The price anchor
| Wrangle | DevUtils | |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly | $0 — no subscription | $29 (macOS only) |
| Annual | $0 after purchase | $29 |
| 5-year total | $15 | $145 |
| 10-year total | $15 | $290 |
Subscription figures from the vendor's published pricing ($29 (macOS only), ~$29/yr); the Wrangle column is the full price, paid once.
Break-even analysis
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.
- After 1 year: Wrangle has cost you $15 total — DevUtils has cost $29.
- After 3 years: Wrangle is still $15 — the subscription is at $87.
- After 5 years: Wrangle is still $15 — the subscription is at $145.
What you get for $15 once
- Convert anything. Any-to-any JSON / CSV / YAML / XML with format auto-detect and documented dot-notation flatten rules for nested data.
- Validate & format. Pretty-print or minify JSON, YAML and XML with precise error line & column highlighting.
- JWT decoder. Header/payload decode, human-readable expiry with an expired badge, optional HS256 signature verification — your token never leaves the machine.
- Smart diff. Side-by-side text diff plus a JSON mode that ignores key order and whitespace, so only real changes light up.
- Regex tester. Live matches with group table and replace preview — patterns run in a worker thread with a 2s timeout, so catastrophic backtracking can never hang the app.
- No renewal, ever. The license does not expire and there is no per-seat meter — $15 is the whole price.
Pricing questions
Is it really free on GitHub?
Yes — MIT source at github.com/bensblueprints/wrangle-toolbox-mvp, and the build is genuinely trivial: npm i && npm start, zero native modules. $15 gets you the packaged installer and updates.
Why not DevUtils or DevToys?
DevUtils is polished but macOS-only — Wrangle exists largely because Windows devs kept asking for it. DevToys is free and good; Wrangle's pitch is one coherent UX across all ten tools, plus enforced guarantees like the network-blocking CSP and regex worker timeout.
How is "offline" enforced rather than promised?
The renderer ships a strict Content-Security-Policy with connect-src 'none' — outbound requests are blocked by the browser engine itself, not a privacy policy. You can verify it in the MIT source.
Can it verify JWT signatures?
HS256 verification is built in; RS256 is on the list but not there yet — we'd rather say so upfront. Decoding, expiry checks and the expired badge work for any JWT.
Wrangle — $15, one time
Or get Wrangle plus every other app in the suite: the OneTimeSuite bundle is currently $97, one time.