Partners

The tools are free, with no account and no limits. The site is funded by a short list of recommendations.

Disclosure, before the links rather than after them: some links on this page are affiliate links. If you buy through one, UtilTools may receive a commission at no extra cost to you. They are marked rel="sponsored nofollow". This page is the only place on the site where such links appear.

Why this page exists

Free tools get paid for somehow. The usual options are advertising, which is slow and ugly and brings third-party trackers onto pages people use for sensitive documents; a paid tier, which means deliberately crippling the free one; or selling data, which is impossible here and would be contemptible anyway.

So: a short list of products the author actually uses, recommended honestly, disclosed openly, and kept entirely away from the tools.

The editorial rule

No partnership influences the catalog. No tool is added, removed, ranked, gated or degraded because of a commercial relationship. No tool page carries an affiliate link. If a partner's product is worse than a free alternative, the free alternative is what gets recommended.

This is written down so it can be held against us.

What we would recommend

Categories that fit this audience — people who care where their files go:

Password managers — the single highest-leverage security change most people can make.
End-to-end encrypted storage and backup — for the files these tools produce.
Privacy-respecting hosting — for people building their own things.
Hardware security keys — the strongest available protection against phishing.

Specific partner links appear here as relationships are established. Nothing is listed that the author has not used.

Become a partner

Email [email protected]. The criteria, in order:

It is a product the author would recommend to a friend without being paid.
No dark patterns — no fake urgency, no pre-ticked boxes, no cancellation maze.
No hidden charges, and a price that is visible before checkout.
A privacy policy that is honest about what it collects.
It is relevant to people who use these tools.

Paid placement in the tool catalog is not available at any price. Do not ask.

Questions

Do affiliate links cost me anything?

No. The commission comes out of the merchant's margin; you pay the same price you would pay going direct.

Are there ads on the tool pages?

No. No advertising network, no sponsored tools, no interstitials. A page where people process contracts and ID scans is not a place to load third-party scripts, and the site's Content Security Policy blocks them outright.

Does a partner get better placement in the tools?

No. Partnerships and the catalog are entirely separate, and no affiliate link appears on any tool page.

Last updated 2026-08-22.