A walkthrough of FilesDesk's free tool suite. All client-side, all useful for the kind of small file jobs that come up mid-workflow.

There's a specific category of task that always shows up at the worst time. You're three commits deep into something, and suddenly you need to strip GPS data from a screenshot, or verify a download's SHA-256, or rename 60 files that came in with garbage names. The flow break is annoying. The bigger annoyance is the dance of finding a site that does the job without making you upload the file, sign up, dismiss a cookie banner the size of a small novel, and dodge three popups.

I came across FilesDesk's free tools page recently and ended up bookmarking the whole thing. It's a set of eight browser tools that run entirely client-side. No upload, no signup, no server doing the work.…