Your work laptop won't let you install anything. IT locked it down after the last security audit and you'd need to file three tickets to get Acrobat onto it. Meanwhile, you have two PDFs that need to be one PDF, today.
This is the job Flint's merge tool was built for — nothing installs, nothing requests admin rights, nothing phones home.
Why locked-down laptops still let this work
Browsers are allowed software. Flint runs entirely as a web page — JavaScript, WebAssembly, nothing more. No installer, no extension, no helper app. If your laptop can open a website, it can merge PDFs in Flint. IT policies almost universally permit this because no executable touches your disk.
Add files, set order, merge
Open merge PDF, drag your files in, reorder if needed, click merge. The combined PDF downloads to your standard downloads folder like any web download. If your browser asks where to save it, that's your security policy doing its job — Flint isn't bypassing anything.
Files stay on your machine
Because the merge runs in your browser, the source PDFs never get uploaded. There's no server-side processing, no temporary cloud storage, no "we'll keep your file for an hour" disclaimer. For sensitive documents — contracts, HR letters, client materials — this is the difference between something you can use and something you can't.
When you'd want a desktop app anyway
If you merge a hundred files a day, install a real tool. If you need to redact while merging, do redaction separately first. For the everyday case — combine these two, three, six PDFs — browser-based merging is the path of least friction on a managed device.
FAQ
Will my IT department flag this?
Flint is a website, not software. It can't be 'installed' in the traditional sense. Visiting it is the same as visiting any other page.
Does it work offline?
You need to load the page once. After that, the merge itself happens locally, but you do need the initial page load.
What about mobile?
Same story on iPad and iPhone. Open Safari, go to merge PDF, pick your files from the Files app, merge.
Is the merged PDF the same quality?
Identical. Pages are concatenated, not re-rendered. Text stays selectable, images stay sharp, vectors stay vector.
Skip the install, skip the ticket. Open merge PDF and you're done in 30 seconds.