PayloadIQ and IT-Tools are both browser-local developer toolboxes — every tool runs in your browser and nothing is uploaded. IT-Tools is an excellent open-source collection of 80+ utilities you can also self-host with Docker. PayloadIQ covers the same everyday tools and adds an API-payload intelligence playground and a set of document-to-Markdown converters.
| Feature | PayloadIQ | IT-Tools |
|---|---|---|
| Runs in the browser / no upload | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | Repo public | ✓ |
| Self-host via Docker | — | ✓ |
| JSON / encoding / generator tools | ✓ | ✓ |
| API payload → TypeScript / Zod / Prisma | ✓ | — |
| Typed client + API migration report | ✓ | — |
| File → Markdown (PDF, DOCX, XLSX…) | ✓ | — |
| Per-tool SEO pages, multi-language | ✓ | Partial |
| Free | ✓ | ✓ |
When IT-Tools is the better fit
If you want to self-hosta toolbox on your own server or run it fully air-gapped, IT-Tools is built for that — it's open-source (Vue), Docker-friendly, and easy to extend with your own tools. Its breadth of small utilities is excellent, and owning the deployment is the strongest possible privacy guarantee.
Where PayloadIQ goes further
PayloadIQ's focus is the API payload: paste a raw response and the playground infers TypeScript types, a Zod schema, Prisma models and a typed fetch client, then reports schema quality and breaking changes between two payloads. It also converts PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, HTML and EPUB to clean Markdown for LLM context — a category IT-Tools doesn't cover — and ships SEO-focused, localized pages for each tool.
The short version
Choose IT-Tools when self-hosting and open-source ownership matter most. Choose PayloadIQ when you want the payload-to-code workflow and document converters alongside the usual utilities, with nothing to deploy.