DevUtils costs $29 (macOS only) — and unlike a tool you buy once, that bill never stops. Over three years that's roughly $87 for software doing a job your own hardware could just as easily do.
Where the subscription actually goes
$29 once is the sticker price. It compounds: cancel and you typically lose access to your own history, and most plans ratchet the price up as you add usage, seats or storage — the bill rarely stays flat for long.
Wrangle: the pay-once alternative
Wrangle does the same core job for $15, once. 10 dev data tools — JSON convert, JWT decode, diff, regex, hash — 100% offline, one app.
| Wrangle | DevUtils | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $15 once | $29 once |
| Windows | Yes (Windows-first) | No — macOS only |
| Your data stays on your machine | Yes, always | Yes |
| Works offline / behind a corp proxy | Yes | Yes |
| Regex DoS protection (worker + timeout) | Yes | Unknown |
| Ctrl+K command palette + drag-drop | Yes | Yes |
| Subscription required | Never | Never |
| Source code | MIT, on GitHub | Closed |
Half the price of DevUtils, and it runs on Windows. Against He3's $9.90/month it pays for itself in under 2 months — a year of He3 costs nearly 8x Wrangle.
Is the subscription ever still worth it?
If you need DevUtils's specific ecosystem, integrations or managed infrastructure and that's genuinely load-bearing for you, the subscription earns its keep — that's a real trade-off, not a trick. Wrangle is for everyone else: people paying every month for a job that runs fine on hardware they already own.
Try Wrangle — $15, once
10 dev data tools — JSON convert, JWT decode, diff, regex, hash — 100% offline, one app.