Drag a file in File Explorer and give it a shake, or right-click it: convert, compress and edit images, PDFs, videos, audio and Office documents. The finished file appears next to the original, without uploading it anywhere.
No file is uploaded to the Internet: TadaFile works even without a connection.
Choose what to do, and that's it. The result appears next to the original, which is never touched.
It starts in under a second and, waiting in the notification area, uses about 20 MB of memory.
TadaFile sits where you already work: in File Explorer, on the desktop, in the Start menu.
Select one or more files, right-click, TadaFile, and choose. The menu only shows what makes sense for those files: no «JPG to JPG», no «merge» with a single PDF.
With several files selected it's a single job: the results go into one folder, so they don't get mixed up.
On Windows 11 TadaFile is under «Show more options», or you get there straight away with Shift + right-click.
Start dragging a file and give it a quick shake, or tap Shift: a circular menu appears under the pointer. Drop the file on the action, and ta-da.
Conversions in the inner ring, tools in the outer one, and TadaFile opens from the centre. Esc cancels.
Pick a file in File Explorer or on the desktop and press Space: you see it instantly, without opening it. PDFs, photos, videos and music that play on their own, Word, Excel and PowerPoint (even without Office), text, archives.
The arrow keys move to the next file and the preview follows; Space or Esc closes it. From there you open it, or choose what to do with it.
Photos also open in TadaFile's viewer: zoom with the mouse wheel, the others in the folder with the arrow keys, animated GIFs.
Drag files into the TadaFile window: it offers only the tools that suit those files.
This is also where you choose quality, sizes and where to save. Your choices then apply to the right-click and the circular menu too.
Fix a mistake, fill in a form, sign, remove sensitive data, find what changed, get it ready for archiving: no subscriptions, and the document never gets uploaded anywhere.
Opens with a double-click, if you like; search ignores accents and capitals, and you print from there.
Double-click a paragraph and rewrite it with the same font, colour and alignment. Scans too.
Emails, phone numbers, IBANs and tax codes disappear from the file, not just from view.
Your signature drawn or from a photo, or a digital one with a smart card, a token or the Italian ID card; forms are filled in on the page, dates with a calendar.
Side by side, with removed and added text marked word by word.
The lines, dashes and boxes of a printed form, even a scanned one, become fields to fill in, with one click.
Real notes that every reader shows; existing ones show up as you hover.
Drag the thumbnails, rotate, delete, add pages from other PDFs.
A PDF/A-2b copy, the kind long-term archives and public offices ask for, with missing fonts taken from Windows.
Bank statements and price lists become a sheet with real numbers and dates, even from scans.
«DRAFT» across the page, or «For the bank only» repeated all over a copy of an ID card.
Author, comments, attachments, photo GPS locations and earlier versions, before you send it.
For images, PDFs, videos, audio, Office documents, archives and digital signatures. The ones with «…» show you the file so you can pick pages, a crop or a cut point; the others just do it.
JPG, PNG, WebP, HEIC, AVIF, BMP, TIFF, GIF, ICO, SVG
password-protected ones too
MP4, MOV, AVI, MKV, WebM, WMV…
MP3, WAV, M4A, FLAC, OGG…
Word, Excel, PowerPoint, ODT, ODS, ODP, RTF and saved web pages
ZIP, 7z, RAR, TAR, GZ
.p7m files and signed PDFs
Video and audio use the Windows engine, text in images the languages installed in Windows, documents Microsoft Office or LibreOffice. If one is missing, the app tells you.
TadaFile contains no code to connect to the Internet. Every conversion happens on your computer, with the Windows and Office engines.
One button, no questions. No administrator rights needed.
A single file, 82 MB, with everything inside: it works even where .NET isn't installed.
TadaFile joins the Start menu and the right-click menu, and stays ready in the notification area.
Choose TadaFile and the tool. Your first result greets you with a «Ta-da!».
The first time you run the setup, Windows may show this warning: TadaFile is new and Windows doesn't know it yet. Click More info, then Run anyway. It only happens once.
The setup can also install for all users of the PC, including Remote Desktop servers (RDS): everyone has their own settings and nobody sees anyone else's files. For automated installs:
Rather not install? There's the portable version (82 MB): extract it wherever you like and it runs from there.
Requires 64-bit Windows 10 or 11, or Windows Server 2019 or later.
Yes. No ads, no account, no trial period.
If you find it useful and want to support it, you can buy us a coffee, or tell people about it: it doesn't unlock anything, TadaFile is the same for everyone.
No. TadaFile works offline: you only need the Internet to download it from here.
Next to the original, with a name that says what happened: «photo - compressed.jpg». The original stays as it was.
Changed your mind? Cancel in the notification moves what was created to the Recycle Bin.
TadaFile speaks English and Italian, and follows Windows: you can switch in ⚙ Settings → Language. Other languages can be added with a translation file that anyone can write, no programming needed: if you'd like to translate TadaFile into yours, write to us.
Windows 11 puts programs under «Show more options», at the bottom of the menu. Faster: hold Shift while you right-click.
They use what's already on the PC: the Windows video engine, text recognition in the languages installed in Windows, Microsoft Office or LibreOffice for documents. If something is missing, the tool is greyed out in the app and says what it needs.
Select the photos, right-click → TadaFile → Convert to JPG, or drag a photo and shake it. The JPG appears next to the original. It works the same way for PNG, video, audio and documents.
Select the PDFs, right-click → TadaFile → Merge PDF or Compress PDF. All on your PC.
Right-click the file → TadaFile → Extract the document: the signed document appears next to it, and the notification says who signed it and whether the signature is valid.
In TadaFile: ⚙ Settings → Check for updates. If there's a new version, download the setup and run it: it replaces the old one and keeps your settings.
Compare its SHA-256
fingerprint (in PowerShell: Get-FileHash followed by the file name) with these:
From Windows Settings → Apps → TadaFile → Uninstall. Menus, files and settings all go.
Write to us: your email program opens with the message already set up.
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