The best new tools for designers are ones that make your life easier and your workflows faster. You’ll find some of those in this list this month for sure.

You’ll find JavaScript, frameworks for front end and back end, development tools for the mac platform, useful productivity desktop apps. AI-powered development tools, a couple of great CLI tools, UI component libraries to help you build better.

Additionally, I’ve added some WordPress themes and plugins. And in this types of post I’ve also added fonts, UI kits, icons and other useful design resources.

If you think I’ve missed something that you think should of been on the list, let me know in the comments or if you know of a new a that should be featured on the September 2026. Please either send to me through bluesky,  tweet/X it to me @SomeWhatCrtv or even use the Submit Resource form and your resource could be seen on next month list.

Travels

Travels gives users the ability to undo and redo their actions. Making it ideal for text editors, drawing apps, form builders and other interactive applications. Instead of saving a complete copy of the state after every change. Travels stores only the differences using JSON Patches.

This keeps the history lightweight, reducing memory usage and making it more efficient to persist changes. Especially when updates affect only a small portion of a large state tree.

ChatJS

ChatJS is a rule-based chatbot framework designed to provide accurate responses without relying on external APIs or large language models. It is ideal for air-gapped environments and areas with limited or no internet access, where reliability and offline functionality are essential.

Markdy

Markdy is an open-source animation DSL for creating text-based animation scenes. Using MarkdyScript, you can define actors, assets, captions and timeline events. Then render the finished animation directly in the browser.

Anvil JS

Anvil JS is a Node.js backend framework. With file based routing, compile time validation. And a native agentic layer MCP, tools, tracing and agents built in.

ZinTrust

ZinTrust is a zero-dependency TypeScript framework. Built for high-performance APIs, clean architecture and microservices.

Punter.js

Punter.js is a lightweight and open source JavaScript game engine designed to make learning game development simple and approachable. Built with education in mind, it features a minimal API that helps students move from theory to creating playable games in just a few steps.

Kavo

Kavo turns ORM entities into a complete REST CRUD API with minimal setup. Define your entity once, add a single decorator. And instantly get built-in support for creating, reading, updating and deleting records. Along with filtering, sorting, pagination, nested relationships and field selection.

Dockev – Linux, Mac & Windows App

Dockev is the desktop app to work with Docker. Manage containers, images, volumes, networks, Compose stacks and Swarm clusters. All from a clean and native interface. All without ever fighting the CLI.

Price: Pay what you want — every donation keeps development full-time and independent.

smterm – Linux, Mac & Windows App

smterm is a minimalist terminal built for agentic coding that bridge the gap between running AI coding agents and understanding their output. It provides a fast, cross-platform terminal experience with essential features such as tabs and split panes, while adding dedicated panels that display real-time insights into agent activity.

Price: Free

Comail – Linux, Mac & Windows App

Comail is a desktop mail client. That syncs your whole mailbox into local SQLite. Searches it by meaning without any cloud calls and triages at keyboard speed. Gmail, Outlook, IMAP. Plus a real CalDAV calendar.

Price: Free

GHSwitch – Mac & Windows App

GHSwitch is a lightweight desktop app for macOS and Windows. That lets you instantly switch between multiple Git user configurations from your system tray.

Price: $3.00

Upstream FTP – Mac App

Upstream is a modern, lightweight FTP and SFTP client built exclusively for macOS. Designed with speed and native macOS integration in mind. It replaces outdated, cluttered interfaces with a fast, secure and intuitive file transfer experience for developers, designers and system administrators.

Price: Free or $49.99

PinNote – iOS App

PinNote is an iOS app that keeps your daily notes visible as Live Activities on your Lock Screen. Allowing you to view important reminders without unlocking your device.

Since iOS automatically removes Lock Screen Live Activities after up to 12 hours. PinNote refreshes your notes whenever you open the app within that time frame. Ensuring they remain pinned and up to date.

Price: Free (with In-App Purchases)

Tally – iOS App

Tally is a time tracking app built for freelancers. Making it easy to record billable hours, create professional invoices, and manage client billing from a single platform.

Price: Free (with In-App Purchases)

PhoneDeck – iOS App

PhoneDeck transforms your iPhone into a fully customisable control panel for your Mac, giving you the functionality of a Stream Deck without needing additional hardware. Use it to launch applications, control media playback, create custom buttons, automate workflows, and trigger shortcuts.

Price: Free (with In-App Purchases)

Uptimepage – Web App

Uptimepage checks your websites and APIs. Every minute from several regions and it alerts your team the second one goes down. Plus it gives customers a live public status page. Free, open source and running in about a minute.

Price: Free to 19.00 per month

Convrs – Web App

Convrs is a privacy-first analytics platform for SaaS that delivers insights far beyond basic pageview tracking. It helps you monitor visitors, funnels, conversions, revenue attribution, and complete customer journeys from a single dashboard. By showing exactly which channels, pages, and user actions led to each purchase,

Price: Starts from $9.00 per month

Reignat Analytics – Web App

Reignat is a privacy friendly web analytics platform designed for founders, startups and indie makers who want powerful insights without the complexity of traditional analytics tools like Google Analytics. It tracks visitors, pageviews, traffic sources, devices, locations, conversion funnels, and complete visitor journeys in real time, all from a fast, modern dashboard.

Interactive features such as a live 3D globe provide a visual overview of your audience, while revenue attribution shows which pages and marketing channels drive the most value. Also included is a built-in AI assistant that lets you ask questions about your website traffic in plain language and receive instant answers with charts and actionable insights.

Price: Starts from $9.00 per month (10,000 events)

A11yEngine

A11yEngine is an AI-powered web accessibility tool that acts like Grammarly for accessibility. It scans webpages section by section. Identifies WCAG 2.2 compliance issues, and explains why they matter. And provides framework aware remediation suggestions.

Canvas UI

Canvas UI is an open source library of creative components drawn on canvas. Real HTML, rendered inside a canvas element. With WebGL effects running over it. Just copy, paste and then ship.

Hookwise

Hookwise capture every request, inspect the full payload, replay failures. And forward traffic straight to your local app through one authenticated CLI tunnel.

Code Explainer

Code is the source of truth that doesn’t go stale. Code Explainer CLI translates it.  A merged PR or a whole repo  into a brief pitched at whoever’s reading.

Mirafold

Mirafold is a browser interface for the terminal coding agent. That you already use such like Claude Code, Codex, or Gemini CLI rendered faithfully, with generative UI on top.

Motionly

Motionly is an AI native motion graphics editor that combines AI-assisted content creation with a fully editable visual workflow. It generates animation projects that you can refine using a timeline and canvas editor, giving you complete control over timing, assets, animations, and layouts.

Swift AI SDK

swift-ai-sdk is a toolkit for integrating AI features into iOS and macOS apps: streaming chat, agents that call your code, structured output, live voice and Apple’s on-device models. All behind one small API.

API Rift

API Rift helps prevent unexpected API changes from causing production outages. By proactively monitoring your API dependencies and sending intelligent alerts when issues are detected.

Jelly UI

Jelly UI is a dependency-free Web Components library for building soft, tactile product user interfaces. It combines native form controls with soft-body physics to create engaging, interactive experiences. While including built-in support for dark mode, right-to-left (RTL) layouts and WCAG AA-compliant colour tokens.

BeUI

beUI is a free and open source motion component library for React and Next.js. The idea is simple, just copy the source into your project, understand it, customise it and own the code.

WP Triage

WP Triage connects to your WordPress websites and continuously monitors plugins, themes and WordPress core for known security vulnerabilities. Rather than checking multiple dashboards. It provides a single, centralised triage list that highlights issues across all your sites. It scores each site by risk, so you always know what to fix first.

Naqil Backup & Migrate – Plugin

Naqil Backup & Migrate is a WordPress plugin that creates a single, standard ZIP archive containing your website’s database and wp-content directory.

Price: Free

eStorePOS – Plugin

eStorePOS is a fast, responsive point-of-sale (POS) plugin for WordPress that extends your eCommerce store with in-person checkout capabilities. It lets you manage both online and in store sales from a single system, with shared products, customers, orders, inventory, taxes and coupons.

Price: Free

Auditwright WCAG Accessibility Scanner – Plugin

Auditwright checks every published post and page against the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2, Level A and AA. And shows you the exact element that failed. The selector to find it and the success criteria it breaks plus a link to guidance on fixing it.

It is not an accessibility overlay. It is a testing tool.

Price: Free

CartLane – Plugin

CartLane is an all in one WooCommerce conversion platform that brings essential sales optimisation tools into a single connected workspace. It helps store owners recover abandoned carts, improve the shopping and checkout experience, create targeted order bumps, recommend complementary products and build post-purchase upsell and down-sell journeys. With support for offer testing and targeted pricing campaigns.

Price: $39.00

HaggleChimp – Plugin

HaggleChimp is a gamified price bargaining bot designed for WooCommerce stores. It allows customers to negotiate prices directly on product pages. It creates a fun, interactive shopping experience that boosts sales, reduces cart abandonment and automatically collects customer email leads!

Price: $29.00

Vesperia – Theme

Vesperia is a modern Full Site Editing block theme designed for wineries, vineyards, and small-batch wine shops. Featuring an elegant estate-inspired design with rich wine-red tones, gold foil accents, and a sophisticated Cormorant Garamond and Inter typography pairing, product page patterns, with seamless WooCommerce integration.

Price: Free

SmartCloud Agent Canvas – Theme

SmartCloud Agent Canvas is a flexible native block theme with predictable design tokens and core Gutenberg patterns for people and agent assisted editing workflows.

Price: Free

Atelier Journal – Theme

Atelier Journal is an elegant WordPress blog theme designed for artists, painters, illustrators, designers and creatives. Featuring a clean editorial layout, refined typography, and spacious design.

Price: Free

Chillout – Theme

Chillout is a vibrant WordPress theme designed for amusement parks, theme parks, water parks, adventure parks, family entertainment centers. It has modern layouts, engaging design, and fully responsive structure. It helps businesses showcase attractions, promote events, highlight ticket packages, and create memorable online experiences for visitors.

Built with Elementor and WooCommerce integration, Chillout makes it easy to customise your website, manage bookings, showcase park features and sell tickets or merchandise online through a flexible and user friendly platform.

Price: $59.00

Alsha – Theme

Alsha is a modern and professional theme designed for architecture studios, interior design agencies and creative businesses. It provides a clean, elegant, and high converting platform for showcasing projects, portfolios, architectural services, and commercial developments.

With sophisticated layouts, flexible customisation options, ready-made pages, and reusable UI sections, Alsha makes it easy to build a polished professional website without coding.

Price: $19.00

Granse – Font

Otha – Font

Kurvan – Font

Broskesh – Font

Chamer – Font

Bigtro – Font

Rindlex – Font

Doodle Icons Set

Logistics 3D Icon Set

Japanese and Asian Icons

3D Gadget Icon Pack

Business Man 3D Character Pack

Creative Tech UI Animations Pack

Lumen – AI SaaS Marketing UI Kit

FindCash – Fintech Dashboard UI Kit & Figma Design System

Ruang Kerja – Project Management Dashboard UI Kit

Theshopy – AI Ecommerce Mobile UI Kit

Lunes – Mobile App & Web App Framer Template