DevToys
A Swiss Army knife for developers.
Introduction
DevToys helps in daily tasks like formatting JSON, comparing text, testing RegExp. No need to use many untruthful websites to do simple tasks with your data. With Smart Detection, DevToys is able to detect the best tool that can treat the data you copied in the clipboard of your Windows. Compact overlay lets you keep the app in small and on top of other windows. Multiple instances of the app can be used at once.
Many tools are available.
- Converters
- JSON <> YAML
- Timestamp
- Number Base
- Cron Parser
- Encoders / Decoders
- HTML
- URL
- Base64 Text & Image
- GZip
- JWT Decoder
- Formatters
- JSON
- SQL
- XML
- Generators
- Hash (MD5, SHA1, SHA256, SHA512)
- UUID 1 and 4
- Lorem Ipsum
- Checksum
- Text
- Escape / Unescape
- Inspector & Case Converter
- Regex Tester
- Text Comparer
- XML Validator
- Markdown Preview
- Graphic
- Color Blindness Simulator
- Color Picker & Contrast
- PNG / JPEG Compressor
- Image Converter
… and more are coming!
Rate on Microsoft Store as of 5/23/2022
How to install (as an end-user)
Prerequisite
- You need Windows 10 build 1903+ or later.
Microsoft Store
- Search for DevToys in the Microsoft Store App or click here
Manual
- Download and extract the latest release.
- Double click the *.msixbundle file.
- Install.
WinGet
- Open a PowerShell command prompt.
- Type
winget search DevToysto search and see details about DevToys. - Type
winget install DevToysto install the app.
Note: a Microsoft Store account is required for WinGet. We’re trying to workaround it. See here microsoft/winget-pkgs#43996
Chocolatey
- Make sure you already have Chocolatey installed on your computer.
- Open a PowerShell command prompt.
- Type
choco install devtoysor visit the chocolatey community package.
App Permission
DevToys works entirely offline, meaning that none of the data used by the app goes on internet. However, the app requires some other permissions in order to work correctly.
Uses all system resources– This permission is required for some tools likePNG / JPEG Compressoror (upcoming)On-screen color picker / measurer, which use a 3rd party Open-Source Win32 process like Efficient-Compression-Tool. All the code requiring this permission can be found here.
How to run DevToys
Using Start Menu
Open Windows start menu, type DevToys and press [Enter].
Using PowerShell
A cool thing about DevToys is that you can start it in command line! For this, simply open a PowerShell command prompt and type start devtoys:?tool={tool name}
For example, start devtoys:?tool=jsonyaml will open DevToys and start on the Json <> Yaml tool.
Here is the list of tool name you can use:
base64– Base64 Text Encoder/Decoderbase64img– Base64 Image Encoder/Decodergzip– GZip Encoder/Decoderhash– Hash Generatoruuid– UUID Generatorloremipsum– Lorem Ipsum Generatorchecksum– Checksum Filecronparser– Cron ParserjsonformatJson Formattersqlformat– SQL Formatterxmlformat– XML Formatterjsonyaml– Json <> Yamljwt– JWT Decodercolorblind– Color Blindness Simulatorcolor– Color Picker & Contrastimgcomp– PNG/JPEG compressorimageconverter– Image Convertermarkdown– Markdown Previewregex– Regular Expression Testertime– Unix Timestamp Converterbaseconverter– Number Base Converterstring– String Utilitiesurl– URL Encoder/Decoderhtml– HTML Encoder/Decoderdiff– Text Comparerxmlvalidator– XML Validatorescape– Text Escape / Unescapesettings– Settings
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