SVGIFY started as a single question: why does converting or cleaning up an SVG usually mean uploading a file to a stranger's server? It doesn't have to.
Most image and file-conversion sites are built the same way: you upload a file, wait for a server somewhere to process it, then download the result. That's slow, it puts a copy of your file on infrastructure you don't control, and it means the tool can only ever be as good as its server budget allows.
SVGIFY does the opposite. Every tool — Image to SVG, the Compressor, the Minifier, and SVG to PNG — runs entirely as JavaScript in your own browser tab. Your file is read locally, processed locally, and the result never touches a network request. That's not a privacy feature bolted on afterward; it's the entire architecture.
The name is literal: turning things into SVG, and shaping SVG into exactly what you need — smaller, cleaner, or rendered back out as a raster image. We picked the name before the roadmap, and let it set the scope: if a tool isn't fundamentally about SVG, it doesn't belong here.
None of this requires a backend, which is why the tools are free with no daily limits: there's no per-conversion server cost to recoup.
The changelog tracks everything we ship. On the roadmap: SVG to JPG/WebP export, a background-pattern generator, and a curated free icon set — all held to the same standard as the first four tools.