I'm building a list of free tools that don't ask you to sign up. What am I missing?
I keep hitting the same thing: find a tool, looks right, and then it wants your email before it'll do anything. Not to save your work, just to use it once.
So I started keeping a list of tools that don't do that. It's at 21 so far, and I put it online. The site is mine.
Rules I'm sticking to:
no account, no email, no "continue with Google"
free means free, not 14 days
nothing watermarked
ads are fine, I just note them, something has to pay for it
These are some of the tools that are included: Photopea, Squoosh, CyberChef, PairDrop, Mailinator, regex101, PDF24, Excalidraw, Wormhole, transform.tools, diagrams.net and some others. Each one has a line on what it does and what its catch is.
If you know something that belongs, reply. If you built it, say so, doesn't matter as long as it clears the bar. It's a new page so I'm not going to pretend it'll send you traffic, but you get a real writeup rather than a scraped title. I'll check and reply either way.
Fair warning that I'll turn things down. I'd rather have 50 that someone can vouch for than 300 scraped off other lists.
The one I keep going back and forth on: tools that only need an account if you want to save your work. Right now they're in, with a note. It doesn't stop you using the thing, which feels like the right side of the line, but I could see the argument that it's the same trick one step later.