27 juillet 2026
How MyTools Helps You as a Small Bakery Owner
Fourteen side tasks that eat a bakery owner's week, from allergen sheets to Instagram Reels, and the free in-browser tool that handles each one for you.
Running a small bakery is mostly flour. The 4am start, the levain that was sluggish on Tuesday and perfect on Wednesday for reasons nobody can name, the oven that runs hot on the left. Getting the window display full by seven and the sourdough out before the school run. That is the job, and it is the reason you took it on.
The rest of it is paper and pictures. A supplier catalogue arrives as a sixty-page PDF and you need three pages of it. The Saturday market wants a signed application by Friday. A catering client wants the menu, the allergen chart and the delivery terms, and the photo of the croissant you took at six in the morning has the sink in the corner of the frame. None of it is baking. All of it happens in the same week as four hundred loaves.
Here are fourteen of those side tasks, each with the free online tool that handles it in your browser. Nothing to install, no account, and no file leaving your laptop.
The Wholesale Catalogue You Need Three Pages Of
Your flour supplier emails a sixty-page PDF every quarter. You use three pages of it: the bread flours, the yeast, the packaging. The rest is cake decorating supplies from a range you have never stocked. Printing the whole thing for the shelf by the mixer wastes half a ream and takes twenty minutes on the office printer.
Extract PDF Pages pulls out only what you want. Drop the catalogue in, pick the pages from the thumbnail strip or type the range, and download a clean three-page file. The original stays untouched, so next quarter's version goes through the same three clicks.
The Market Stall Application, Due Friday
The Saturday market wants a signed application: trading name, insurance number, food hygiene rating, pitch preference. It arrives as a PDF with proper form fields, and the office printer ran out of toner some time in March.
Fill PDF lets you type straight into those fields in the browser and download the completed document. What you type stays editable until you export it, so the pitch number you were unsure about can be corrected before it goes anywhere. Nothing gets printed, signed on a flour-dusted counter, and photographed at an angle.
One Attachment for the Catering Client
A client planning a ninety-guest christening asks for the menu, the allergen chart and your delivery terms. That is three PDFs in three different folders. Send three attachments and one of them gets missed, and it is always the allergen chart, which is the one that matters most.
Merge PDF combines them into a single document in the order you set. Drag the files into the list, move the menu to the front, download one file. One attachment, one filename, nothing to lose halfway down a reply chain.
The Seasonal Menu, Typed in Word
You rewrite the menu four times a year in Word, because that is where the last version lives and because the tab stops finally line up. Then the .docx goes to the print shop, they open it in a different version of Word, and the autumn special slides onto a second page on its own.
Word to PDF locks the layout before the file leaves your machine. Upload the document, get a PDF back, and what you saw is what gets set. The same file works for the delivery platform, which will not accept a Word document at all.
A 22 MB Brochure and a Full Inbox
Your catering brochure has photographs of every tier option, which is exactly why clients ask for it, and exactly why it weighs 22 MB. The wedding planner's mail server sent it back with a 10 MB cap and no explanation.
Compress PDF brings the size down without stripping the pictures out. Pick a level, watch the projected size before you commit, and download something that actually lands in the inbox. The cake still looks like cake.
The Sourdough Shot With the Sink In It
The loaf photographed beautifully at six in the morning on the cooling rack. It also photographed the sink, a blue crate and one corner of the fire extinguisher. Instagram wants a square. Your phone shot 4:3.
Crop Image gives you a drag handle over a live preview, so you can pull the frame in until only the crust and the board are left. If you would rather not judge it by eye, the ratio presets snap the box to square or 4:5.
A Croissant on a White Background
The delivery app's listing rules are specific: product on a plain background, no props, no branding in the shot. Your croissant sits on a marble slab, on a linen cloth, with a shadow running across the bottom left.
Remove background cuts the subject out and hands back a clean PNG with transparency behind it. The AI runs locally in the browser, so the photo never leaves the laptop you took it off the phone with. Drop it onto white and the listing goes live.
Forty Cake Photos and a Slow Gallery
The gallery page is the reason people ring you about wedding cakes. It is also forty full-resolution JPGs straight off a camera, and on a phone at the school gates it takes eight seconds to finish painting. Most people do not wait eight seconds.
Convert to WEBP re-encodes them at a fraction of the weight with no difference you can see at gallery size. Run the batch, drop the new files into your site's media library, and the page arrives before the visitor's patience runs out.
Your Three-Tier, Someone Else's Feed
A cake you built for a June wedding turned up on another bakery's page in July with no credit. It happens with the good ones. There is nothing to be done about that one, but the next one can travel with your name attached.
Watermark Image stamps text or a logo wherever you place it, at the opacity you choose. Sit it low in a corner at around 30% and it reads as a signature rather than a fence across the photo. Do it once, before the picture goes anywhere.
Four Minutes of Lamination, Forty Usable Seconds
You propped the phone against the flour bin and filmed the butter block going into the dough. Four minutes and eleven seconds, of which the first ninety are you walking back and forth adjusting the phone.
Trim Video cuts the head and the tail off without re-encoding, so the clip stays as sharp as it came off the camera. Drag the two handles to the moment the roller starts, check the preview, download.
A Wide Clip and a Vertical Feed
Reels want 9:16. The lamination clip is 16:9, because you filmed it landscape like a normal person holding a phone. Posted as it is, it sits in a letterboxed strip across the middle of the screen with grey bars above and below.
Crop Video reframes it and lets you decide which part of the picture survives. Pull the crop box right so your hands stay centred and the flour bin falls outside it. Square for the grid, vertical for Reels, one source file for both.
Ninety Seconds of a Twenty-Two Minute Interview
Local radio ran a segment on independent food businesses and gave you four minutes of it. The station then sent the whole show as a single MP3. Nobody is scrubbing through twenty-two minutes to reach the part where the presenter says your name.
Trim Audio puts two handles on a waveform. Find the point where the segment starts, set the out point before the travel news, and download just that stretch as its own file.
Putting That Clip on the Bakery Page
Facebook will not take an MP3. You find this out at nine in the evening, with the excerpt finally trimmed, when the composer simply refuses the file and offers no alternative.
MP3 to Facebook wraps the audio in a video using a cover image you supply, the shopfront or the logo, and posts it straight to your Page. Pick the image, connect the Page, publish. The interview goes up while it is still this week's news.
Table Tents That Take Orders
Pre-orders for Saturday's sourdough go through a form on the site. The link is forty characters long with a query string on the end, and nobody sitting at table four with a coffee is typing that in.
QR Code Generator turns it into a code you can print. Download it as SVG and it stays sharp at any size, from a sticker on a paper bag to the A4 sign in the window. It also encodes Wi-Fi credentials, which spares you shouting the password over the grinder six times a day.
Fourteen tasks, and not one of them is baking. A catalogue, a form, a menu, a brochure, some photographs, a clip of butter going into dough. They arrive between the second prove and the afternoon clean-down, and each one takes longer than it should when the only software you own is whatever came with the laptop.
Handled in a browser tab, they take minutes instead of an evening. The time goes back where it belongs: to the bench at 4am, the oven that runs hot on the left, and the window display that has to be full by seven.