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.
From lightweight JavaScript library, various of that improve workflows like habit trackers, project and task management, building full web app with AI, palette generator for Tailwind, simplifies provisioning and managing AWS development and production environments, research template for UX.
Also there’s a bunch of open-source tools and apps like UI builder, a collection of open-source documentation sites. Then UI components for Tailwind CSS and retro-styled. And the normal plugins and themes for WordPress, icons, fonts, illustrations and UI Kits. So there’s something for almost every designer or developer in this list.
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 first 2025 edition in January, please either tweet/X it to me @SomeWhatCrtv or BSky it to me and even use the Submit Resource form and your resource could be seen on next month list.
Viselect
Viselect is a high-performance, lightweight library that provides a visual method for selecting elements, similar to the selection tool on your desktop. It’s incredibly compact, requires zero dependencies, and offers seamless integration with major frameworks.
Byteform
Byteform is a lightweight and flexible TypeScript library for encoding and decoding binary data. With its intuitive API, it simplifies working with binary structures, making it an ideal solution for developers handling low-level data operations in both browser and Node.js environments.
Tiny Static Map
Tiny Static Map is a compact JavaScript library (around 1 kB) designed to generate static map images centered on specified latitude and longitude coordinates. Using OpenStreetMap (OSM) tiles, it can render maps of any size within a container and supports customizable zoom levels for added flexibility.
mizu.js
Looking to build interactive web apps with unmatched flexibility? Mizu.js provides around 30 powerful directives for dynamically rendering HTML, managing content, performing HTTP requests, creating custom elements, and much more. It’s your toolkit for adaptable and dynamic web development!
Achico – Mac App
A lightweight, native macOS app designed for intelligent file compression without compromising quality. It supports PDFs, images, videos, and more, offering a simple, fast, and efficient way to reduce file sizes.
Price: Free
Impulso – Mac App
A sleek, native macOS app for task management, featuring intelligent priority scoring and flexible organization tools. Built with SwiftUI, it offers exceptional performance and a clean, modern user experience.
Price: Free
Shortcards – iOS & Mac App
Shortcards is a free app offering a curated collection of essential Mac keyboard shortcut cheat sheets. Organized into clear topic cards, it helps you quickly learn and remember the most important shortcuts to boost your productivity and work more efficiently.
Price: Free
SO Stats – iOS App
SO Stats is the perfect companion app for Stack Overflow users! It allows you to effortlessly track and view your profile stats, including reputation, answers, questions, badges, and more—all in one convenient place.
Price: Free
Habit Tracker – iOS App
A beautifully simple yet powerful daily habit tracker designed to help you build positive habits and break free from bad ones. Watch your vibrant grids grow over time, keeping you motivated and on track toward your goals.
Price: Free (Offers In-App Purchases)
JobActivity Log – iOS App
JobActivity Log is a straightforward time-tracking app for iOS, tailored for freelancers and independent workers. Effortlessly track hours, calculate overtime automatically, and generate detailed reports to manage your time more efficiently.
Price: Free (Offers In-App Purchases)
Bolt.new – Web App
Bolt.new is an AI-powered platform that enables developers to create, edit, and deploy full-stack web applications directly in their browser. Built on WebContainers technology, it offers a seamless development experience optimized for frameworks like React and Next.js.
Price: Free & Paid plans starting at $20.00 per month
Tududi – Web App
Tududi is a web-based task and project management application designed to help users organize their tasks and projects with ease. It enables users to categorize tasks into different areas, set and track due dates, and streamline their workflow. With its intuitive design and user-friendly interface, Tududi ensures a seamless experience for enhancing personal productivity.
Price: Free
Gitten
Gitten is a user-friendly Git platform that simplifies repository management, making Git accessible to non-technical users. Powered by GitHub as a backend, it provides intuitive tools and insights for efficient version control, enabling anyone to manage repositories with ease online.
Tailwind 4.0 Palette Color Generator
A modern palette generator tailored for the upcoming Tailwind CSS 4.0, featuring seamless support for its CSS-first configuration. Perfect for creating customized, responsive color schemes with ease.
Piconss
Piconss is a sleek and lightweight icon library tailored for developers, featuring customizable SVG icons with built-in support for dark and light themes. Optimized for seamless integration, it’s an ideal choice for modern web projects that prioritize performance and flexibility.
TypeBalance
TypeBalance is a powerful plugin that optimizes your text layers with just a few clicks. It applies perfectly tuned settings for letter-spacing and line-height, ensuring ideal readability and visually stunning typography.
Zonke
Zonke simplifies provisioning and managing AWS development and production environments—all on a single platform. Say goodbye to infrastructure configuration and surprise cloud costs. All infrastructure is securely deployed within your AWS accounts for full control and transparency.
No BS Privacy
Creating an app is challenging enough without dealing with complex legal jargon. This tool offers fast, straightforward privacy policies tailored for indie developers and small startups. With inline editing, instant downloads, and a user-friendly interface, you can generate a complete privacy policy in just 60 seconds.
Retro UI
RetroUI is a retro-styled component library designed for modern web applications. It features over 20 open-source components that can be easily copied and pasted into your React codebase, making it simple to add a nostalgic touch to your projects.
UX Research Templates
UX Research Templates is a collection of resources designed to facilitate workshops and streamline the creation of research plans, methods, and outcome documentation. Ideal for UX professionals, these templates help ensure a structured and efficient research process.
Toaster
Toaster lets you track how people interact with your Figma prototype through a unique tracking link. View full recordings with highlighted interactions, making it ideal for user testing or showcasing your Figma portfolio to clients.
UI Builder
UI Builder is an open-source React component offering a no-code, visual interface for creating UIs. Fully compatible with shadcn and custom components, it’s ideal for designing landing pages, marketing emails, and more. Easily integrate it into your shadcn/ui projects for seamless development.
Awesome Doc Gallery
Awesome Docs Gallery is an open-source, crowdsourced collection showcasing the best open-source documentation sites on the web. It serves as a go-to resource for discovering top-notch documentation that sets the standard for clarity, usability, and design in the open-source community.
Baymard for Figma
Baymard’s UX Best Practice Cards distill over 150,000 hours of UX research into 650+ actionable guidelines. Easily integrate these cards into any Figma project with a single click, providing evidence-based support for your design decisions and simplifying stakeholder alignment.
tryEnv
tryEnv: Securely store, manage, and sync your environment variables right from VS Code. Effortlessly back up encrypted variables to GitHub, ensuring they’re safe and always accessible. Perfect for teams and solo devs.
BuouUI
BuouUI is a stunning Tailwind CSS UI library featuring animations, sections, landing pages, templates, and more. Easily integrate components into your project with a simple copy-and-paste, streamlining your development process.
KokonutUI
Discover a stunning collection of interactive UI components crafted with TailwindCSS. Fully customizable and ready to use with a simple copy-paste—no dependencies, no hassle. Just grab the code and start building effortlessly.
Auto Post Expire – Plugin
This plugin simplifies post lifecycle management by automatically assigning expiration dates to your posts. When a post reaches its expiration date, it is seamlessly moved to draft status—removing it from the front end while keeping it available for editing or future publication.
Perfect for time-sensitive content like promotions, announcements, or events, this feature helps you maintain a clean, relevant website without the hassle of manually managing outdated posts.
With customizable expiration settings, you can tailor the plugin to fit your workflow, ensuring efficient content management over time.
Price: Free
Quick-Insight – Plugin
Quick-Insight is a convenient WordPress plugin that provides a snapshot of your site’s essential details. It shows the active theme name, total posts, published pages, and a comprehensive breakdown of storage usage, highlighting both free and used space. Powered by the REST API and React, the plugin features interactive graphs for a visually engaging way to track your site’s storage and performance metrics at a glance.
Price: Free
aBlocks – Plugin
aBlocks is a powerful Gutenberg WordPress builder plugin for creating responsive websites, including eCommerce stores, landing pages, and more. Featuring a user-friendly interface and advanced tools, it’s ideal for both beginners and experts to build professional websites with ease.
Price: Starting $29.00 lifetime
Hotel Booking System for WordPress – Plugin
Hotel Booking System is a powerful WordPress plugin tailored to simplify hotel room reservations. It features an intuitive booking process with support for online payments, automated notifications, and seamless WooCommerce integration.
The plugin includes an easy-to-use admin panel and a detailed occupancy calendar, offering a clear daily view of guest arrivals and departures. Perfect for streamlining operations and enhancing the booking experience, Hotel Booking System is an essential tool for hotel and accommodation businesses.
Price: $79.00
Storyteller – Plugin
The Storyteller Text-to-Speech WordPress Plugin leverages the AI-powered ElevenLabs platform to deliver advanced text-to-speech capabilities. It generates natural-sounding speech and supports the creation of custom voices, offering a personalized auditory experience.
With support for 32 languages and numerous default voices, the plugin also provides access to thousands of shared voices via the Voice Library Marketplace. Additionally, it includes tools for generating, cloning, and customizing voices, making it a versatile solution for enhancing your WordPress site’s accessibility and engagement.
Price: $19.00
Oblixar – Theme
Oblixar is a versatile and highly customizable WordPress theme designed to help users create stunning websites effortlessly. Tailored for small businesses, startups, and personal portfolios, it integrates seamlessly with Kubio Page Builder, enhancing the WordPress block editor with new blocks and advanced styling options for complete design freedom.
Price: Free
The Free Blogger – Theme
The Free Blogger is a sleek and modern WordPress block theme designed for bloggers, writers, and anyone seeking a clean, responsive design. Ideal for a variety of niches, this free theme offers a minimalist aesthetic and compatibility with popular page builders like Elementor, Divi Builder, SiteOrigin, Brizy, Visual Composer, and Beaver Builder.
Optimized for Gutenberg, The Free Blogger allows effortless customization of colors, fonts, and dark mode. Its mobile-friendly templates make it beginner-friendly, featuring a customizable sidebar and seamless integration with ad banners, AdSense, and affiliate links for monetization.
Price: Free
Advantura Trails – Theme
Advantura Trails is a dynamic Full Site Editing (FSE) theme designed to create stunning and user-friendly travel websites. With its drag-and-drop page builder, it offers unlimited design flexibility, making customization effortless and intuitive.
Seamlessly integrating with the free WP Travel Gutenberg Block plugin, Advantura Trails allows you to showcase trips, locations, and pricing options, enabling users to find the perfect experience. Fully compatible with the WP Travel plugin—widely regarded as the best booking solution for tours—it ensures a smooth and reliable booking process.
With a clean, modern design and a user-friendly interface, Advantura Trails delivers a flawless browsing experience across desktops, tablets, and smartphones.
Price: Free
Elton – Theme
Elton is a versatile and intuitive WordPress theme tailored for electricians, contractors, and small businesses in the electrical industry. Featuring three professionally designed homepage layouts, Elton is fully compatible with the Elementor page builder, allowing users to effortlessly drag and drop elements for a customized website—no coding required.
The theme’s easy-to-use options panel provides full control over layouts, colors, and fonts, enabling you to create a site that perfectly reflects your brand. Showcasing services, client testimonials, and past projects is simple with Elton’s flexible customization options.
Price: $29.00
Nexira – Theme
Nexira is a versatile WordPress theme designed for indie game studios, game startups, and digital agency-based companies. Perfect for a wide range of professional businesses, Nexira offers comprehensive, tailored designs to meet the unique needs of game studios and startups alike.
With 3 unique homepage designs and 9+ inner pages, Nexira provides plenty of creative options. It features fully customizable layouts, including dark, light, and gradient styles, allowing you to adapt the theme to your brand. Additionally, it includes 30 specialized Elementor modules, making it easy to create a site that aligns with your business goals.
Nexira is user-friendly, fully responsive, and ensures compatibility across all modern browsers and devices. With its seamless customization options and intuitive interface, it’s the ideal choice for building a professional and visually stunning online presence.
Price: $21.00
Artistic – Theme
Artistic is a stylish and versatile WordPress theme designed for creative digital agencies, freelancers, design studios, and professionals seeking a standout online presence. With its sleek design and intuitive layout, Artistic offers an exceptional platform to showcase services, portfolios, and projects in an engaging and professional way.
Perfect for launching a new brand or expanding your reach, Artistic includes all the pre-built pages needed to create a top-tier business website. Built with Elementor, the theme ensures effortless customization, while its fully responsive layout guarantees smooth performance across all devices.
Whether you’re highlighting your expertise, building client trust, or generating leads, Artistic provides the tools and visual appeal to make a lasting impression.
Price: $21.00
Qualion Neue – Font
Resident – Font
Indecisive Sans – Font
Agna – Font
Costaline – Font
SFT Ritam Sans – Font
Mascot – Font
Standie – Font
Haicon v2.0 Icons
Icono Big Sur Themes Icon Set
Sublima Icons v2
Streamez – Movie & Video Streaming Website UI Kit
Digital Wallet App UI Kit
DailyList – To-Do List App UI Kit
Spendly – Finance Wallet App UI Kit
Accounto – UI Kit
TaskFlo – Project Management App UI Kit
ProFlow – SaaS Framer Template
Email Designs
