Bench Tool

Base64 Encoder for Mac

A native Mac Base64 encoder and decoder. Paste a string or a blob, get the encoded or decoded result in one step. Nothing leaves your machine.

What it does

Bench's Base64 tool encodes plain text or binary data to Base64 and decodes Base64 strings back to their original form. Switch direction with a single click — encode or decode, standard or URL-safe alphabet. The output updates as you type, so you don't need to hit a button. It handles padding edge cases quietly, without requiring you to know whether the trailing = signs are optional in the variant you're working with.

Why use Bench's Base64 encoder

Web-based encoders paste your data into a remote server's input field. That's fine for public test strings, but it's a habit worth breaking when the data includes tokens, credentials embedded in config files, or private keys in PEM armor. Bench runs on your Mac with no network calls, so the data never leaves the sandbox.

Paste it. Bench picks the tool.

Smart Detection reads your clipboard locally and routes you to the Base64 encoder when it sees something like:

eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9

The detection runs entirely on your Mac as a rule-based heuristic — it checks whether the clipboard content matches Base64 character patterns and length. Nothing is uploaded.

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Base64 Encoder ships inside Bench, alongside 17 other developer tools. $19 one-time, year of updates included.

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