About
One Time Tool is a small independent studio based in Johannesburg, South Africa. There are no investors and no call centre. When you email hello@onetimetool.com, the person who builds the tools is the one who reads it and answers.
Why it exists
Most apps let you export your own data, and almost none of them give you something a person can read. WhatsApp hands you a text file and a folder of loose images. Instagram gives you raw JSON with the emoji broken. Google hands back a stack of numbered archives. It is technically your data and practically useless.
The tools that fix this mostly want a monthly subscription for something you will do once, or they want an account and a card before they will even tell you whether it worked on your file. That is backwards, so this site does the opposite.
What we promise
- You see the result before you pay. Upload your real file, look at the real parsed output, then decide. No account, no card and no email address to get that far.
- One payment for one job. There is no subscription and nothing to cancel.
- Your files are deleted within 7 days. Automatically, on a schedule, including anything extracted from them.
- No fake trust signals. There are no review scores on this site, no badges and no customer counts, because we would have to invent them.
What we are not
We are not lawyers, accountants, medical professionals or immigration advisers. Some of these tools produce documents people use in serious situations: court, insurance claims, visa applications. The tool formats what you give it and nothing more. Whether a document is accepted, admissible or sufficient in your situation is not something we can tell you, and we will say so plainly rather than guess.
If a tool here is bad
Tell us. If it is broken we will fix it, and if it turns out not to be useful we will take it down rather than leave it up looking busy. The list of tools on this site is meant to shrink as well as grow.