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 a React.js documentation framework, a new JS media player, minimal time-tracking app built for freelancers. Some time-saving Mac apps, Simple, lightweight and privacy-focused analytics, a modern project management platform. A lightweight, secure CLI for managing environment variables, a new VS Code theme, CSS tools and frameworks.

And lastly as a huge fan of WordPress I’ve added some of the newest and latest WordPress plugins and themes plus a new experimental AI tool for WordPress. Plus I’ve added some new fonts, UI kits and icons sets.

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 2026 edition in January, 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.

Rockpack

Rockpack is a lightweight, zero-config toolkit for bootstrapping a modern React application in minutes. It includes everything—SSR, bundling, linting, and testing—so you can skip the setup hassle and jump straight into building a fast, well-optimised app. Perfect for developers who want a clean, ready-to-go environment with minimal overhead.

Fumadocs

Fumadocs is a React.js documentation framework designed by Fuma Nama, built to give developers a flexible and powerful way to create documentation. It offers extensive customization, integrates smoothly with any React framework or CMS, and adapts easily to your existing workflow. While maintaining a clean, beautifully crafted design.

VisionPlayer

The VisionPlayer by alphanull is a lightweight, modular JavaScript media player built for the modern web. Its component-based design offers deep customization, easy integration and full control over both the UI and functionality. Whether you need a simple player for a single video or a more advanced setup with multilingual support, multiple quality levels, overlays, and playlist management, VisionPlayer adapts seamlessly to your project.

Zwind – iOS App

Turn your iPhone into a multi-source WebDAV hub. Run multiple servers at once, stream and share files from anywhere, and connect storage in entirely new ways. With a single tap, you can launch a WebDAV server that keeps running in the background, then access it from any device via a browser, Finder/Explorer, or any WebDAV-compatible media player.

Price: Free (In-App Purchases)

Hours Tracker – iOS App

Hours Tracker is a modern, minimal time-tracking app built for freelancers and professionals. Clock in and monitor shifts using Live Activities on your Lock Screen, automatically calculate earnings, and manage multiple jobs with custom rates. You can export logs to CSV, PDF, Excel, or Word, sync across devices, and enjoy a clean, Apple-native design that makes time tracking effortless.

Price: Free (In-App Purchases)

DuoBolt – Mac & Windows App

DuoBolt quickly finds and removes duplicate files using a fast, modern scanning engine. It handles large folders, codebases, design assets, and even NAS volumes with high accuracy and minimal overhead. The desktop app runs on macOS and Windows and a free CLI is available for macOS, Windows and Linux. Powered by BLAKE3 for multi-threaded hashing, DuoBolt delivers clear, visual results without any clutter.

Price: $29.00

Floaty – Mac App

Floaty is a lightweight macOS tool that keeps any window always on top. Pin videos, notes, documents, or coding references as floating windows for easier multitasking.

Price: $6.99

ClippyFM – Mac App

A lightning-fast, privacy-focused clipboard manager for macOS, built with native performance, an entirely offline architecture, and a clean minimal design tailored for power users.

Price: Free

InvoiceLobby – Mac App

InvoiceLobby is a lightweight desktop app that handles all your billing needs without relying on cloud services or monthly subscriptions. Everything is stored locally, keeping your workflow fast, private, and fully in your control.

Price: $49.00

Glancelytics – Web App

Glancelytics offers analytics without compromise. Simple, lightweight and privacy-focused. It tracks your website traffic without tracking your users, requiring no cookies and no consent banners.

Price: Free to $49.00 per month

Gitmore – Web App

Gitmore is an AI-powered platform that automates engineering team reporting by monitoring your GitHub, GitLab and Bitbucket repositories. It uses webhooks to track commits, pull requests and developer activity. Then generates intelligent progress reports with the help of LLMs delivered automatically to email or Slack. No more manual status updates.

Price: Free Trial (7 days, 1 repo, 50 AI credits), Pro Plan ($15.00 per month – 5 repos/automations, 100 AI credits) and Enterprise Plan ($49.00 per month – 20 repos/automations, 500 AI credits, custom automations).

SprintKit – Web App

SprintKit is a modern project management platform built to help teams organize, track, and collaborate efficiently. Designed around agile principles, it gives you all the tools you need to manage sprints, follow tasks, and deliver projects on time.

Price: Free to $249.00 per month

TailwindBuilder

Tailwind AI Builder, created by WrapPixel, is a free tool that instantly generates validated forms, sortable tables, and interactive charts—faster and with more accuracy than general-purpose LLMs like ChatGPT, Perplexity, or Gemini.

better-env

better-env is a lightweight, secure CLI for managing environment variables on your machine using OpenPGP encryption. It keeps secrets out of repos and away from plaintext files, loading them into your apps only at runtime. With .better-env files, your secrets stay commit-safe. So you never risk pushing sensitive data again.

Famous Dev Theme

Famous Dev Theme is a premium, eye friendly syntax highlighting theme for VS Code. It been designed for long coding sessions. The theme comes with three variants and features clear color contrast, consistent token styling across languages and full support for major languages and VS Code UI elements. It’s also WCAG-compliant, ensuring accessible and readable color contrast throughout.

rapid-rs

Building web APIs in Rust shouldn’t mean stitching together a dozen crates and writing piles of boilerplate. rapid-rs delivers the productivity of frameworks like FastAPI and Spring Boot—while letting you keep Rust’s speed, safety, and strong typing.

Styleframe

Styleframe is an open-source tool for writing type-safe, composable, and future-proof CSS in TypeScript. Quickly build robust, scalable design systems, catch style bugs before they reach production, and enhance your front-end workflow with a developer experience designed to be enjoyable and efficient.

ZunoForm

ZunoForm is a free form-building tool that lets you create beautiful, customizable forms and connect them to your workflows with ease. Its simple, intuitive dashboard makes building and managing forms effortless.

NetSmith

A visual neural-network builder for VS Code that lets you drag and drop layers, connect blocks, and instantly generate clean PyTorch or TensorFlow boilerplate. No more manual wiring or shape guessing—design, preview, and export your architectures directly from the editor.

CSS Extras

A curated set of native CSS custom functions built with the new @function rule—no build tools required. Copy and paste whatever you need, use it anywhere, and no credit is necessary. At time of writing this collection is a work in progress.

Hyvor Relay

Hyvor Relay is an open-source email API built for developers who want full control and transparency over their email infrastructure. Designed as a powerful alternative to AWS SES and Mailgun, it delivers reliable transactional email without vendor lock-in. You can self-host it for free forever, with a hosted cloud option on the way offering both flexibility and significant cost savings as you scale.

Colorify

Colorify lets you build color palettes from any image by analyzing it locally and extracting a balanced set of colors in seconds. It’s ideal for designers who need quick inspiration or want to match a design system to photography.

Structure Pie

Structure Pie is a fast and dependable Email API built for developers. It lets you send transactional emails, plug in SMTP within minutes, and ensure your messages reach the inbox. Designed for modern apps that need simplicity, speed, and strong deliverability.

Shadcraft

A fully code-aligned shadcn/ui design kit for Figma, built to match the real component library with pixel-perfect accuracy. Every core component and block is ready to use, ensuring your designs translate cleanly to production code. It includes instant theming with tweakcn and a consistent token system, helping teams move faster without reinventing the fundamentals.

WPCheckr

WPCheckr is a free, powerful WordPress security scanner that identifies vulnerabilities, outdated plugins and themes, and common misconfigurations. Ideal for site owners, developers, and cybersecurity experts, it provides fast and reliable WordPress vulnerability scanning directly from your browser.

Internet Archive Wayback Machine Link Fixer – Plugin

Internet Archive Wayback Machine Link Fixer is a WordPress plugin built to combat link rot—the slow decay of web links as pages move or disappear. It automatically scans your post content, both on save and across existing posts, detects outbound links, checks the Wayback Machine for archived versions, and creates a snapshot if one doesn’t already exist.

Price: Free

Gravity Booking – Plugin

Gravity Booking turns your Gravity Forms setup into a complete appointment booking and scheduling system. Clients can book services, staff, or resources in real time, make payments online, sync with calendars, and manage availability—everything handled inside WordPress.

Price: Free

Animation Builder – Plugin

Animation Builder lets you create everything from subtle transitions to complex, multi-stage scroll-triggered animations—all within a clean, modern interface.

With intuitive controls and powerful logic tools, you can build animations that react to triggers, follow defined rules, and work together seamlessly to create rich interactive experiences on your site—without the usual heavy setup or effort.

Price: Free

Qunzo Payment Gateway Extension For WooCommerce – Plugin

Qunzo Payment Gateway Extension is a WooCommerce plugin that lets merchants integrate a secure payment system into their WordPress stores. Designed specifically for WooCommerce, Qunzo makes it easy and safe to accept payments from your clients.

Price: $29.00

LocalMerchant – Theme

LocalMerchant is a modern, responsive WordPress theme built for local businesses and merchants. It features a clean, professional layout with customizable homepage sections such as hero banners, service highlights, testimonials, and blog posts. With full Customizer support, accessible design, widget areas, and a mobile-first structure.

Price: Free

Beiged – Theme

Beiged is a versatile beige WordPress theme perfect for companies, agencies, bloggers, writers, and businesses. It also works seamlessly for landing pages, one-page sites, and content-focused blogs. Build your site using the Gutenberg Block Editor, Brizy, Elementor, or Divi—Beiged makes website creation simple, flexible, and fast.

Price: Free

Touro – Theme

Touro is a stylish, powerful WordPress theme designed specifically for travel agencies, travel blogs, and booking platforms. Whether you’re creating a website for booking tours, showcasing travel packages, or sharing travel stories, Touro provides the perfect foundation.

With a selection of modern homepage layouts, professionally designed inner pages, and deep integration with Elementor , Touro makes it easy to build a beautiful, high performing travel website—without writing a single line of code.

Built with Elementor, the most popular drag and drop page builder, Touro makes website customization effortless, even for beginners.

Price: $13.00

Vova – Theme

Vova is a modern, stylish WooCommerce theme built for electronics and technology businesses looking to create a professional online presence. With a clean, contemporary design, it highlights products, promotions, and categories in an intuitive, engaging way.

Powered by Elementor Page Builder, Vova makes customization simple—even without coding—allowing you to craft unique layouts that reflect your brand. Combined with Slider Revolution, you can showcase promotions, new arrivals, and top-selling products through dynamic, eye-catching sliders that capture attention instantly.

Price: $19.00

Newsfy – Theme

Newsfy is a modern, powerful WordPress theme designed for news sites, online magazines, and content rich blogs. Lightweight, super fast, AMP ready, and fully SEO optimized, it helps your site perform better on Google. With bold typography, flexible layouts, customizable homepage sections, responsive design, easy category organization, and built in ad spaces, Newsfy makes publishing professional content effortless.

Built for Elementor, it includes drag and drop page building, custom widgets, and a powerful options panel—allowing you to design and customize your site beautifully without any coding.

Price: $19.00

Prostetrix – Font

Coftein – Font

Finico – Font

Fandy – Font

Biotrip Sans – Font

Glofium – Font

30 3D Business Icon Pack

Book 3D Icon Pack

3D Cute Food Icons Pack

Mental Health Awareness Illustrations

Aetherlab – Agency Website UI Kit

Tazkee – Project Management Dashboard Kit

Premium Dashboard UI Charts