ShellNewHandler VS Utilorax

Which is more popular?

Based on our record, ShellNewHandler should be more popular than Utilorax. It has been mentioned 2 times since March 2021.

social mentions: 2 vs 1
Monitoring Tools popularity: 100% vs 0%

Base details

Website, pricing, platforms and company facts side by side.

	ShellNewHandler	Utilorax
Website	sourceforge.net	utilorax.com
Pricing	—	Freemium $4.99 / Monthly (Starter — 5,000 API requests/month) Official pricing
Platforms	—	Web
Company	—	Startup from Pakistan · 1 - 9 employees · 2026
Listed in	Cloud Storage Monitoring Tools File Sharing Website Monitoring +1	Utilities Online Converters Calculators PDF Tools Image Tools +2

About ShellNewHandler and Utilorax

In their own words, as submitted to SaaSHub.

ShellNewHandler

Utilorax

No description of ShellNewHandler yet.

Utilorax is a collection of 1,100+ free online tools: 116 calculators, 652 unit converters, and 394 text, developer, SEO, image, PDF and template utilities. Everything runs inside the browser. Files are processed locally and are never uploaded to a server, so PDFs, images and documents stay on...

Features and specs

What each product offers, as listed by its team.

ShellNewHandler 0 features

Utilorax 7 features

No features have been listed yet.

Tools
1,162 — 116 calculators, 652 unit converters, 394 utilities
Processing
Client-side — files never leave the browser
Account
Not required for any tool
Offline Mode
Installable as a PWA, works without a connection
Languages
English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Chinese
Developer API
256+ JSON endpoints, 500 requests/month on the free key
Dark Mode

Analysis

An editorial look at what each product does well and who it suits.

ShellNewHandler

Utilorax

Overall verdict

ShellNewHandler is a niche, lightweight utility hosted on SourceForge designed to give users more control over the Windows 'New' context menu (the ShellNew menu). It can be considered good for its specific narrow use case, but it is an older, minimally maintained tool that may not suit all users, especially those on modern Windows versions.

Why this product is good

Provides direct control over customizing the Windows right-click 'New' menu, allowing users to add or remove file type entries
Lightweight and free, without bundled bloatware typical of some other free utilities
Simple and focused in scope, making it easy to understand for its specific purpose
Open distribution via SourceForge allows transparency and no-cost access

Recommended for

Power users who want to declutter or customize the Windows New context menu
IT administrators managing standardized desktop environments across multiple machines
Users comfortable with older utility-style tools and Windows registry-related tweaks
Not recommended for casual users seeking modern, actively supported software with regular updates

No analysis of Utilorax yet.

Videos

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Utilorax 1 video + Add

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Category popularity

How often each product is chosen within a category, 0–100% relative to the other.

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Questions & Answers

As answered by people managing ShellNewHandler and Utilorax.

What makes your product unique?

Utilorax's answer:

Two things. First, most of the tools never send your data anywhere — 63 of the file tools run entirely in your browser, and the ones that do need a server (certain PDF and Office conversions) delete the file the moment they are done. Second, the same operations are available as a free JSON API with 203 endpoints, which almost no free tools site offers.

Add to that 1,162 tools in one place, no account for anything, five languages, and it installs as a PWA and keeps working offline.

Why should a person choose your product over its competitors?

Utilorax's answer:

The competitors listed here are each good at one thing — Calculator.net and Omni for calculators, IT Tools and CodeBeautify for developer utilities, 10015.io for the everyday mix. Utilorax covers that whole span in one place, so you are not learning a new site for each small job.

The real difference is the developer API. If you need a conversion or a hash once, use the page; if you need it a thousand times, the same thing is a JSON endpoint with a free key. And nothing asks you to sign up first.

How would you describe the primary audience of your product?

Utilorax's answer:

Two groups. Most visitors want a single answer and then to leave — convert a unit, work out a loan payment, compress a PDF — and they should not have to create an account for that.

The second group is developers, who reach the same operations through the JSON API instead of the page. The site is in English, Spanish, French, Portuguese and Chinese, so a good part of the audience is not reading in English.

What's the story behind your product?

Utilorax's answer:

It came out of irritation. I kept opening a different site for every small job — one for a unit conversion, one to compress an image, one to count words — and most of them wanted an upload or a sign-up for something my own browser could do perfectly well.

So I built the whole set in one place and made the browser do the work wherever it could. It went live on 29 July 2026 and is run from Karachi.

Which are the primary technologies used for building your product?

Utilorax's answer:

PHP 8.2 on the server
Vanilla JavaScript, no front-end framework
WebAssembly and the Canvas API for in-browser audio, image and font processing
MySQL
Progressive Web App with a service worker for offline use

User comments

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Social recommendations and mentions

Recommendations tracked on public social media and blogs since March 2021.

ShellNewHandler 2 mentions

Utilorax 1 mention

I recently got libreoffice, but now the new option in right click looks like a mess. Can someone help me get rid of them please?
Use Shell New Handler. Run the portable app and simply untick the items you don't want to appear in your new context menu. Source: about 4 years ago
This menu should be easy to add/remove programs to... Who is really creating Access Databases from this menu often enough to keep it here? (Not me!) Is there an easy way to edit this?
I've always used ShellNewHandler for this. It's a really simple portable utility that allows you to remove most of the items from that menu. Tested it out on Windows 11 and it's still compatible. Source: over 5 years ago

My robots.txt check passed for six days on an attacker's robots.txt
Preg_match_all('~^\s*Sitemap:\s*(\S+)~mi', $robots, $sm); $ours = 'https://utilorax.com/sitemap.xml'; $foreign = array_filter($sm[1], fn($u) => rtrim($u) !== $ours); If (!in_array($ours, $sm[1], true)) { $problems[] = 'robots.txt... - Source: dev.to / about 2 months ago

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Base details

About ShellNewHandler and Utilorax

Features and specs

Analysis

Videos

Category popularity

Questions & Answers

What makes your product unique?

Why should a person choose your product over its competitors?

How would you describe the primary audience of your product?

What's the story behind your product?

Which are the primary technologies used for building your product?

User comments

Social recommendations and mentions