Hangar

People who work with PDFs, images, video and audio often need many different conversions, compressions, or edits, and today that means juggling a shelf of separate web or cloud subscriptions like iLovePDF, Smallpdf, Adobe Acrobat, TinyPNG, remove.bg or CloudConvert. Uploading files to cloud tools raises privacy concerns, especially for photographers, podcasters, agencies and marketers handling client material such as photos with GPS data or sensitive documents. Maintaining multiple subscriptions for compressing, converting, signing, redacting, trimming or transcribing files is costly and fragmented. The page explicitly positions itself as a replacement for this stack of separate paid tools.

Hangar is a desktop application for Mac and Windows that runs more than 70 file tools entirely offline, so files never leave the user's machine. It covers PDF (compress, merge, OCR, redact, sign, split), image (convert, compress, remove background, resize, crop), video and audio (transcribe, trim, extract audio, convert, merge), creative tools (device mockups, audiograms, HTML to image/PDF, gradients, shaders) and archive/file management (zip, batch rename, sort and route). Users can build 'chains,' a saved list of tools that run in order on every file dropped into a folder, such as converting, compressing, resizing and stripping metadata from a batch of product photos. It also includes 'Studios,' full workspaces for multi-step work: PDF Studio (available now) lets users edit text in place, review with comments, sign, redact for real, organize pages and fill forms, while Image Studio and Video Studio are listed as upcoming. Pricing is a one-time purchase with a 3-day free trial, described as 'pay once, works offline, no cloud.'