ToolHaven 1.0 · Windows

The command line's best tools.
Without the command line.

FFmpeg, yt-dlp, qpdf, Tesseract and twenty-two more, in one window. The light ones ship inside the installer. The heavy ones install themselves — downloaded, hash-verified, and never asking for admin rights.

Download for Windows

Version 3.1.0 · 16.3 MB · Windows 10 and 11, 64-bit

The ToolHaven catalog on Windows: a search field across the top, a sidebar with Tools, Queue, History and Settings, category chips for video, downloads, images, documents, data and files, and a grid of cards for converting media with FFmpeg, inspecting streams with ffprobe, and naming the music that is playing.

24

tools in the catalog, each one open source

15.6MB

installer, not a gigabyte of bundled binaries

0

accounts, trackers or network calls you didn't ask for

How it works

Pick the result.
Not the binary.

The catalog is organised by what you want to end up with — merge these PDFs, pull the audio out of this video, shrink this image. The tool that does the work is an implementation detail, named on the card for when you care. Every one of them is listed in the full catalog below.

Delivery

It brings its own tools.

Nine tools travel inside the installer. Seventeen more download on first use, checked against a pinned SHA-256 before anything is unpacked, and activated by an atomic rename so a failed install never leaves half a tool behind. Everything lands in your own user folder, so ToolHaven never needs administrator rights.

In the installer
jq · yq · ripgrep · fd · Miller · tokei · hexyl · Dust · Oxipng
Downloaded on demand
FFmpeg · ffprobe · yt-dlp · Deno · qpdf · libvips · Poppler · Pandoc · Difftastic
Still a manual install
7-Zip · MKVToolNix · ImageMagick · ExifTool — their packaging has no format we can unpack yet

Light and dark

Follows Windows.
Or doesn't, if you'd rather.

A full set of tokens for each theme, no flash on startup, and a switch in the title bar when you want to override the system.

ToolHaven in its light theme, showing the tool catalog on a white background. The same ToolHaven catalog in its dark theme, on a near-black background.

The catalog

Twenty-six tools,
every one of them open source.

No fork, no rewrite, no wrapper pretending to be the original. ToolHaven runs the upstream binaries with an argument array — never a shell string — and the licence of every one travels with the installer.

  • FFmpegConvert, trim, remux video
  • ffprobeInspect streams
  • yt-dlpDownload media
  • DenoRuntime for yt-dlp
  • qpdfMerge, split, rotate PDFs
  • PopplerText and images from PDFs
  • TesseractRead text from a picture
  • Nomos8kSCEnlarge with a model
  • SongRecName the music playing
  • gallery-dlDownload image galleries
  • PandocConvert documents
  • libvipsResize, crop, compress
  • OxipngLossless PNG optimisation
  • ImageMagickConvert image formats
  • ExifToolRead and strip metadata
  • MKVToolNixInspect and build MKV
  • 7-ZipCompress and extract
  • ripgrepSearch across files
  • fdFind files by name
  • jqQuery and reshape JSON
  • yqThe same, for YAML
  • MillerCSV, TSV and JSON
  • DifftasticCompare by syntax
  • tokeiCount code per language
  • hexylLook at raw bytes
  • DustFind what fills the disk

Privacy

Your files stay
where they are.

Every operation runs as a local process on a file that never moves. No usage is reported, there is nothing to sign in to, and nothing about you is collected — no telemetry, no analytics, no account.

Models run here too. Tesseract reads a scan on your processor, and the upscaler enlarges a photograph on your graphics card. Both are fetched only if you ask for them, and the picture never leaves the machine. "Local" is the claim, not "no models".

Two tools do reach the internet, because reaching the internet is the whole point of them, and each one says so in its own panel before it runs. A reverse image search uploads the picture you chose to the search engine and opens the results in your browser — the one step a browser cannot do for a file on your disk. Music recognition fingerprints a few seconds of sound on this machine and sends the fingerprint, never the recording; the clip is deleted as soon as the answer comes back. Downloading a video reaches the internet for the same obvious reason. Nothing else does.

Questions

The things people ask first.

Do I need to install FFmpeg, Python or anything else first?

No — nothing at all. Nine tools travel inside the installer and seventeen more are downloaded by the app on first use, each checked against a pinned SHA-256, with the size on screen before the download starts. The last four that needed a manual install went in on 16 September; none of them ever asks for administrator rights.

Does it update itself?

Yes. It checks for a new version when it opens, downloads it and installs it. It stops short of restarting itself — a window that vanishes mid-job is not helpful — so the last step is a button. Every update is checked against a signature before it is allowed to run, so a tampered download is refused rather than installed. The portable build does not update itself, because there is nothing installed for it to replace.

Where does a finished file go?

Where you chose, or into the default folder set in Settings. Every finished job in the history has two buttons: one opens the folder with the file already selected, the other copies the path.

What languages does it speak?

English and Brazilian Portuguese, chosen in Settings and remembered on the machine. The whole interface is translated, not only the menus: the twenty-six tools, every operation and option, the hints, the errors and the queue.

Does ToolHaven need administrator rights?

No. Downloaded tools install into your own user folder under %LOCALAPPDATA%, so no elevation prompt is ever required.

Does it work offline?

Every operation on a file runs as a local process on your machine, so the converting, cropping, trimming and reading all work offline. What needs a connection is what obviously would: downloading a video, fetching a tool you asked to install, a reverse image search, and naming a piece of music.

Is any of my data uploaded or tracked?

Nothing about you is collected — no telemetry, no analytics, no account — and your files stay where they are. Two tools send something out on purpose, and both say so before they run: a reverse image search uploads the picture you picked, and music recognition sends a fingerprint of a clip rather than the sound. See the privacy section.

Why does Windows SmartScreen warn me when I run the installer?

The installer is not code-signed yet, so SmartScreen shows an unrecognised-publisher warning on first run. SHA-256 checksums are published with every release so you can verify the download yourself.

Can ToolHaven read text from scanned PDFs and images?

Yes. Tesseract reads text out of a picture or a scan, either into a text file or back into the PDF as a searchable layer behind the image. It is a neural network, it runs on your CPU, and it is downloaded only when you ask for it — nothing is sent anywhere.

Download

Three ways in.

Windows 10 and 11, 64-bit. SHA-256 checksums are published with every release. The installer isn't code-signed yet, so SmartScreen will warn on first run — more on that in the FAQ.