DevUtils.app

Apps like "DevUtils" are why I almost always avoid using the "Official" App stores, Mac especially - although the other tech giants out there are trying their best to see who can craft the most terrible desktop User Experience by turning the software acquisition enviornment into some combination of over-monetized flea market and clown factory. If you install this for free they will give you no functionality. It's impossible to make use of for any real problem you are working on, but even for evaluation puprposes it's so locked down that it gives the impression that the app is so unuseful that if they were to let you use it up-front no one would ever actually buy it. Even if this came bundled with a major text editor like VS Code, or Sublime, completely for free, I would have no use for it because tools which are superior in every way already exist, and most are free. The only reason I felt compelled to write this is because the downloading this app for free is essentially a scam because you get no value out of it and have no real opportunity to evaluate it and the user experience is tuned in a way to maximize FOMO and coerece the user towards paying without allowing them the tools to make that payment an informed decision. And when I say "DevUtils" free is locked down and unusuable I'm not exaggerating. When looking at a tab with a text field any keystroke that you type into the text field opens a harassing dialog telling you to register instead of letting you enter the text that you need in order for this app to actually be useful. What kind of madness is this. I had to go around and check any keyboard or UI workflow related settings just to make sure this wasn't a mistake on my part, but nope that's how they wrote it. Behavior like this, if it were measured in a clinical setting, would be scored obnly slightly lower on the psychopathy scale than a typical murder-one death-row inmate, although it should be mentioned that both are still considered to be far safer than the most well known and frightening monsters out there, who still haunt the corners of the Apple software ecosystem - like the product manager who shipped a flagship Apple mouse after deciding to have a laugh and put the charging port on the bottom so you can't use it while it's charging - and then later on when people complained, rather than acknowledge their poor design choice, they just gaslit the entire consumer base into thinking that they've always favored form over function. Once you've installed "DevUtils" you will see that the level of harassment they feel comfortable assaulting you with is unnervingly high, and were it not for the extreme suffering and hardship that is well known to accompany the lifestyle of a loyal Mac-ecosystem-purist, being forced to bear witness to someone or some group of people knowingly, and with wreckless disregard for all human life, sicking this cancerous trash onto the userbase would be a life-changingly traumatic event - one that would require years of therapy just to unravel the psychological damage and begin to pick up the pieces of one's psyche. Yet here, on the Apple App Store, no one bats an eye because we're among the people who still unironically support and love a company that sells a set of 4 roller-blade wheels for $600, that way you could move your $5000 desktop every few weeks without taking the chance that one of the executives you're currently brown-nosing catches you in the act of picking up your case like a common peasant, and thus forming the impression that to you, personally, money is a limited resource - a philiosophical outlook incompatible with upper management at the sort of company that provisions premium Apple hardware for it's serfs. Experiences like these are why I hate the "free/paid" categories in these stores. Free is never free, it's free to get on that special free list and then charge you $XX once you're in the app and they can bombard you with ads. Oh and of course it's a subscription. I wouldn't pay $30 for a lifetime license or this app even if it came with the source code and full distribution rights. Don't subscribe to an app to help you write regex. What do you think is going to happen in the next year to justify essentially buying the product again. In trying times like these I like to keep things in perspective by remembering how Tim Cook spanks his crispy Macintosh off into the vat of industrial-grade lubricant before every batch of $600 wheels are manufactured, and it's even possible that the recent uptick of gray-haired, chubby-torsoed babies in "those parts" of the world that actually still manufacture products might not be entirely Mike Pence's responsibility, though we'll never know because like many breeds of spider, if given the opportunity, Tim Cook will return to his nesting grounds and seek out any of his offspring who may have lingered behind with the singular intention of devouring them, partly for his own sustenance, but mostly as a flagrant show of dominance directed towards God to make sure that He knows who's calling the shots down here just in case the workers who are trying to unionize at the $600 wheel factory get desperate enough to resort to prayer. Forget this disgraceful afterthought of a techno-corporate dystopian cash-grab just go over to regex101, or buy RegexBuddy. Even for free you get 99% of the "premium" feature-set and I can code away, unconcerned that the organization that cooperated to deliver this piece of software to me might actually be comprised of individuals who score quite high on the psycopathy scale, probably only haven't commited murder because it would be tricky not to get caught, and identify as "undecided voters" proudly.

I bought the full version of this app when it first came out then the owner changed it and blocked me from using this app that I paid for unless I pay a subscription fee... Some people can be despicable and this developer is one of them...

It is only slightly more convenient than a bunch of bookmarks. The annual subscription price is bonkers.

I have used this app since about a year, it comes handy at least once a week, so it paid for itself instantly if i count the time saved. I use the json formater all the time, that just got improved in the latest release. I also use the various features such as escape/unescape and i find each time new features coming handy just by remembering seeing them around and where to find it without thinking much. Lots of good simple UI design, including detecting what was already copied to save a few keystrokes any time possible. Great for anyone dealing with code, any kind of code or language almost. Kudos.

• Have untidy HTML, JSON, etc? Use DevUtils • Need to validate a JWT? Use DevUtils • Need to test a Regex? Use DevUtils • Need to diff some text? Use DevUtils • Need to ....? Use DevUtils This app has everything a dev needs to do quick tasks to increase their productivity. Even better, the developer is online, responsive, and open to suggestions. I highly recommend this app. It's definitely worth the small price.

A fantastic tool which saves me from having to remember a myriad web sites, and pasting text into sites of dubious origin. I have this tool constantly open and am using it all the time. Developer is friendly and open to suggestions. If you are a developer you need this tool.