Everything revolves around you.

Rota is a universal productivity workspace built around a contextual tool wheel that appears right at your cursor — so powerful everyday tools are always one motion away.

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01 · The wheel

Drag. Hold Shift. Drop.

Start dragging any file and a glass wheel opens under your cursor. Hold Shift for the convert wheel, Alt for the tools wheel, then drop on what you want. The result lands right beside the original.

Interactive — drag a file onto the wheel
Downloads
4–9 ms to show the wheel
Works from Explorer, the desktop and the browser
Undo any result from the toast
Tap a mode, or hold the key while dragging.
02 · Edit & remove background

A real editor for every action.

Each wheel action opens its own focused page. Fix light and colour, apply a look, or let on-device AI find the subject and lift it off the background — in about two seconds, without uploading anything.

Interactive — move the sliders, press “Remove background”
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Sample photo being edited
Remove background

Finds the subject and makes everything else transparent. Runs on your PC.

Filters
Light
Colour
Saved demo_edit.png next to the original
03 · Add background

Cut out. Place. Share.

Put any subject on a gradient, solid colour or soft blur, set padding, rounded corners and shadow, and pick the canvas ratio for the platform you post on.

Interactive — choose a background and a ratio
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Cut-out sphere on a new background
Background
Padding & style
Canvas
04 · Audio & video

Trim by dragging the handles.

Cut video and audio visually: a thumbnail strip or waveform, two handles and a live preview of exactly the part you keep. Add an audio track to a video, resize it for any platform, or convert between formats.

Interactive — drag the purple handles
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05 · Video editor

Cut, paste, layer, add sound and text.

A real timeline: split a clip where you want, copy, cut and paste parts, stack text, shape, picture and video layers (show, hide, set the volume of each), add music or sound effects, pick the output size, and animate your titles with five ways in and five ways out, each with a live preview.

Interactive — press Play, drag clips, zoom the timeline (Ctrl + wheel), or drop a picture on the editor
  • ✂ Split and trim clips
  • ⧉ Copy, cut and paste parts
  • ☰ Layers: show, hide, volume
  • ♪ Music and sound effects
  • T Text with 5 enter + 5 exit animations
  • ⤢ Zoom the timeline
  • ▶ Video layer over video
  • ▭ Output size: 16:9, 9:16, 1:1, 4:5
  • ⌨ Your own shortcuts
  • ⇩ Drag and drop files
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06 · Settings

Make the wheel yours.

Choose which key opens the convert wheel and which opens the tools wheel, set output quality, pick where results go, start with Windows, and keep the wheel away from programs you choose. Every change saves instantly.

Interactive — flip a switch, change a key, drag a slider
07 · Alt tools · Office · Photoshop

Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PSD and PDF — handled.

Pick a file type, then switch between the Shift wheel (convert) and the Alt wheel (tools). Open the quick view to flip through pages, sheets, slides or layers, export them as pictures, PDF or CSV, or split, rotate and read PDFs with OCR. The original file is never touched.

Interactive — choose a file, then click a slice of the wheel
Everything in the wheel

One motion, a dozen tools.

Convert anything

Images (including iPhone HEIC photos), PSD, SVG, PDF, Word, Excel and PowerPoint, audio and video — to the formats you actually need.

Image tools

Crop, resize, compress to a target size, add backgrounds, edit light and colour, strip metadata, read text with OCR.

Remove background

On-device AI cut-outs with adjustable edge hardness. No upload, no account.

PDF tools

Split, rotate, merge and export pages to images in a clean visual editor.

Video tools

Trim, add an audio track, mute, and resize for any platform.

Audio tools

Waveform trimming and conversion between common audio formats.

Quick view & export

Peek inside Word, Excel and PSD files, or export them as images in the format you choose.

Undo & offline

Every result has an Undo in its notification, and supported tools work with no internet.

Word, Excel & PowerPoint

Open any document in a quick view, then export every page, sheet or slide as pictures, PDF or CSV, or convert to PDF and DOCX.

Photoshop files

Preview PSD and PSB files and export the flattened picture to PNG, JPG, WEBP, TIFF, BMP or PDF without opening Photoshop.

Two wheels, your keys

Shift for convert, Alt for tools — or remap them to Ctrl. The wheel only shows what the file can actually become.

Stays out of the way

Skips full-screen apps, ignores programs you list, starts with Windows and lives in the tray and the right-click menu.

Right where you need it.

Rota runs quietly in your tray and appears only when you drag a file. Try it on your own files.

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