Levelbrook Developer Tools

Levelbrook Developer Tools

Maintained.
No telemetry.
No rug‑pulls.

The developer tools you rely on were abandoned, or turned against you. We maintain ours, we do not track you, and we will never take away a feature you already had.

Nothing here is published yet

These extensions are built, tested and packaged, but none of them is on the VS Code Marketplace, Open VSX or the Chrome Web Store today, so there is nothing to install from this page yet. The purchase links work, and a licence bought now activates the moment the extension ships. If you would rather be told when that happens, mail team@levelbrook.com.

Paid tools

Tools that replace something which stopped being maintained — or that overcharges

Each one is free to use for real work. Pro adds a power layer on top — it never takes back a feature the free tier had. Every purchase is a perpetual licence or a monthly subscription, your choice, with a 14-day trial that needs no account and no email address.

For VS Code

These install into VS Code, and into any editor that reads Open VSX — Cursor, Windsurf, VSCodium.

Timeslice

Your coding time never leaves your machine.

A coding time tracker with no account, no server, no signup and no telemetry. Your data is a plain text file in your own home directory.

Replaces the 23-million-install hosted time tracker.

$39 once or $5/month VS Code Not yet published

Sendpad

Point it at your existing .http files. Everything works.

A maintained, telemetry-free HTTP client for .http and .rest files — and it fixes self-signed localhost HTTPS.

Replaces an HTTP client abandoned in 2022, and a paywalled successor.

$49 once or $6/month VS Code Not yet published

Branchline

The Git graph you loved, maintained again.

A fast, clean-room Git commit graph for VS Code. The graph and every graph action are free forever. Measured on an 85,543-commit repository.

Replaces a 15.2-million-install graph abandoned since April 2021.

$39 once or $5/month VS Code Not yet published

Auditable

A real accessibility audit, mapped to the line that caused it.

Run an axe-core WCAG 2.2 audit on any file, dev server or URL from inside VS Code, and generate a client-ready EN 301 549 / EAA report.

Replaces accessibility overlays that cost $490–$3,990 a year and fix nothing.

$149 once or $19/month VS Code Not yet published

For Chrome

A browser extension, not an editor one. It installs into Chrome, and into any Chromium browser that accepts a Manifest V3 extension — so it is a different store, a different install, and a different privacy policy.

Mentionable

Are AI answer engines citing your site?

Measures whether AI answers mention and cite your brand, using your own API key. No account, no server of ours, and we never see your key, your prompts or your results.

Replaces AI-visibility trackers charging $29–$489 a month to run the same queries on their own infrastructure.

$99 once or $12/month Chrome Not yet published

Free, with no paid tier at all

Two extensions that are simply free

These replace tools with tens of millions of installs between them that have not shipped a release in years. They have no Pro tier and never will. They are how people find the rest of what we build, and that is the entire business case for them.

Run the current file or a selected snippet in 40+ languages. A maintained, zero-telemetry alternative to Code Runner. Makes no network requests, ever.

Free No Pro tier, everNot yet published

Colourised indentation guides that stay correct on every platform. Uses your file's real tab size, diagnoses mixed tabs and spaces, and updates in 0.5ms inside a 12,000-line file. No telemetry.

Free No Pro tier, everNot yet published

The argument

This is not a positioning exercise. These are the facts.

Every claim below is about a publicly listed extension, and every number is from its own marketplace listing or its own issue tracker. We did not invent any of it, and we do not need to.

  • The most-used VS Code Git graph has 15.2M installs and a 4.94★ rating. Its last release was April 2021, and its licence blocks anyone from forking it.
  • The most-used code runner has 41.7M installs, has been dead for 2.5 years, and ships with telemetry on by default.
  • The most-used .http client has 7.5M installs at 4.91★ and has been unmaintained since 2022.
  • Its best-known successor holds a 2.39★ rating — the worst in our entire survey of the category — earned by paywalling features that used to be free. The users' own word for it was “rug pull.”
  • Accessibility overlays cost $490–$3,990 a year and do not fix the underlying markup. In January 2025 the FTC announced a settlement requiring one vendor to pay $1 million over allegations it misrepresented what its tool could do; the consent order was finalised in April 2025. No major editor ships an audit tool at all.
  • AI-visibility trackers charge $29–$489 a month to run answer-engine queries on their own infrastructure — a lookup that costs nothing when it runs in your own browser with your own API key.

Those five facts are the entire market opportunity, and the only durable answer to them is a promise that is cheap for us to keep and impossible for the incumbents to copy, because they have already broken it.

How licensing works

Buy once and you get a licence key. The extension verifies it offline against an Ed25519 signature, so it keeps working on a plane, behind a corporate proxy, or if this company disappears tomorrow.

The only network request any of these extensions ever makes on your behalf is the one that activates a key you personally typed in. There is no usage ping to switch off, because there is not one.

Lost your key? Recover it here →

How we talk about what we ship

Every product page on this site names what is not finished, what has not been tested, and what was cut — in the same page that asks you for money.

We do not publish install counts, customer counts or testimonials, because we do not have any yet, and inventing them would destroy the exact thing this brand is built on.

What that commits us to →