Our vision is to grow LocalOnly from a great JSON toolkit into a complete, privacy-first developer toolbox - without ever compromising the browser-only promise.
LocalOnly started with a focus on JSON, but the goal is bigger: a single place for the everyday transformations, encoders, generators and converters developers need - all running locally, all free. This page outlines where things stand today and where we are heading. Priorities shift as we learn what is most useful, so treat everything below as direction rather than a promise.
Recently shipped
- Launched with 37 browser-only tools across several categories.
- Installable Progressive Web App with full offline support.
- Static export with fast, cache-friendly delivery.
- Complete SEO foundation - canonical URLs, sitemaps and structured metadata.
- Dark mode, command palette and keyboard shortcuts.
In progress - now
- Polishing existing tools based on real usage and edge cases.
- Expanding validation and error messaging for malformed input.
- Improving performance ceilings for very large files.
- Tightening accessibility across every tool to WCAG-AA.
Next - planned
- More converters between common data and config formats.
- Additional encoders, decoders and hashing utilities.
- Per-tool sharing via URL fragments that stay entirely local - the state travels in the link, never through a server.
- More export formats and download options.
- Internationalisation (i18n) so the interface reaches more developers.
- A broader automated test suite for long-term reliability.
Exploring - later
- Optional local workspaces to save presets without any account.
- Tool chaining, so the output of one tool feeds into another.
- A lightweight plugin approach for community-contributed transforms.
- Deeper diff and merge capabilities for structured data.
Help shape it
The best ideas come from people who use the tools daily. If something is missing, awkward, or would save you time, tell us on the Contact page. We read every suggestion, and many roadmap items started as a single request. Plans and timing may change, but the direction stays the same: more capability, zero data leaving your browser.