# baiy/Ctool

程序开发常用工具 chrome / edge / firefox / utools / windows / linux / mac

Repository: https://github.com/baiy/Ctool
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/ctool
Homepage: https://ctool.dev
Language: TypeScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: crx, qrcode, chrome-extension, firefox-extension, electron-app, developer-tools, development
Last push: 2025-07-21T03:33:05+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 37/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 32, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3198, "days_push": 408, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2050, forks 304 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:09.116660+00:00)

## What it is
Ctool is a multi-platform Swiss-army toolbox of common developer utilities including hashing, encryption/decryption, encoding, JSON/YAML/XML serialization, timestamp conversion, QR codes, code formatting, and text processing. It ships as a Chrome/Edge/Firefox extension, a uTools plugin, a web app, and Windows/Linux/macOS desktop clients.

## Use cases
- format and validate JSON payloads
- convert timestamps to human-readable dates
- generate and parse QR codes
- encode and decode base64 or URLs
- test regular expressions
- compute md5 or sha hashes of text and files
- encrypt and decrypt strings with AES or DES
- convert between variable naming conventions

## When to choose
- you need a single offline-capable toolbox for everyday dev utilities
- you want the same tools across browser, desktop, and uTools
- you frequently convert between serialization formats like JSON, YAML, and XML
- you need Chinese-specific tools like pinyin conversion or simplified/traditional conversion

## When to avoid
- you need deeply specialized tools like full API clients or database GUIs
- you require team collaboration or cloud-synced snippets
- you need programmatic/CLI automation rather than interactive GUI tools

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: developer-tools, serialization, cryptography, yaml, csv, markdown, date-time, math, websocket, gui, cli
- domain: developer-tools, web-development, cross-platform, text-editors
- platform: browser-extension, cross-platform, windows
- tags: chrome-extension, firefox-extension, edge-extension, utools-plugin, electron-app, tauri, offline-tools, hashing, encoding, qrcode, jwt, uuid, code-formatter, regex-testing, timestamp-conversion, chinese-pinyin, unit-conversion, crontab, command-line, macos, linux, web-server, desktop

## Member repositories
- baiy/Ctool (main) score 37

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:09.116660+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T02:57:35.372225+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/baiy/Ctool (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:09.116660+00:00, sha 870883043de2)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.