Free web tools. No dark patterns. Zero catch.

The modern web is full of "free" utility sites that let you spend ten minutes editing a PDF, recording a video, or generating a QR code — only to hold your download hostage behind a $15/month subscription, a 2-task daily paywall, or an ugly watermark.

Shoal (weshoal.com) — a MeWeBe startup project — was engineered from the ground up to abolish that friction using modern browser compute APIs:

• Tier 1 — 100% Free Local Browser Tools: Powered by WebAssembly, HTML5 Canvas, WebCodecs, and WebGPU, your own device performs the work. Because it costs us £0.00 in server compute, we offer these tools completely free, forever, with zero watermarks and zero sign-up walls.
• Tier 2 — Transparent At-Cost Cloud AI Pass-Through: For optional heavy datacentre GPU tasks (like 8K generative AI upscaling), you never sign up for a subscription. You simply top up a browser wallet for £3 and pay the transparent pass-through API cost (pennies per run).