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Recommendations

A short list of paid services worth the money, with the referral links disclosed.

Read this before you click anything on this page. Every link below is a referral or affiliate link. If you sign up or buy through one, Gabriel Masson may receive a commission or credit, at no extra cost to you. That is how this page earns its place on a site with no ads on its tools.

Just as important, and stated plainly because most sites bury it:

  • UtilTools has no relationship with any of these companies beyond a public referral programme that anyone can join. We are not a partner, reseller, agent or representative of any of them.
  • We are not responsible for the services they provide. Their pricing, uptime, support, billing, data handling and terms are entirely theirs. If something goes wrong with a service you bought, it is between you and that company.
  • Nothing here is a guarantee. These are opinions about products that were useful to us at a point in time. Products change, get acquired and get worse. Check current reviews and the provider's own terms before you spend money.
  • Your data never reaches this page's recommendations. Nothing you do in a UtilTools tool is shared with anyone listed here, or with anybody else. Following a link tells the destination that the visit came from here, and nothing more.

The list is deliberately short. A page with fifty recommendations is not a recommendation, it is a directory that pays per click. If something stops being worth using, it comes off.

Hosting

Hostinger

Shared hosting and VPS at the cheap end of the market, with a control panel that does not fight you. Relevant if you want to put a small site online without learning a cloud provider's billing model first — and if the site you are building is static, like this one, the entry plan is more than enough.

Worth knowing before you buy: the advertised price is the first-term rate and renewal is substantially higher, which is normal for this part of the market but catches people out. Check the renewal price on the checkout page, not the landing page.

Visit Hostinger Referral link

Developer tools

OpenCode

An open-source AI coding agent that runs in the terminal and works with whichever model provider you already pay for, rather than locking you to one. Useful if you live in a terminal and want the agent next to your code instead of in a browser tab.

Visit OpenCode Referral link

More to come

Other services are being evaluated for this page — among them domain registration, email hosting, cloud storage, VPN and password management. Nothing is listed until there is something specific to say about it beyond the fact that a referral programme exists.

If you run a service you think belongs here, the Partners page explains what would have to be true. In short: it has to be something we would recommend without a referral link, and it must not conflict with the principle that your files stay on your device.

The part that never changes

No recommendation on this page influences the tools. No tool is added, removed, ranked or degraded because of a commercial relationship, no tool page carries a referral link, and this page is reachable only from the footer — deliberately, because it is not what the site is for.

Questions

Do these links cost me anything extra?
No. A referral commission comes out of the provider's marketing budget, not your price. You pay whatever you would pay going directly to them, and in some cases the referral link carries a discount.
Is UtilTools responsible if one of these services fails me?
No. We have no relationship with these companies beyond a public referral programme, no control over what they do, and no ability to intervene. Support, refunds and disputes are between you and the provider under their terms. We list them because they were useful to us, which is not a warranty.
Why is there no referral link on the tool pages?
Because a tool page is where someone is trying to get something done, often with a document that matters to them. Putting a paid link in that moment would make every recommendation on this site less trustworthy, including the honest ones.
How do I know a recommendation is genuine and not just the best-paying one?
You do not, and you should not take anyone's word for it — including ours. What you can check is that the list is short, that each entry says something specific enough to be wrong, and that the drawbacks are named. A page that only lists upsides is selling.
Does following a link share anything about me?
Only what any link does: the destination learns that the visit came from utiltools.work, and receives the referral code in the URL. Nothing you have done in a tool is included, because none of it ever left your device in the first place.

Last updated 2026-08-22.