Why this domain exists, how the tool works, and what we mean when we say "browser-first." Honest answers to the questions you'd ask if we were across the table.
FyDark exists because image-prep deserves a quiet, careful, single-purpose room. The metaphor isn't decorative: a darkroom is where photographers go to do considered work — one image at a time, with the right tools, in a focused space. Most online image tools are the opposite of that. They're an arcade of compression, conversion, and 'try this AI feature' banners competing for your attention.
fydark.com is built page-by-page around the actual jobs you'd walk into a darkroom for. 'Compress JPG to 100KB.' 'Convert HEIC to WebP.' 'Resize for Instagram.' 'Mask a subject and adjust the sky.' Each search is a specific need; each page does exactly that thing, framed in the language of the query, with the rest of the toolkit quietly available when the work grows.
A darkroom isn't a productivity suite. It's a focused space for considered work — one image at a time, with the right tools, in the right light.
Most of FyDark runs entirely in your browser. Compression, format conversion, resize, crop, watermarking, EXIF strip, SVG cleanup — all on-device, processed by WebAssembly the moment a file lands in the workspace. No upload. No waiting on a server round-trip. No 'we have your photo for the next 30 days' clause buried in a privacy policy.
A handful of operations genuinely need cloud chemistry — FyAI subject and sky mask assists, tone/color suggestions, and parallel batch processing across large file sets. Those run through the FyTools backend with labelled cloud handling and FyDrive-backed outputs where the tier includes storage. We label which tools work which way with a small icon on every tool card. Never assume. Always show.
Every browser-first tool — compress, convert, resize, crop, watermark, EXIF strip, SVG cleanup, effects, presets, and masks — is free forever with no signup, no watermark, no daily cap. Signed-in users get a starter FyAI allowance for subject/sky mask assists and image suggestions.
Cloud Pro adds the things that create real server cost: higher FyAI quotas, server-side bulk optimize for large image sets, FyDrive storage for cloud batch inputs and outputs, saved recipe and preset libraries, and email support. Team adds shared cloud-output access where organization permissions are enabled.
FyDark is one of five focused fronts for the FyTools utility suite. The full toolkit lives at fy.tools, and the broader Fyboard platform — contracts, knowledge, automation, payroll — at fyboard.com.
Same team. Same browser-first architecture. Same pricing model. Different doors — so the search intent and the landing always match up. FyDark on fydark.com; the whole toolkit on fy.tools; the broader platform on fyboard.com.
Open FyDark and see if the philosophy lands in practice. Free, no signup, no install — drop a file and find out.
Written at launch. We'll keep this page current as FyDark evolves.