About
A conversion desk
Not a file locker
BigZet exists because the file you have is rarely the file you need, and installing a codec pack to fix that is a miserable way to spend an afternoon. We keep the encoders running so you don’t have to own them.
What runs here
Ten toolchains, each maintained separately so a change to the video stack can never break a spreadsheet.
PDFs, Word files, spreadsheets and plain text
Slide decks, slideshows and templates
Video files for phones, browsers and editors
Compressed tracks and lossless masters
Photos, graphics, icons and camera files
Lighter image files that still look right
Books for Kindle, Kobo and reading apps
Repacked ZIP, TAR and 7Z bundles
Web and desktop typeface files
Text pulled out of scans and photos
How the work gets done
Engines, not wrappers
FFmpeg for media, LibreOffice for office files, Calibre for ebooks. Each one pinned to a version we test before it touches a job of yours.
A queue you can predict
Work is routed by file type, so a two-hour video re-encode never sits in front of somebody's 40 KB icon. Paid jobs run on their own workers.
Erased on completion
The source file goes the second the job ends. The result follows within the hour. Nothing is archived, mirrored or backed up.
One interface for all of it
The same drop zone, the same settings panel and the same download step whether you are flattening a PSD or rebuilding a 4K MKV.
Where we draw the line
Plenty of tools promise everything and explain nothing. Here is what BigZet deliberately is not.
We work on your uploads
Files come off your own device, or out of your own Dropbox or Drive. BigZet does not reach out to third-party links and pull down somebody else's media for you — that is a different business with a different set of problems.
We are not storage
There is no library, no shared folder, no resume-later link. If you close the tab before downloading, the job is gone and you run it again.
We are not a data broker
Your files exist to be converted and then to stop existing. They are never sold, never handed to an analytics vendor and never fed into a training set.
We charge, and we say so
Video encoding costs real CPU time, so somebody has to pay for it. A limited tier covers the occasional job; plans start at €7 a month and cancel from the dashboard.
Read further
The detail lives on three other pages: what happens to a file, what the plans include, and the answers we give most often.