What Formatly is
Formatly is a file converter. You drop in a file, you pick a format, you get a file back. There's no account, no watermark, no drip campaign. Files are deleted one hour after they're uploaded, and nothing is held hostage behind a paywall.
It exists because the web still has an abundance of converters that want you to sign up, install something, or sit through a countdown before handing your file back. Formatly doesn't.
What Formatly isn't
It isn't a platform. It isn't a suite. It isn't trying to own your workflow. The front door is the product — a single page with a single rectangle. If you can get your file converted and leave, we've done the job.
How it works
Uploads go to a signed, time-boxed bucket. A worker picks up the job, runs the conversion, and writes the output back. You download it. An hour later, everything is deleted — source and output both. We don't keep copies, we don't index content, and we don't sell your metadata to anyone.
The values, such as they are
- Restraint. Ship less, but ship the thing people came for.
- Honesty. Free means free. No watermarks. No surprise upsell at the finish line.
- Privacy. Your file is not training data. It's not an asset. It's a file, and you get it back.
- Speed. Most conversions finish before you've switched tabs.
Who built it
A small team in Amsterdam. The codebase is Python on the server, plain HTML and CSS on the front. No framework-of-the-month. The conversion core leans on open-source libraries — LibreOffice, Pillow, pdf2docx, Tesseract — that have been quietly doing this job well for years.
Get in touch
Questions, format requests, or bug reports are welcome on the contact page. Most emails get a reply within a day.