Generators & Converters

Free online generators for QR codes, passwords, UUIDs, favicons, robots.txt, sitemaps, .env and .gitignore files.

Generators are the tools that produce a file or a value you then take somewhere else: a QR code you print, a favicon set you drop into a project, a robots.txt you upload to a server. Because the output has to be exactly right, these tools show you what they will emit before you copy it, and most of them validate the input as you type so you find the problem here rather than after deployment.

Start with the QR code maker if you need a link, Wi-Fi network or vCard in scannable form, and with the password generator if the job is credentials - it uses your browser's cryptographic random source, not Math.random(). For web projects the usual trio is favicon generator, robots.txt generator and sitemap generator, in that order: the favicon set covers the awkward old-IE and apple-touch cases, the robots file decides what crawlers may read, and the sitemap tells them what to read first.

The mistakes worth avoiding: generating a robots.txt that disallows the paths you want indexed, shipping a 16x16-only favicon and letting browsers upscale it, and pasting a .gitignore from another language without checking whether it ignores your build output directory by accident. Each tool explains the consequence of the option you just ticked rather than leaving you to discover it in production.

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