Grabio: 22 iPhone File Tools · Compress PDF, HEIC→JPG, Background Remove, QR, Ringtone · Free

The file utility your iPhone should have shipped with. One tap from the iOS share sheet. No app to install. No login. iOS 14 and later.

If you have an iPhone, you have probably already had one of these days.

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The WhatsApp video that wouldn't send because it was a few MB over the limit. The college portal that demanded a PDF under 200 KB and rejected every upload. The HEIC photo you sent to your Android friend that opened as nothing. The Instagram product photo that needed a clean white background, and the only app that did it well wanted 13 dollars a month. The Wikipedia article you wanted to read on the train that needed an account in three different apps to save offline. The custom ringtone you tried to make and finally gave up on after twenty minutes of GarageBand.

These are the boring, real iPhone moments that quietly eat fifteen minutes a week. Grabio is the Apple Shortcut I built so I would stop having those days. Install it once. Twenty-two file utilities live inside your iOS share sheet for the next year. No App Store download. No sign-up. No watermark on anything.

What Grabio replaces

You can delete these from your phone:

• Smallpdf, iLovePDF, PDF Expert basic compressor
• Photoroom, Canva Background Remove, Adobe Express trial
• Image Size, Insta Pic Size, Reposter resizer
• Convertio, CloudConvert, the half-broken HEIC web tools
• Ringtone Maker apps
• QR Generator and QR Scanner apps
• EXIF strip privacy apps
• CamScanner, Tiny Scanner basic features
• Squoosh Web, Bytesized, Whitagram
• Whatever you use to make a PDF out of three photos

Twelve apps replaced by one Shortcut. Nothing on your home screen.

The 22 utilities

Compress (5): Photo or PDF to exact KB (50/100/200/1024/custom) · Video to WhatsApp 16 MB / Gmail 25 MB / Outlook 10 MB · Smart Platform Compress · Resize image (16 presets + custom W×H)

Convert (5): HEIC → JPG / PNG batch · Image format converter (JPG, PNG, WEBP, HEIC) · Video format (MP4, MOV, WEBM, HEVC) · Audio format (MP3, M4A, WAV, OGG with bitrate choice) · Live Photo → GIF

PDF (5): Photo → PDF · Multi-photo → PDF (A4 / Letter) · Combine PDFs · Extract pages · Delete pages

Photo (2): AI Background Remove (Etsy / Amazon ready) · White Background Fill

Privacy (2): Strip EXIF / GPS / location from photos · Strip metadata from PDFs (author, software, date)

Webpage (1): Save any webpage as clean PDF, no ads

QR (1): Generate codes for URLs, contact cards, Wi-Fi, location

Audio (1): Custom ringtone export (.m4r 30 second clip)

Real situations Grabio solves

You are a student. College portal accepts photos up to 100 KB. Your phone shoots 4 MB. Grabio compresses to exactly 100 KB, upload in three taps.

You sell on Etsy or Amazon. Photoroom is $13/mo. Grabio removes the background, fills white, resizes to 2000×2000 in one tap.

You file government forms. NEET form needs photo under 200 KB. Visa application wants PDF under 1 MB. Tax filing needs your scan compressed. Same Shortcut, different size targets.

You send media on WhatsApp. Your 4K iPhone video is 60 MB. WhatsApp won't take it. Compress for WhatsApp from the Photos share sheet. Eight seconds.

You read long-form on the go. Tap Share, pick Grabio, "Save webpage as PDF". Opens in Books or Files. No Pocket account.

You make content. Live Photos look beautiful in iMessage and break everywhere else. Convert to GIF and they play on WhatsApp, Discord, Telegram, Reddit, Twitter.

You care about privacy. Every photo has GPS metadata. Every PDF has your full name in the author field. Strip both before sharing.

You are the family tech support. Your aunt's Android friend can't open her HEIC photos. Convert fifty at once, one tap.

You want a custom ringtone. Pick a song, pick a 30 second window, get an .m4r file ready to drop into Files. No GarageBand.

Free vs Pro

Free, forever:

• All 22 utilities. None are locked out.
• 5 actions per day, every day, every month.
• No watermark on any output.
• No login, no email signup.
• Same privacy posture as Pro.

5 actions a day is enough for most people, most weeks, forever. If you occasionally compress a photo for a form or save a webpage to read on the train, Free is the only tier you ever need.

Pro, $3 / month:

• Everything in Free
• 30 actions per day (six times the Free cap)
• 7-day money-back refund, one click
• Auto-renews monthly until you cancel
• Cancel anytime from your purchase email
• Billed in USD, taxes handled by Polar.sh (Merchant of Record)
• Priority queue when the server is under heavy load

Pro is for people who hit the daily cap repeatedly. Etsy sellers running daily uploads. Students mid-application season. Privacy folks scrubbing whole photo libraries.

Why 3 dollars a month and not free

I am one developer. Grabio runs on a real server in Germany. Every action costs something on that server:

• ffmpeg burns CPU on every compress/convert (200ms for a photo, 5–30s for a video)
• rembg AI model uses a full CPU core for 2–4s per background removal
• Headless Chrome spins up half a gigabyte of RAM for every webpage-to-PDF
• Bandwidth, disk, Redis, monitoring on every request

If I run Grabio with no cap, the server crashes when a few hundred users hit it heavily. The 5/day Free cap is the only thing that lets me serve thousands of users on one rented machine. $3/month Pro funds server upkeep, monitoring, AI hosting, and my time keeping Grabio running without investors, ads, or selling data.

$3 a month is the minimum that means I don't have to take VC money and reverse-engineer the privacy posture later. If 5/day works for you, stay Free, forever. That promise is real.

Privacy posture (same for Free and Pro)

• No login. No email required for Free.
• Device identifier hashed with SHA-256 before it touches the server.
• No IP stored long term. Used for rate-limit window only, discarded within an hour.
• Files processed in memory or in a permission-locked temp folder, deleted within 1 hour.
• No third-party analytics tied to you. Plausible (self-hosted, cookieless) for aggregate page views only.
• No ads. No data resale.
• Open-source transparency repo with runnable verifier: github.com/adityaarsharma/grabio

What Grabio is not

Grabio is not a social media downloader. URL Save Media was removed in v3.0.0 - Read Why

If you specifically want a social downloader, try cobalt.tools instead. Free, open-source, well maintained.

Requirements

• iPhone running iOS 14 or later
• Shortcuts app (built into iOS)
• Internet connection during processing

Contact

[email protected] — I read every email and reply within 24 hours on weekdays.

Links

• Install: tap the button above
• Website: grabio.adityaarsharma.com
• Blog (v3.0.0 release): grabio.adityaarsharma.com/blog/grabio-launching-soon
• Pro: grabio.adityaarsharma.com/#pricing
• Privacy: grabio.adityaarsharma.com/privacy
• GitHub: github.com/adityaarsharma/grabio

Built solo. In public. By Aditya R Sharma.