12 tools · your files never leave your device

A private file & data workbench

Compress an image, verify a download's checksum, encrypt a note, convert JSON to CSV. Every tool below runs entirely inside your browser tab — the file you open is never sent to a server, because there is no server to send it to.

// the workbench

Twelve tools

How we can promise nothing is uploaded

"Private" is easy to claim and easy to check. Three ways to verify it yourself, in under a minute:

  1. Watch the network. Open your browser's developer tools, switch to the Network tab, then run any tool with a real file. You will see requests for the page, its stylesheet and its script — and none carrying your file or your text.
  2. Pull the plug. Load a tool, then turn off your Wi-Fi and use it. Every tool here keeps working offline, because all the logic already ran down to your machine.
  3. Read the source. Each tool is a single page of plain JavaScript with no build step and no bundler. View source and you can read the whole thing.

Under the hood the hashing, HMAC and AES tools call Web Crypto (crypto.subtle) — the same primitives your browser uses for HTTPS — rather than a hand-rolled implementation. Image work uses FileReader and <canvas>. Where randomness has to be unguessable — the password generator, UUIDs and AES salts and IVs — it comes from crypto.getRandomValues(). The test-data generator uses ordinary Math.random() to vary its mock records, which is the right tool for fake data and should not be relied on for anything secret.

One honest caveat: larely is free because it shows ads, and our ad provider sets its own cookies and sees your IP address, as it would on any site. So the promise here is specifically about your data — files and text you load into a tool genuinely never leave your device — and not a claim that the page is free of all third-party tracking. The privacy policy spells out exactly what the ad provider collects.

Guides

Reference notes for the things these tools do — each one paired with the tool it explains.

Looking for a calculator?

larely started as a general collection of 251 calculators and converters. Those all still work and are still free — they now live in the full tool archive. This front page is deliberately just the workbench.