Welcome to the iGotTools blog

Most online tool sites have the same problem: you paste something sensitive into a stranger’s server, hope for the best, and move on. We got tired of that loop — the pop-ups, the upload bars, the vague privacy policies — so we built iGotTools: a free, local-first collection of 44+ browser tools for the small tasks that fill a developer’s or writer’s day.

TL;DR

• 44 tools, five categories — text, developer, image, network, and extraction utilities in one place.
• Local-first by default — your inputs are processed in your browser and never uploaded unless a page clearly says otherwise.
• One rule decides what we ship — we build tools we’d actually bookmark. If we wouldn’t use it, we don’t expect you to.
• No account, no paywall, no detour — every tool opens straight to the working surface.

Why does the web need another toolbox?

Because “the function works” is no longer a differentiator — it’s table stakes. The web already overflows with sites that convert your Base64 or count your characters. What’s missing is a toolbox that respects your data and respects your time.

Three frustrations pushed us to start:

1. Scattered workflows — the same ten tools scattered across ten tabs, ten UIs, ten sets of keyboard shortcuts.
2. Unnecessary uploads — pasting a JWT or an EXIF-laden photo into a site we didn’t fully trust, just to decode or inspect it.
3. Friction before function — closing cookie banners, dismissing pop-ups, and scrolling past marketing copy before reaching a single input box.

iGotTools is our answer: one consistent surface, browser-local processing, and the working tool on top — not buried under a pitch.

What does “local-first” actually mean here?

It means your inputs are your work, not ours. When you paste text, drop an image, or decode a token, that processing happens in the current browser session via JavaScript. It doesn’t travel to our server.

This isn’t a marketing badge — it’s a practical default with two honest caveats:

• When a tool genuinely needs the network, the page says so out loud. No silent calls.
• Local doesn’t mean risk-free. Pasted content can still contain secrets, tokens, or EXIF metadata. We warn you on the pages where that matters, and we never overclaim what a heuristic or decode can guarantee.

Read the full position on the features page.

How do we decide what to build?

We build the tools we want to use. That’s the whole filter.

Every tool passes two checks before it ships:

• Demand check — keyword and search research confirms people actually need it. No thin pages chasing imaginary queries.
• Gut check — is this a tool I’d personally bookmark? If we wouldn’t keep it, we don’t expect you to.

That rule has produced 44 tools across five categories, and it’s the same bar we’ll hold every future tool to.

What can you use right now?

A quick tour by category:

• Text — Character Counter for words, characters, and UTF-8 byte length; plus case conversion, text cleaning, and spell check.
• Developer — the largest category. Format and validate JSON, generate UUIDs, encode and decode Base64, decode JWTs, test regex, parse cron, and convert between JSON, YAML, TOML, and XML.
• Image — compress images for the web, resize, convert formats, crop and rotate, strip EXIF, and generate favicons.
• Network — parse user agents, inspect browser info, and calculate IP and CIDR ranges.
• Extraction — pull YouTube thumbnails and extract images, links, scripts, and styles from HTML.

What’s coming next?

The tool slate keeps growing — our personal “want to use” list is still long — but the next stretch is about depth and identity, not just count:

• A stronger iGotTools identity across header, footer, home, and tool surfaces.
• A shared code editor (line numbers, language labels, toolbar, diagnostics) rolling out across developer tools, starting with the JSON Formatter.
• Better motion and feedback — subtle, transform-and-opacity only, always with a reduced-motion fallback.

One last thing

We’re a small project building the toolbox we wanted to exist. If a tool is missing, awkward, or wrong, that’s the most useful feedback you can give us — it’s exactly how the next tool gets prioritized.

Bookmark the tools hub and check back here as we ship.