Lifetime Mac
Developer & terminal tools

DevUtils

Offline toolbox for JSON, JWT, regex and thirty-odd other small jobs

Price: $29 once

This versionThe next major is a new purchase

Price read on devutils.com, the page Buy direct opens.

The catch

Updates stop after a year unless you renew at 40% off; your copy keeps working

The full picture

The purchase includes twelve months of updates. After that the version you hold runs indefinitely, but new releases need a paid renewal at 60% of the list price. The Basic tier covers a single Mac, so a laptop-plus-desktop setup means the $39 tier. It is a collection of small tools, not a replacement for an editor or an IDE. If you already pay for Setapp, it is included there.

Replaces
jwt.io and online JSON formatters, Paid online regex testers
Seats
1 MacThe $29 Basic tier is one Mac; the $39 Personal tier covers two.
Developer account
None needed

What it looks like

Images belong to their developers.

What you’re buying

Most of these tools exist as free websites, and that is exactly the problem. Decoding a JWT means pasting a credential into someone else's server; formatting a JSON payload from production means the same. DevUtils puts about thirty of those utilities in one native window that never touches the network, and it notices what is on your clipboard so the right tool is already open when you switch to it.

The set is wide rather than deep: JSON and YAML formatting and conversion, JWT decoding, regex testing with live match highlighting, Base64 and URL encoding, hash generation, Unix timestamp conversion, cron expression parsing, text diffs, UUID generation, colour conversion, Markdown preview. None of them is better than the best single-purpose tool for that one job. All of them being in one keystroke-away window is the point.

What $29 buys is the current version on one Mac plus a year of updates. When that year ends nothing breaks; you simply stop receiving new releases until you pay the renewal, which is 40% off. Two Macs need the $39 tier instead.

Skip it if you decode a token once a month and are comfortable with jq and a shell one-liner, or if you already pay for Setapp, where DevUtils is included at no extra cost.

What owners report

Points that recur across the discussions below. A report of what users say, not our verdict: we don’t review software.

Praised

  • Owners repeatedly give the same reason for buying it: decoding a JWT or formatting production JSON without handing that data to a website they do not control
  • The global hotkey plus clipboard auto-detect is the part people say they actually notice, more than any individual tool in the set
  • Several long-term buyers say the developer keeps shipping new tools and fixes, and cite that as what the money bought

Criticised

  • The price is the recurring argument in both threads, and the counter-argument is always the same free alternatives — CyberChef, Boop and shell tools like jq
  • People who live in a terminal repeatedly say they cannot see the point, since piping is faster for them than any window

Details

The price in full

Basic $29 for one device, Personal $39 for two, Team $24 per device at three or more. Each is a one-time purchase with a perpetual licence and one year of updates; renewal afterwards is offered at 40% off. 30-day money-back guarantee. Also sold on the Mac App Store, bundled in Setapp, and installable via Homebrew.

The DevUtils page at devutils.com
The developer’s own page. devutils.com, captured 22 Sep 2026
Free trial
Yes
Works offline
Yes
Apple Silicon
Native
On Setapp
Yes
Minimum macOS
not stated
Developer
DevUtils

Also bought outright