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DevBox 🛠️ vs Webacus

Webacus is a web-based Swiss-army-knife with online tools, while DevBox is fully offline.

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What it is
DevBox 🛠️:DevBox is an offline toolbox offering 105 generators, converters, viewers, cheat-sheets, snippets and collections for developers and designers.
Webacus:Webacus is an all-in-one online calculator offering 145 dev-focused tools for encoding, compression, formatting, hashing, and more.
Best for
DevBox 🛠️:All-in-one offline developer utilities
Webacus:Unified toolbox for common dev tasks
Who it’s for
DevBox 🛠️:Developers and designers who need quick offline utilities for everyday coding tasks.
Webacus:Web developers who need quick one-off operations without leaving the browser.
Pricing
DevBox 🛠️:Paid
Webacus:Freemium
Plans
DevBox 🛠️:Lifetime License $35
Webacus:FREE $0 /year · PRO $36 $120 /year
DevHunt upvotes
DevBox 🛠️:6
Webacus:26
Launched on DevHunt
DevBox 🛠️:Oct 2024
Webacus:Nov 2024

DevBox 🛠️ features

  • Handcrafted Tools. 105 generators, converters, encoders and other utilities available instantly.
  • Cheat-Sheets. 20 curated cheat-sheets for code, services and CLI tools.
  • Code Snippets & Collections. 65 ready-to-use snippets and 25 themed collections.
  • Offline Operation. All tools run locally, keeping data private and requiring no account.
  • Cross-Platform Apps. Desktop apps for Windows, macOS, Linux and browser extensions.
  • Interactive Viewers. Quick viewers for CSV, JSON, JWT and other formats with live preview.

Webacus features

  • Encoding & Decoding. Base64, URL, HEX, HTML, JSON and other encoders/decoders in a single UI.
  • Compression. ZLIB, GZIP, LZJB compress and decompress data instantly.
  • Formatting & Minify. Pretty-print or minify HTML, CSS, JS, JSON, YAML and more.
  • Hashing & Crypto. Generate SHA, MD5, SHA-3 hashes and work with JWT, HMAC and X.509 certificates.
  • Workflows & Chaining. Combine multiple tools into a single workflow to run sequentially without copy-paste.
  • AI Assistant. Prompt-based generation of custom dev tools and operations.
  • Local-first & Privacy. All data stays in the browser; no server storage of user inputs.
  • File Support. Upload files, apply tools, and download the transformed result.

Based on each tool's website and DevHunt data. Details may change; check the official sites.