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 — 12 hours for bank-statement conversions, which are the one paid tool here and need time to pay for and download. Every other conversion on the site is free and ungated.
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.