What's New at CrunchyPDF

A running, honest log of changes to the site and its guide library.

By The CrunchyPDF Team  ·  Updated July 20, 2026

We'd rather keep a short, accurate log than pretend the site has a longer history than it does. Here's what's actually changed, and when.

July 20, 2026 — Guide library expansion

• Deepened all eight existing guides with additional sections, diagrams, and expanded FAQs.
• Added six new guides: password protection, PDF vs Word, PDF/A archival format, batch processing, troubleshooting broken PDFs, and a short history of the PDF format.
• Added a dedicated FAQ hub covering the site as a whole, separate from the tool-specific FAQ on the home page.
• Added audience guides for students, freelancers & small business, and legal & healthcare professionals.
• Added author attribution and "last updated" dates across all guide and info pages.

June 2, 2026 — Guide library launch

• Published the first eight PDF guides covering compression, privacy, email limits, file size, client-side vs server-side processing, merging/splitting, and image conversion.
• Added dedicated About, Privacy Policy, Terms of Service, and Contact pages with real, crawlable navigation (replacing modal-only links).
• Added a sitemap and robots.txt.

Earlier — Tool launch

CrunchyPDF launched with its five core tools — Compress, Merge, Split, Image → PDF, and PDF → Image — all running entirely client-side in the browser. See About CrunchyPDF for the full story.