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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.

