As designers or developers, we are continually looking for all of those design resources, tools and apps that can help make our life easier and increase our productivity & creativity.
So today is the day to showcase all of what’s new for designers and developers for April 2020, below I’ve added some newly released and updated resources from JavaScript scripts, jQuery plugins to a few apps, tools for web development including a range of themes and plugins for WordPress and to fonts, icons etc.
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 May 2020 roundup, please either tweet it to me @SomeWhatCrtv or even use the Submit Resource form and your resource could be seen on next month list.
Cube.js Web Analytics
Use this template to build your own open-source Google Analytics alternative. It’s developer friendly, hackable, and embeddable. It is easy to install the full working application and then customize every part of it from data collection to and visualisations.
Connext.js
A lightweight routing and middleware npm library for Next.js, powered by Dirext.js. As a team of open source developers, we sought to bridge the gap between Next.js and Express without adding unnecessary bulk to web applications, without a custom server.
Covid19Stats.js
Covid19Stats.js is an easy-to-use jQuery plugin to generate a beautiful widget on your website. It shows the latest updated stats of the Coronavirus (Covid-19) based on coronavirus-tracker-api.
Swach – Mac/Linux & Windows App
Swach is a robust color management tool for the modern age. It allows you to pick colors, arrange them into palettes, and get color suggestions. Swach supports MacOS, Windows, and Linux to allow a seamless experience across different work environments.
Price: Free
Tower 4 – Mac App
Tower helps you build better software by giving you access to the full power of Git. The native Git client is free for students, teachers, universities and schools.
Price: From $69.00
Lazy PDF – Mac App
A free interface-less macOS utility that allows you to effortlessly create a PDF from a set of selected images.
Price: Free
dbHarbor – Mac App
dbHarbor is more than just database management tool. It gives developers and database administrators one place to design, implement and test databases.
Price: Free
Adaptive Care – iOS App
Track and manage the daily care needs for yourself, family members, or your patients
Price: Free
Wildcard Money – Android & iOS App
Picture it. It’s Pay Day. You see a big number in your bank account, so you splurge. Two weeks later you’re eating cereal for dinner, taking money out of savings to cover rent.Wildcard helps you spread your pay by predicting expenses, and making the rest last until your next pay day.
Price: Free
Handwash Hero – iOS App
Handwash Hero makes washing your hands fun! It reminds you to wash at set intervals. And lets you compete yourself to become the Handwash Hero!
Price: Free
Arengu – Web App
Arengu is a low-code SaaS to build all your sign-up logic without coding. Easily streamline users to your API or authentication systems.
Price: From Free to €500.00 per month
Documentator – Web App
With Documentator, you will never have to worry about assembling a document again. That’s because Documentator helps you through the process from start to finish.
Price: From $9.00 per month
Web Analyzer – Web App
Web Analyzer is a free page performance testing tool that allows users to analyze their website and check all issues related to development, speed and search engines.
Price: Free
Inbox by MessageBird – Web App
Deliver modern support to your customers through WhatsApp, SMS, Voice, Messenger, LINE, WeChat, Telegram, and Email. Easy to set up and free to use, Inbox lets customers talk to you the same way they talk to their friends.
Price: Free
Honeycomb
Honeycomb is a configurable, mobile first, fluid scss framework for creating websites and web apps that respond gracefully to any screen size. Grids, fonts and gutters that resize fluidly and in unison, personalised through your own honeycomb.config.scss file.
Animockup
Animockup is an open source design tool to make animated GIFs and videos to showcase your products Eyes Use it for social media, dribbble, landing pages, and more.
Boilerpipe
Boilerpipe provides algorithms to detect and remove the surplus “clutter” (boilerplate, templates) around the main textual content of a web page.
SplitCSS
SplitCSS is an API that fully executes the web page (unlike CLI tools) and returns only the CSS that the web page is using.
Tack
Tack takes your running Toggl time entry and puts it as your Slack status, so your teammates always know where your head is at.
Starter Email Template
The Starter Email Template is a modular email template that acts as a prototype for your own email template. Its simple design focuses on essential layouts and components you would need in an email, with minimal styling for you to build on top of when theming your own template.
CSS Color Gradient Generator
This CSS color gradient generator uses a novel algorithm to automatically create good-looking gradients with a few simple clicks. Just pick a single color and adjust the sliders to create a pleasing gradient. Immediately get the CSS code for your web projects.
Leaf PHP v2
Leaf introduces a cleaner and much simpler structure to the PHP language while maintaining it’s flexibility. With a simple structure and a shallow learning curve, it’s an excellent way to rapidly build powerful and high performant web apps and APIs.
hCaptcha
Did you realize every time you “click on the car” you are helping to train a single Giganticcompany’s machine learning systems for free? hCaptcha turns this model around. When you use hCaptcha, companies bid on the work your users do as they prove their humanity. You get the rewards.
Frontend Mentor
Frontend Mentor is an front-end challenges mimic a real-life workflow. Each one includes designs (mobile & desktop), a style guide, and a project brief. The rest is up to you! This means you get access to professional designs and can build your experience of creating websites.
MVP.css
A minimalist stylesheet for HTML elements, no class names, no frameworks, just semantic HTML and you’re done.
GitHub Moonlight
A beautiful dark theme for GitHub. Intended for use with the stylus extension
Crono
With Crono, you can make your application do something in the future: send an HTTP request every morning at dawn, email your users on their birthday, call yourself in 15 minutes… all that and more in just 2 lines of code.
Respatch
Building, writing, testing, and delivering transactional emails is a pain. You need a quick way to have a proven tested and translated email delivered to your customers using your email provider. What you need is respatch.
Focussist
Tired of using cumbersome project management tools? Or not having enough visibility into the big picture? Keep scrolling the landing page to see why Focussist is the answer.
Tiiny Host
Tiiny Host is a super simple static web hosting tool perfect for publishing your website in seconds. By default, your site is live for 7 days, so it’s perfect for prototyping (or it can be extended with our Pro plans).
GraphQL Mesh
GraphQL Mesh allows you to use GraphQL query language to access data in remote APIs that don’t run GraphQL (and also ones that do run GraphQL). It can be used as a gateway to other services, or run as a local GraphQL schema that aggregates data from remote APIs.
ChatBot – Plugin
ChatBot integration with WordPress allows you to create customer service chatbot without coding and place it on your website in an easy way.
Price: Free
WP Menu Custom Fields – Plugin
This plugin adds custom fields on menu item’s edit interface of wp-admin.
Price: Free
Rusty Social Image Share – Plugin
Rusty Social Image Share resizes your post thumbnail to perfectly fit to the Facebook Share dimensions whilst keeping your original image dimensions.
Price: Free
WP YouTube Manager Pro – Plugin
WP YouTube Manager Pro is the most advanced, flexible & easy to use YouTube plugin for WordPress that automatically fetches videos from YouTube channel and displays in beautiful video gallery on your site. Displays videos in grid view or masonry view. It also allows site admins to update video title, description and category on YouTube channel right from your wordpress site.
Price: $19.00
WooCommerce Product Variations Swatches – Plugin
WooCommerce Product Variations Swatches is a professional plugin that allows you to show and select attributes for variations products. The plugin displays variations select options of the products under colors, buttons, images, variation images, radio.
Price: $10.00
Quiz and Contest Planner for WP Poll – Plugin
Quiz and Contest Planner for WP Poll for building powerful and beautiful quizzes. This can increase engagement for any website or blog by keeping your users glued to the page. Impress your visitors, keep them engaged and get tons of shares!
Price: $19.00
Career Portfolio – Theme
This theme is an outstanding portfolio theme with responsive and premium quality best for designers, photographers, artists, creative professionals, agencies creative business owners, and anyone else looking to showcase their work in high quality.
It comes with advanced theme options, dozens of shortcodes, various portfolio pages, and much more, for you to build your own unique and professional website.
Price: Free
Adaptable Notes – Theme
Adaptable Notes is your seo friendly & responsive theme made for blogging. The code is clean so your website will be quick and load fast with great page speed. The theme is simple to setup but has a lot of features for both affiliate marketing, i.e. lots of advertisement space for affiliate programs such as Google AdSense – of course this kind of website requires a SEO optimized, creative & modern theme which Adaptable Notes is.
Price: Free
Pushan – Theme
Pushan has a girlish, red and pink style and design for portfolio, business or agency content. The theme is multipurpose, so if You like the style, You can use it to represent Your art, business, an event, show Your portfolio, start a blog, start a webshop and sell Your products etc. The demos use Elementor, WooCommerce and Contact Form 7 plugins.
Price: Free
Zonex – Theme
Zonex is a modern trendy and elegant WooCommerce WordPress Theme that suits any types of eCommerce shop, this theme comes with lots of outstanding features and great presence.
Zonex supports a complete ajax shop, with intelligent filtering, delivering extremely fast speeds, eliminating the need to wait for page loads. And Zonex, with its Instant Product Search system, instantly finds results instantly when you type without waiting for a moment.
Price: $19.00
Ramsay – Theme
Ramsay is a carefully crafted flexible, powerful and high performance CV/Resume WordPress Theme for personal use. We designed it by focusing on functionality and ease of use for both sides: the Visitor and the WordPress Admin.
The theme is packed with lots of pre-designed widgets for Elementor page builder. Gallery, Portfolio, Video, Blog and much more. Ramsay is 100% responsive and Retina ready theme, which is very important for web development and our customers.
Price: $39.00
Wanderic – Theme
Wanderic is a clean, modern, minimalist and stylish WordPress theme for a travel blog, personal blog, travel magazine, journal or any kind of online publication. Whether you’re a blogger, traveler, or photographer, our travel blog WordPress theme is a great outlet to share your impressions with the world.
Price: $59.00