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Free Online Developer Tools: The Complete Guide to Encoding, Hashing, Formatting and Sysadmin Utilities

A complete guide to 61 free browser-based developer tools — encoding, hashing, JSON/YAML/XML formatting, archives, SEO, and sysadmin utilities.

This is the largest tool category on SysFenix — 61 tools covering the everyday work of building and running software: encoding and hashing, structured-data formatting, archive files, SEO/webmaster utilities, and sysadmin/network config generators. Every one of them runs entirely in your browser tab. That’s a genuinely different privacy posture from most competing “online JWT decoder” or “online JSON formatter” sites, since it’s common to paste something here — an API token, a password hash, a curl command with a live bearer token — that you really don’t want touching a third-party server.

Encoding and decoding

The basics, each with a matching decoder:

Hashing, passwords and cryptography

Structured data: JSON, YAML, XML, CSV and Excel

General developer utilities

Archive files

SEO and webmaster tools

Sysadmin, network and server config

Which tool should I use?

I want to…Use this tool
Encode/decode Base64, a URL, or HTML entitiesBase64 Encode / URL Encode / HTML Encode
Hash text securelySHA-256 Hash Generator
Hash a password for storageBcrypt Hash Generator & Verifier
Verify a downloaded file wasn’t corruptedFile Checksum Verifier
Generate a strong random passwordPassword Generator
Generate an SSH key pairSSH Key Generator
Format or validate JSONJSON Formatter & Validator
Convert YAML to JSON (or back)YAML to JSON Converter
Convert a spreadsheet to/from JSONConvert Excel to JSON / Convert JSON to Excel
Test a regular expressionRegex Tester & Builder
Decode a JWTJWT Decoder
Convert a curl command to codeCurl Command Converter
Extract a ZIP/RAR/7z/TAR.GZ archiveUnzip Files Online / RAR Extractor Online / 7z Extractor Online / TAR.GZ Extractor Online
Add SEO meta tags to a pageMeta Tags Generator
Build a robots.txtRobots.txt Generator & Tester
Generate an Nginx or .htaccess configNginx & .htaccess Config Generator
Build a cron scheduleCrontab Expression Generator
Calculate a subnet’s network/broadcast addressIP Subnet Calculator

With 61 tools in this category, there’s a good chance the one you need is here — and whichever it is, your data stays on your own device the entire time.

The tools in this guide, in action

Screenshot of the Base64 Encode tool with the sample input “Everything on SysFenix runs in your browser. You…”
Base64 Encode mid-process: the sample input “Everything on SysFenix runs in your browser. You…”.
Screenshot of the Base64 Decode tool with the sample input “RXZlcnl0aGluZyBydW5zIGluIHlvdXIgYnJvd3Nlci4=”
Base64 Decode mid-process: the sample input “RXZlcnl0aGluZyBydW5zIGluIHlvdXIgYnJvd3Nlci4=”.

Frequently asked questions

Is any data I paste or upload into these developer tools sent to a server?

No. Every tool in this category runs entirely in your browser — WebAssembly libraries for cryptography and archive formats, the native Web Crypto API for hashing, and plain JavaScript for formatting/parsing. That matters a lot for this category specifically, since it's common to paste real API keys, JWTs, database credentials, or curl commands copied straight from a request that contains a live bearer token — none of it is ever transmitted anywhere.

There are 61 tools here — what are the main groups?

Roughly seven: text encoding (Base64/URL/HTML), hashing and password/crypto tools, structured-data formatting and conversion (JSON/YAML/XML/CSV/Excel), general dev utilities (regex, diff, SQL formatting, curl conversion, JWT), archive tools (ZIP/RAR/7z/TAR.GZ), SEO/webmaster tools, and sysadmin/network config generators. This guide walks through each group below.

I need to encode or decode something — which of Base64/URL/HTML do I need?

Base64 turns arbitrary bytes into printable text (common for embedding data or in JWTs). URL encoding escapes characters that aren't safe inside a URL. HTML encoding escapes characters that would otherwise be interpreted as markup. If you're not sure which one applies, look at what the encoded text actually looks like — a URL encoding uses %XX sequences, HTML entities look like &, and Base64 uses only letters, digits, +, / and =.

Which hash function should I actually use?

For anything security-related — passwords, signatures, tamper-detection — use SHA-256 or, for password STORAGE specifically, Bcrypt (never plain SHA-256/MD5/SHA-1, which are all too fast for password hashing). MD5 and SHA-1 are both cryptographically broken and should only be used for legacy checksums or compatibility, never security. Each hash tool's own page explains this in more detail.

Do the archive tools (ZIP/RAR/7z/TAR.GZ) support creating new archives too, or just extracting?

Create ZIP Files Online creates archives. Unzip Files, RAR Extractor, 7z Extractor and TAR.GZ Extractor are read-only — they extract existing archives (none of them can create a RAR/7z/TAR.GZ archive, since those formats' real encoders aren't practically available as browser-safe, permissively-licensed libraries).

Every tool covered in this guide