Free timeless tools. Must-have SaaS.
Small tools that stay free. Small SaaS worth paying for.
I spend my days building small things and buying other people’s small things. This is where both live.
The free tools
On one side, hundreds of free tools. Most of them I did not build. I buy them, because a small tool that already works is worth more than the month I would spend rebuilding it, and because somebody who made one good thing usually stops paying attention to it long before it stops being useful. I keep them running and I keep them free.
They live at Free Tools Factory. A few to start with, all in your browser, with no account and nothing to install:
- Notepad Online: a plain notepad that keeps your notes in your own browser.
- Sticky Notes Online: colored notes you can drag around a board, saved as you type.
- Insert Unicode Characters: find an arrow, a symbol or an accented letter by name and copy it in one click.
The SaaS
On the other side, the SaaS. That list is short and I use every one on it myself, which is why it grows slowly. It lives at Useful SaaS.
Two different promises. With the free tools, quantity, because a free tool costs you nothing to try. With the SaaS, my own judgment, because a subscription does.
If you want to see everything in one place, every tool site and every SaaS, the directory lists them all.