Free changelog tools
Five small tools, free and signup-free. They work on whatever you paste or link — nothing is saved. If they earn their keep, hosting your changelog on Wakelog is the same deal: free, API-first, no email required.
🧪 Instant changelog preview
Paste a CHANGELOG.md — or drop a GitHub, GitLab or Codeberg
repo URL, or an RSS/Atom feed — and see it rendered as a hosted changelog page, exactly
as it would look on Wakelog. Kills the “what will it look like?” question
before you commit to anything.
🩺 Changelog linter
Twelve checks — missing dates, vague titles, commit dumps, unflagged breaking changes, ambiguous date formats and more — graded A–F, with every finding linking to a guide that explains the fix. Works on a pasted file or any public repo URL, and hands you a live grade badge for your README when you're done. See how popular open-source projects score in the report-card gallery.
📝 Release notes generator
Paste raw git log output and get a grouped,
keep-a-changelog-style markdown draft: conventional-commit prefixes understood, merges
and chore noise filtered out. A draft to edit, not a changelog to publish — but it turns
a blank page into a ten-minute job.
📛 Badge playground
Live SVG badges for your README: a freshness badge (“changelog · shipped 3d ago”) for changelogs hosted here, and a grade badge from the linter that works for any public changelog anywhere. Tune labels and colors, copy the markdown — both keep themselves up to date.
📡 Changelog watcher
Turn any public changelog into an RSS / JSON feed — a GitHub, GitLab
or Codeberg repo's Releases, a raw CHANGELOG.md, or a hosted
changelog page. Refreshed every few hours; put the tools you depend on in your feed
reader, even the ones that never published a feed.
Why that pays off.
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