PandaChef - Web app for encryption, encoding, compression

👋 Hey Product Hunt community!

I'm thrilled to introduce **PandaChef** - a Mac-native data transformation toolkit that brings the power of CyberChef directly to your desktop! 🚀

Why We Built PandaChef

As developers and security professionals, we found ourselves constantly switching between browser tabs to use web-based data transformation tools. We wanted something faster, more private, and beautifully integrated with macOS. That's how PandaChef was born!

What Makes PandaChef Special

🔐 Privacy First**: All operations happen locally - your data never leaves your machine
⚡ Native Performance: Built with Tauri for lightning-fast processing (Mac store app coming soon)
🎨 Mac-Native Design: Feels right at home on your Mac
🔧 Developer-Friendly: 30+ operations from Base64 encoding to SHA hashing
📦 Batch Processing: Handle multiple files effortlessly

Perfect For:
- Developers debugging APIs and processing data
- Security professionals analyzing and transforming data
- Anyone who values privacy and wants local data processing
- Mac users seeking a native alternative to web-based tools

We've been working on this for months, and I'm incredibly proud of what the team has built. It's already saved me countless hours in my daily workflow!

Try it now at https://chef.pandacat.ai 🐼👨‍🍳

I'd love to hear your thoughts and answer any questions you might have. What data transformation tasks do you find most tedious? How could PandaChef fit into your workflow?

Thanks for checking us out! 🙏

Here’s our daily Product Hunt update:

What’s new

1. Arithmetic / Logic superpowers

2. Exponential, Logarithm (with base), Log2/Log10, Factorial

3. Number theory: GCD, LCM

4. Bitwise toolkit: Bit Count, Reverse Bits, Set/Clear/Toggle Bit, Leading/Trailing Zeros, Byte Swap 16/32, Parity

5. Trig & geometry: Deg↔Rad, Sine/Cosine/Tangent, Arc* suite, Atan2, Hypotenuse

6. Utilities: Min With / Max With, Compare, Map Range

7. Flow control & debugging

8. Random Delay for more realistic pipelines

9. Breakpoint to pause at critical steps

10. Conditional Breakpoint to pause only when it matters

Better discoverability

1. All new blocks are properly categorized under Arithmetic / Logic and Flow control (no more “Other”), making search and browsing smoother.

Stability improvements

Cleaned up stray patch markers and fixed TypeScript/Lint issues to keep things solid and predictable.

Try these quick recipes

1. Toggle degrees/radians and compare Sine/Cosine/Tangent outputs

2. Map Range to convert 0–1 into 0–255

3. Chain Random Delay + Breakpoint for step-by-step debugging in longer flows

What’s next

- More math/statistics and flow control blocks

- Inline examples and best-practice presets

- A smoother search and grouping experience

We’d love your input

- Which math or flow blocks do you use most?

- Where would visualizations or quick examples help the most?

Thanks for all the feedback and support—your ideas are shaping the roadmap. 💪

🚀 PandaChef just got MASSIVE updates - This is a game changer!

I've been following PandaChef's development and WOW - the recent updates are absolutely incredible! 🤯

🕒 Time & Date Operations (Just Added!)

- 10 comprehensive operations including Unix timestamp conversion, timezone handling, Windows FILETIME support

- Cron expression parser with human-readable explanations and next execution predictions

- Date arithmetic & formatting - finally, a tool that handles complex date manipulations effortlessly

- Duration calculator that understands human formats like "1h 30m"

📝 Advanced Text Processing (Brand New!)

This is where PandaChef really shines now:

- Language Detection supporting 10+ languages with confidence scoring

- Unicode Normalization (NFC/NFD/NFKC/NFKD) - essential for international text handling

- Levenshtein Distance with edit operation tracking

- Soundex & Metaphone for phonetic matching (perfect for name matching systems)

- Advanced Text Mining with sentiment analysis, n-gram processing, and pattern discovery

- Full NLP Pipeline including tokenization, POS tagging, and semantic analysis

🔧 What Makes This Special:

✅ No data leaves your machine - 100% local processing

✅ Professional accuracy - implements proper algorithms (LCS, edit distance, statistical models)

✅ Developer-friendly - JSON outputs, batch processing, confidence scores

✅ International support - proper Unicode handling, multi-language detection

✅ Enterprise-ready - detailed analytics, multiple output formats, error handling

💡 Real-World Use Cases:

- Data cleaning and normalization for international datasets

- Building phonetic search systems

- Text similarity analysis for duplicate detection

- Multi-language content processing

- Advanced data transformation pipelines

This isn't just another "online tool" - it's a comprehensive text processing powerhouse that rivals enterprise solutions. The fact that it runs locally with a beautiful Mac-native UI makes it

perfect for developers, data scientists, and anyone handling complex text operations.

If you work with text data, international content, or need advanced string processing - PandaChef is now an absolute must-have. The recent additions put it in a league of its own!

Seriously impressed with the development velocity and attention to detail. This team knows what they're building. 👏

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