Doconut.app has been redesigned. The job it does has not changed — you drop a file on the page, read it in the browser, and it is deleted from our servers when you close the tab — but the interface around that is new, and so is the rendering engine underneath.
What's Fresh?
🌟 New interface: a cleaner layout, with the upload area and the format you are working with easier to find.
🚀 A page per format: rather than one generic upload box, each format family now has its own viewer page — PDF, Word, Excel, CAD and the rest — so the page can tell you its own size limit and what it accepts before you upload.
📚 Doconut .NET 24.3.2 underneath: the site now runs the current version of the Doconut .NET library, which is the same engine sold as the SDK on Doconut.com. Improvements to it show up here first, with nothing for you to install.
Why the Change?
The old interface made people guess. There was no obvious way to tell, before uploading, whether a format was supported or how large a file could be — and since the ceiling varies by format (25 MB for a PDF, 10 MB for a CAD drawing, 5 MB for XML), guessing was a poor experience. Splitting the site into a page per viewer fixes that: each page states what it takes.
What Can You Anticipate?
⚡ Rendering on our servers, so your device is not the bottleneck. What you wait for is the upload and the document's complexity — a scanned PDF takes longer than a text one of the same size.
📱 Any modern browser, on desktop, tablet or phone. Nothing is installed on your machine.
🎨 The controls a reader needs: page navigation, zoom, fit-to-window and printing with Ctrl+P. Still no editing, no annotation and no conversion — this is a viewer.
Your Input Counts!
The most useful thing you can send us is a file that renders badly. Sample documents always pass; the ones that expose a problem are the real ones — an issued drawing with external references, a deck with a corporate font that was never embedded, a spreadsheet somebody left on manual calculation.
Ready to Get Started?
What has not changed: it is free, there is no account, and 70+ extensions go through. Your file is deleted when you are done.
Open Doconut.app and try the one that used to give you trouble.
The Doconut.app Team 📎