Wring
Developer tools, one menu click away.
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Developer tools, one menu click away.
151 followers
Wring is an offline macOS menu bar app with 12 developer tools for JWTs, hashes, regex, JSON, Base64, timestamps, cron, colors, UUIDs, diffs, load monitoring, and [dot]env secrets. No account, no analytics, no network access.
Wring
Quick update from the launch thread:
A few really useful things came up from the comments here -
- Wring does not need IDE-specific setup. It lives in the macOS menu bar, so it works the same from Xcode, VS Code, Cursor, terminal, browser, or wherever you are already working.
- JWT support in v1 is local decode, inspect, and HMAC secret verification. JWKS endpoint validation is a good point, but I want to be careful with it because Wring currently has no app network entitlement. If I add it, it should be explicit and user-triggered.
- I’m also going to tone down the website hover preview a bit. Fair call that it can feel surprising.
Really appreciate the feedback so far. This is exactly why I wanted to launch early instead of quietly polishing forever!
12 tools in one menu bar app is the right approach. I keep a notes file just for decoding JWTs and testing regex because context-switching to a browser tab breaks my flow every time. The offline-first angle matters too — I handle OAuth tokens and API keys daily and pasting them into random web tools always felt wrong.
Does it handle JWT validation against a JWKS endpoint, or is it decode-only? That's the one thing that always sends me back to the browser.
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@ytubviral Thanks Javier, this is exactly the workflow I had in mind.
Right now JWT is local decode + inspect + HMAC secret verification. I avoided automatic JWKS fetching in v1 because Wring has no app network entitlement, and I wanted the privacy promise to be very literal.
That said, JWKS validation is a really good point. I’m thinking about adding it in a way that stays explicit, maybe user-triggered and clearly scoped, instead of silently calling out to endpoints.
Really appreciate you calling this out.
Cool site! i don't like when you hover over the image under everything is a click away it turns my mouse into something weird lol. Definitely interesting i could see me as a dev maybe using this but with the AI world a lot is of course covered. I will give it a download and try!
Just wondering how do you plan to monetize from this or you don't and just put out there as a helpful resource?
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@andrewb23 Thanks Andrew, really appreciate you checking it out!
And fair note on the hover effect lol, I’ll probably tone that down a bit so it feels less surprising.
For monetization: Wring is a paid Mac App Store app right now, just a simple one-time purchase. I’m intentionally avoiding subscriptions/accounts because the whole point is that these small dev tools should feel quick, local, and boringly trustworthy.
AI is great for bigger workflows, but I still wanted something native for the tiny everyday tasks where I just need to decode/format/convert/check something and move on.
How does it integrate with different IDEs? I juggle between a few, so I'm hoping it's straightforward to set up. Sounds like it could save a bunch of clicks.
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@andrewbuilds It doesn’t need IDE-specific setup, which is kind of the point.
Wring lives in the macOS menu bar, so it works the same whether you’re in Xcode, VS Code, Cursor, terminal, browser, Slack, etc. You open it, paste/process what you need, copy the result, and go back to whatever app you were already using.
I’m trying to keep it straightforward instead of making people configure yet another integration.
Menu bar dev tools make a lot of sense the less you break your flow to find something, the better. What tools are in the first version? Curious if it covers things like quick regex testers or JSON formatters.
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@imad_elkhafi Exactly, that was the whole idea: avoid breaking flow for small dev tasks.
v1 includes JWT inspector, regex tester, JSON formatter/validator, hash generator, encoder/decoder, text diff, timestamp converter, cron parser, color converter, UUID generator, .env manager, and load monitor.
So yes, regex and JSON are both in there :)
@ashwani_gupta6 That's a solid v1 toolkit — JWT inspector and .env manager alone make it worth installing. Downloading this today.
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@imad_elkhafi Appreciate that! JWT + .env were two of the main reasons I built it too. I got tired of jumping between browser tools for small sensitive things.
Would love to hear what you think after trying it, especially if there’s any dev-tool workflow you feel should be in the next version or any other suggestions.
The website looks beautiful!
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@himani_sah1 Thank you Himani, that means a lot!
I spent way too much time trying to make it feel premium looking, so I’m really glad that came through :)