The tool library

All 69 tools in Toolyn

Every tool in the app, with what it does. Tools that do one job in several ways list their jobs; each job is also found by its own name in Toolyn's search (56 of them). Everything runs on your PC; the few that go online say so.

All 69 tools

Capture

Take screenshots, record the screen, use the camera, and grab text or colors from the screen.

Also listed here in the app: Scan Document.

Screenshot

Capture an area, a window or the whole screen, then mark it up.

Record Screen

Record a display, a window or an area, with your microphone if you like.

Uses FFmpeg

Capture Text

Snip text from your screen, or read it from pictures and the clipboard.

Windows OCR

Demo Recorder

Record a polished screen demo that zooms in on your clicks.

Uses FFmpeg

Color Picker

Pick a color anywhere on screen and copy it as HEX, RGB or HSL.

Camera

Take photos, record video and time-lapses, or read QR codes.

Capture Web Page

Save a whole web page as one tall PNG, a JPG or a PDF.

Uses Edge or ChromeGoes online

Jobs

  • Web Page to JPG · Capture a whole web page as a JPG.
  • Web Page to PDF · Save a whole web page as a PDF.

Video

Edit, convert, shrink and download video.

Also listed here in the app: Record Screen, Demo Recorder, Camera.

Video Editor

Cut videos, photos and music together on a timeline.

Uses FFmpeg

Jobs

  • Add Text to Video · Put titles, labels and styled words over a video in the editor.
  • Add Music · Put a song under your edit on its own track and fade it in the editor.

Video Converter

Convert, compress and resize videos, or turn clips into GIFs and stills: MP4, WebM, MKV, MOV.

Uses FFmpeg

Jobs

  • Compress Video · Shrink video files while keeping them looking great.
  • Resize Video · Change the dimensions of videos to an exact size.
  • Video to GIF · Turn a clip into a GIF or animated WebP with a palette made for it.
  • Extract Frames · Save stills from videos as PNG, JPEG or HEIC.

Trim & Crop Video

Trim, crop, rotate or speed up a video, put new sound under it, or mute it.

Uses FFmpeg

Jobs

  • Crop & Rotate Video · Crop to square, vertical or widescreen, rotate and flip a video.
  • Change Speed · Speed up or slow down videos without chipmunk voices.
  • Replace Audio · Replace a video's sound or mix music into it, in one step.
  • Mute Video · Remove the soundtrack from videos without re-encoding.

Merge Videos

Join several clips into one video, in the order you choose.

Uses FFmpeg

Burn In Subtitles

Add captions to a video from an SRT file or automatic transcription.

Uses FFmpeg

Download Video

Save a video from a link you paste, using the free yt-dlp helper.

Uses yt-dlpGoes online

Media Info

See the codec, resolution, frame rate and bitrate of media files.

Uses FFmpeg

Audio

Record, edit, convert and clean up audio.

Also listed here in the app: Transcribe, Text to Speech.

Audio Studio

Record microphones, edit multitrack waveforms, mix, apply effects and export audio.

FFmpeg for MP3 and more

Jobs

  • Record Audio · Record your microphone with a live level meter, then trim and export.
  • Change Volume · Make a recording, or part of one, louder or quieter.
  • Reverse Audio · Reverse a recording, or part of one, so it plays backwards.

Audio Converter

Convert and trim recordings, or pull the sound out of videos: MP3, WAV, FLAC, M4A and more.

Uses FFmpeg

Jobs

  • Trim Audio · Cut the start and end of a recording.
  • Extract Audio · Pull the soundtrack out of a video as MP3, M4A or WAV.

Clean Up Audio

Reduce noise and hum in recordings and even out their volume.

Uses FFmpeg

Images

View, edit, convert and shrink pictures.

Also listed here in the app: Screenshot, Color Picker.

View & Edit Images

Crop, resize, rotate and mark up pictures with arrows, text, shapes and blur.

Jobs

  • Annotate Screenshot · Add arrows, boxes, text and highlights to a screenshot, then copy or save it.
  • Redact Image · Cover faces, names and numbers with solid boxes that can't be undone by anyone else.

Image Converter

Convert, compress, resize, rotate and clean many photos at once: JPG, PNG, HEIC, WebP and more.

Jobs

  • Compress Images · Make photos and screenshots smaller without visible loss in quality.
  • Resize Images · Scale photos by percentage, longest side or an exact size.
  • Rotate Images · Turn and flip many photos at once.
  • Remove Metadata · Strip location, camera and date details from photos before you share them.

Remove Background

Lift the subject out of a photo onto a clear or plain background.

rembg for busy photos, optional

Beautify Screenshot

Put screenshots on a backdrop with rounded corners and a shadow.

Blur & Redact Photos

Find faces and text in photos and blur or cover them.

Windows face detection

Jobs

  • Cover Faces & Text · Find and cover faces, text, emails, phone numbers and links in many pictures at once.

Convert Vector Art

Convert SVG, PDF, EPS and AI files into SVG, PDF, PNG or EPS.

Inkscape for EPS and AI, optional

PDF & Docs

Edit, merge, compress, protect and convert PDFs and documents.

Also listed here in the app: Web Page to PDF (in Capture Web Page).

Scan Document

Scan pages with a scanner or camera into a PDF or images.

Scanners through WIA

PDF Editor

Read, annotate, sign, fill in, edit and organize PDFs.

Jobs

  • Edit PDF · Change a PDF's own text, add text and pictures, cover or crop parts of pages.
  • Fill & Sign · Type into form fields and tick boxes, sign, then flatten so answers can't be changed.
  • Organize PDF · Reorder, rotate, delete and insert pages with thumbnails you can drag.
  • Redact PDF · Black out names, numbers and passages so the text underneath is gone for good.
  • Sign PDF · Draw, type or place your signature on a PDF and save a signed copy.
  • Annotate PDF · Highlight, underline, draw, add shapes, text boxes and sticky notes on a PDF.
  • Add Watermark · Put DRAFT, CONFIDENTIAL or your own words across every page of a PDF.
  • Add Page Numbers · Add page numbers, or Page 3 of 12, at the top or bottom of every page.
  • Rotate PDF · Rotate sideways or upside-down pages and save the PDF the right way up.

Merge PDF

Combine PDFs and images in the order you choose, or put photos into one PDF.

Jobs

  • Images to PDF · Put photos and scans into one PDF, a page each.

Compress PDF

Shrink PDFs by recompressing their images.

Split PDF

Split PDFs, or copy or delete pages by number or range.

Jobs

  • Extract Pages · Copy chosen pages out of a PDF into a new one.
  • Delete Pages · Remove pages from PDFs by number or range.

PDF Password

Add a password to PDFs, or remove one you know.

Jobs

  • Remove Password · Remove the password from PDFs you can open, so they open without one.

PDF Converter

Turn PDFs into Word or images, and Office or Markdown files into PDFs.

Jobs

  • PDF to Images · Save every PDF page as a JPG, PNG or HEIC.
  • Word to PDF · Turn Word, OpenDocument and RTF documents into PDFs.
  • PowerPoint to PDF · Turn slide decks into PDFs to share or print.
  • Excel to PDF · Turn spreadsheets into PDFs, a page per sheet.
  • Markdown to PDF · Turn Markdown and text files into nicely set PDFs.

Document Converter

Convert documents, spreadsheets, slides, ebooks and CAD drawings.

LibreOffice or Calibre for some formats, optional

Jobs

  • Convert Spreadsheets · Convert Excel, OpenDocument and CSV sheets to XLSX, CSV, JSON, HTML or PDF.
  • Convert Presentations · Turn slides into PDF, Word, Markdown, HTML or text, with full layout through LibreOffice.
  • Convert Ebooks · Turn EPUB into PDF, Word, Markdown, text or HTML, and documents or PDFs into EPUB.
  • Convert CAD Drawings · Turn DXF drawings into SVG, PNG or PDF, and DWG drawings too with ODA File Converter.

Make PDF Searchable

Recognize the text in scanned PDFs so you can search and copy it.

Windows OCR

Text & Speech

Pull text from pictures, read text aloud, count, translate and transcribe.

Also listed here in the app: Capture Text.

Transcribe

Turn speech in audio and video into text or subtitles, with timestamps.

Uses FFmpeg full buildSpeech model downloads once

Text to Speech

Hear text and documents read aloud, and save them as audio.

Windows voices

Extract Text

Read the text in photos, screenshots and scanned PDFs and save it.

Windows OCR

Word Counter

Count words, characters, sentences and reading time.

Jobs

  • Case Converter · Change text to UPPER, lower, Title, camelCase and more.

Ask & Summarize

Ask questions about a PDF or Word file, or get its key points, on this PC.

Better with a local AI model

Jobs

  • Summarize · Get the key points of a long text, PDF or Word document, on this PC.

Translate

Translate text and documents into 30+ languages on this PC.

Needs a local AI model

Files

Find, rename, zip, de-duplicate and share files.

Also listed here in the app: Storage Explorer.

Zip & Unzip Files

Zip files and folders, unzip archives, or repack them as another format: ZIP, 7Z, RAR, TAR.

Jobs

  • Unzip Files · Unpack ZIP, 7Z, TAR, TAR.GZ, RAR, BZ2, XZ, ISO and CAB into a folder.
  • Convert Archives · Repack ZIP, 7Z, TAR, TAR.GZ and RAR archives.

Find Duplicates

Find duplicate files and move the extras to the Recycle Bin.

Batch Rename

Rename many files at once, with a live preview and undo.

QR Code

Make QR codes for links and Wi-Fi, or read them from pictures.

System

Check, tune and fix your Windows PC.

Storage Explorer

See what is filling your disk and clear caches and leftovers safely.

Tune-Up

Tune Windows for games and low latency, from power and input to network and cleanup, each change undoable.

System Info

See CPU, memory, GPU and drive details with live temperatures.

Battery Health

Check battery capacity and charge cycles, and Bluetooth devices.

Network Speed Test

Test download, upload and latency, and keep a history.

Goes online

Wi-Fi Password & QR

Show saved Wi-Fi passwords and make a QR code guests can scan.

Display

Change monitor brightness, contrast and volume from your PC.

Jobs

  • Dead Pixel Test · Fill the screen with solid colors to find dead, stuck or bright pixels.

Apps & Startup

Remove apps and everything they leave behind.

Jobs

  • Startup Apps · See and switch off the apps and background tasks that start when you sign in.
  • App Permissions · See which apps used your camera, microphone or location, and reset or deny their access.

Windows Tweaks

Switch on useful Windows settings that aren't in Settings.

Jobs

  • Mouse Fixes · Reverse or speed up the mouse wheel, turn off acceleration and fine-tune the pointer.

Unblock Downloads

Check who made a blocked app, and unblock it if you trust them.

Keep Awake

Stop your PC from sleeping during a download, a render or a talk.

Presentation Mode

Hide desktop icons and silence notifications while you present.

Clean Keyboard

Pause the keyboard for a minute so you can wipe it clean.

Eject All Disks

Eject every USB drive, memory card and disk image at once, safely.

Developer

Format, compare, encode and generate data.

JSON Formatter

Pretty-print, minify and validate JSON with clear error positions.

Text Editor

Edit text and code with tabs, syntax highlighting, folder navigation, search and replace.

Diff Checker

Compare two texts and see what was added, removed or changed.

Regex Tester

Test regular expressions with live matches and capture groups.

Encode & Decode

Encode and decode Base64 for text, files and data URLs.

Jobs

  • JWT Decoder · Read a JSON Web Token's claims and check when it expires.

Hash Generator

Get MD5, SHA-256 and other checksums of text or any file.

Timestamp Converter

Turn Unix timestamps into readable dates and dates back into timestamps.

UUID Generator

Make random v4 or time-ordered v7 UUIDs, one or many at once.

Jobs

  • Lorem Ipsum · Make placeholder text as plain text, HTML or Markdown.

Unicode Inspector

Find hidden characters, odd spaces and look-alikes in any text.

Coordinate Picker

Pick a place on a map to get its coordinates in any format.

Map goes online

Convert Fonts

Turn TTF and OTF fonts into WOFF and WOFF2 web fonts, and back.

FontForge for some fonts, optional

All of them, one download.

Free while Toolyn is in beta. Windows 10/11, 64-bit.

Version 0.2.0-beta.1 · Windows 10/11 · 64-bit · free beta