35 free tools, including ping and traceroute, a cable size calculator
Free tools for IT, networks and everyday tech.
Security and compliance checks, network and email diagnostics, cable calculators and developer utilities. Built by IT pros, free for everyone, with no sign-up.
- Speed & Lag Test
- Secure Clipboard
- SPF, DKIM & DMARC
- Cyber Essentials
- Cable Size
- Ping Test
- JSON Formatter & Validator
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Secure Shared Clipboard Transfer
Share text, passwords, screenshots and files between two computers with a private link. Encrypted, and wiped after 48 hours.
Smart QR Code Generator
QR codes for links, Wi-Fi, contacts and more, in your own colours, as PNG or SVG.
Cyber Essentials Checker
Work through the 2026 Danzell question set, see exactly which answers would fail (including the new automatic fails), and keep an evidence log book you can save, share and print.
True Speed & Lag Test
Your real download and upload speed, plus how much lag builds up when the line is busy and what that does to video calls, gaming and phone calls.
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Security & Privacy
Share secrets safely, see what your browser gives away and check your own security.
Secure Shared Clipboard Transfer
Share text, passwords, screenshots and files between two computers with a private link. Encrypted, and wiped after 48 hours.
Browser Fingerprint Test
See the 100+ details your browser gives away, and test whether websites can recognise you across private windows and VPNs without cookies.
Password Strength Tester
How long would your password take to crack today, and with future GPUs, AI data centres and quantum computers? See what gives it away and check it against data breaches, privately.
SSL Certificate Checker
Check a website or mail server's certificate: expiry, issuer, names covered, chain and trust, key strength, TLS 1.0 to 1.3 support and CAA records.
Hash Generator
MD5, SHA-1, SHA-2, SHA-3 and CRC32 hashes of text or files, checksum verification, HMAC signatures, and bcrypt password hashes for PHP and .htpasswd.
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Compliance & Training
Cyber Essentials and security audits with log books, plus a staff skills and phishing test.
Cyber Essentials Checker
Work through the 2026 Danzell question set, see exactly which answers would fail (including the new automatic fails), and keep an evidence log book you can save, share and print.
Cyber Essentials Plus Readiness
Get ready for the Cyber Essentials Plus audit: every self-assessment question plus the seven technical tests the assessor runs, with what to check before they arrive.
Enhanced Security Readiness Audit
A 27-area audit well beyond Cyber Essentials: AI tools and agents, Microsoft 365 and Google integrations, deepfake and phishing-kit attacks, cloud servers with weekly testing, pen testing, backups and incident response.
PC Skills & Competency Test
Test everyday computer, Microsoft 365, Word, Excel, Outlook and online safety skills. Marked instantly with explanations and a printable, verifiable result.
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Domains & Email
WHOIS, DNS records and backups, SPF, DKIM and DMARC, and tracing suspicious emails.
Email Security Checker
Check a domain's SPF, DKIM and DMARC setup, plus MTA-STS, TLS reporting and BIMI, against Google, Microsoft and NCSC requirements, with the records to fix it.
Email Header Analyser
Paste an email's headers to trace the servers it passed through, check SPF, DKIM and DMARC, decode spam filter verdicts and spot spoofed or hijacked senders.
DNS Checker & Propagation
Look up any DNS record, compare answers across six public resolvers and the authoritative servers, trace a lookup from the root and check DNSSEC.
Domain WHOIS Lookup
Who a domain is registered with, when it was registered and when it expires, its status locks, nameservers and where it's hosted. Works for .com, .co.uk and most other endings.
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Network & Internet
Speed, lag and stability tests, ping, traceroute, IP and leak checks, and web server headers.
True Speed & Lag Test
Your real download and upload speed, plus how much lag builds up when the line is busy and what that does to video calls, gaming and phone calls.
Internet Stability Checker
Watch your connection for 1 to 10 minutes to catch lag spikes, jitter and dropouts, then see whether it's good enough for gaming, calls and streaming.
What's My IP
Your public IP address, who your internet provider is, your reverse DNS and what your browser reveals about you.
ISP Leak & Blocking Detector
Check whether your internet provider or VPN is leaking your real IP through WebRTC, or blocking websites on your connection.
DNS Leak Checker
See which DNS servers really answer your lookups, so you can tell if your VPN or private DNS is leaking.
Ping Test
Ping any website, server or IP from our UK server to check it's up and measure latency, jitter and loss, or test a TCP port when ping is blocked.
Traceroute
See every router between our UK server and any website or IP, who runs each network and where delay builds up. Trace back to your own connection too.
Subnet Calculator
IPv4 and IPv6 subnets: network, usable range, broadcast and masks with a binary view, plus a subnet splitter, VLSM planner and route summariser.
HTTP Header Checker
See any website's redirect chain and response headers, with a security header grade, cookie and caching checks, certificate expiry and HTTP/2 support.
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Cabling & Electrical
Size power and network cables properly: voltage drop, PoE, current ratings and wire gauges.
Ethernet Cable & PoE Calculator
Will a cable run carry the speed and PoE power you need? Check Cat5e to Cat8 against 1 to 40 Gbps, work out voltage drop and power loss, and find the longest run that works.
Cable Size & Voltage Drop Calculator
The right power cable for AC, DC, 12V, solar and three-phase runs: voltage drop rated from excellent to unacceptable, current capacity, cable temperature and fuse size.
Wire Gauge Converter
Convert between AWG, mm², SWG and kcmil, and measure a cable with calipers, solid or stranded, to find its true size and spot undersized cable.
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Developer
Format and fix JSON, encode Base64, make UUIDs and convert timestamps, all in your browser.
UUID Generator
Random v4 and time-ordered v7 UUIDs (GUIDs), plus v1, v6, v3 and v5, one at a time or up to 10,000 at once. Decode any UUID to see its version and time.
Key & Secret Generator
API keys, JWT and session secrets, Laravel, Django and WordPress keys, AES keys, 2FA secrets with QR codes, recovery codes, and SSH, WireGuard and signing key pairs.
JSON Formatter & Validator
Format, minify and validate JSON with exact error locations and plain-English fixes, one-click repair, sorted keys, a tree view and big numbers kept exact.
Base64 Encoder / Decoder
Encode text and files to Base64, or decode Base64 back to text, images or files. URL-safe, MIME and data URIs, with file type detection and JWT decoding.
Unix Timestamp Converter
Convert Unix timestamps in seconds, milliseconds or nanoseconds to dates in any time zone and back, plus Excel, Windows and .NET times and whole log files.
Colour Converter & Contrast
Convert between HEX, RGB and HSL, and check WCAG contrast between two colours.
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Generators
QR codes, paper wallets and other things you can make and download instantly.
Password Generator
Strong random passwords, easy-to-type passphrases, pronounceable passwords and PINs, made in your browser, with their strength and crack time.
Smart QR Code Generator
QR codes for links, Wi-Fi, contacts and more, in your own colours, as PNG or SVG.
Bitcoin Paper Wallet Generator
Create a Bitcoin address and private key offline in your browser and print them as a paper wallet with QR codes.
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Calculators
Plan backups and transfers: backup size, NAS and cloud storage, download times and percentages.
Backup Size & Storage Planner
How big a proper 3-2-1 backup with versions really is, the NAS and drives to hold it, cloud storage costs, and whether your internet can upload, keep up and restore in time.
Download Time Calculator
How long a file, game, film or backup takes to download or upload at your speed, compared across UK connections, and the speed you need to hit a deadline.
Percentage Calculator
Percentages of numbers, percentage change, increases and decreases.
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