Readable when you work, compact when you ship
Code copied from a browser, an email or a minified bundle is often one endless line. Beautifying adds consistent line breaks and indentation so you can read, review and debug it. Minifying does the opposite and removes comments and spaces to make files smaller and pages faster.
The formatters only change whitespace and comments. Names, values and the order of your code stay exactly as they were.
Private by design
Many online formatters send your code to a server. Here everything runs in your browser, so API keys in scripts, customer queries and internal markup never leave your computer.