About MediaStand

MediaStand is a collection of free media tools — compress, convert, trim and extract — that run completely in your browser. It is built by the team behind ToolStand, a family of 160+ browser-based utilities, and follows the same philosophy: fast, honest tools with no signup, no watermark and no artificial waiting.

Why client-side?

Traditional online converters upload your file to a server, put you in a queue, process it, and then let you download the result. That is slow, and it means a stranger's computer briefly holds your video. MediaStand skips all of it: the same battle-tested engine those servers use — FFmpeg — is compiled to WebAssembly and runs on your own device. Private by architecture, not by promise.

Principles

• Your own files only. Tools work on files you choose from your device. We do not and will not offer downloading media from URLs or third-party platforms.
• Honest limits. Browser engines have real memory constraints. We publish the limits we have actually tested rather than optimistic numbers.
• No dark patterns. No fake progress, no forced accounts, no watermarks.

The stack

FFmpeg 5.1 compiled to WebAssembly (single-threaded build for maximum browser compatibility), plain HTML and vanilla JavaScript, served from the edge. The heavy engine (~31 MB) is only downloaded when you actually process a file, then cached for next time.