UtilForge

Free Developer Tools That Run Entirely in Your Browser

QR codes, hashing, PDF tools and more — no sign-up, no uploads. Everything runs locally on your device, including a JSON formatter that stays fast on files with tens of thousands of lines.

Why UtilForge?

Most online tools make you upload your data to somebody else's server, then wait and hope it isn't logged. UtilForge takes the opposite approach: every tool is a small, fast app that runs entirely in your browser. Your files and text never leave your device — and once a page has loaded, most tools keep working even if you go offline.

100% client-side, always

Your text, images and PDFs are processed on your device with Web Workers — never uploaded, never stored. Load a page once and most tools keep working offline.

A JSON formatter built for huge files

Parsing runs in a Web Worker and rendering is virtualized, so formatting a JSON file with tens of thousands of lines doesn't freeze the tab. Paste, format, scroll — smoothly.

A real PDF toolkit in the browser

Merge, split, rotate, watermark, number pages and compress — with smart per-image optimization that recompresses photos and downsamples oversized images while keeping text sharp.

Free, with no strings

No accounts, no quotas, no watermarks on your output, no premium tier. Open a tool and use it.

Built by the developer behind CodeHero Blog

Want to know how the internals actually work — memory, CPUs, parsers, transformers? UtilForge is built by an independent developer who also runs CodeHero — a technical blog and YouTube channel that explain how computers and AI really work.