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278 FREE Tools!

Useful, honest utilities for everyday work — PDFs, images, writing, money and code. Every tool is 100% free, needs no account, and runs entirely inside your browser, so your files and words never leave your device.

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Word Counter

Count words, characters, sentences and reading time as you type.

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Text Compare (Diff Checker)

Compare two texts line by line and highlight what changed.

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Percentage Calculator

Work out X% of Y, what percent X is of Y, and percentage change.

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Mortgage Calculator

Estimate monthly mortgage payments, total interest and payoff cost.

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Compound Interest Calculator

See how savings grow with compounding and monthly contributions.

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Hourly to Salary Calculator

Convert hourly pay to weekly, monthly and annual salary — and back.

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JSON Formatter & Validator

Pretty-print, minify and validate JSON with clear error messages.

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Strong Password Generator

Create strong random passwords with your choice of characters.

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Image Compressor

Shrink JPG, PNG and WebP file sizes without uploading.

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Why these tools are different

Most "free" tool sites ask you to upload your file to their servers, then show you a watermark, a queue or a paywall. Ours work the other way round: the code comes to your device, and your document stays put. You can switch your internet off after a page loads and most tools will still work.

Every tool page also includes a plain-English guide written by The Curator team — what the tool does, the formula or method behind it, its limits, and answers to common questions — so you understand the result, not just receive it.

PDF tools

PDF is the closest thing the internet has to digital paper. A PDF file describes every page as a fixed canvas, which is why it looks the same on a phone, a laptop and a printer. That fixed layout is also why PDFs are awkward to edit: the format was designed to preserve a page, not to rearrange it.

Image tools

Most image problems come down to three things: the format (JPG, PNG, WebP), the pixel dimensions, and the compression level. JPG is great for photos because it discards detail the eye barely notices. PNG is lossless and supports transparency, which makes it ideal for logos, screenshots and diagrams. WebP is a newer format from Google that is usually smaller than both, but some older apps still refuse to open it.

Text & writing tools

Writers, students, marketers and developers spend a surprising amount of time doing mechanical things to text: counting words for a brief, fixing an accidental caps-lock paragraph, removing duplicate lines from an export, or spotting what changed between two drafts. None of these tasks need artificial intelligence — they need a precise, predictable tool.

Money & business tools

Financial calculators are only useful if you understand the formula behind them. Each calculator on this page shows its working: the inputs it uses, the standard formula it applies, and what the result does and does not include. A mortgage figure that ignores property tax, or an ROI that ignores time, can be technically correct and still misleading.

Developer tools

Developer utilities are some of the most-searched tools online because everyone who touches code needs them, and they are usually needed right now: a minified API response to read, a Base64 string to decode, a token to inspect, a regular expression to debug. The risk with many online versions is that you paste secrets — API keys, tokens, customer data — into a server you know nothing about.

Everyday tools

Some questions come up again and again: how old is someone exactly, how many days until a deadline, what day of the week was a date. They are easy to get slightly wrong by hand because months have different lengths and leap years move the goalposts.

Free means free: no sign-up, no limits, no watermarks. The site is supported by advertising on these guide pages. Spotted a bug or want a tool added? Tell us.