The free tools you should've had years ago.
Formatters, validators, converters, calculators. The ones that exist are cluttered, dated, and painful to look at. These aren't.
Instant
Open it, use it. Everything runs in your browser. Nothing to load or wait for.
Private
Your data stays on your device. We don't upload it, process it on a server, or peek at it.
Well-designed
Somebody actually thought about the UI. These aren't the janky tools you're used to settling for.
Free. Actually free.
No "sign up to continue." No premium tier lurking behind the good features. Just use them.
What AppCrib actually is
Search for a JSON formatter. Or a paint calculator, or a cron validator. Whatever you need, you'll land on a page that looks like it was last touched in 2011. Ads flashing down the sides. A modal blocking the headline before you've read it. The good features hidden behind a “Pro” button. Features that used to work, dressed up in a coat of banner ads and pushed back out for search.
AppCrib is the alternative nobody bothered to build. Small tools. One job each. Held to the same quality bar as software you'd pay for, and then given away. Not freemium. Not free-with-signup. Free.
Every tool runs in your browser. Paste JSON into jsonr and nothing leaves the tab. Upload a photo to Blank to strip its EXIF — no bytes touch a server. Drywl crunches your room dimensions locally and hands back a sheet count. That's not a privacy tagline. It's the only way a free online tool can credibly promise your data stays yours. If the bytes aren't uploaded, they can't be logged, sold, or aggregated next to your IP later.
Client-side also makes the tools fast. No round trip, no queue, no cold start. You type, you see the answer. The whole thing loads once and works offline — there's no backend to wait on, because there's no backend.
And they share a design system. Same typography, same color logic, same spacing, same dark mode — applied to every tool in the catalog, and every one that ships next. Learn one and you already know how the next one works. No tutorials, no onboarding flows, nothing between you and the answer.
The Toolkit
Every tool is free, runs in your browser, and works without an account. Pick a category and go.
Who builds these?
Infinite Orchard is the studio behind AppCrib. We make small, focused tools that should already exist but somehow don't. One tool, one job, done right. We give them away because most everyday tools online are genuinely terrible, and we'd rather fix that than charge people for the privilege.
The approach is unglamorous. Find something that should take thirty seconds. Build a tool that takes thirty seconds to do it. Skip the tracking pixels, the email modals, and the premium tier hiding the useful features. Ship. Next one.
The tools are paid for by ads. Small, static units that stay in their box — no cursor-chasing, no fake close buttons, no overlays eating the content. A few products in the catalog offer optional paid tiers for professional work, but what you see on AppCrib is genuinely free. We don't sell your data. We don't have your data in the first place, because the tools run in your browser instead of our servers.
That's the whole pitch.
Read more about how we workFrom the blog
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