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ByteBack
Repair mojibake and damaged text locally in your browser
⚡ByteBack⚡is a browser-based PWA for recovering text damaged by encoding errors. Paste mojibake, a wrong keyboard layout, transliteration, HTML entities, escape sequences, URL encoding, or Base64. ByteBack tests possible repair chains, ranks readable results, and shows each transformation step plus before-and-after changes. Processing happens on your device: pasted text is not uploaded, stored, or used for tracking. Install it for offline use in multiple languages.
Hi Product Hunt 👋
I built ByteBack after repeatedly encountering text that had been damaged somewhere between an old database, a spreadsheet export, a copied web page, or a message sent with the wrong encoding.
⚡ByteBack⚡lets you paste the damaged text and inspect the most likely recovery. It tests possible encoding chains, scores the readable results, and keeps alternative interpretations available instead of hiding the reasoning behind a single answer. It also handles wrong keyboard layouts, transliteration, HTML entities, escape sequences, URL encoding, and Base64.
The app runs entirely in the browser. Pasted text is not uploaded or stored, there is no account and the installable PWA works offline. The interface is available in multiple languages 🌍
I would especially value feedback on difficult real-world examples 😅
About ByteBack on Product Hunt
“Repair mojibake and damaged text locally in your browser”
ByteBack was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 3 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #159 on the daily leaderboard. ⚡ByteBack⚡is a browser-based PWA for recovering text damaged by encoding errors. Paste mojibake, a wrong keyboard layout, transliteration, HTML entities, escape sequences, URL encoding, or Base64. ByteBack tests possible repair chains, ranks readable results, and shows each transformation step plus before-and-after changes. Processing happens on your device: pasted text is not uploaded, stored, or used for tracking. Install it for offline use in multiple languages.
On the analytics side, ByteBack competes within Productivity, Privacy and Developer Tools — topics that collectively have 1.2M followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how ByteBack performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted ByteBack?
ByteBack was hunted by Alex. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
For a complete overview of ByteBack including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
Alex