Privacy
Your files never leave your device
Spoel
Your files never leave your device
https://spoel.handig.tools/en/privacy
Everything in your own browser
Trimming, compressing, converting, extracting sound, making GIFs and evening out the volume: it all happens in your browser, on this device, with the video and audio components your browser already has. Your files do not go to a server, ours or anyone else’s. Spoel does not even have a server that could receive them: technically, the site does not allow any outgoing connections.
What Spoel does fetch
Spoel only loads the heavy components when a tool needs them, always from its own address: the component that reads and writes videos, and the components that make MP3 and AAC. That is fetching, never sending.
The preview of your file
To show and play your video or recording, your browser plays it from its own memory. Close the page and that is gone too. Spoel does not keep any files, not even temporarily on your device.
What you pass on yourself
What Spoel makes is an ordinary file in your downloads. If you pass it on, it goes through your email, your messaging app or your storage, and their rules apply.
Technical logs
Like any web server, our hosting provider keeps short technical logs (such as IP address and time of a page visit) to keep the site running safely. They contain no files. We do not use those logs to track visitors.
Building blocks
Spoel uses Mediabunny (MPL-2.0) to read and write video and sound, the LAME MP3 encoder (LGPL, lame.sourceforge.io), FFmpeg’s AAC encoder (LGPL, ffmpeg.org) for browsers without their own AAC, and gifenc (MIT) for GIFs. They too run only on your device.
Questions
Spoel is a free tool by nealvdv. Have a question about your privacy? Email contact@nealvdv.be.
Written on 13 October 2026.