Convert photos to PDF on Android, with no app and no ads

The whole job in Chrome, tap by tap

1. Open JPG to PDF in Chrome, or use the tool above. Despite the name it takes JPG, PNG, HEIC, WebP, AVIF, TIFF, GIF and BMP.
2. Tap Choose files. Android opens its picker. Depending on the phone and Android version you see a photo grid straight away, or a choice of sources: tap Photos, Gallery or Files and go to your camera pictures (usually the folder named Camera, inside DCIM).
3. Select several photos. In most pickers, long-press the first photo, then tap the others. Tap Select or Done.
4. Check the order. The photos appear as a list of file names, and that list is the page order. Tap Up or Down next to a photo to move it 1 place, Remove to drop it. Tap Choose files again to add more; they join the end of the list.
5. Pick the page under Options. For a document, A4 (or US Letter) with Orientation Portrait and a Margin of 10 mm looks tidy. For photos to look at on screen, “Same as the picture” with no margin makes each page exactly the photo.
6. Tap Make the PDF. The result names the file, the page count and the size, and says how many photos had their camera details left out.
7. Tap Download PDF. Chrome saves it to Download. With several photos it is named after the first one, for example IMG_20261011_101512-and-7-more.pdf; rename it in the Files app if the recipient will see the name.

Selecting many photos: what order do they arrive in?

Android pickers do not all agree. Some hand the photos over in the order you tapped them, others in the gallery’s own order, newest first or oldest first. Do not guess: look at the list before you convert. The camera names photos by date and time (IMG_20261011_101512.jpg), so a list sorted by name is a list sorted by when you took them. For more than about 15 photos, moving each one with Up and Down gets tedious; select them in batches in the right order instead, adding each batch with Choose files.

The built-in alternative, and where it stops

Android can make a PDF without any website. Chrome’s help describes the route for a page: Share, then Print, then choose Save as PDF as the printer (Google Chrome Help, “Print from Chrome”, checked on 11 October 2026). Google Photos offers Print from a photo’s menu, with the same Save as PDF printer.

That is fine for 1 photo. For a set it stops short: you get a PDF per photo, with no page order to set across photos, no choice of 1 combined file and the print dialog’s page fitting rather than yours. When you need 6 photos in 1 file in a particular order, the tool above is the shorter path.

Saving and sending the PDF

• WhatsApp: in the chat, tap the attachment button, choose Document, and pick the PDF from Download. A document travels as the file it is, up to 2 GB, while photos sent the normal way are compressed (WhatsApp Help Center, checked on 11 October 2026). The WhatsApp images to PDF guide has more on that.
• Email: a phone photo is about 3 MB, and JPG photos go into the PDF unchanged, so 8 photos make a PDF of about 24 MB, at the edge of Gmail’s 25 MB limit. Our 20-photo test PDF was 60.7 MB. Compress PDF on the Email preset took it to 2.2 MB; the Android compress guide shows the steps.
• A portal: its upload button opens the same Android picker; the PDF is in Download.

Data and privacy, in plain words

The page and its engine download once (the engine is 4.6 MB, fetched when you pick your first file). After that, the photos are read, placed and written into the PDF inside Chrome on your phone. Nothing is uploaded, and you can check it: convert once with the network on, switch on aeroplane mode, and convert another set. It still works.

The PDF also says less than the photos do. A phone writes the GPS position, the phone model and the time into every JPG; the converter copies only the picture data and leaves those details out, and the result says how many photos it cleaned. The metadata guide explains what else a file can carry.

The honest part: phone memory, and big sets

A phone has a fraction of a laptop’s memory, and a browser tab gets only part of that. This converter keeps every photo of a job in memory at once, several times over: the photo as picked, the copy without camera details, the finished PDF, and the engine’s check that the PDF opens before it is offered. On the laptop, 250 photos of 3 MB (742 MB) went through and 300 (890 MB) did not. A phone reaches its limit far earlier, and Chrome may simply reload the tab.

So for big sets on a phone:

1. Convert in batches of about 50 photos. Name the PDFs in order (part-1, part-2).
2. Join them with Merge PDF, which takes the parts in the order of its list, with the same Up and Down.
3. Or do it on a computer, where the same page has more room. The bulk images guide covers sets of hundreds.

It also does not straighten or crop a photo, or make text in it searchable. A photo of a document goes in as you took it; for searchable text, run OCR PDF on the result.