Free tools for the parts that waste your afternoon
Small, single-purpose utilities that run in the browser. No account, no upload, no “start your free trial”. Each one exists because writing the same thing by hand for the tenth time is not a good use of an analyst.
DAX Formatter & Linter
Paste a measure and get clean formatting plus a review of the patterns that quietly cost performance — repeated measures, FILTER over ALL, division that breaks on zero, hard-coded dates.
Open tool → Fix time intelligenceDate Table Generator
A contiguous date table in DAX or Power Query, with a real sort column for every month label, ISO week numbers, and fiscal year handled properly. Includes the mark-as-date-table checklist.
Open tool → Budget itPower BI Licence Calculator
Pro, Premium Per User, or the mix most teams end up on. Enter how many people build reports and how many only read them, and see the yearly total.
Open tool →Why so few?
Because a tool that tries to do everything ends up being a worse version of Power BI Desktop. These three cover the gaps where the desktop app gives you no help at all: formatting a formula you pasted from somewhere, building a date table that survives time intelligence, and working out what the licences will actually cost.
Everything runs client-side. The DAX you paste is never sent to a server — you can open the page, disconnect from the network, and it still works.
Want the reasoning behind the checks rather than just the output? Start with the DAX basics guide, or read the fifteen DAX errors that look cryptic.