What this saves you

You're probably already paying monthly for two or three of these. Every tool on this site runs entirely in your browser by default — no upload, no account, unless a tool offers an optional extra that needs one (always clearly marked). Every one of them is completely free, Lightning Downloader included — no trial, no unlock, no subscription.

PDF Editor — skip Adobe Acrobat Pro (~$20/mo) to merge, split, rotate, watermark, or compress
Screenshot / Social Cropper — skip Canva Pro (~$13/mo) for exact platform crop ratios
Thunder Video Downloader — skip screen recorders that watermark or cap your MP4
Lightning Downloader — free, unlimited 320kbps MP3 recording from any tab, window or your whole system
AI Detector — skip $15–30/mo AI-detection subscriptions
Video Blur Out Editor — skip redaction software to blur a face or plate
Scam Caller ID — skip Truecaller Premium or a $20+ paid lookup
Offline MP3 Library — skip streaming subscriptions for music you already own
QR Code Generator — skip QR tools that paywall the PNG or force "dynamic" plans
Pro Link Maker — skip Linktree-style paid tiers for a clickable photo link
Repo Scanner — skip enterprise security-scanner pricing to vet a sketchy repo
FlashBackMan Radio — thousands of live FM/AM stations worldwide, free

Client-side photo forensics — v0.1 demo

The Truth Button

Drop in a photo. It checks the file for signs of AI generation or heavy editing — no upload to a server, everything runs in your browser.

How to use this site ▾

Pick a mode from the tab row below — Photo, Music/Audio, Video, Flock Cameras, Data Centers, Social Listen, Reviews, or Peptide Calc.
Photo / Audio / Video: drop a file onto the box, or tap it to choose one from your device. Everything is analyzed locally in your browser — nothing is uploaded.
Got a link instead of a file? Paste it into the "File a report" bar and hit Analyze Link, or use "Capture From Screen" to grab what's on your screen (with your browser's normal share-screen permission).
Flock Cameras / Data Centers: use the search fields to look up nearby surveillance cameras or data center facilities.
Social Listen: share a browser tab playing a video or photo, then check it live for AI signs.
Reviews: browse existing reviews by category, or sign in to leave your own.
Peptide Calc: enter your values in the calculator fields to get dosing results.
After an analysis, check the score gauge and breakdown for the alteration signal and what drove it.

This is a heuristic demo, not a certified detector — treat results as data points, not verdicts. See the full disclaimer at the bottom of the Photo panel for details.

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Find Flock / ALPR cameras near you

There's no official public database of Flock Safety camera locations — Flock doesn't publish one, and has even sent a cease-and-desist to the main volunteer mapping project over it (EFF pushed back on First Amendment grounds). What exists is community-crowdsourced data. Pick a state to jump to real, live reporting.

🚗 Have I Been Flocked?

A different kind of check — this searches real FOIA-obtained Flock audit logs by license plate, to see if a search was ever run against your plate. It's independent, doesn't log what you enter, and is covered by the ACLU's "Get The Flock Out" toolkit. The dataset is incomplete (few agencies release these logs easily), and a hit doesn't necessarily mean you were stopped or investigated — just that someone with system access ran a search.

Check haveibeenflocked.com →

Don't see your camera documented? Report it yourself.

If a camera in your area isn't on the map, you can add it to the real, live crowdsourced record — the same one these lookups pull from. This is exactly the kind of citizen documentation EFF defended in court as protected speech.

Note the cross streets or address, and which direction the camera faces.
Submit it to DeFlock (feeds the live public map used above), or send it as a tip to DeFlock The USA for their reporting team.
If you want it in EFF's official law-enforcement-agency tracker too, submit through the Atlas of Surveillance.

Report to DeFlock Submit a Tip EFF Atlas of Surveillance

Being straight about this: The Truth Button doesn't run its own camera database or backend — this page links out to real, independently-run public-interest projects (DeFlock, DeFlock The USA, EFF's Atlas of Surveillance) rather than making up data. Their coverage is crowdsourced and incomplete, so absence from these maps doesn't mean there's no camera there — just that no one's documented it yet.

Who owns Flock Safety

Founded by Garrett Langley (CEO) and Paige Todd (Co-Founder & CPO). The company has raised $658M across 8 rounds from 29 investors and was valued at $8.4B as of April 2026. Backers include Andreessen Horowitz, Greenoaks, Bedrock Capital, Meritech Capital, Matrix Partners, Sands Capital, Founders Fund, Kleiner Perkins, Tiger Global, and Y Combinator. Board members include Ilya Sukhar, David Ulevitch, Garrett Langley, Alex Clayton, and Matt Feury.

Full ownership breakdown → Funding & investors (Tracxn) →

Contracts & controversy, as it's happening

Between August 2021 and May 2026, communities in 28 states terminated Flock contracts — 39 of those cancellations happened in just the first five months of 2026. LAPD announced it wouldn't renew, citing data-ownership concerns, before renegotiating with added privacy protections. Flock rolled out new "auditing and accountability controls" in August 2026 after a string of documented cases of officers misusing the system, including to stalk exes or romantic partners. Some cities that dropped Flock have since signed with competitor Axon instead.

LAPD renegotiation — Fortune → New accountability controls → 80 cities pulling out → Wikipedia overview →

Being straight about this: These are links to independent news outlets and research sites, not claims we're making ourselves. Ownership and contract status change — check the source, not just this summary, before repeating anything here as current fact.

How land gets bought — shell LLCs and NDAs

Data center developers, especially for AI buildouts, routinely acquire land through shell LLCs before communities know what's being proposed. The standard playbook: a shell LLC buys the land, NDAs bind local officials from disclosing details, land options lock up parcels before public review, and intermediary buyers negotiate on behalf of unnamed principals. Google has specifically used "LLCs inside LLCs" — one entity buys the land, a separate one develops it — to keep its name off public records while negotiating tax subsidies. This is legal because Delaware and Nevada both allow forming an LLC without disclosing its owners or directors.

Shell LLCs & NDAs — Quartz →

The transparency rollback

The Corporate Transparency Act used to require companies to report their real beneficial owners to FinCEN, specifically to unmask shell companies. That requirement was suspended in 2025, and in August 2026 FinCEN finalized killing it entirely — wiping ownership-disclosure requirements for 33 million U.S. companies and committing to destroy the ownership data it had already collected. The main federal tool for tracing an LLC back to its real owner effectively no longer exists for domestic entities. Senator Warren has since opened an inquiry into major private equity firms about their data center investments and the rising utility costs communities are absorbing; FDD has separately flagged the practice as a national security risk.

FinCEN erases shell-company database → National security shell company game — FDD →

Case study: Ohio

Ohio has 217 data centers — the 5th-most of any state — concentrated in Central Ohio and Stark/Summit counties. A bipartisan bill introduced February 2026 aims to stop utilities from shifting the cost of new infrastructure and grid upgrades onto regular ratepayers, requiring data centers to sign long-term (12-year) power contracts instead. Rural communities in the state's agricultural areas are separately raising concerns about farmland loss, heavy water use, and sales-tax exemptions granted to these projects.

The Cost of Your Cloud — Ohio Consumers' Counsel → Price increases for ratepayers — Policy Matters Ohio → Political resistance grows — Signal Ohio → Farmland & water concerns — OSU Farm Office →

Being straight about this: we can't hand you "Company X secretly owns Data Center Y" — the entire point of this legal structure, and now the point of the federal rollback, is that ownership often isn't traceable through public records anymore. That opacity is itself the story, not a gap in our research.

Check a video or photo, live

No embedded player here — platform embeds turned out to be too unreliable across sites to depend on (YouTube's own embed API started throwing errors, and the others have similar quirks). This works more directly instead: open the post yourself in another tab, then share that tab when prompted. Nothing gets downloaded from the platform's servers — this only looks at what's already on your screen, with your explicit OK each time.

▶️ YouTube

📘 Facebook

✖️ X / Twitter

🎵 TikTok

📷 Instagram

How to use it:

Tap the platform pill above (YouTube, Facebook, X, TikTok, or Instagram) to match where the content is.
Open that video or photo yourself in a separate browser tab — don't close this tab.
Come back here and pick a button below: "🎧 Listen & Analyze" for video/audio, or "📸 Capture This Photo" for a still image.
Your browser opens a picker asking what to share — choose that other tab, not your whole screen.
For video/audio: check the "Share tab audio" box in that picker before confirming, or there'll be nothing to analyze.
Once shared, analysis starts automatically — for audio it listens live for a few seconds; for photos it captures the frame instantly.

Desktop only (Chrome or Edge) — this relies on browser tab-sharing, which phone browsers don't support.

Being straight about this: tab-audio capture needs Chrome or Edge on desktop — Safari and most mobile browsers don't support sharing tab audio this way, and will fail at the permission step. A short, live-captured clip also gives noisier signal than a full downloaded file, so treat the score here as a rougher read than the upload-based Audio tab.

Ultimate Tool Kit

A hub for security-research tools that run entirely on your own computer — nothing here is hosted, proxied, or logged by Truth Button. Starting with HexStrike AI; more tools land here over time.
Linux only — HexStrike AI requires a Linux computer capable of running a local Python server; it does not run on Windows, macOS, or mobile devices.

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HexStrike AI

AI-orchestrated pentesting framework — 100+ recon, scanning, and exploitation tools behind one API. Runs as its own Python server on your own machine, not on Truth Button.

⚠️ Read this before you use HexStrike AI

Not compatible with mobile devices. This requires a desktop/laptop capable of running a local Python server — a phone or tablet can't run one, so nothing below this point will work from mobile.
HexStrike AI is a separate, third-party tool. You install and run it entirely on your own computer — Truth Button never runs it, never proxies it, and never sees anything it does.
It ships with no built-in login, and an endpoint that can execute arbitrary commands. Only ever run it bound to 127.0.0.1 / localhost. Never expose it to your LAN or the open internet.
Only point it at systems you own or are explicitly, legally authorized to test. Unauthorized scanning or exploitation of someone else's system can be a crime.
Explicitly prohibited: using this tool, or any target field on this page, against projectsilverbeam.com, www.projectsilverbeam.com, api.projectsilverbeam.com, truth-button-backend.onrender.com, or any of their infrastructure.
You are solely responsible for how you use it — this page only links to it and reminds you of the rules.

I've read this and will only use HexStrike AI on systems I own or am explicitly authorized to test.

Being straight about this: HexStrike AI (and every tool added to this kit) runs on your own machine, not on Truth Button's servers — this page is a launcher plus guardrails, not a hosted scanning service. For authorized security testing, CTF, and research use only.

PDF Editor

Merge, split, rotate, watermark, or compress a PDF — everything runs locally in your browser. Files are never uploaded anywhere.

Merge

Split / Extract

Rotate

Watermark / Text

Compress

Edit Text

Choose 2 or more PDFs, in the order you want them merged

Choose a PDF Pages to extract (e.g. 1-3,5,8-9)

Choose a PDF Pages to rotate (blank = all pages) Rotation

Choose a PDF Watermark text

Stamped diagonally, semi-transparent, across every page.

Choose a PDF

Re-packs the file's internal structure to shave off overhead. Works best on PDFs with lots of repeated fonts/objects — won't meaningfully shrink a file that's mostly large images, since that needs actual image recompression this tool doesn't do.

Choose a PDF

This covers the selected area with a solid box and places new text on top — it doesn't remove the underlying original text from the file's data, just visually replaces what's shown there. For sensitive redaction, keep that in mind.

Being straight about this: every operation runs entirely in your browser using a local copy of pdf-lib — no file is ever uploaded to a server. Very large or unusual PDFs (encrypted, malformed, or with non-standard structure) may fail to process; if that happens, the error message will say so rather than silently producing a broken file.

⚡ Lightning Downloader

Record music or audio playing in a browser tab, window, or your system — and save it as a high-quality MP3. No separate app, nothing uploaded.

🖥️ Desktop Only, For Now

Phones don't support tab/system audio capture — it's a limitation of the mobile browser platforms themselves, not something a website can work around. Rather than offer a lower-quality mic-based substitute that would compromise the recording, this tool stays desktop-only until there's a real, equal-quality way to bring it to mobile (a native Android app could do it properly — that's being weighed, not built yet). Open this page in Chrome or Edge on a computer to use it.

Share a browser tab, window, or your whole screen playing music or audio — make sure to check "Share tab audio" / "Share system audio" in the picker, or there won't be any sound to record. Captured in full stereo, exported as 320kbps MP3.

⏱ Auto-stop after min sec Leave at 0 to record with no time limit — recording stops automatically once this is reached.

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⬇ Download Recording

Being straight about this: this records audio from a tab/screen you explicitly choose and approve through your browser's own sharing dialog — the same permission prompt used for video calls. It's built for capturing music or audio playing in your browser, not your microphone. Everything is captured and saved locally; nothing is ever sent to a server. You're responsible for only recording audio you actually have the right to record.

🌩️ Thunder Video Downloader

Record a browser tab, window, or your screen — including audio — and save it as an MP4. No separate app, nothing uploaded.

🖥️ Desktop Only, For Now

Phones don't support tab/system screen capture — it's a limitation of the mobile browser platforms themselves, not something a website can work around. Open this page in Chrome or Edge on a computer to use it.

Share a browser tab, window, or your whole screen — check "Share tab audio" / "Share system audio" in the picker if you want sound in the recording. Captured as-is, then converted to MP4 entirely on your device (nothing uploaded). To keep conversion time reasonable without a server to offload it to, video is capped at 854px wide (only downscales — never blows up smaller recordings). Best for short clips at 720p or lower — 5 minutes or under, no higher than 720p converts in a reasonable amount of time; longer or higher-resolution recordings will take a while, so keep this tab open until it finishes.

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⬇ Download MP4

Being straight about this: this records video/audio from a tab, window, or screen you explicitly choose and approve through your browser's own sharing dialog — the same permission prompt used for video calls. Everything is captured and converted to MP4 locally in your browser; nothing is ever sent to a server. You're responsible for only recording video you actually have the right to record.

🎞️ Video Blur Out Editor

Upload a video, draw a box over a face, plate, or anything else, and blur it for the whole clip — converted entirely on your device, nothing uploaded.

Upload a video, pause where you want the blur to start, drag a box over the area you want hidden (a face, license plate, screen, anything), then play on and mark where it should stop — that region stays blurred just for that stretch of the clip while everything else stays sharp. Everything runs locally in your browser; the video is never uploaded. Best for short clips at 720p or lower — 5 minutes or under, no higher than 720p, converts in a reasonable amount of time.

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Drop a video here, or tap to choose one

MP4, WebM, MOV — analyzed and edited locally, never uploaded

1) Play the video using its normal controls and pause where you want the blur to start. 2) Click "Draw Blur Box," then click and drag on the frame over what you want hidden — that sets the start point. 3) Press play again; when the video reaches where the blur should stop, click "End Blur Here." Leave it unset to blur through to the end of the video.

⬇ Download MP4

Being straight about this: the whole video is analyzed and re-encoded locally in your browser using ffmpeg compiled to WebAssembly — nothing is ever uploaded to a server. The blur box stays in the exact same position on screen for the time window you set (or through to the end if you don't set one) — it does not track a moving subject. You're responsible for making sure the box actually stays over what you intend to hide for that entire window before you share it.

🎬 Photo to Video Maker

Turn a still photo and a song into a real, downloadable video — with a gentle cinematic zoom — so you can share it anywhere a plain photo can't play music. Or start from a video you already have and put your own music on it. Everything runs locally in your browser; nothing is ever uploaded.

Pick one photo or a whole batch. One photo gives you a still held on screen; several become a slideshow, playing in the order you arrange them. Add a song if you want one — it's optional. Already have a video? Drop that in instead and pick a song to put your own music on it. Out comes an MP4 ready to post to Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, or anywhere else that plays video.

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Choose photos or a video

JPG, PNG, WebP — pick several for a slideshow. Or drop in an MP4/MOV to put your own music on a video you already have. Stays on your device.

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Choose a song OPTIONAL

MP3, WAV, M4A — skip it for a silent video. Stays on your device.

⬇ Download MP4

Being straight about this: your photos, video and song are combined entirely in your browser using ffmpeg compiled to WebAssembly — none of them ever leaves your device. That also sets the ceiling: a long song or a big pile of photos takes proportionally longer, because your own device is doing the encoding and there is no server to hand it to. Putting music on a video you already have is the quick one — the picture is copied across untouched rather than re-encoded, so it usually finishes in seconds. You're responsible for only using a song you actually have the right to use — this doesn't check licensing or copyright for you.

🕵️ Pro Link Maker

Hide a link invisibly inside a photo's pixels and reveal it later, or generate a share page so a photo posted on Facebook is clickable straight to your site. Hide/Reveal never leaves your browser — the Share Page tool hosts your photo instead (free sign-in required), since Facebook needs a public URL to fetch.

🔒 Hide a Link

🔍 Reveal a Link

📤 Share Page

Click to choose a photo, or drag one here (JPG or PNG in — always saved as PNG, since hiding data needs a lossless file)

⬇ Download PNG

Click to choose a PNG to check, or drag one here

Facebook (and most other platforms) won't let a raw photo upload be clickable — it always opens its own photo viewer. The real fix: share a link instead of a photo file. This creates a page — hosted here, ready instantly — with the right preview tags, so the platform shows your photo as a clickable card that goes straight to your site.

Works on: Facebook, LinkedIn, X/Twitter, Slack, Discord, Telegram, WhatsApp, iMessage, Reddit.
Does not work on: Instagram or TikTok — those platforms don't make links clickable in regular posts at all, no matter what tags a page has. Only a bio link, a Stories link sticker, or paid ads get you an outbound link there.

Destination URL (where clicking should take people) Photo URL (must already be hosted somewhere public — Facebook has to be able to fetch it)

Requires sign-in. Hosted on The Truth Button's server for 90 days, then auto-deleted (see disclaimer below).

Title Description (optional)

Being straight about this: Hide/Reveal isn't cryptography — it's text stored in the least-significant bit of each pixel, invisible to the eye but not robust. The output MUST stay a PNG and be shared as-is: JPEG conversion, resizing, screenshotting, or most messaging apps (which recompress images) will destroy the hidden data. Anyone with this same tool can extract it, so don't use it for anything that needs real secrecy. The Share Page tool is a different mechanism entirely (Open Graph/Twitter Card tags, not steganography), and unlike the rest of this tool it isn't purely local: creating a share page or uploading a photo both require signing in, and both are hosted on The Truth Button's server (photos for 90 days, then auto-deleted) rather than staying on your device — that's what makes the resulting URL something Facebook and friends can actually fetch. Share pages work on Facebook, LinkedIn, X, Slack, Discord, Telegram, WhatsApp, iMessage, and Reddit, but not Instagram or TikTok, which don't support clickable links in regular posts regardless of what tags a page has.

🎵 Offline MP3 Library

Import your MP3 files once and play them anytime — even with no internet connection. Everything is stored right here on this device; nothing is ever uploaded.

How to use this

Add your music — click "＋ Add Music" or drag and drop MP3 files onto the page. They're copied into your browser's storage on this device — nothing is uploaded anywhere.
Set the play order — each track has a number next to it. Type a new number to move it anywhere in the list — everything else shifts automatically.
Press play — click any track, or use the ⏮ ⏸ ⏭ controls. When the last track finishes, it loops back to #1 and keeps playing until you hit pause.
Search, rename, or delete — use the search box to filter by name, click a track's name to rename it, or tap 🗑 to remove it.
Come back anytime — once you've opened the page once, your library and play order are saved right here on this device — no internet connection needed, no account required.

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Nothing playing

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Being straight about this: your library lives in this browser's local storage on this device only — it does not sync across devices or browsers, and clearing this browser's site data (or using a different browser/computer) will erase it, same as any other local app data. There's no cloud backup. Storage space depends on your device's free disk space, which browsers typically make several gigabytes of available for local site storage. Once you've opened this page and added tracks, playback works with zero internet connection from then on.

What this site is

A pile of small tools, built one at a time, each one because something needed doing and the obvious option was a $20-a-month subscription or a site that wanted the file uploaded first. There's no company behind this and nothing to sign up for. Most of these you can use once and close the tab.

Where your files actually go

If a tool works on a file you hand it — editing a PDF, cropping a screenshot, blurring a face out of a video, checking a photo for signs of AI — it runs on your machine, inside the browser tab, and the file never leaves. That's why there's no upload bar and no account. It's also why a long video takes a while: it's your laptop doing the encoding, not a server farm.

Some tools have to ask a server, because the thing you're looking for lives somewhere else — the Flock camera map, the data center lookup, the reviews by state, the scam caller ID check against FTC complaint data. The repo scanner sends the code too, and scans it in a temporary folder that's deleted before the result comes back. Those are the exceptions, and each one says so on its own page.

Being straight about the limits

The AI detector is a heuristic, not a trained detector. It runs four independent checks and shows you what they turned up. That's a genuinely useful first pass, and treating any single result as a verdict will eventually make you wrong. The camera and data center pages don't run their own databases either — they point at independent public sources and news reporting. Those links are other people's work, not claims being made here.

The Truth Button

Find Flock / ALPR cameras near you

🚗 Have I Been Flocked?

Don't see your camera documented? Report it yourself.

Who owns Flock Safety

Contracts & controversy, as it's happening

Find data centers near you

How land gets bought — shell LLCs and NDAs

The transparency rollback

Case study: Ohio

Check a video or photo, live

Share your experience

Reconstitution & Dose Calculator

Repo Scanner — Infostealer Pattern Check

Ultimate Tool Kit

PDF Editor

⚡ Lightning Downloader

🖥️ Desktop Only, For Now

🌩️ Thunder Video Downloader

🖥️ Desktop Only, For Now

🎞️ Video Blur Out Editor

🎬 Photo to Video Maker

📱 QR Code Generator

🕵️ Pro Link Maker

📻 FlashBackMan Radio

📐 Social Media Cropper

🎵 Offline MP3 Library

🚨 Scam Caller ID

📋 FTC Complaint Data (last 180 days)

📇 Caller Name (optional)

🗣️ Community Reports

What this site is

Where your files actually go

Being straight about the limits

Every tool on The Truth Button