About Akshar

Akshar is a small set of tools for everyday problems in Indian life online: writing Hindi on an English keyboard, rescuing a document typed in an old KrutiDev font, getting an exam photo under 20 KB the night before a deadline, and understanding what a SIP, a loan or an offer letter really means in rupees.

There are plenty of tool sites. Most add hundreds of thin pages, upload your files to their servers and bury the tool under pop-ups. Akshar does the opposite: a few tools, each built carefully enough to handle the hard cases, explained in Hindi as well as English, and running entirely in your browser.

How the tools work

Every tool is code that runs on your device. Hinglish and KrutiDev conversion use rules for Hindi spelling and the KrutiDev 010 layout; the photo tools use your browser's own image encoder; the calculators use the published formulas and the current tax slabs. No text or image is ever sent anywhere.

Accuracy

Transliteration of Hinglish is never perfect, because Hinglish has no fixed spelling, so every output can be edited. Exam upload rules and tax law change: exam presets show typical values and tell you to check the notice, and the tax calculator is updated after each Budget. If you spot a mistake, please tell us.

Free, supported by ads

The tools are free with no account and no limits. The site may show advertising to pay for itself; ads are kept away from the tools themselves.