Changelog
Everything that ships on norito, in order. New tools, new languages, redesigns, and fixes.
August 13–14, 2026
One consistent nav, full width
Every category dropdown — PDF, Images, Developer, Text, Utilities, SEO, Design, and GIF —
now opens as a single full-width panel matching the page's content width, with every tool shown as a
uniform card: icon, title, short description.
August 13, 2026
Accessibility and usability fixes
Added a skip-to-content link and screen-reader announcements when a tool finishes or errors,
running progress on slow operations like PDF compression, clipboard paste on 8 more image tools,
and undo for removed GIF frames.
August 12–13, 2026
Norito GIF: six new tools
GIF Maker, Video to GIF, GIF Compressor, GIF Resizer, GIF Splitter, and Add Text to GIF, all
running in the browser. Real per-frame thumbnails with editable delays, genuine gifsicle-powered
compression instead of a re-encode, and a cancel button for long conversions.
August 10, 2026
A modest set of ads
Added a small set of ad placements across tool pages. norito stays free with no accounts and no
paywalls — ads are what covers hosting.
August 3, 2026
27 new tools
SVG optimizer, SVG-to-React, gitignore generator, JSON schema generator, user-agent and URL
parsers, CSS specificity and variable tools (Developer); CSS clamp, easing, filter, pattern, blob,
noise, and Tailwind shadow generators (Design); HEIC and AVIF converters, screenshot annotator,
dimension inspector, social image cropper (Images); markdown table tools and an invisible character
detector (Text); canonical tag and hreflang generators (SEO); and Compare PDFs. All translated into
the site's six other languages.
August 2, 2026
norito is open source
The full source is now public on GitHub under the MIT license. Also fixed a handful of missing
keyboard and screen-reader labels.
July 20–31, 2026
Redesign polish, Terms of Service, PDF comparisons
Refined the new look further — cards, motion, footer — added a Terms of Service page
and side-by-side tool comparison pages, and tightened up search-engine metadata across the site.
July 19, 2026
Homepage redesign
A cleaner, faster homepage: search is now the primary way in (press ⌘K anywhere),
tool listings moved to a dedicated All tools page, and the whole site got
richer cards, better typography, and this changelog.
July 17–18, 2026
PDF, SEO & Design tools in more languages
The full PDF suite is now available in Spanish, Chinese, Arabic, Hindi, Russian, and Japanese.
The SEO and Design suites followed in five of those languages, with the rest on the way.
July 16, 2026
Russian and Japanese
norito now speaks six languages: Spanish, Chinese, Arabic, Hindi, Russian, and Japanese,
with a language switcher on every translated page.
July 15, 2026
Faster everywhere, installable as an app
Core Web Vitals pass: faster first paint, no layout shift, async font loading. norito is now a
Progressive Web App: install it and most tools keep working offline. Also new: 8 more tools, comparison
pages, and a how it works page explaining the browser-only architecture.
July 14, 2026
21 new tools, two new categories
SEO and Design join the lineup: meta tags, sitemaps, UTM builder, gradients, shadows, favicons,
contrast checking, and more. Category hub pages for every group.
July 13, 2026
The PDF suite
Eleven PDF tools in one day: merge, split, rotate, convert both ways, reorder pages, page numbers,
watermarks, text extraction, compression, and signing. All client-side, powered by pdf-lib and pdf.js.
July 11, 2026
Dark mode, ⌘K search, and a real PNG encoder
Site-wide dark mode, command-palette search from any page, FAQ schema, and a rebuilt image
compressor with true indexed-color PNG encoding (82–91% smaller on real photos).
July 10, 2026
Hello, world
norito launches: a small collection of browser-only utilities. Test file generator, image
compressor, placeholder generator, and friends. No uploads, no accounts, no nonsense.