Changelog
Every release, dated and human-written — what changed, which pages it touched, and why. Newest first.
v9.27 — creator exports you can download at once, every result ready to take, and a picture of every tool
The 22 creator resizers render their files as soon as an image arrives, every tool's result has a download or copy button, and each tool page opens with an illustration of what that tool does.
- Creator resizers now render every required size the moment you drop an image, show each file at its real size with its byte count and platform limit, and offer Download, Share, Download all (ZIP) and the next tool, the way the image tools do.
- Fixed two creator exports that stretched the picture: the Discord pair now crops the 16:9 server banner as its own shape, and “Fit whole image” pads with a border (or transparency) instead of distorting.
- Round avatars and rounded tiles are previewed the way the platform cuts them — the shaded area is what gets removed — and the guides can be switched off to see the artwork.
- Every result can leave the page in one click: Download on formatted, converted and generated code (with the file name each language expects), copy buttons on timestamps, digests, number bases and cron schedules, and Download PNG, Download SVG, Copy image and Share on QR codes and barcodes.
- The JSON formatter now removes trailing commas as it says it does, sentence and title case work on identifiers, Split PDF suggests a range that exists in short documents, and Base64 decodes to .txt, .json or an image instead of an unnamed .bin — its own example no longer opens on an error, and a pasted JWT shows its header and payload.
- Merged, split and compressed PDFs show a first-page thumbnail, and PDF to JPG and Crop image link straight to the next tool.
- Each of the 71 tools and 22 creator pages opens with its own illustration of the job it does, drawn in the site's colours for light and dark mode; guides and comparisons show the tool they are about, and each category page shows a collage of its tools.
v9.26 — native-language tools that remember, installable app and one-click downloads
The translated tools work entirely in their language, every tool remembers your options and can hand its result to the next one, batch results download as one ZIP, and the site installs as an app.
- The six fully translated tools — merge, split, compress, resize, JPG to PDF and the JSON formatter — now show every control, warning, progress step and error message in Spanish, German, French, Portuguese and Japanese, not only the page around them.
- A native-speaker pass over all five languages: formal German, region-neutral Spanish, French typography with non-breaking spaces, Brazilian quotation marks and Japanese without stray spaces. Machine-translated descriptions were removed rather than left in place.
- The rest of the site follows your language too: the All tools directory, search, the 404 page and the error screen are translated, and a tool whose interface is still English says so in one line above it.
- Tools remember the options you chose last — quality, target size, format, page size, indent — and a finished PDF or image can go straight into the next tool (merge, then compress) without downloading it and adding it again.
- Batch results download as a single ZIP instead of one prompt per file, and on phones a result can go straight to the share sheet.
- ToolsByUs installs as an app from the menu (with Add to Home Screen steps on iPhone), opens full-screen with its own back button, offers an update instead of reloading mid-task, and shows an offline page in your language.
- Number fields take what you type: entering 100 in “compress under … KB” used to end up as 500.
- Contact is now a plain email address, info@toolsbyus.com, with one-click drafts for bug reports and tool ideas; the privacy page lists every value the site keeps in your browser.
v9.15 — audit remediation, creator resizers and five languages
Intent lanes, 22 platform resizers, localised subpaths and worked examples in the HTML.
- Resolved the keyword cannibalisation between core tools and their long-tail pages: each tool now owns its head term, each satellite owns a scenario, and the split is enforced by a build gate.
- Added 22 creator-asset resizers under /creator — Discord, Twitch, Roblox, Etsy, Shopify, YouTube, Spotify, X and Bluesky — with exact platform sizes, safe-area overlays, byte-cap enforcement and multi-size ZIP export, all in-browser.
- Launched localised subpaths for Spanish, German, French, Portuguese and Japanese with reciprocal hreflang, per-locale lang attributes and translated FAQs.
- Tool pages now ship a real worked example — input and the engine's own output — in the served HTML, so a crawler indexes a populated page rather than an empty shell.
- Every tool page answers at least six specific questions; eleven URLs were renamed for clarity and redirect permanently to their new homes.
- IndexNow submission now runs automatically from CI on every green push to main.
v9 — SEO infrastructure & citation-first release
Search, changelog, breadcrumbs, per-page OG images and an AI-citation layer.
- Added a client-side tool search page with a real SearchAction target.
- Tool pages now show the full Home → category → tool breadcrumb, mirrored in BreadcrumbList structured data.
- Every page ships its own generated Open Graph image instead of sharing one site-wide card.
- JSON-LD is built from one tested module (schema.ts); Organization and WebSite nodes now carry publishingPrinciples and a working SearchAction.
- llms.txt gained a citation guide, per-tool standards references and a changelog pointer; robots.txt now names 24 AI crawlers explicitly.
- IndexNow support added: changed URLs are submitted to Bing/Yandex/Seznam/Naver from CI, keyed by sitemap lastmod diffs.
v8 — interaction & input hardening
Global file drop, header menu hardening and per-tool scenes.
- Site-wide drag-and-drop with type, count and size limits; direct drops select their panel.
- Shared FileReader with stale-callback cancellation across CodePane and Base64 tools.
- Header menu: hover delay, full keyboard control, Escape, ArrowDown and scroll containment.
- Every one of the 71 tools received a purpose-drawn scene and label; hero rebuilt as a lightweight inline SVG.
v8-rc — format pipeline
Formatter and converter surface completed across JSON, CSS, XML and code generation.
- JSON formatter suite: sort keys, JSONC comment stripping, unicode escape controls.
- CSS formatter/minifier pipeline with worker-safe replacement path.
- Code generators (JSON → C#, Go, Java, Python, TypeScript) unified behind one CodegenTool frame.
Older releases are documented in the repository: how we review and ship changes. Per-page review dates are stamped at the foot of every tool page.