A strong README starts with the project name, a one-line tagline and a few status badges, followed by a concise description of what the project does and why. From there the most useful sections are a table of contents (for longer files), features, tech stack, installation and usage with copy-paste code blocks, configuration or API notes, how to run tests, a roadmap, contributing guidelines, and the license. AnyTool README Generator lets you toggle exactly these sections on or off and reorder them, and it builds the table of contents and heading anchors for you automatically.

A README badge is just a Markdown image that points at a shields.io URL, for example a license, build-status, version or star-count pill. AnyTool builds those URLs as text and inserts them as image links — it never requests the images while you are editing, so nothing is fetched from the page. Dynamic badges such as license, stars, issues or release only show real data once GitHub loads shields.io against your actual repository, which is why you set your GitHub owner and repository name in the tool.

AnyTool README Generator runs completely client-side. Every keystroke updates the Markdown output and the rendered HTML preview locally, with no server round-trip, so your project name, description, code snippets and links never leave your device. Even the badge images are referenced by URL rather than fetched. The page works offline once cached, and closing the tab discards your draft.

When the Table of Contents section is turned on, the generator lists every other enabled section and links each entry to that heading using GitHub’s anchor-slug rules (lowercased, spaces turned into hyphens, punctuation removed). Because it is rebuilt from the live section list, reordering or disabling a section updates the table of contents automatically, and disabled or empty sections are left out so the links always resolve.