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What Octoolo is

One Windows app with 17 apps inside: editors, converters and everyday tools that work on your PC.

Octoolo in short

Octoolo is one desktop app for Windows 10 and 11 that holds 17 apps: editors for video, photos, vector art, PDFs and sound, a media player, Documents, Spreadsheets and Presentations, Converters, Productivity, Downloads, Passwords, Files, Text Studio, Dev Toolbox and a Calculator. It replaces a shelf of separate programs (and many websites people upload their files to): files are opened, edited and converted on the person's own PC, not uploaded anywhere.

  • Made by Getiket Technologies (the legal name of the company is in octoolo.com). Contact: hello@octoolo.com, or Help and feedback in the app (the Feedback button at the bottom of the home screen's sidebar; the team's replies show there).
  • Website: https://octoolo.com. Download: https://octoolo.com/download/Octoolo-Setup.exe.
  • Sold as a subscription, Octoolo Cloud, through Paddle. Three apps are free without it, and there is a free trial: the numbers are in Prices and limits, the details in Plans and billing.
  • In English, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese and German.
  • It updates itself: a new version downloads in the background and installs when Octoolo restarts (Install and update).

The 17 apps

Octoolo's home screen shows the apps in five groups. Each app has its own document.

GroupApps
CreateVideo Editor (also records the screen), Photo Editor, Vector Editor, Audio Editor (also records the voice, removes vocals)
DocumentsPDF Editor, Documents (Word files), Spreadsheets (Excel files), Presentations (PowerPoint files)
ConvertConverters: documents, spreadsheets, slides, pictures, video and sound to other formats
Every dayProductivity (to-dos, reminders, notes, timers, screen time...), Passwords, Downloads, Media Player
UtilitiesText Studio (with a thesaurus, grammar check and an offline translator), Dev Toolbox, Calculator, Files (ZIP, RAR, 7Z, and locking files and folders with a password)

Every task each app does, and the few that are still coming, are listed in All apps and tasks. The search box on the home screen finds any app or task by name ("merge pdf", "mp4 to mp3", "remove background").

How Octoolo works

  • On the PC. The apps run in Octoolo's own window. Files stay on the computer; Octoolo has no cloud storage and does not upload files to work on them.
  • Some parts download once. To keep the installer small, the video engine (FFmpeg) and the AI models (background removal, upscaling, the vocal remover, the translator) download the first time a feature needs them, then work offline: Downloads on first use.
  • What it sends. Update checks, license checks for Octoolo Cloud, usage statistics (which apps and tasks are used, never files or their names; they can be turned off) and what people write in Help and feedback; and, only when someone uses them, the Passwords app's leak check (the first 5 characters of a password's SHA-1 fingerprint, never the password), the one-time downloads above and the Downloads app's own downloads. Never the person's files: Privacy and data.
  • The subscription is checked with octoolo.com from time to time; the paid apps keep working offline for a while between checks (License and account).

What Octoolo is not

Say these plainly when asked:

  • Not for Mac, Linux, phones or tablets. Octoolo is a Windows 10 and 11 app (64-bit, x64 installer). There is no web version of the apps; octoolo.com is the website and the account page.
  • No cloud sync or sharing. Nothing is stored online, so nothing syncs between PCs or with a phone, and two people cannot edit the same file together. One subscription can be used on more than one PC (see Prices and limits), but each PC keeps its own files and data.

  • Not a downloader for video streaming sites. The Downloads app downloads files from links, not videos from streaming sites or streams.

  • Not an online converter. Conversions run on the PC; nothing is uploaded.

  • No browser extensions and no add-ins for other programs. In Windows, Octoolo adds itself to File Explorer (an Octoolo item in the right-click menu, which can be turned off; Octoolo in the "Open with" list of archives; double-clicking a locked .olock file unlocks it), and it can start with Windows and keep an icon in the taskbar's corner so Productivity's reminders and screen time work.

Words used in these documents

  • App: one of the 17 (Video Editor, PDF Editor...). Its id (video, pdf, archive for Files) is how the code and these documents name it.
  • Task: one job an app does, such as "Merge PDF" (pdf-merge). Search finds tasks.
  • Octoolo Cloud: the subscription that opens the paid apps.
  • License key: the key emailed when a subscription starts, which turns Octoolo Cloud on on a PC.
  • Engine: a part that downloads on first use (FFmpeg, an AI model, a translator direction).
  • The home screen: the first screen, with the apps, the search and the sidebar.