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title: Overview
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# Welcome to toolr

toolr is a platform for **discovering, rating and comparing development
tools**. Users maintain a shared catalog of tools, submit ratings
(usefulness & usability) and use statistics to make the right choice.

## What can you do with toolr?

| Function | Description | Visibility |
| --- | --- | --- |
| **Browse tools** | Filter, sort and search the catalog | Everyone |
| **Create a tool** | Add a new tool with description, category, features & tags | Logged in |
| **Edit/delete tools** | Maintain your own tools (creator or admin) | Logged in |
| **Rate** | Submit usefulness & usability (1–5) plus a comment | Logged in |
| **Watchlist** | Save tools as favorites | Premium |
| **Compare** | View tools side by side | Premium |
| **Record costs** | Enter license and cost models per tool | Premium |
| **Analytics** | Statistics, top tools, distributions | Everyone |
| **Trash** | Restore soft-deleted tools or delete them permanently | Premium |
| **Import** | Create multiple tools via CSV, JSON or YAML | Admin (premium) |
| **Admin** | User management, audit log, system information | Admin |
| **Redundancy detection** | Automatic duplicate detection | Admin |

## How this documentation is organized

- **User Guide** (these pages): step-by-step instructions for all
  functions — from the [Getting Started](/docs/handbook/getting-started) to
  [Administration](/docs/handbook/administration).
- **API Reference**: automatically generated from the OpenAPI specification —
  all [endpoints](/docs/reference/endpoints/tools) and
  [data fields](/docs/reference/schemas/toolinput) of the current version.
- **Release Notes**: what is new in each [version](/docs/releases/v0.8.1).

## Getting started

The fastest way:

1. **Sign in** — without an account you can only browse
   (see [Getting Started](/docs/handbook/getting-started#1-anmelden)).
2. **Find tools** — search, filters and sorting in the
   [Browse tools](/docs/handbook/tools-finden) section.
3. **Create a tool** — via "Add tool"
   ([guide](/docs/handbook/tool-anlegen)).
4. **Rate** — on the detail page of a tool
   ([guide](/docs/handbook/bewerten)).

## Contact & source code

The source code is available at
[git.kubebase.de/admin/tool-evaluator](https://git.kubebase.de/admin/tool-evaluator) —
you can reach it at any time via the repository icon in the top right corner.