Why we built iHatePDF.com

We got tired of hunting through 40 PDF tool icons, so we built one you just talk to. Introducing http://ihatepdf.com

You know the maze-you land on a PDF site, there’s a wall of near-identical icons, and you’re squinting to figure out if you need “compress,” “optimize,” or “reduce.” I hated it enough to build the opposite.

On http://iHatePDF.com you just say what you want: “compress this under 10MB and convert it to Word.” It figures out the rest.

The part we think is worth explaining, because “AI + your files” usually sets off alarm bells: the AI never touches your document. It’s purely a router. It reads your instruction, works out the operation and the parameters (target size, page range, output format), and hands that to the actual PDF engine. The real work is done by deterministic, battle-tested libraries -not the model. You do not want an LLM creatively rewriting your contract, and here it can’t.

On privacy, small files are processed entirely in your browser and never leave your device. Only large ones hit the server, and those get deleted within one hour. There is also a toggle in the navbar that forces everything to stay local, so nothing is uploaded at all. No permanent copies, nothing sitting around to leak.

It also chains into a workflow-merge, compress, or redact a file, then pass the result straight into “convert to Word” without re-uploading. One document, tool to tool.

There’s also Editly, a document editor with a full set of tools for PDF and Word in one place. And the little Buddy bot that hypes you up when your file’s done, because nothing about PDFs ever does.

It’s free. Try it, break it, and tell us what sucks.