no Wi-Fi and a Word file to read. Set the editor up once while you have a connection, and it opens .docx files with the network off.

**How to open a .docx on a Chromebook offline** — Install the editor as an app while you have a connection, then open Word files with the network off.

1. **Visit the editor once, online.** Open the Word Editor while you still have a connection. The app shell, the editor code and the templates are stored on the device by the service worker on that first visit.
2. **Keep the extras too.** On My Documents, press “Save for offline” on the Docs engine card. That pulls in the grammar engine and the thesaurus, which otherwise load on demand and would be missing on a plane.
3. **Install it as an app.** Use the browser's Install option so the editor gets its own window and registers as a handler for .docx files — after which a double-click in the Files app opens it here.
4. **Go offline and open a file.** With the network off, open the installed app or the URL, then drop the .docx in or press Ctrl+O. Nothing in the open path needs a server, so it behaves exactly as it did online.
5. **Save before you close.** Ctrl+S keeps the document in this browser's storage on the Chromebook; “Save to file” writes it back into the Files app. Both work offline.

**Q: Does anything need a connection after the first visit?**

A: No, for reading, editing, saving and exporting. The two pieces that load on demand are the grammar engine and the thesaurus, and the Docs engine card on My Documents downloads both in advance so a flight is not the moment you discover they are missing.

**Q: Where do my documents live on a Chromebook?**

A: In the browser's own storage on that device, listed on the My Documents page, plus any file you explicitly save into the Files app. Nothing syncs to a server, so a document does not follow you to another machine unless you export it there.

**Q: Will clearing browsing data delete my work?**

A: Yes — documents kept in browser storage are site data like anything else. Export what matters to the Files app or a USB stick before clearing, and use the Workspace page to see how much space the documents are taking first.

**Q: Is this better than the Chromebook's built-in viewer?**

A: It is a different job. The built-in Office viewer shows you a .docx; this edits it and writes a real .docx back, with styles, headers, footnotes, track changes and comments. For reading one file quickly, the viewer is fewer clicks.

Updated: 2026-09-14

Chromebooks are the machines most likely to be handed a .docx and least likely to have Word, and school Wi-Fi is the network most likely to be missing when you need it. This is the one-time setup that makes a browser tab open Word files on a Chromebook with the network off, and what to expect once it does.

### Track Changes Without an Account

URL: https://gochronos.com/guides/track-changes-without-an-account

Turn on track changes in a browser, edit somebody's .docx, and send it back so Word shows your revisions as revisions. No sign-in and no upload of the draft.

**How to track changes in a document without an account** — Open the .docx, switch tracking on, edit, and save a file whose revisions Word understands.

1. **Open the document.** Drop the .docx onto the Word Editor. Any revisions and comments already in the file are read in as revisions and comments, not as coloured text.
2. **Set your name first.** Review → Your name decides whose insertions and deletions these are. Setting it afterwards does not relabel what you already typed, so do it before you start.
3. **Switch tracking on.** Press Ctrl+Shift+E, or use Track changes in the Review tab. From that point every insertion, deletion, move and formatting change is recorded as a revision.
4. **Edit as normal.** Type, delete and reformat without thinking about it. Display for review switches between the marked-up view, a clean “simple” view and the original, without changing the document.
5. **Work through them, or hand them over.** Accept and Reject, with Previous and Next, walk the revisions one at a time; the reviewing pane lists them all. Or leave them in and send the file on.
6. **Save as .docx.** Ctrl+S writes the revisions into the parts of the package Word reads, so the recipient opens it in Word and sees a normal tracked-changes document.

**Q: Will Word really see these as tracked changes?**

A: Yes. Insertions, deletions, moves and formatting changes are written as the w:ins, w:del, w:moveFrom, w:moveTo and w:rPrChange elements Word itself uses, with an author and a timestamp on each. Word's Accept and Reject buttons act on them normally.

**Q: Can I stop somebody turning tracking off?**

A: There is a Lock tracking option with a PIN, and it is a deterrent rather than security: anyone who can open the file in another editor can lift it. It is stated as a deterrent here for the same reason Word's version is one — the document is in the reader's hands.

**Q: Does the draft get uploaded for the comparison?**

A: Nothing is uploaded at any point, including the compare and combine features, which run in a Web Worker on your own machine. That matters more for review than for most jobs: the documents people redline are contracts, appraisals and papers under embargo.

**Q: What if I forgot to turn tracking on?**

A: Compare the two files instead. Give Compare Documents the original and your edited copy and it produces a third document in which every difference is a tracked change, word by word, which is the same result reached from the other direction.

Updated: 2026-09-14

Somebody has sent you a document to review and expects it back with tracked changes. You do not have Word, and signing into a cloud suite means handing over a draft that may be confidential. This walks through doing the review in a browser tab, and getting a file back that behaves like a normal tracked-changes document when it lands in Word.

### Mail Merge From a Spreadsheet, No Word Needed

URL: https://gochronos.com/guides/mail-merge-from-a-spreadsheet

Turn a CSV or spreadsheet and one letter into personalised letters, labels or envelopes — in your browser, with the data never leaving the machine it is on.

**How to mail merge from a spreadsheet without Word** — Load the data, pick the document, place the fields, and produce letters, labels, envelopes or PDFs.

1. **Load the data.** On the Mail Merge page, drop in a CSV, TSV, JSON or spreadsheet file. The first row is read as the field names, and the table below shows what was parsed so you can catch a wrong delimiter immediately.
2. **Choose the document.** Open a letter from disk, pick one you have saved in My Documents, or start from a template such as the formal letter or the invoice.
3. **Place the fields.** Insert a merge field wherever a value belongs, or use the address block and greeting line, which lay out a postal address and a salutation in the convention of the destination country.
4. **Filter and sort.** Restrict the run to the records you want and put them in the order you want them printed — the filter is applied before anything is generated, not after.
5. **Preview a real record.** Step through the records with Previous and Next. Empty values are the thing to look for: the before-and-after text on a field only prints when the value is there.
6. **Finish the merge.** Choose one document, a file per record, PDFs, an Avery label sheet, envelopes, or .eml drafts your mail app opens. Multiple files arrive as a zip.

**Q: Does my mailing list get uploaded?**

A: No. The spreadsheet is parsed in your browser and the merge runs there too, which is the whole reason to do it this way: a mailing list is usually the most personal file in the job — names, addresses, amounts owed, sometimes medical or legal context.

**Q: Which data formats work?**

A: CSV and TSV through the editor's own parser, which handles quoted fields and embedded newlines, plus JSON arrays and .xlsx or .ods spreadsheets. Mis-detected delimiters are visible in the preview table before you commit to anything.

**Q: Can it do labels and envelopes properly?**

A: Yes. Nine Avery label stocks and eight envelope sizes are built in as real documents with the correct page setup, so the sheet that comes out lines up with the sheet in your printer rather than approximately.

**Q: Does it send the e-mails?**

A: No, deliberately. The e-mail output writes one .eml draft per record, which your own mail application opens as a draft you review and send. Nothing here has a mail server, and a tool that silently sends a thousand messages is a tool that eventually sends the wrong thousand.

**Q: What happens to a record with an empty field?**

A: The field prints nothing, and so does any text you attached to it as before-and-after text — which is how you avoid a letter that says “Dear ,” or a line reading “Reference:” with nothing after it. The rules can also skip a record entirely.

Updated: 2026-09-14

A mail merge is one letter, one table of people, and a machine to put the two together. Doing it usually means Word plus Excel plus a folder full of near-identical files. This does it in a browser tab, with the letter and the list both staying on your own machine, and it ends with letters, labels, envelopes, PDFs or e-mail drafts.

### Make a PDF/A From a Word Document

URL: https://gochronos.com/guides/make-a-pdf-a-from-a-word-document

Archive-ready PDFs, made in a browser: what PDF/A actually requires, what this export does and does not write, and how to check the file before you submit it.

**How to make an archive-ready PDF from a Word document** — Export the .docx as a tagged PDF with fonts embedded and PDF/A identification, then verify it.

1. **Open the document.** Open the .docx in the Word Editor so the PDF is drawn from its real page setup — the paper size, margins, headers and footers the document itself declares.
2. **Fix the accessibility errors first.** Review → Check document reports missing alt text, heading skips and tables with no header row. A tagged PDF carries those gaps straight to every screen reader, so clear them before exporting.
3. **Open Download as → PDF.** The export dialog holds the page range, the passwords and permissions, and the two checkboxes that matter here: Tagged PDF and PDF/A-2b preparation.
4. **Tick both boxes.** Tagged PDF writes the structure tree — headings, lists and tables as real objects. PDF/A-2b preparation embeds every font and writes the identification metadata into the XMP packet.
5. **Export and validate.** Save the PDF, then run it through a PDF/A validator such as veraPDF. Read the report rather than assuming: this export is honest that it writes no ICC output intent.

**Q: Is the output really PDF/A?**

A: It is PDF/A-2b preparation, and the difference is stated in the dialog itself. Fonts are embedded, the structure is tagged and the file carries PDF/A identification in its XMP metadata, but no ICC output intent is written, so a strict validator reports partial conformance.

**Q: Why does PDF/A insist on embedded fonts?**

A: Because the format's promise is that the file renders the same in fifty years on a machine nobody has designed yet. A PDF that merely names Calibri depends on a font being installed then; a PDF that carries the glyphs does not depend on anything.

**Q: What is a tagged PDF, and do I need one?**

A: A tagged PDF carries a structure tree: this is a heading, this is a list, this is a table with these header cells. It is what lets a screen reader navigate the document rather than read a wall of positioned text, and most accessibility requirements and archival submissions ask for it.

**Q: Does the file leave my device to be converted?**

A: No. The PDF is planned and drawn in the browser tab, page by page, from the same layout the editor is showing you — which also means the page count in the PDF matches the page count in the status bar.

**Q: Can I password-protect an archival PDF?**

A: You can encrypt the export, but do not do it for an archive. PDF/A forbids encryption precisely because a file nobody can open in 2075 has not been preserved. Keep the password for the copy you e-mail.

Updated: 2026-09-14

A repository, a court, a funder or a records office has asked for PDF/A, and the guidance always assumes you have Word and Acrobat. This explains what the format actually asks for, how to produce a file that meets most of it from a .docx in a browser tab, and — just as usefully — the one requirement this export does not meet and how to find out whether that matters to you.

### Why Your Fonts Change Between Word and Other Editors

URL: https://gochronos.com/guides/why-fonts-change-between-word-and-other-editors

Your document arrives looking different and a page longer. Here is why font substitution does that, which families are safe, and how to make a file that cannot shift.

**How to stop a document reflowing on somebody else's machine** — Choose fonts the other machine has, check what yours is really drawing, and send a fixed-layout copy when it matters.

1. **Find out what the document asks for.** Put the caret in the text and press Shift+F1 for Reveal formatting, which names the font the run actually declares rather than the one you think you applied.
2. **Prefer a family the recipient will have.** Arial, Times New Roman, Georgia, Verdana, Courier New and Tahoma exist on nearly every Windows and macOS machine. Calibri and Cambria do not exist on macOS at all.
3. **Check the picker's availability marks.** The font list marks which families this device can actually draw, including through a metric-compatible substitute — a family that is not there will be substituted, whatever the document says.
4. **Set it as a style, not run by run.** Change the font in the style rather than selecting all and applying it. One definition is one thing to get wrong, and it survives text pasted in later.
5. **Send a PDF when layout matters.** Export with Download as → PDF and tick PDF/A-2b preparation to embed the fonts. A PDF carries its own glyphs, so the page breaks you saw are the page breaks they get.

**Q: What does metric-compatible mean?**

A: It means a different typeface designed so that every character occupies exactly the same width as the one it replaces. Carlito stands in for Calibri, Caladea for Cambria, Liberation Serif for Times New Roman. The shapes differ slightly; the line breaks and page count do not, which is what people actually notice.

**Q: Does this editor ship the substitute fonts?**

A: No. It names them in the fallback stack, so a machine that has Carlito — most Linux systems and anywhere LibreOffice is installed — uses it automatically for a Calibri document. On a machine without it the browser picks its own substitute, which keeps the shapes readable but not the metrics.

**Q: Why did my document gain a page?**

A: Because the substitute is wider. Each line wraps a word earlier, each paragraph gains a line, and after twenty paragraphs the last one has been pushed onto a new page. Nothing in the document changed; the same text was measured with a different ruler.

**Q: Is embedding fonts in the .docx an option?**

A: Word can embed fonts in a .docx and this editor does not write them, partly because most commercial fonts forbid it in their licence. The reliable cross-platform answer is a PDF with the fonts embedded, which is what PDF was invented for.

Updated: 2026-09-14

You send a document that fits neatly on two pages. It arrives on three, with headings that look subtly wrong and a table that no longer lines up. Nobody edited it. This explains what happened — it is almost always font substitution — which families are safe to use, and the two ways to make a document that cannot shift on the way.

### Add Citations in APA 7, Offline

URL: https://gochronos.com/guides/add-citations-in-apa-7-offline

Build a source list inside the document, insert citations at the caret, and generate a reference list in APA 7 — with no reference manager account and no lookups.

**How to add APA 7 citations to a document offline** — Collect the sources, pick the style, cite as you write, and generate the reference list.

1. **Open Manage sources.** In the References tab, Manage sources holds the document's own source list. It travels inside the document, so the file you send carries its bibliography data with it.
2. **Add or import the sources.** Type them in by type — book, journal article, web page, report — or paste BibTeX, RIS or CSL-JSON exported from a reference manager, or pick that file from disk.
3. **Choose the style.** Set the style to APA (7th). MLA (9th), Chicago author-date, Chicago notes and bibliography, IEEE and Harvard are the other five, and switching restyles everything at once.
4. **Cite as you write.** Put the caret where the citation belongs and use Insert citation. The in-text form is generated from the source and the style, so it changes if you change either.
5. **Generate the reference list.** At the end of the document, insert the Bibliography. It lists the sources you actually cited, sorted and formatted by the style's own rules.
6. **Refresh before you submit.** Press F9 to update every field in the document at once, so the reference list, the table of contents and the page numbers all agree with the final text.

**Q: Does it look anything up online?**

A: No, by design. There is no DOI or ISBN resolution and no dictionary API here, because a citation tool that phones home tells somebody what you are reading and writing. You type the source details, or import them from a manager that already has them.

**Q: Can I bring my Zotero or Mendeley library in?**

A: Yes, through the file every manager exports: BibTeX, RIS or CSL-JSON. Paste it into the import box or pick the file, and each entry becomes a source in this document's list. Exporting back out in the same formats works too.

**Q: Where are the sources stored?**

A: Inside the document itself, not in a separate library on the device. That means a colleague who opens your .docx has the sources, and it also means two documents keep two independent lists — import the file into each, or export from one and import into the other.

**Q: Which styles are supported?**

A: Six: APA 7th, MLA 9th, Chicago 17th in both author-date and notes-and-bibliography forms, IEEE and Harvard. Chicago's notes form puts the citation in a footnote, and IEEE numbers them in order of first appearance.

**Q: Will Word show the citations properly?**

A: The citation and the reference list are written into the saved .docx as text with their field structure, so Word displays them exactly as they appear here. Word's own citation manager will not adopt them as its sources, which is a limitation worth knowing before you hand a half-finished thesis to a co-author who uses it.

Updated: 2026-09-14

Referencing software is usually an account, a browser extension and a plugin that fights with your word processor. This does the same job inside the document: a source list that travels with the file, citations inserted at the caret in one of six styles, and a reference list generated from the sources you actually cited — with nothing looked up over the network.

### Word Keyboard Shortcuts That Work in the Browser

URL: https://gochronos.com/guides/word-keyboard-shortcuts-that-work-in-the-browser

The Word shortcuts that do the same thing in a browser tab — formatting, navigation, review and references — and the handful the browser keeps for itself.

**How to use Word's keyboard shortcuts in a browser** — Open the generated shortcut sheet, learn the six that save the most time, and check what your browser has taken.

1. **Open the sheet.** Press F1 in the editor. The list is generated from the actual key bindings rather than written by hand, so it cannot drift from what the keys really do.
2. **Learn the six that matter.** Ctrl+S save, Ctrl+F find, Ctrl+Enter page break, Ctrl+Alt+1 Heading 1, Ctrl+Shift+E track changes, F7 spelling and grammar. Those six cover most of a working day.
3. **Use the palette for everything else.** Ctrl+/ opens the command palette. Type three letters of what you want — “foot”, “capt”, “merge” — and run it without learning another chord.
4. **Check what the browser keeps.** A few combinations belong to the browser and cannot be intercepted. Install the editor as an app and it gets its own window, which hands several of them back.

**Q: Why does Ctrl+N open a browser window instead of a document?**

A: Because the browser claims it before the page sees it, and a web page cannot override that. Ctrl+Alt+N makes a new document here instead. Installing the editor as an app gives it a window without the browser's own shortcuts competing.

**Q: Do the Mac equivalents work?**

A: Yes. Every binding is expressed against a modifier that resolves to Command on macOS and Control elsewhere, and the few that differ for real — redo is Command+Shift+Z rather than Control+Y — are listed that way in the sheet on a Mac.

**Q: Is there a shortcut for track changes?**

A: Ctrl+Shift+E, the same as Word, and Ctrl+Alt+M inserts a comment on the selection. Both are in the Review group of the sheet, along with the accept, reject and next-change commands.

**Q: Can I see every command without memorising anything?**

A: Press Ctrl+/ for the command palette and type. It searches all the commands the ribbon holds, shows the keyboard shortcut next to any that has one, and runs the one you pick — which is also how most people end up learning the shortcuts.

Updated: 2026-09-14

Muscle memory is the reason switching word processors hurts: not the features, the fingers. This is the map from Word's keyboard to a browser tab — what is identical, what moved, and the short list the browser will not let any web page have — plus the two shortcuts worth learning first if you learn nothing else.

### Accessible Word Documents: a Checklist

URL: https://gochronos.com/guides/accessible-word-documents-checklist

Nine things that decide whether a .docx works with a screen reader, each with the fix — and the automated checker that finds most of them in a document you already have.

**How to make a Word document accessible** — Run the checker, fix the structure first, then the images, tables and links.

1. **Run the checker.** Review → Check document lists every issue with its severity and a fix, working on the document rather than on a copy of it.
2. **Fix the headings first.** Every other check depends on structure. Apply real heading styles, in order, with no skipped levels and nothing empty — the navigation pane is the fastest way to see the shape you have.
3. **Describe the images.** Give every picture alt text that says what it conveys, or mark it decorative if it conveys nothing. A filename is not a description and neither is “image”.
4. **Give tables a header row.** Mark the first row as a header so a screen reader can announce the column each cell belongs to, and avoid merged cells in data tables.
5. **Write link text that stands alone.** Replace a bare URL with the name of what it points at. Screen reader users list the links on a page; “https://example.com/a/b” is not a list entry.
6. **Set the language and export tagged.** Set the document's proofing language so a screen reader pronounces it correctly, then export the PDF with Tagged PDF ticked so the structure survives.

**Q: What does the automated checker actually find?**

A: Missing alt text, images that may be decorative, skipped and empty heading levels, a document with no headings at all, tables with no header row, merged cells that break reading order, low-contrast text, bare URLs used as link text, floating objects that break the reading order, missing language, and weak captions.

**Q: Is passing the checker the same as being accessible?**

A: No, and nothing will tell you otherwise here. A checker finds structure that is missing; it cannot tell you that your alt text is wrong, that your heading says “Section 2” instead of what section 2 is about, or that your table is really a layout. Those are judgements.

**Q: Why do headings matter more than everything else?**

A: Because they are how someone navigates without sight. A screen reader user jumps heading to heading the way a sighted reader skims — if the headings are bold paragraphs, there is nothing to jump to and the only way through a forty-page report is to read all of it.

**Q: Does any of this survive being exported to PDF?**

A: It survives if you tick Tagged PDF, which writes a structure tree naming headings, lists and tables. It is also the reason the checker is worth running first: a tagged PDF faithfully reproduces the structure the document has, including the absence of one.

Updated: 2026-09-14

An accessible document is not a different document — it is the same one with its structure made explicit, so that software can navigate it on behalf of someone who cannot see the page. This is the checklist in the order that actually works, with the automated half marked as automated, and it applies whether the file ends up as a .docx, a PDF or a web page.

### Convert ODT to DOCX Without LibreOffice

URL: https://gochronos.com/guides/convert-odt-to-docx-without-libreoffice

An OpenDocument file and a recipient who wants Word format. Convert it in a browser tab, keep the styles and tables, and know what the two formats disagree about.

**How to convert an ODT file to DOCX** — Convert in the browser, check the fidelity notes, and fix anything the two formats disagree about.

1. **Open Convert Documents.** Drop the .odt onto the converter, or go straight to the ODT to DOCX landing page, which opens with the target format already chosen.
2. **Choose the output.** Pick DOCX. The same engine writes ODT, RTF, PDF, Markdown, HTML, EPUB and plain text, so one file can become several without converting twice.
3. **Convert, and read the notes.** The conversion runs in a background thread on your device. Anything the two formats do not share is counted and listed rather than dropped silently.
4. **Do a batch if you have one.** Add several files and the results come back as a zip, converted one after another on the same machine.
5. **Check the result.** Open the .docx in the Word Editor and look at the headings, the numbering and the tables — the three places where a converted document usually shows its seams.

**Q: Do I need LibreOffice installed?**

A: No. Both formats are implemented directly here: ODT is a zip of XML parts and so is DOCX, and the converter reads one into a document model and writes the other out of it. Nothing is shelled out to an office suite and nothing is uploaded.

**Q: What does not survive the conversion?**

A: The constructs the two formats genuinely do not share, and each one is listed after the conversion rather than dropped quietly. The usual entries are ODF-specific field types, some frame anchoring, and embedded objects from an office suite that are not images.

**Q: Does it work the other way?**

A: Yes — DOCX to ODT uses the same engine in reverse, and the converter also covers RTF, Markdown, HTML, EPUB, plain text and PDF output. The editor itself opens and saves all of them, so a conversion can also be “open it and save as”.

**Q: Can I convert a folder of files at once?**

A: Yes. Add several files to the converter and they are processed one after another in the browser, arriving as a single zip. The limit is your device's memory rather than a file count or a tier.

Updated: 2026-09-14

OpenDocument is what LibreOffice, Google Docs exports and most European public bodies produce; .docx is what everybody else asks for. Converting between them normally means installing an office suite or uploading the file to a stranger's server. This does it in a browser tab, in one pass, and tells you what the two formats disagree about instead of hoping you do not notice.

### Recover an Unsaved Document

URL: https://gochronos.com/guides/recover-an-unsaved-document

The tab closed, the laptop died, or the file was never saved. What is recoverable in a browser word processor, where to find it, and how to make the next time uneventful.

**How to recover an unsaved document** — Look in My Documents first, then the version history, then the trash.

1. **Open My Documents.** Everything the editor has touched on this device is listed there with its last-edited time, whether or not you ever saved it by hand.
2. **Open the one you were writing.** It opens with the autosaved content. If the autosave is newer than your last manual save, a banner says so and names the time it was taken.
3. **Check the version history.** Version history holds snapshots, including the original bytes of any file you opened as version 0 — so a document you edited badly can go back rather than only forward.
4. **Look in the trash.** A deleted document stays in the trash for 30 days and can be restored from there before it is cleared.
5. **Make the next one uneventful.** Use Save to file so the document also lives as a real file on disk, and export anything you would hate to lose. Browser storage is storage, not a backup.

**Q: Does it autosave even if I never pressed save?**

A: Yes. A document is written to this browser's storage shortly after you stop typing, and again on a longer interval while you keep going, so an unnamed document that was never saved by hand is still listed in My Documents.

**Q: What if I closed the tab in the middle of a sentence?**

A: Open the document again from My Documents. It carries the autosaved content, and a banner appears saying which time the recovered changes were taken at, so you can tell at a glance whether you lost anything and roughly how much.

**Q: Can I get back to how a file looked before I edited it?**

A: Yes, if you opened it as a file: the original bytes are kept as version 0 in the version history, alongside the snapshots taken as you work. Restoring a version makes it the current document rather than overwriting the history.

**Q: Will clearing my browser data destroy everything?**

A: Yes. Documents live in this browser's storage on this device, which is exactly what “clear site data” clears, and there is no server copy to restore from. That is the cost of nothing being uploaded, and the reason the export buttons exist.

**Q: Can I recover a document from another device?**

A: No. Nothing syncs, so a document written on a laptop is not on the phone. Export the .docx and move it yourself, which is the same answer as for any local file.

Updated: 2026-09-14

Losing work is a storage question, and a word processor that keeps your documents on your own machine answers it differently from one that keeps them on a server. This covers what is recoverable here and how, in the order to try it, and the two habits that make the question stop coming up.

### Compare Two Versions of a Contract

URL: https://gochronos.com/guides/compare-two-versions-of-a-contract

Two drafts and no idea what moved. Produce a redline in your browser: every insertion, deletion and moved clause as a tracked change, with neither file uploaded.

**How to compare two versions of a contract** — Load the original and the revision, produce a redline, and read it in the order that finds the real changes.

1. **Load both versions.** On Compare Documents, put the version you started from in Original and the one that came back in the second slot. Word, ODT, RTF, Markdown and HTML are all accepted.
2. **Produce the redline.** Compare builds a third document in which every difference is a tracked change — insertions, deletions, formatting changes and moved paragraphs, word by word.
3. **Read the summary first.** Switch between changes only and the whole document. The count tells you immediately whether this is a proofreading pass or a rewrite dressed as one.
4. **Walk the changes.** Open the result in the editor and use Next change to step through, accepting and rejecting as you go, with each change attributed and timestamped.
5. **Combine several reviewers.** Where two people edited separately, Combine merges both sets of revisions into one document with each person's changes attributed to them.

**Q: Does either document get uploaded?**

A: No. The comparison runs in a Web Worker in your own browser. For contracts that matters more than for most jobs: the documents people redline are precisely the ones under an NDA, and uploading them to a free tool is often a breach of the agreement being redlined.

**Q: Does it detect moved text, or just deletions and insertions?**

A: It detects moves and marks them as moves, with the moved-from and moved-to positions paired, which is what stops a relocated clause looking like a deletion and an unrelated insertion at opposite ends of the document.

**Q: What about formatting-only changes?**

A: They are marked as formatting changes rather than as edits to the text — the case where somebody changed a defined term from bold to italic, or quietly changed an indent so a sub-clause now reads as a clause.

**Q: Can I compare a PDF against a Word file?**

A: Not directly and not reliably. A PDF has no paragraph structure to align, only positioned text. Convert the PDF to a document first and expect the reconstruction to introduce differences of its own, which is why the comparison that matters should be between the two editable originals.

**Q: Is the redline a real document I can send?**

A: Yes. The result is a document with real tracked changes, so it saves as a .docx that opens in Word with the revisions intact, and everyone can accept or reject them in the tool they already use.

Updated: 2026-09-14

A contract comes back from the other side and the covering e-mail says “a few small changes”. Finding out whether that is true is a mechanical job, and doing it by reading is how a changed indemnity cap gets through. This walks through producing a proper redline in a browser tab, reading it in the order that finds the real changes, and doing it without either draft leaving your machine.

## Comparisons

### GoChronos vs Upload-Based Online Tools

URL: https://gochronos.com/compare/online-tool-sites

What actually differs between a tool that runs in your browser and one that uploads your file to a server — with the code behind each claim.

**Q: How do I actually confirm my file is not uploaded?**

A: Open your browser's developer tools, go to the Network tab, clear it, then run a conversion. If a tool uploads your file there will be a request whose payload is the size of your file. There is no such request here — and this is the check worth running on any tool site, not just this one.

**Q: Is there a catch — ads, a trial, a file limit?**

A: No trial and no tier. The build fails if a paid-tier flag or a usage meter appears anywhere in the source, and the site's own response headers deny the browser's Payment Request API, so a checkout could not run here even if someone added one.

**Q: Why would an upload-based tool ever be better?**

A: Because a server has far more memory than one browser tab, and native code is faster than WebAssembly. On a very large video, or on a low-memory machine, a server-side tool may finish where this one runs out of room. That is a real trade, not a footnote.

**Q: Does it work offline?**

A: Yes, after the first visit. The app precaches itself, so the tools keep working with the network off. The exceptions are the video engine and the AI model weights, which are tens of megabytes and download the first time you use them.

Compared with: online tool sites that upload your file

Most free tool sites work the same way: you pick a file, it is uploaded, a server does the work, and you download the result. GoChronos does the work in the tab you already have open. That one architectural difference is where every other difference on this page comes from — including the ones that go against us.

Where the alternative wins:

- **A server has far more memory than one browser tab.** A very large video or a multi-gigabyte archive can exhaust the memory a browser is willing to give a single tab, and the tab will fail where a server would not. If your file is enormous, an upload-based tool may simply be the one that finishes.
- **WebAssembly is slower than the native binary.** Video work here runs ffmpeg compiled to WebAssembly. It is the real ffmpeg and the output is correct, but an encode a server does in thirty seconds can take several minutes on your laptop — and it uses your battery to do it.
- **Nothing follows you between devices.** There is no account, which also means there is no history, no shared folder and no picking up on your phone where you left off on your desktop. That is the same decision seen from the other side.
- **A few formats have no browser decoder at all.** TIFF has no native decoder in Chrome, so it is not offered as a converter input. AVIF encoding is Chromium-only, so it is offered as an input everywhere and an output only where it genuinely works. A server with libvips installed has none of these gaps.

Verdict: If your file is ordinary in size and you would rather it stayed on your machine, everything here is free and nothing is uploaded. If you are converting a four-gigabyte video on a low-memory laptop and you do not mind it passing through someone's server, a server-side tool is the better instrument for that job. Both of those can be true at once.

### Browser Tools vs Installed Desktop Software

URL: https://gochronos.com/compare/desktop-apps

Desktop software is already private and already offline. Here is the honest case for a browser tool anyway — and when to just open the app you own.

**Q: Is a browser tool more private than desktop software?**

A: No. An offline desktop application keeps your files on your machine exactly as this does. Privacy is the reason to prefer either of them over an upload-based website; it is not a reason to prefer one of them over the other.

**Q: So what is the actual advantage?**

A: Availability. No install, no licence, no administrator, no thirty-day trial. On a locked-down work laptop, a borrowed machine, or a one-off job that does not justify buying software, a URL is the whole setup.

**Q: When should I just use the desktop app?**

A: Whenever you already own it and the job needs depth — colour management, masks, non-destructive history, timeline editing — or whenever the file is large enough that native speed and native memory matter. Nothing here is trying to replace a professional editor.

**Q: Can I automate anything?**

A: There is a batch runner that applies one recipe to many files, and a hand-off pipe between tools. For anything genuinely scriptable, a shell script over a native binary still wins — it can run on a schedule, and a web page cannot.

Compared with: installed desktop software

This is the comparison where the usual pitch does not apply. Desktop software runs on your machine, keeps your files there, and works with the network off — the three things this site normally leads with. So the honest question is not whether a browser tool is more private than an installed app. It is what a browser tool is actually for.

Where the alternative wins:

- **Professional editing is not a browser tab's job.** Colour-managed print work, layered composites, timeline editing with effects — a desktop application is the right instrument and it is not close. Nothing here is trying to replace one.
- **Native speed and native memory.** A desktop encoder uses every core and as much RAM as your machine has. A browser tab gets a fraction of both, and WebAssembly gives up more on top of that.
- **File associations and system integration.** Double-clicking a file, right-click menus, watched folders, scheduled jobs. A web page is opened deliberately, every time.

Verdict: If you already own the desktop app for the job, open it — you gain nothing here by not doing so. This is for the times you are on someone else's machine, or you need one conversion and not a fifty-dollar licence, or the installer needs an administrator and you are not one. That covers more days than it sounds like it should.

### On-Device AI vs Cloud AI Tools — An Honest Look

URL: https://gochronos.com/compare/ai-tools

Background removal, upscaling and proofreading that run on your machine, and a straight account of what a hosted model still does better.

**Q: Where does the AI actually run?**

A: On your device. Model weights download once into your browser's cache and inference happens locally in a Web Worker, on WebGPU where the browser supports it. The page's content-security policy contains no inference endpoint, so a call to a hosted model would be blocked before it left.

**Q: Is on-device AI as good as a cloud model?**

A: Not on the hard cases. A model that has to fit in a browser cache is a fraction of the size of one running in a data centre, and the difference shows on fine hair, glass and motion blur. On ordinary photographs the gap is small enough not to matter.

**Q: Why is the first run slow?**

A: Because the weights have to reach your machine before anything can happen — tens of megabytes, once. After that they are cached and the tool works offline, which a hosted model never does.

**Q: Does the summariser write new sentences?**

A: Only when your browser provides an on-device language model. Otherwise it is extractive: it selects the most central sentences already in your text and returns them verbatim. That is less fluent than a written summary, and it is what it claims to be.

Compared with: AI tools that run the model in a data centre

Background removal, photo upscaling, summarising, proofreading — the AI features here all run on your own hardware, either as a downloaded model or as rule-based code that was never a model. That buys real privacy and costs real capability, and a comparison that mentioned only the first half would not be worth reading.

Where the alternative wins:

- **A big hosted model is simply better at the hard cases.** Fine hair, glass, motion blur, a subject the same colour as its background. On-device matting handles a portrait against a wall; it does not match a large model on a genuinely difficult cut-out.
- **The first run downloads tens of megabytes.** Weights have to reach your machine before anything happens. On a slow connection the first background removal is a wait that a hosted tool does not have.
- **It uses your hardware, and you can feel it.** Upscaling a large photo spins your fans and drains your battery. A data centre absorbs that cost invisibly; your laptop does not.
- **Summarising here selects, it does not compose.** Where no on-device language model is available, the summariser is extractive: it returns sentences from your text rather than new ones. That is honest and it is also less fluent than a written summary.

Verdict: For everyday work on images and text you would rather not hand to anyone, on-device is the better trade and it costs nothing. For a genuinely hard cut-out, or a summary that needs to read like a person wrote it, a large hosted model will still beat this — and knowing which situation you are in is most of the decision.

### In-Browser Word Editor vs Cloud Word Processors

URL: https://gochronos.com/compare/cloud-word-processors

Both run in a browser tab. Only one keeps the document on your machine — what that changes about privacy, offline use, .docx fidelity and collaboration.

**Q: Is a document really safer here than in a cloud editor?**

A: Safer in one specific, checkable way: it is not on somebody else's disk. A cloud editor's privacy is a policy, an access-control implementation and a breach history you cannot inspect. Here the document is in your browser's own storage or a file on your disk, and you can verify that nothing left by watching the network tab while you work. What it is NOT is backed up — see the trade-offs.

**Q: What happens to .docx formatting in each?**

A: A cloud editor imports a .docx into its own internal model, which is usually simpler than Word's, and exports an approximation on the way out. This editor keeps Word's model — named styles, numbering definitions, section properties, fields — and counts anything it cannot represent rather than dropping it silently. Both lose something; only one tells you what.

**Q: Can several people edit at once?**

A: Yes, but by a different mechanism. A cloud editor's server is the shared copy everyone connects to, which is robust and works between strangers. Here a session is peer-to-peer between browsers, arranged by a link whose keys sit in the URL fragment so the signalling server never sees them. That is stronger on privacy and weaker on reach: everyone has to be online at the same time.

**Q: What do I lose by not having an account?**

A: Sync, sharing by e-mail address, permissions per person, and recovery when your device dies. Those are genuine features of an account, not artefacts of one, and there is no account here to provide them. Exporting a .docx and putting it wherever you already keep files is the substitute, and for many people it is what they were doing anyway.

Compared with: word processors you sign into, with the document kept on their server

Both of these are a word processor in a browser tab, and from the outside they look like the same product. The difference is where the document lives while you edit it: on a server you have an account with, or in the tab itself. Everything below follows from that, including the several places where the server is the better answer.

Where the alternative wins:

- **Nothing is backed up for you, and nothing syncs.** Documents live in this browser's storage on this device. Clearing site data, a private window, or a browser evicting storage under pressure takes them with it, and there is no server copy to restore from — that is the direct cost of nothing being uploaded. A cloud editor's single best feature is that your laptop can fall in a river and your document is fine. Export what matters, and keep it wherever you already keep files you care about.
- **Sharing with someone who is not there right now.** A cloud editor lets you type an e-mail address and grant access, revoke it later, see who opened it, and let three people edit over three days without ever being online together. Here, collaboration is a live session between browsers: everyone has to be present at the same time, and asynchronous review means sending the file and merging the copies afterwards with Compare and Combine. For a team that reviews things at midnight in different time zones, that is worse.
- **A big document is limited by your device, not by a data centre.** Every parse, every layout pass and every export runs on the machine in front of you. A three-hundred-page report with two hundred images opens and edits on a laptop and is genuinely slower on a low-memory phone or an old Chromebook, and no amount of code can borrow a server's memory to fix that, because there is no server. A cloud editor does that work on hardware you are not paying for, and on a weak device the difference is real.
- **No per-person permissions, comments-only access, or audit trail.** An account system gives you things that only an account system can give you: this person may comment but not edit, that person's access expires on Friday, here is who opened the document and when. There is none of that here — a link is either a write link or a view link, and anyone holding it holds it. Organisations with a compliance requirement for access logs need a system that has accounts, and should not pretend otherwise.

Verdict: If the document is confidential, if you do not want an account, or if you need it to work on a plane, doing the work in your own browser is the better architecture and the .docx fidelity is better than most cloud editors manage. If several people need to edit it over a week, if it must survive your laptop dying, or if someone has to audit who opened it, a cloud word processor is doing a job this cannot do, and the honest answer is to use one — or to use both, and treat the exported .docx as the thing that moves between them.

### Browser Word Editor vs an Installed Office Suite

URL: https://gochronos.com/compare/installed-office-suites

An installed suite is more capable and this is more portable. Where each one actually wins on .docx files, fonts, macros, review, privacy and getting started.

**Q: Is this meant to replace an installed office suite?**

A: For most documents, yes, and for some it is not close. Letters, reports, essays, invoices, papers with citations and documents under review all work here. A hundred-megabyte document with linked spreadsheets, a template library driven by macros, or a layout tuned to a specific printer's driver belongs in an installed suite, and saying otherwise would waste your afternoon.

**Q: Will a document written here open correctly in Word?**

A: Yes. The editor writes Office Open XML directly rather than through a builder library, putting styles, numbering, sections, headers, footers, notes, comments and tracked changes in the parts Word reads. A round-trip corpus of seventy-one generated fixtures gates that at 95% of constructs identical, and the build fails if it slips.

**Q: What about macros?**

A: There are none, and that is a decision rather than a gap: a document that can execute code is a document that can execute somebody else's code. Macros in an opened file are stripped with a warning. What replaces them is a recorder for sequences of the editor's own commands — useful for repetitive formatting, incapable of touching your file system.

**Q: Why do my fonts look different from the installed suite?**

A: Because a document names fonts rather than carrying them, and a browser can only draw what the device has. The font stacks name the open metric-compatible substitutes — Carlito for Calibri, Caladea for Cambria, Liberation Serif for Times New Roman — so line breaks hold where those are installed. Where they are not, the shapes hold and the metrics shift. Exporting a PDF with fonts embedded is the fix that always works.

**Q: Is there anything this does that an installed suite does not?**

A: Three things, mostly by construction: it starts in about a second on a machine you are not allowed to install software on, it runs identically on Windows, macOS, Linux, ChromeOS and a tablet, and it has no update that can change your document's behaviour overnight. A locked-down work laptop or a school Chromebook is where that stops being a nice-to-have.

Compared with: an office suite you install on the machine

An installed office suite is thirty years of features and a gigabyte on disk; this is a word processor that arrives in a browser tab. The comparison is not close on raw capability, and is not close in the other direction on getting started, so the useful question is not which is better but which is better for the document in front of you. Here is where each actually wins.

Where the alternative wins:

- **No macros, no add-ins, no automation of your machine.** If your work is a template library driven by macros, an add-in your organisation wrote, or a document that pulls a live range out of a spreadsheet, none of that exists here and none of it can. The command recorder covers repetitive formatting inside one document and stops at the edge of the tab, on purpose. An installed suite is the right tool for automation, and the cost of its being the right tool is that it is also the platform document malware targets.
- **Very large or very complex documents run out of room sooner.** Everything runs in a browser tab with a browser's memory budget. A two-hundred-page report with hundreds of images, or a book-length manuscript with a full index, is where a native application's memory model and decades of optimisation show. The editor's layout is incremental and its parsing runs off the main thread, which pushes the ceiling up a long way, but the ceiling is still lower than a desktop suite's.
- **The long tail of features genuinely is long.** Master documents and subdocuments, a table of authorities, vertical CJK text, art page borders, WordArt, SmartArt editing and embedded OLE editing are all excluded by decision rather than missing by accident, and each is documented as such. If your document needs one of them, this is not the tool, and no amount of everything-else compensates for the one feature the job requires.
- **Browser storage is not a file system.** Documents live in the browser's storage unless you explicitly save them to a file, which means clearing site data or a browser evicting storage can take them. An installed suite writes ordinary files into your ordinary folders, which get backed up by whatever backs up your machine. Using Save to file rather than relying on the library closes most of that gap, and it is a habit you have to actually form.

Verdict: For writing, reviewing and exchanging .docx files — which is what most people mean by a word processor — the browser editor does the job, opens instantly on any machine, and keeps the document on your device. For automation, for the specialist long tail, and for documents large enough to strain a browser tab, an installed suite is better and it is not close. The sensible position is that they are compatible: the .docx written here opens there, and the one written there opens here, so the choice is per document rather than per person.