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ToolsMonk for Windows

ToolsMonk is a desktop app that puts 250+ tools for PDFs, images, text, SEO checks and everyday calculations into one window. Most of them run entirely on your own machine.

This page is the documentation for the Windows desktop app. The same tools are on the website at https://toolsmonk.com

Download

Open the Files tab, go into the newest version folder and download the ToolsMonk-Setup installer inside it.

Releases are published to GitHub first and mirrored here automatically, so both places carry the same installer for the same version.

System requirements

  • Windows 10 version 1809 or later, 64-bit
  • About 370 MB of disk space once installed
  • An internet connection. The app loads its screens from toolsmonk.com. Tools you have already opened may still work while offline because the app caches them, but that is not guaranteed for every tool.

Installing

Run the installer. It does not ask for administrator rights: it installs into your own user profile, under %LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs, so no elevation prompt appears.

You can change the install folder during setup. If you pick a protected location such as Program Files, the install fails rather than prompting for administrator rights, so choose a folder you own.

The SmartScreen warning

This build is not code signed, so the first time you run the installer Windows shows a blue dialog reading: Windows protected your PC.

Choose More info, then Run anyway.

That warning is about the absence of a purchased code-signing certificate. It is not a statement about what the installer does, and it does not go away by itself. Rather than asking you to take our word for it, the release notes give you a checksum so you can verify the file yourself.

Verifying your download

Every release folder here carries a README with the SHA256 of that release's installer.

Open a Command Prompt in the folder you downloaded to and run:

certutil -hashfile ToolsMonk-Setup-1.1.12.exe SHA256

Compare what it prints with the value in that release README. If the two do not match, delete the file and download it again. Do not run it.

Where your files are processed

Most tools run entirely on your device. You pick a file, the app processes it locally, and the result is saved wherever you choose. For those tools the file never leaves your computer, and there is nothing to sign in to.

A smaller number of tools genuinely need a server to do their job. Those are mainly:

  • the AI features, which send your text or image to an AI provider
  • the SEO tools, which fetch a page from the web
  • a few document conversions that are rendered on a server

The app says which is which on the tool itself. The full, current list is published at:

https://toolsmonk.com/where-your-files-are-processed

That page is generated from the same source the app uses, so the two cannot drift apart.

What is inside

  • PDF: editor, merge, split, compress, rotate, crop, organise pages, add page numbers, watermark, sign, redact, unlock, repair, fill forms, and conversion to and from Word, Excel, PowerPoint, images and plain text.
  • Images: resize, crop, compress, convert between formats, remove backgrounds, upscale, batch process, and a layered photo editor.
  • Text and developer: word and character counts, case conversion, formatting, comparison, JSON and CSV handling, hashing and encoding.
  • Calculators: percentages, currency, dates, finance, health and study tools.
  • SEO: site audits, meta and schema checks, speed tests, sitemap and robots tools.

The exact tool and category counts are shown on the app's own About screen, which reads them from the catalogue, so they stay correct as tools are added.

Using the app

  • A navigation rail runs down the left side, one row per category.
  • Ctrl+K opens search from anywhere in the app.
  • The theme follows your Windows appearance setting by default. The control at the foot of the rail cycles System, Light and Dark.
  • The button marked with three dots in the title bar opens the app menu.

Keyboard shortcuts

Shortcut Action
Ctrl+K Search tools
Ctrl+F Find in page
Ctrl+P Print
Ctrl+R or F5 Reload
Alt+Left Back
Alt+Right Forward
Ctrl+Plus Zoom in
Ctrl+Minus Zoom out
Ctrl+0 Reset zoom
F11 Full screen

Updates

The app checks for updates on its own, downloads them in the background and installs them the next time you quit. An update icon appears in the title bar while that is happening.

To check by hand, open the app menu and choose Check for Updates.

Uninstalling

Open Windows Settings, then Apps, find ToolsMonk and choose Uninstall. You can also run the uninstaller from the folder the app was installed into.

Reporting a problem

Use Report a Problem in the app menu, or write to us at https://toolsmonk.com/contact

The version number helps. It is on the About ToolsMonk screen in the same menu.

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