About Tools HQ

What this is

Tools HQ is a small collection of free, browser-based utilities — a visual timezone meeting planner, an availability poll (Align), a no-signup group invite/RSVP page (Gather), an event-time broadcaster (Announce), plus a currency converter, PDF tools, developer utilities, and a few calculators. Nothing here needs an account. Most of it needs no login at all.

Why we built this

The specific problem was mundane and familiar: coordinating a time across people in different timezones is more annoying than it should be, and the tools for doing it usually come bundled with an account you didn't want, a signup wall, or a lot of clutter around a genuinely simple task. Tools HQ started as a way to fix that — one good timezone planner — and grew into a small suite once the same "just let me do the thing without an account" idea kept coming up for related problems: finding a time that works for a group, inviting people to something already decided, and telling people a time in a way that auto-converts to wherever they are.

There's also a simpler thread running under all of it: these tools exist because people coordinating across timezones are, almost by definition, trying to do something together — plan a call, throw a party, get a group in the same place at the same time. We like that spirit. Call it Aquarian if you want the reference: less about any one person locking in a decision alone, more about a group finding its own way to a time that works for everyone in it. Align, Gather, and Announce are built around that same idea in three different shapes — proposing options, inviting people in, and broadcasting a decision once it's made — rather than any one of them being "the" tool and the others afterthoughts.

How we think about your data

The short version: we try to collect as little as possible, and several of these tools are built to need nothing at all. Announce encodes the whole event in the link itself — there's no database behind it. Gather asks for a name, nothing else, ever. The PDF tools run entirely in your browser; your files never reach our servers. Where we do collect something (opt-in, anonymous analytics, described in full in our Privacy Policy), it's there to help us understand what's actually useful, not to build a profile of you. We don't sell data, because we don't have any worth selling.

Who's behind it

Tools HQ is built and maintained by a small, independent team — not a large company, and not a funded startup. We're using a Gmail address for contact while this is still an early, independently-run project; a dedicated domain address is on the list once there's more here to justify one. We'd rather be upfront about being small than dress it up as something it isn't.

Get in touch

Found a bug, have an idea for a tool, or just want to say something worked well (or didn't)? We'd genuinely like to hear it — see our Feedback page, or email us directly at handytoolshq@gmail.com. A real person reads it.