About AIbyNow
Small tools, honestly made.
AIbyNow is a collection of focused tools for the work that fills a day: the email you keep rewriting, the PDF you need to read, the meeting notes nobody turned into tasks.
Why this exists
Most AI products ask you to learn a new interface before they do anything useful. You open a chat box, write a prompt, explain the context, and then edit the result into something you could have written yourself. For a ten-minute task, that is a bad trade.
AIbyNow goes the other way. Each page is built around one job. The input is obvious, the options are limited to the ones that matter, and the output is ready to copy. If a task can be done without a model — converting a PDF, reading text from an image — it runs in your browser and costs nothing.
What we believe
The task is the interface
A tool should look like the job it does. A PDF converter should have a drop zone, not a chat prompt.
Privacy claims must be true
“Your file is never uploaded” is a technical statement, not a marketing line. We build the tool so it is literally true, and we say when text leaves your device.
Free should be useful
A free tier that cannot finish a real task is a demo. Ours covers the job; Pro is for volume, not access.
How it is built
The site is a small, server-rendered application with hand-written CSS and JavaScript. PDF parsing uses PDF.js, OCR uses Tesseract.js, and both run locally. The AI tools use a language model when one is configured and a deterministic fallback engine otherwise, so the site still works without an API key.
There is no tracking pixel and no ad network. Accounts are optional; when you create one we store your email, a password hash, and your session. The only other tables are a daily usage counter and the Pro waitlist.
Who it is for
People who work with words and files: operators, students, freelancers, support teams, recruiters, writers, and anyone who has pasted a PDF into a chat window and hoped for the best. You do not need to know what a prompt is.