Do I need the extension to use the tools?
No. Every tool works in the browser at iotools.cloud/tools, and the site has the same ⌘K search built in. The extension is for people who reach for these often enough that loading the site first adds up — and for the 50 it runs itself, which need no connection at all.
What can it see?
Not the pages you visit, and not your browsing history. It requests no permission for any site, so it has no standing access to anything you open. The one exception is deliberate and yours to trigger: when you select text and pick an IO Tools action from the right-click menu, your browser hands the extension that selection — nothing else on the page — so it has something to work on. It puts the result on your clipboard and shows a toast in that tab; it doesn't alter the page.
Does anything I type get uploaded?
No. The 50 bundled tools are plain JavaScript inside the extension and run on your own machine, which is why they work on a plane or behind a corporate firewall. Its only network request fetches the public list of tool names and URLs from iotools.cloud, so search can offer the ones that aren't bundled. That list contains nothing of yours.
I use Brave, Arc or Vivaldi.
Install from the Chrome Web Store — those browsers all run Chrome extensions. Edge, Firefox and Opera have their own listings above.
I work in VS Code — is there something for that?
Yes, the same 50 tools with editor-native behaviour: transforms apply to your selection in place, every cursor independently. See the VS Code extension.
Is there a Safari version?
Not yet. Safari extensions need a separate build and an Apple developer account, so it depends on whether enough people ask. Tell us if you want one — that's genuinely how it gets prioritised.
