Free Generators & Misc

The drawer of useful things

Every workshop has one drawer that holds the tools that fit no cupboard: the ones you reach for weekly without ever planning to. This category is that drawer. A strong password when a new account demands one. A random number when something must be decided fairly. The generators and pickers that make small decisions quick and honest.

What unites them is the quality of their randomness. Both tools here draw from your device's cryptographic random source — the generator built for security work — rather than the predictable arithmetic shortcuts that are fine for games and wrong for anything that matters.

Randomness worth trusting

Randomness is easy to fake badly. The classic shortcuts — seeding on the clock, taking a modulo of a big number — produce output that looks random and subtly is not: some values arrive more often than others, and patterns repeat. For a screensaver, harmless. For a password, a raffle or anything contested, bias is a real defect.

These tools do it properly. Passwords guarantee a character from every set you tick and then shuffle, so the guarantee itself leaks no position information. Number draws use rejection sampling, the technique that removes modulo bias entirely, and the no-repeat mode is a genuine partial shuffle rather than draw-and-retry. None of this shows on the surface — it is simply the difference between a tool you can defend and one you hope nobody examines.

Made where nobody can see

A password generator's biggest question is not entropy — it is who else sees the password. The honest answer here is nobody: generation happens on your device, nothing is transmitted, and there is no server-side anything. The same holds for number draws, which means a contested result cannot have been influenced by us even in principle. Your randomness is yours alone.

That standard — generated locally, kept by no one — is the bar for everything that joins this category later. It is also why these pages work offline: once loaded, there is nothing left to fetch and nobody left to ask. A password can be generated on a plane, and a draw made in a cabin with no signal, with exactly the same guarantees as anywhere else.

Decisions, delegated

The quiet value of a random picker is social, not mathematical. Who presents first, who gets the last seat, which of three equally good options to take — groups burn real time on decisions where any answer is fine and the only requirement is that nobody chose it. A visible random draw ends the discussion in five seconds and leaves no one owning the outcome. The tool is small; the meetings it shortens are not.

Small tools, honest limits

Each page says plainly what it does not do. The password tool tells you when a setting weakens the result and what the entropy figure means. The number generator refuses impossible draws — twenty unique values from a range of ten — instead of quietly repeating. A generator that hides its edge cases is a generator you will eventually mistrust at the worst moment, so the edges are in writing.