What’s New for Designers & Developers for August 2023

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 tools From tools to help you to fix bugs, integrate external libraries, and automate coding tasks right in VS Code. Sketching your ideas on paper to expedite your design process, a tool that identifying potential performance issues early in the development cycle. WordPress Themes and Plugins. And Design items like Icons, UI Kits and Fonts. 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 September 2023 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.

Wavesurfer.js

Wavesurfer Js

Wavesurfer.js is an open-source audio visualization library for creating interactive, customizable waveforms.

Driver.js 1.1.0

Driver Js

Powerful, highly customizable vanilla JavaScript engine to drive the user’s focus across the page No external dependencies, light-weight, supports all major browsers and highly customizable.

PlateJS

Plate

Plate is a free, open-source, responsive, and dark mode-enabled modern rich-text editor for React, featuring a core plugin system, 50+ headless, un-styled packages, state and behavioura hooks, and components from Radix UI and Shadcn UI.

Clerc

Clerc is a library for building CLI Apps in Node.js, Deno or Bun. It’s designed both for single-command CLIs, or for very complex CLIs that have sub-commands.

SignalDB

Signaldb

SignalDB is a client-side database with a MongoDB-like interface and TypeScript support. It allows easy data management, reactivity and persistence on the client side, with plans for future replication capabilities.

Storelocatorjs

Storelocator Js

Storelocatorjs is a fast and lightweight Javascript library to easily build a store locator using Google Maps API V3. Only 6Kb on production with gzip, Storelocatorjs has no dependency with any framework or library and is written in JavaScript Native.

QuickScreen – Mac App

Quickscreen

Are you tired of the limitations of QuickTime screen capture? The developer of the app was too. So introducing QuickScreen. Where you can quickly record any window or screen on your Mac. And apply zooming effects. This app helps you create more professional and engaging videos!

Price: $7.99

Finbar – Mac App

Finbar

Finbar allows you to have your very own command palette in every app on your Mac. With blazing–fast performance, fantastic fuzzy search and smart learning capabilities, it’s far superior to the Mac’s built–in menu bar search feature.

Price: Try it for Free or Buy it at $9.99

XClippy – Mac & Windows App

Xclippy

A tool that allows users to manage their clipboards. Users can reuse it anytime they want. There is also a screen capture and screen recording feature.

Price: Free

Routine – iOS App

Routine

Effortlessly track your habits with Routine! With a sleek interface and powerful features, Routine makes building and maintaining productive habits in your daily life easy. Available for iPhone, iPad, and MacOS.

Price: Free (Offers In-App Purchases)

Budget Flow – iOS App

Budget Flow

Budget Flow allows users to track and manage their income and expenses effortlessly. This modern and easy-to-use application is quick to set up, requires no registration, and can even be used offline.

Price: Free (Offers In-App Purchases)

Quiche Browser – iOS App

Quiche Browser

Quiche Browser is a web browser for iOS with an extensive range of customization options, to suit your usage, needs, and visual preferences. Create your perfect browser user interface: feature-packed for power users, lean for minimalists who want to minimize distractions and maximize webpage space.

Price: Free

Windframe – Web App

Windframe is a Visual tailwind builder and editor for rapidly prototyping and building stunning webpages using Tailwind css. Speed up your web development process and ship in minutes not weeks.

Price: From Free to $25 per month, there’s plan at $300 per year

Mailcheck – Web App

Mailcheck

This service will be useful to those who are working every day to increase conversion in email mailings and want to decrease bounce rate. This app also be useful to those who want to know who is behind that email.

Price: $10.00 to $90.00 per month. If you got 100,000+ emails to be validated there’s a custom pricing option.

Team Analytics – Web App

Team Analytics

Track, measure, and boost your tech team’s performance. 100% free. Team Analytics provides the essential metrics to track and assess your tech team. It allows you to evaluate them over time, detect bottlenecks, and compare data across different members.

Price: Free

pkg-size

Pkg Size

Find the true size of an npm package.

htmx

Htmx

htmx gives you access to AJAX, CSS Transitions, WebSockets and Server Sent Events directly in HTML, using attributes, so you can build modern user interfaces with the simplicity and power of hypertext

It’s small (~14k min.gz’d), dependency-free, extendable, IE11 compatible & has reduced code base sizes by 67% when compared with react.

UI Skeleton Gallery

Ui Skeleton Gallery

A free customisable collection of SVG skeleton loader UI elements for design wireframes & mockups.

CSS Pro

CSS Pro is the new way to work with CSS. Easily make changes to any website’s design and try your ideas in seconds with a visual editor that generates code for you. Say goodbye to coding and hello to speed, joy, and stunning designs in just a few clicks.

Iconbuddy

Download, Customize, Edit and Personalize.Over 100k+ open source icons

goastVS

Goast Ai

goastVS is a free VS Code extension. Use the tool to fix bugs, integrate external libraries, and automate coding tasks right in VS Code. The model will output a series of steps that satisfy the prompt and use a single click will generate diffs for each step.

EasyNPM

Easynpm

A platform where users can easily search for nodejs packages and take a glance at details without leaving the page. One-click copy option for popular package managers like npm, yarn and pnpm.

Wireframe Dot Grid Mockup

Wireframe Dot Grid Mockup Ui Dot Grid

If you enjoy sketching your ideas on paper and are looking for high-quality sketchpad templates to expedite your design process. Choose from over 51 size variants white screen & dot grids mockups

Serverless Icebreaker

Serverless Icebreaker not only assists you in identifying potential performance issues early in the development cycle but also enables common understanding in teams about AWS Lambda’s performance characteristics.

Free Domain Alerts

Monitor up to 20 domains for Domain and SSL expiration alerts, as those dates get closer we will let you know in a more and more urgent way.

Any App Finder

Quickly find and insert App store icons into Figma.

Web Check

Gain valuable insights into the internal workings of any website: discover potential vulnerabilities, analyze server architecture, review security configurations, and identify the technologies employed on the site.

The current dashboard provides a comprehensive display of essential information, such as IP details, SSL chain, DNS records, cookies, headers, domain information, search crawl rules, page mapping, server location, redirect history, open ports, traceroute data, DNS security extensions, site performance metrics, trackers, associated hostnames, and even the site’s carbon footprint.

Stack Sorted

Collection of the web’s best designs sorted by elements. Choose an element and view projects/websites with creative designs for it.

Design Systems

Design Systems is a Figma plugin that helps designers quickly create grid layouts within frames. It simplifies the process of setting up grid structures, allowing users to define the number of rows and columns and automatically generating the layout.

Ampier Email Template Generator

Ampier is the plugin for Figma that will transform your design into clean and responsive HTML and AMP code versions! Export production ready code to your ESP that works for all common email clients, including Gmail, Apple Mail, Outlook, and others.

Ninja Toastify – Plugin

Ninja Toastify

Ninja Toastify, a flexible and user-friendly WordPress plugin that enhances your website with click-to-copy toasts. This lightweight tool allows you to create personalised toasts with unique IDs and seamlessly integrate them into your pages or posts using a shortcode generator within the admin dashboard.

Your users will love the convenience of the copy button, enabling them to effortlessly share your content on social media and other platforms.

Price: Free

Awesome View Count – Plugin

Awesome Post View Counts

Awesome Post View Counts is a robust WordPress plugin crafted to display the view count of your posts to your visitors. With this powerful tool, you can gain valuable insights into your audience’s interests and preferences, empowering you to curate more captivating and relevant content that deeply resonates with them.

Price: Free

Silvuple – Plugin

Silvuple

Silvuple – The Ultimate Invitations and RSVP Builder. Elevate your event planning experience with limitless customization options, exquisite designs, effortless deployment, and streamlined communication to ensure your special occasions are truly unforgettable!

Price: $35.00

Gravity Forms – Repeater fields – Plugin

Gravity Forms Repeater Fields

Have you ever wanted to let your users submit multiple entries of the same field set as a single form on your WordPress site? If so, you’re in luck! The Gravity Forms Repeater Fields allow you to create one or more sets of fields that can be repeated.

Price: $25.00

Next Business – Theme

Next Business

Meet Next Business WordPress theme – the ultimate solution for a professional online presence. Its sleek design and user-friendly interface make showcasing products and services a breeze.

Highlight your mission, team, and achievements with customisable sections. Engage clients with a dedicated services page and an informative blog. SEO optimised and mobile-responsive for seamless performance across devices, empowering your business to thrive online.

Price: Free

Fishland FSE – Theme

Fishland Fse

Fishland FSE is a versatile free WordPress theme perfect for seafood businesses and more. Packed with powerful features and SEO optimization, it helps your business thrive online. Engage your audience with built-in CTA options and enjoy multi-language support.

Price: Free

Bucher – Theme

Bucher

Looking for a clean, modern, and original WordPress theme for meat store, butcher, meat farm or any other food and food delivery website? For such a business, the website is the very important component of attracting customers. With Bucher theme you will create a stunning, eye-catching, steak house inspired website that reflects your vision and attitude to customer.

Price: $59.00

Mer’s – Theme

Mers

Mers is a versatile Personal Portfolio WordPress theme with a creative, minimal, and clean design. It’s perfect for startups, companies, agencies, and freelancers looking to showcase their projects and services with a 100% super responsive experience. Built on Elementor, it offers a smooth website creation process and looks great on all devices.

Price: $59.00

Rosano – Theme

Rosano

Introducing Rosano, the outstanding and highly advanced WordPress theme designed for various purposes. With its creative homepage layouts, responsive design, and over 25 variant pages. Rosano offers a modern and elegant look. Customisation is a breeze with its 1170px grid, allowing you to create a stunning, user-friendly website for your visitors.

The theme is powered by the popular Elementor page builder plugin, giving you full control over your layout and content.

Price: $49.00