Editorial Policy

FreeWebTools publishes 284 tools in 10 languages. This page describes who writes them, how a tool page is put together, what the byline and the "updated" date on each page actually mean, and what to do when you find something wrong. It is a description of current practice, not a promise about the future.

Who publishes these pages

Tool pages carry the byline FreeWebTools Editorial Team. It is the name the site is published under, not the name of a person: we do not attach an author or credentials to a page that we cannot stand behind, and we do not invent them. Where a tool touches a regulated subject — health measurements, tax, loan repayment — our standard is that the page states what the calculation does and does not do rather than claiming professional authority it does not have. That standard is applied to pages as they are rewritten and is not yet true of every page in the health and finance categories. Nothing here is medical, legal or financial advice.

What runs where

Most tools on this site are JavaScript that runs inside your own browser. Calculators, converters, text tools, generators, timers and games compute locally: the numbers, text and images you enter are processed on your device and are not uploaded. The image converters, for example, use the browser canvas, so a photo you drop in never reaches our server.

Some tools cannot work that way, and those pages say so. Network diagnostics — redirect checker, website status, header checker, DNS and WHOIS lookups, SSL checks — send the address you type to our server, because a browser is not allowed to read another site's response headers. Most live counters query a public API — the social counters for the channel you name, the crypto ticker for market prices — while the population and debt counters read no feed at all and extrapolate published projections in your browser. The AI writing tools send your text to a language-model provider to be processed. If a tool needs to send your input somewhere, that is a property of the tool, not a choice we made to collect data.

How a tool page is built and checked

1. The tool comes first. Each page is built around a working tool, not around an article with a widget attached. Where a page has been reworked, we measure where the tool lands on the screen so that it is reachable without scrolling on a phone.
2. The rule is stated, not just applied. Where a tool implements a formula or a standard — HTTP status codes, unit definitions, payroll decimal rounding, BMI — the page states the rule it uses so you can check the output by hand.
3. Reworked pages are verified against a reference. When a page is rewritten, its conversions and calculations are checked against published values from the relevant authority rather than against another converter website, and it is rendered at desktop and mobile widths and checked for text contrast against the WCAG AA threshold in both themes and for JavaScript errors in the console. This is our standard for new and reworked pages. It is not a claim that every one of the 284 pages on the site has been through it: much of the catalogue still carries older, template-generated explanatory text, and we are working through it.
4. Corrections are made in place. When we find or are told about an error, we fix the tool or the text and the page's updated date moves. We do not silently delete pages that were wrong.

What the "updated" date means

The date in the byline is the date that page's own template last changed in our source repository — the commit date of the file, or the file's modification time when it is newer than the last commit. It is never read from the clock: it never advances on its own, and a page nobody has touched keeps the same date indefinitely. It can read as today's date, but only because the template really was edited today — that is what a page being reworked looks like. A page with an older date is not stale by default: a unit conversion that was correct two years ago is still correct.

Money and independence

The site is free to use and carries no sign-up, no account and no paywall — there is nothing to register for. It is funded by advertising: pages display Google AdSense units, which are marked as ads and are not editorial content. The ads are filled by Google, not sold by us, and they sit outside the tool and its explanation. No tool on this site ranks, reviews or recommends a commercial product or service.

Languages

Tools are published in 10 languages: English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Russian, Turkish, Polish and Chinese. Most tools have a separate URL per language — 267 of the 284 do — while the other 17 are spelled the same way in two or more languages and share a single URL; either way the alternates are declared in the page head. Each language has its own text; translated pages are not machine-translated on the fly in your browser. Coverage is not identical across languages — some explanatory text exists only in English so far. Where a written section has no translation yet, the page leaves it out rather than showing English prose on a page in another language; short interface labels fall back to English rather than showing a broken key. This policy page itself is published in English only, and the byline on a translated page links to that language's About page instead. The privacy policy and the terms of service are also English-only: each has one URL, and the nine translated addresses they used to answer on now redirect to it rather than presenting an English text as a translated page.

Reporting an error

If a tool gives a wrong answer, a page contradicts itself, or a translation is wrong, tell us. Include the page address and what you expected instead — that is usually enough to reproduce the problem. Write to [email protected].

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