Our story

We got tired of uploading our own files to strangers.

So we built the PDF toolkit we wished existed — fast, free, and private by design. This is why Plume works the way it does.

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How it started

A contract, a sketchy website, and a bad feeling.

In 2024, one of us needed to merge a signed contract with an addendum. The first result online wanted an email address, then an account, then a subscription — all to combine two files. Worse: those files, full of personal details, were being uploaded to a server somewhere just to be stapled together.

That felt backwards. Modern browsers are powerful enough to do this work right on your device. There was no technical reason to send anyone's documents anywhere. The only reasons were business ones — funnels, upsells, and data.

So we made a different bet: build the tools to run entirely in the browser, keep the everyday ones free forever, and never see a single file. If we couldn't access your documents even if we wanted to, privacy stops being a promise and becomes a fact.

"The best way to protect someone's files is to never touch them in the first place."
— The founding principle we still ship against.

What we believe

Three principles that decide every feature we build — and every one we don't.

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Privacy by architecture

Not a policy you have to trust — a design where your files physically never leave your device.

02

Free without the catch

No watermarks, no daily caps, no sign-up wall. The everyday tools stay free because they cost us almost nothing to run.

03

Less, but better

One clear job per tool, done in a click. We'd rather do a few things beautifully than bury you in options.

The road so far

2024
The annoying merge
One bad upload experience becomes a weekend prototype that merges PDFs entirely in the browser.
2025
Plume goes public
Merge launches — free, unlimited and upload-free. Word starts spreading in privacy and indie-software circles.
2026
Live and growing
Merge is live and free, with more tools on the way — and still not a single file on a server.

The people behind Plume

Independent and small — with strong opinions about your privacy.

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Wasif Abdullah
Founder
Wrote the first in-browser merge. Believes the network is optional.
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Growing carefully
On the roadmap
Plume is independent and deliberately small. Real teammates will appear here as it grows.
The community
Contributors
Bug reports and feature ideas from people who value privacy shape what ships next.

Come build the private web with us.

Try a tool, send us a gripe, or just see what processing-on-device feels like.

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