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A jar of small tools, and no server.

What's in it, why it exists, and the one rule anything new has to meet.

ToolJar is the kind of tool you reach for a dozen times a week and then close again. Nothing in it asks you to sign up, and nothing in it sends your data anywhere.

Why it exists

Most of the utilities a search turns up will happily take whatever you paste and send it off to a server. That's a bad deal when the thing on your clipboard is a production response with someone's personal details in it. None of this work needs a server, so ToolJar doesn't have one. Open your network tab and you won't find what you pasted in any request, or go offline entirely and keep using it. The privacy page spells out the one exception and how to check the claim yourself.

What's in it

28 tools on 6 shelves. The list below is read straight out of the same registry the menus and the sitemap use, so it always matches what is on the site today:

JWT tools: Decode, verify and generate JSON Web Tokens.
JWT DecoderJWT VerifierJWT Expiry CheckerJWT GeneratorBase64URL Encoder
Keys & IDs: Generate secure tokens, passwords and UUIDs.
Password GeneratorUUID Generator
AI tools: Count tokens and hide secrets before you prompt.
Token CounterPrompt Secret Scrubber

More go in as I need them. The rule for anything that gets added is the same: it has to work without a server, and it has to do the job better than the first search result does. Usually that means being specific where the alternatives are vague: naming the line and column that broke, naming the cron field that is out of range, or saying outright that the hour you typed does not exist because the clocks moved.

About this build

A static React and TypeScript app, kept small. It is an independent project, not a company, so there is nothing here to upsell you and no business model that needs your data. There is no backend and no database either; every page is rendered to plain HTML at build time, so a tool is on screen before much JavaScript has had to run.

The parts that had to be exactly right are written from scratch, with no dependencies. The JSON engine (parser, formatter, diff and statistics) is hand-written rather than wrapped around JSON.parse, mostly so its error messages can name the exact line and column, which the browser's own parser doesn't do consistently. So are the CSV reader, the JWT signing and verification (WebCrypto, secret never leaving the tab), the cron parser and the time zone arithmetic, which leans on the browser's own Intl data rather than a hardcoded table of offsets that would be wrong within a year. The code formatters are the exception: they wrap the established libraries for each language, because a hand-rolled JavaScript minifier can easily change what someone's code does.

Keyboard shortcuts

Global

  • Show this shortcuts dialogShift?
  • Toggle light / dark themeCtrlShiftL
  • Close dialogsEsc

Formatter & Validator

  • Format JSONCtrlEnter
  • Minify JSONCtrlShiftM
  • Copy outputCtrlShiftC
  • Download output as .jsonCtrlShiftS
  • Clear input and outputCtrlShiftX

Tree Viewer

  • Focus the search box/
  • Expand all nodesCtrlShiftE
  • Collapse all nodesCtrlShiftR

Diff

  • Swap document A and BCtrlShiftS

Time & date tools

  • Use the current time (Epoch Converter)CtrlEnter
  • Copy the main resultCtrlShiftC
  • Clear the inputCtrlShiftX

PHP Unserialize & Serialize

  • Convert an input over 2 MBCtrlEnter
  • Copy outputCtrlShiftC
  • Download outputCtrlShiftS
  • Clear input and outputCtrlShiftX

Keys & IDs

  • Generate a new token or UUID batchCtrlEnter
  • Copy the resultCtrlShiftC

JSON tools

JSON FormatterPretty-print or minify
JSON ValidatorCheck strict JSON validity
JSON Tree ViewerBrowse JSON as a tree
JSON DiffCompare two documents
JSON Path FinderExplore JSONPath expressions
JSON to CSVFlatten JSON into rows
CSV to JSONTurn rows back into objects
PHP UnserializeSerialized PHP to JSON
PHP SerializeJSON to serialized PHP

JWT tools

JWT DecoderClaims, signature and expiry
JWT VerifierWith a secret, PEM key or JWKS
JWT Expiry Checkeriat, nbf and exp in local time
JWT GeneratorBuild a signed test token
Base64URL EncoderEncode or decode a segment

Time & date tools

Epoch ConverterTimestamps to real dates
Cron Expression ExplainerCron in plain English
Time Zone ConverterOne moment, many cities
Duration CalculatorDate maths and durations

Keys & IDs

Password GeneratorSecure random secrets
UUID Generatorv1, v4, v5 or v7 UUIDs

Code formatters

SQL FormatterBeautify or minify SQL
HTML FormatterBeautify or minify HTML
CSS FormatterBeautify or minify CSS
JavaScript FormatterBeautify or minify JS
PHP FormatterBeautify PHP code
Markdown to HTMLConvert with a live preview

AI tools

Token CounterTokens for every model
Prompt Secret ScrubberHide keys and personal data

Pages

JSON toolsFormat, validate, compare and convert JSON.
JWT toolsDecode, verify and generate JSON Web Tokens.
Time & date toolsConvert timestamps, read cron, compare zones.
Keys & IDsGenerate secure tokens, passwords and UUIDs.
Code formattersFormat SQL, HTML, CSS, JavaScript and PHP code.
AI toolsCount tokens and hide secrets before you prompt.
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