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.