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One-time iPhone and iPad app

Protostripe

Protobuf bytes, explained

Purpose-Built

An offline Protocol Buffers wire-format decoder for varints, fixed values, strings, nested messages, packed fields, schema overlays, unknown fields, and payload comparison.

Core Features

  • Decode schema-free protobuf wire fields safely
  • Apply optional .proto field names and types
  • Inspect varints as signed, unsigned, and zigzag
  • Explore nested, packed, text, and raw byte candidates
  • Diff payloads by field path and exact byte range

Private by Design

No account, subscription, ads, tracking, third-party analytics, or developer-operated backend. Core features work offline, and your work stays on device unless you deliberately share or export it.

Protostripe current app interface

Use It Responsibly

Debugging aid. Schema-free interpretations are hypotheses; use the authoritative schema and application behavior for correctness and security decisions.