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# DevToys–A swiss army knife for developers

**[The Art of Simplicity](https://daily.dev/sources/bartwullems)** · 1 min read · 467 upvotes · 43 comments

## Summary

DevToys is an offline windows app that tries to help you with small tasks. Instead of using different websites you get a fully offline experience offering help for a large list of tasks. One of the great features it has to offer is Smart Detection. If only one tool is detected, the clipboard content is automatically pasted.

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## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@tdlm** · 9 upvotes

> I’d use this if it was a plugin for Raycast.

**@zuyfun** · 4 upvotes

> This application don't have macos version :((

**@reevo** · 4 upvotes

> Only windows? :/

**@ptmccrary** · 2 upvotes

> Here's the [MacOS version](https://formulae.brew.sh/cask/devtoys)!

**@slowrybjss** · 1 upvotes

> I swapped from this to https://github.com/CorentinTh/it-tools a few months ago - runs in a Docker container, so is platform independent, and has most of the same features.

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