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Text and writing tools collects editors, formatters and helpers for working with words and code. The listings cover plain-text editors, markdown tools, word counters, case converters, font references and proofreading helpers. Some are full writing environments, and others handle one small job in the browser. Notice where the work happens: on your device or on a server, how files are saved and whether the tool keeps a copy. A few run in a browser tab, which suits a quick fix, but if you paste private writing into one, check how the site handles data.
Docspell is an open source document management system designed to help users organize documents sourced from scanners, emails and other inputs with minimal effort. The project provides public documentation, a demo instance for testing, and accepts community contributions and support.
So You Need A Typeface 2.0 is an interactive way to choose fonts for projects. It is a web recreation of an infographic poster designed by Julian Hansen, rebuilt as a dynamic web page using HTML, CSS, and jQuery by Ian Li.
DocuSeal is an open source platform for digital document signing and processing. It provides a PDF form fields builder and lets PDF forms be filled and signed online on any device through a mobile-optimized web tool.
Vibe is a local-first transcription application for audio and video content. It supports transcribing files, URLs, and recordings, and includes features such as AI summaries, multilingual support, and privacy-focused processing.
emoji-cheat-sheet helps clean, compare, sort, transform, count, or format text in the browser.
Online Tools is a collection of free browser-based utilities for hashing, encoding, encryption, formatting, compression, file processing, QR codes, UUIDs, JSON and XML. The page groups tools under categories including hash, cryptography, compression, encoding, format conversion and generators.
FiraCode helps clean, compare, sort, transform, count, or format text in the browser.
Scanner is a Windows application for WIA-compatible scanners that saves multiple pages as a single PDF or separate images. It includes a built-in editor for cropping, rotating, drawing with Windows Ink, renaming files and deleting or reordering pages, and is available in the Microsoft Store.
Font Piracy 101 helps clean, compare, sort, transform, count, or format text in the browser.
FontEdit is a desktop application, written in C++ with a Qt UI, that converts fixed-width desktop fonts to byte array representations for embedded systems displays. It allows importing, editing and exporting font glyphs as source code for Arduino, C/C++ or Python.
CyberChef is a web application for encryption, encoding, compression and data analysis. It provides hundreds of operations that can be combined into recipes, and input files can be dragged onto the input box, with files up to around 2GB supported depending on the browser. It is released under the Apache Licence, Version 2.0.
FontForge is a free font editor for Windows, Mac OS X and GNU+Linux. It is used to create, edit and convert fonts in OpenType, TrueType, UFO, CID-keyed, Multiple Master and other formats.
FontoGen helps clean, compare, sort, transform, count, or format text in the browser.
Handy is a free, open source, cross-platform desktop application for speech-to-text transcription. A configurable shortcut records speech, which is transcribed using Whisper or Parakeet V3 models and pasted into the active text field. Processing is local, with no audio sent to the cloud. It is available for Windows, macOS, and Linux.
Harper helps clean, compare, sort, transform, count, or format text in the browser.
keybr.com is a touch typing tutor released under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0. It tracks each keystroke, computes statistics for individual keys, and automatically generates lessons focusing on the weakest keys. Users can set a target typing speed, and lessons begin with frequent letters, adding more as targets are met.
LanguageTool is open-source proofreading software for English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Polish, Dutch, and more than 20 other languages. It finds errors that a simple spell checker cannot detect. The core is available under the LGPL 2.1 or later, and the project offers command-line, server, and standalone packages.
Linkspector helps scan, OCR, organize, compare, sign, or manage documents and PDFs.
Linux Font Manager helps clean, compare, sort, transform, count, or format text in the browser.
Maple Font is an open source font project hosted on GitHub. It provides Maple Mono, a monospace font with rounded corners, ligatures, Nerd-Font icons, fine-grained customization options, and support for Chinese, Japanese and Korean characters with a 2:1 character width ratio.
MarkItDown is a lightweight Python utility for converting various files to Markdown for use with LLMs and related text analysis pipelines. It preserves document structure and content as Markdown, including headings, lists, tables, and links, and supports formats such as PDF, PowerPoint, Word, Excel, images, audio, HTML, and ZIP files.
MFEKglif helps clean, compare, sort, transform, count, or format text in the browser.
Monkeytype is a minimalistic, customizable typing test website. It offers multiple test modes, an account system to save typing speed history, and configurable options such as themes, sounds and a smooth caret, with live displays of errors, words per minute and accuracy.
Paperless Ngx helps scan, OCR, organize, compare, sign, or manage documents and PDFs.
