October 29, 2026
How MyTools Helps You as a Funeral Celebrant
Free online tools for funeral celebrants: fifteen side tasks around a service, from the order of service to the entrance song, handled in your browser.
Being a funeral celebrant is mostly listening. Sitting at a kitchen table with a family who did not expect to be planning anything this week, hearing the story of a life in the order they remember it, and shaping it into forty minutes that sound like the person everyone came for. That is the job, and nobody does it well in a hurry.
Around it sits a surprising amount of file handling. The funeral home's booking form. A eulogy draft that arrives as a Word file from a nephew, and an order of service that arrives as a PDF nobody can edit. Forty photos from five phones and one shoebox. A song that runs two minutes longer than the walk to the front. A tribute video recorded on the other side of the world that will not play on the venue's laptop.
Here are fifteen of those side tasks, each with the free MyTools tool that handles it in your browser. These are online tools for funeral celebrants that need no install and no account, and they run on your own computer, so a family's photos and words never leave it.
The Funeral Home's Booking Form
The booking sheet comes back as a PDF attachment with twelve fields: the deceased's full name, the date and time of the service, the venue, the music cues, your fee. The funeral director needs it today, and the nearest printer is at the library.
Open it in Fill PDF, click where each answer goes and type. Add a tick beside the music options, draw your signature at the bottom, and download the same form with your answers on it, ready to send back before the afternoon visit.
The Eulogy Draft That Needs to Look the Same Everywhere
You wrote the ceremony script in Word and the family wants to read it before Thursday. Three of them will open it on phones, one on an old laptop with a different version of Word, and the line breaks you placed so carefully around the poem will move on every screen.
Run it through Word to PDF first. The layout is fixed in the PDF, the poem keeps its stanzas, and what the eldest daughter reads on her phone is exactly what you will read from the lectern.
The Order of Service Nobody Has the Original Of
"Can you just change Aunt Mary to Auntie May?" The order of service was designed by a cousin, exported as a PDF, and the cousin is now on a plane. One name is wrong and the printer needs the final file tomorrow morning.
PDF to Word turns the file back into an editable .docx. Fix the name, adjust the hymn number while you are there, and save it out again. No retyping the whole two pages from scratch at eleven at night.
The Printed Programme Too Heavy for the Family Email
The printer's proof is 18 MB because every page carries a full-resolution photo. The family wants it sent to the whole mailing list so relatives who cannot travel can follow along, and half of them are on email accounts that bounce anything over 10 MB.
Compress PDF shrinks the file in your browser and tells you how much smaller it got. The photos stay clear enough to recognise a face on a phone screen, and the email goes through on the first try.
The Shoebox Photo Scanned on Its Side
A grandson scanned a 1962 wedding photo on his phone, and it opens sideways in every slideshow program you try. Turning it in the viewer does nothing, because the next program reads the file and turns it right back.
Rotate Image fixes the orientation inside the file itself. Quarter turn, download, and the bride and groom stand upright in the slideshow, on the printed easel and in the email to the family.
One Face Out of a Crowded Barbecue Photo
The family's favourite picture of him is from a 2014 barbecue. He is laughing, holding tongs, and surrounded by eleven other people, two of whom the family would rather not feature on the front of the order of service.
Crop Image lets you drag a frame around just him and his grin, and everything outside the frame dims so you can see what stays. The barbecue, the neighbours and the folding chairs fall away, and the designer gets a portrait instead of a group shot.
A Tiny Photo That Has to Fill an Easel
The only photo of her as a young nurse is 400 pixels wide, pulled from an old Facebook album. The funeral home wants an A3 print for the easel by the entrance, and stretched to that size it will look like a mosaic.
Upscale Image enlarges it 2× or 4× with an AI model that runs in your browser, adding detail rather than just stretching pixels. The print shop gets a file big enough to work with, and the face on the easel looks like her, not like a blur.
Forty iPhone Photos the Slideshow Will Not Open
The family sent their photos straight from their phones. Half of them are HEIC, the format iPhones use by default, and the venue's slideshow software only lists JPG and PNG.
Drop the whole batch into Image to JPG and convert them in one pass. Everything comes back as a JPG the slideshow, the printer and the funeral home's screen all accept, in a single download.
The Entrance Song That Runs Too Long
The family chose "Fields of Gold" for the entrance. The coffin takes ninety seconds to reach the front. The recording runs four minutes and fifty seconds, and nobody wants the music to be cut off mid-line by the venue technician lunging for the volume.
Trim audio lets you drag two handles to keep the first verse and chorus, then add a fade-out so the song settles rather than stops. You hand the technician a file that ends exactly when the procession does.
Three Reflection Songs in One File
During the reflection, the family wants three songs back to back while the photo slideshow plays. The venue has a single play button and a technician who will not be watching for the gap between tracks.
Merge audio files puts them in one continuous track in the order you choose. Add a short crossfade or a few seconds of quiet between songs, and the reflection runs as one file from first note to last.
The Voice Message From Abroad
"I can't be there, but I recorded something." The brother in Melbourne sent a three-minute voice memo, recorded at arm's length in a quiet room. Played through the chapel speakers, it will be a whisper under the ventilation.
Boost audio volume raises it by the amount you choose, with a limiter that stops the loud consonants from crackling. Play it once on your laptop to check, and his voice will reach the back row.
A Tribute Video the Venue Laptop Refuses
A former colleague sent a two-minute video tribute as a .MOV file. The crematorium's presentation laptop shows the filename and nothing else. You find this out at the rehearsal, the afternoon before.
Video to MP4 converts it to H.264 and AAC, the combination nearly every player opens. Copy the MP4 onto the USB stick next to the slideshow and test it on the venue machine while you are still there.
The Livestream Recording for Family Overseas
The livestream ran for ninety-five minutes because the camera started when the doors opened and stopped when the last car left. The family wants to send relatives abroad the forty minutes of the actual service.
Trim Video takes the start and end times and cuts the rest away. Fast mode copies the video as it is, so even a long recording finishes quickly. If the cut has to land on an exact second, switch to precise mode.
A Link to the Online Tribute Page
The family set up a memorial page for donations and condolences, with a web address forty characters long. Nobody is going to type that from a printed order of service in a dim chapel.
QR Code Generator turns the link into a code you can place on the back page, beside the line "Share a memory." Download it as SVG and it stays sharp at any size the designer needs.
A Eulogy That Has to Fit Eight Minutes
The family wrote the eulogy together, and it is long. The crematorium slot is forty-five minutes, and the eldest son has been told he has eight of them. He sends you his draft and asks, "Is this too much?"
Paste it into the Word Counter, or drop in the .docx, and it shows a speaking-time estimate next to the word count. Set the pace to match how he speaks when he is nervous, and you can give him a straight answer: cut two paragraphs, or read it as it is.
Fifteen tasks: a form, three documents, a handful of photos, three pieces of music, two videos, a link and a eulogy. None of it is the ceremony, and all of it lands in the same week as the visit to the family home and the rehearsal at the venue.
With the files handled in a browser tab, more of the week goes to what a funeral celebrant is there to do: listening at the kitchen table, finding the right words, and standing at the front on the day so the family does not have to think about anything except the person they are there to remember.