Changelog

Four desktop fixes. None of them glamorous. All of them overdue.

What changed:

• Your licence stays put. A dropped connection, a slow server or a confusing reply no longer locks the app. Only a clear no from the licence server (an invalid, disabled or expired key) does. Change your key and the new one activates straight away.
• Deactivating a device resets it properly. Offline? This machine is cleared now and the seat frees up next time you’re online. If the server answers but the call fails, nothing changes on your machine, so the app and the server keep agreeing.
• Saved files have names again. Excel to PDF, File Encrypt, PDF to PowerPoint and PDF to Word could save as “Unknown” with no extension. Every desktop save now gets the right extension, worked out from the filename.
• PDF tools that stall now say so. Redact PDF and PDF to Word give up with an error instead of loading forever.

Same pricing, same on-device processing, same nothing leaves your machine.

If something still sticks, email [email protected].

Three things on the web. All of them still on your device.

What changed:

• AI tools think in the background. Upscale, background removal, transcription, table detection in PDF to CSV and the rest now share one background worker, off the page’s main thread. The page stays responsive while a model works.
• fwip installs like an app. Add it from your browser and it opens in its own window, with its own icon. On iPhone and iPad, Safari gets a short how-to: Share, then Add to Home Screen.
• New tool: Passport Photo. Resize and crop a photo to passport size for the US, UK, EU, Australia, Canada or India, or set your own. Exact pixels. Free, with no daily limit.

Same tools, same nothing leaves your machine.

Something odd? Email [email protected].

A few quiet fixes since the housekeeping pass.

What changed:

• Licence activation now works with your purchased key. Bought a tool, a category, or the full suite? Paste the key into the app and it unlocks.
• Smart Sign on mobile: tapping the type tab now raises the keyboard. You can sign with text without fighting the focus.
• Heavy AI tools (upscale, background removal, restore, denoise, colourise, and a few others) warn before you start on mobile, and show a quiet line during processing. If the browser asks you to wait, let it. The page is still working.

Same pricing, same on-device processing, same nothing leaves your machine.

If your key still won’t activate, email [email protected].

A small tidy-up after launch week.

What changed:

• Licence activation now unlocks the right tools. A category licence unlocks every tool in its category, and tools that belong to more than one category unlock under any of them. Fixed.
• PDF Workspace is web-only now. It lives at fwip.app/tools/pdf-reader/. Drop a PDF, route it through any tool. The desktop sidebar lists each PDF tool individually.

Same pricing, same on-device processing, same nothing leaves your machine.

If a tool you should have access to still won’t open, email [email protected].

fwip is live.

250 tools across 9 categories. PDF, Image, Video, Audio, AI, Data, Developer, Text, Privacy. All running on your device. Nothing uploaded. Nothing transmitted. Nothing stored anywhere except your own machine.

Free in browser with a 3-uses-per-day limit. Pay once for the desktop app with unlimited use across all tools. Single tool $15. Category bundle $49. Complete suite $99. Teams $65 per seat.

A few things worth calling out in this first build:

• AI tools that run locally. Background removal, image upscaling, OCR, speech-to-text. The models live on your device. No cloud round-trips.
• A workspace surface for PDFs and audio. Drop a file once, route to whatever you need.
• Smart Sign and Smart Search. Drag a PDF in, place a signature. Drag a doc in, ask a question. Both on-device.
• File encryption with strong, modern cryptography. The encrypted output is the only thing that touches your disk.

Coming up: a workflow layer (chain tools together), a docx editor, a prepress category for print production, and a paid PWA so the desktop license works on your phone.

If you find a bug, email [email protected]. We read all of it.

That’s it. Go fwip something.