What's New on CacheSleuth

The Big Picture

Site-wide improvements that apply to every page.

Quality of Life

Smaller refinements throughout the site.

• Smart search bar. Paste coordinates in any notation and the search bar routes you to the Coordinate Converter. Type a cipher name and it opens the right tool. Partial matches show an autocomplete dropdown.
• My Puzzle Texts drawer. A cross-page scratchpad for ciphertexts, keys, custom alphabets, and any other text you want handy across tools. Saved locally in your browser, with Export and Import for backups. Click into any tool field and press Insert, or use Pick a field to choose a target from a list. Open it from the button in the sidebar.
• Reorganized sidebar. Tools are grouped by what they do, with quick-jump panels for codes, geocaching links, and translations. You can quickly filter the results here too and just press enter to go to the first result. The mobile drawer mirrors the desktop sidebar exactly.
• Inline "Learn more" accordions. Homepage tool cards have an expandable summary of what each tool does, so you can review the description without opening the tool.
• Featured tools shuffle. The homepage spotlights three tools at random. Press "Reshuffle" to swap in a different set.
• Embeddable tools. The Coordinate Converter can run as an embedded widget on the homepage and inside other tool pages on the site, with all of its features intact.
• Shareable tool URLs. Many tools encode their input into the URL, so you can copy the address bar to share or bookmark a specific puzzle state.

Tools & Upgrades

Every tool was individually re-thought during the redesign with the goal of making it the best version of itself, and every tool now ships with worked Examples built in, which the old site did not have. On top of that, the redesign added a stack of brand-new tools, including codes broken out of the Multi Decoder into their own pages. The flagship tools come first, followed by everything new since the old site, then the upgrades to tools that carried over.

• Multi Decoder

  Rewritten from the ground up. Paste cipher text and the decoder runs every supported code at once, with separate slots for keywords, alphabets, and number sequences. Results are now ranked so the most likely "possible words" float to the top, and a filter lets you hide every section that did not produce a result. There is also a Share button that builds a link with your exact input and settings baked in, so you can hand it to someone else and they land on the same view. The list of supported ciphers is added to periodically.

• Wherigo Solver

  Drop a .gwc cartridge and the solver decompiles the Lua code, scans the zone data, and ranks the most likely final coordinates with a confidence score. Reverse Wherigo presets for the Waldmeister and day1976 cartridge formats are included.

• Multi Encoder

  Brand new for the redesign. Type a plaintext message, optionally provide keywords or a custom alphabet, and the encoder produces every supported cipher, code, and number-base representation at once. Output is grouped by family with a search filter, copy button per row, and a Share Link that round-trips back through the Multi Decoder.

• Cipher Identifier

  Brand new for the redesign. Paste an unknown ciphertext and the identifier scores it against the full cipher catalog, surfaces the most likely candidates, and offers a one-click jump to the matching tool with your text already loaded. It also spots structural giveaways like Morse, Morbit, base conversions, and cryptarithm equations.

• Code Identifier

  Brand new for the redesign. Upload a photo of an unknown symbol alphabet, like pigpen, Dancing Men, or alien glyphs, and it matches the shapes against its catalog of symbol codes to tell you which alphabet a puzzle is using.

• Geocache Viewer

  Multiple input methods are supported: drop a saved cache page, paste the raw HTML, or use one of the browser extensions or bookmarklets that send the page directly from geocaching.com into the viewer. The viewer reformats the page into a cleaner layout and surfaces details that the live site does not show. Everything runs in your browser.

• Coordinate Converter

  Converts between DD, DDM, DMS, UTM, MGRS, Plus Code, Maidenhead, Geohash, GeoHex, Geo3x3, NAC, Mapcode, OSGB, Mercator, and both Reverse Wherigo formats (Waldmeister and day1976) at the same time. Includes elevation lookup, a map view, and one-click links out to Google Maps, OpenStreetMap and other mapping services. The converter also runs as an embeddable iframe on other pages so you can get full coordinate conversion functionality in multiple places.

• Codes & Symbols

  Over 318 code tables, most of them interactive so you can type your own message and see every variant render at once. Filter by name, or pick "Show All Codes" to render a single phrase across every monoalphabetic code on one page, which is useful for figuring out which code a puzzle is using.

• Geocaching Quick Search

  A new homepage card and a dedicated sidebar mode let you jump to a cache page, log a find as any log type, look up a user's profile, hides, trackables, or stats, search FTF or recently published caches by region, or open your own dashboard.

• Code Image Decoder

  Upload a picture of a message written in a symbol alphabet, like pigpen, braille, or other glyph codes, and the decoder finds each glyph, identifies the family, matches every symbol against its reference set, and reads the whole thing back into letters. It checks the result against a dictionary and coordinate patterns to flag a likely answer.

• Cryptogram Solver

  Paste a monoalphabetic substitution (Aristocrat or Patristocrat) and the solver runs a hill-climb against an English quadgram model to recover the most likely plaintext, with runner-ups. It auto-detects Caesar shifts, Atbash, and keyword alphabets, and you can lock known letters or whole words to refine the result. It is also available as an optional toggle inside both Multi Decoders.

• Anagram Solver

  Enter letters, a word, or a phrase and the solver finds every dictionary word and multi-word phrase that uses them, with Scrabble and Words With Friends tile scoring and crossword-style pattern filters. Switch between a readable common-words list and a 235,000-word full dictionary, and filter by length or a word that must appear.

Brand-new tools

Over 117 new tools, grouped by theme and sorted newest first. Tap a group to expand it.

Upgrades to existing tools

• Automatic Vigenère-family solvers. A Solve automatically button now cracks the key straight from the ciphertext on Vigenère, Autokey, Beaufort, Variant Beaufort, Gronsfeld (each with autokey variants), and Porta Key.
• Cipher Identifier recognizes Morbit and cryptarithms. A 1-9 digit stream flags Morbit, and a "WORDS + WORDS = WORDS" equation flags a cryptarithm, each with a link to open the solver pre-loaded.
• Auto coordinate chip on every text field. When text containing a recognizable coordinate (DD, DDM, DMS, UTM, MGRS, Plus Code, OSGB, Reverse Wherigo, What3Words) lands in a tool, a "Possible coordinate" chip appears with a copy button and a one-click link into the Coordinate Converter.
• Cloud auto-solvers crack ciphers without a key. A Solve button now recovers the key and plaintext for Substitution, Playfair, Foursquare, Bifid, Trifid, Columnar Transposition, and ADFGX/ADFGVX. The heavy search runs in the cloud so it never freezes the page, and the same solvers power one-click cracking from the Cipher Identifier and Multi Decoder.
• Multi Decoder polish. A searchable Focus combobox isolates a single cipher, sections are themed and alpha sorted with per-card descriptions, a new Syllables card aids text analysis, and multi-token base conversion plus a walking-base decoder were added.
• Geocache Viewer converts every coordinate at once. The viewer's coordinate converter now harvests every recognizable coordinate from the pad and renders a full DD/DDM/DMS/MGRS/UTM card for each, so you can compare candidates side by side.
• Cryptogram solving built into the Multi Decoder. The new Cryptogram Solver is also available as an optional toggle inside both Multi Decoder and Multi Decoder (classic).
• More text-options on every input. Remove Newlines, Split Into Lines, and Normalize Spaces now sit alongside the existing case, filter, find/replace, and group buttons under any tool's text input.

Languages

CacheSleuth is now available in 10+ languages. Language names appear in their native script in the footer dropdown so you can find yours without scanning English labels. The old site used the Google Translate widget, which often broke JavaScript and stopped page features from working. The new translation runs through CacheSleuth's own translator instead, so tools keep working in any language. Translations are produced by a machine model, so some are still rough.

If you spot a translation that looks wrong or awkward, please report it on the translation feedback form. The form lets you correct several strings at once, and the fixes are applied as manual overrides that the whole site picks up on the next visit.

What Stayed The Same

• Every tool from the old site is still here, just better organized and easier to find. Each one has been enhanced where possible with new features and improvements.
• Tool URLs are unchanged where it was practical to keep them, so your bookmarks should keep working.
• Nothing requires an account, and nothing tracks you across the site.
• It is still free and ad-free.