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, TypeScript, React, and Tailwind CSS libraries, AI-powered development tools, self hosted applications, macOS productivity apps, DevOps and deployment platforms, analytics solutions, database tools, browser automation utilities, UI component libraries and modern CMS platforms to help you build faster and work more efficiently.

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

Zod Compiler

Zod Compiler is a build-time compiler for tools like Vite and webpack that transforms existing schemas into highly optimized, tree-shakeable validators. It promises validation speeds ranging from 2x to 75x faster. While requiring no changes to your source code and maintaining full compatibility with the entire Zod API.

Micromodal.js

Micromodal.js is a lightweight, configurable and a11y enabled modal library written in pure JavaScript.

Draco.js

This pure JavaScript Draco mesh loader for three.js acts as a drop-in replacement for DRACOLoader. It enables the decoding of Draco compressed triangle meshes.

Without relying on WebAssembly. Ssupports both the EdgeBreaker connectivity used by glTF’s KHR_draco_mesh_compression extension and Draco’s sequential connectivity format, allowing compressed 3D models to be loaded directly in JavaScript.

BuilderStudio – Mac & Linux App

BuilderStudio is a local-first AI coding platform for Mac that keeps your entire development workflow on your own machine. From the IDE and AI agent to the deployment pipeline, everything runs locally, allowing you to build applications without sending code to third-party servers.

Simply describe what you want and the AI agent generates your project, previews it in Docker, and prepares it for deployment. It also includes SafeChain, which scans for risky dependencies before they’re added to your project.

Price: Pro $25.00 per month (1 workspace seat), Team $100.00 per month (5 workspace seat) or Enterprise (book a demo)

Cove – Mac App

Cove is a macOS productivity app that captures your entire workspace including open apps, window layouts, browser tabs, terminal directories, files and Focus Mode settings and restores everything with a single click.

Price: $9.99 until July 7 then $19.99

Quill – Mac App

Quill is a macOS app lets you manage your self-hosted WordPress site without using a web browser. You can write and publish posts and pages. Also you can organize your media library and enjoy a streamlined editing experience that avoids the overhead of the Gutenberg editor. For AI assisted writing you can optionally connect your own Claude API key to create content directly within the app.

Price: Free

Supaste – Mac App

Supaste is a clipboard manager for macOS that automatically saves your clipboard history and screenshots in a clean, visual interface. Items are organized by type, application, and custom categories. Making it easy to search, browse and quickly paste previously copied text, images and screenshots whenever you need them.

Price: $29.00 for 1 device, $49.00 for 2 devices, $69.00 for 3 devices

JustEnv – Mac App

justenv is a lightweight Mac app for securely sharing environment variables without the complexity of a traditional secrets management platform. It encrypts your .env files locally on your device and lets you share them using secure links that can expire automatically or self-destruct after a single use.

Price: Free for solo developers or $20.00 one time, pay once and keep forever

Todoit – iOS App

Todoit is a one‑screen to-do list for people who don’t want their task app to become another task. It keeps everything visible and removes extra steps between “remember” and “done”.

Price: Free (with In-app purchases)

Flows – iOS App

Time does not stop when you finish a task and neither does Flows. Just tap a flow to start tracking and tap another to switch. No projects, no tasks, no timesheets. It’s simple, visual picture of where your attention went.

Price: Free (with In-app purchases)

Basepanel – iOS App

Basepanel is a database management app that lets you connect to and manage cloud or self-hosted databases directly from your smartphone. It supports databases from major cloud providers as well as custom-hosted instances, offering a clean, mobile-friendly interface for browsing and editing data. With zero telemetry, credentials securely stored in Apple Keychain and on-device AI that can generate queries, views, and schemas using natural language.

Price: Free (In-App Purchases)

TaskWave – Web App

TaskWave is a free, enterprise ready project and task management app. Built for teams of every size, it replaces disorganised spreadsheets, chat threads and tools with one fast and secure workspace. Where you can plan, assign and track work across departments, projects and people.

With live analytics, multi-channel reminders, and exportable reports included. The core platform is free for your whole team; and there is a optional white label and custom development available for those who need it.

Price: Free and white-label setup (your brand + domain) starts at $200, and custom feature development starts at $350. Both are quoted per project.

Reignat – Web App

Reignat is a privacy friendly web analytics tool that been built for founders, startups and indie developers that are in the search for actionable insights without the complexity of traditional analytics tools.

The tool provides real time tracking of visitors, page views, traffic sources, devices, locations, conversion funnels and user journeys. Also it uses AI powered insights to identify trends, uncover growth opportunities and lastly helping you to make data driven decisions while respecting user privacy.

Price: Starting at 10K events for $7.00 per month

Enping – Web App

Enping turns any website into a feedback surface. Visitors can point to the exact element and every report includes the page, element and state. So there’s no back and forth. Feedback lands on a real time board, AI triage to keeps it sorted and confirmed bugs become GitHub issues automatically. It’s one snippet, any framework and is safe on production the widget loads only for people you allow.

Price: Solo $9.00 per month / Team $24.00 per month / Scale $59.00 per month

Svelte Animation

Svelte Animations includes 50+ free and open-source animated components and effects. Built with Svelte, Typescript, Tailwind CSS, and Motion SV.

Deployr

Deployr is a Kubernetes deployment platform that transforms a simple Git push into a live application. Connect your repo and add a Dockerfile. It automates the build, deployment and HTTPS provisioning process, getting your application online in just a few minutes.

Refuse

Refuse sits in front of npm, pip, cargo, gem, go + 13 more package managers and refuses known vulnerable installs before they hit disk. The moment you or your coding agent run them. Also open source, self-hostable, one Docker container.

Explicode

Explicode lets you write rich Markdown documentation inside your code comments. Turning a single source file into both runnable code and clean documentation.

SHRTCTS

SHRTCTS is an interactive 3D keyboard for learning the shortcuts of the apps that you use every day. Just pick a tool, browse the full shortcut list and hover any action, then the exact keys you’d press light up on the keyboard.

DockLog

DockLog is a self hosted dashboard for tailing container and pod output, checking host stats and managing workloads. One image for Docker, Kubernetes or both.

BrowserBash

BrowserBash is a free and open source natural-language browser automation CLI. An AI agent that drives a real browser from a plain English objective. Runs on free local models (Ollama) or free OpenRouter models. There’s zero API keys, no credit card. Just bring an Anthropic or OpenRouter key only if you want to.

Madori

Madori is a self-hosted, flat-file CMS built for React and Next.js applications. Inspired by the content management experience of Statamic. It offers powerful features such as collections, taxonomies, global content, blueprints, forms, asset management, role-based permissions, a TipTap-powered rich text editor, and an auto-generated GraphQL API. With no database required.

Shortwind

Shortwind is an innovative tool that simplifies working with Tailwind CSS by introducing a shorthand syntax called “@recipes”. Designed with Large Language Models (LLMs) in mind, it enables concise, readable class names that are automatically expanded into byte-identical Tailwind CSS during the build process.

GlassKit UI

GlassKit UI is a React component library designed for building apps for Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses. It includes an SDK with a focus engine, sensor and Neural Band hooks, GlassViewport, and an on-lens stylesheet, along with 44 customizable UI components that you can integrate directly into your codebase.

Crossposter

Crossposter is a free, open source and local first social media management tool that lets you compose a post once and publish it across multiple social platforms from your own computer. It supports media attachments, platform-specific limit checks, immediate publishing and local scheduling. While keeping your drafts, uploads, history, configuration, and credentials securely stored on your machine.

Gridsim

GridSim is a tool that overlays column and baseline grids onto live websites. Making it easy to evaluate layout alignment, spacing and visual consistency. Includes a bookmarklet that lets you add a customizable grid to any webpage with adjustable columns and gutters.

You can also preview websites in realistic iPhone and Android frames. Compare layouts across multiple devices, export grid overlays to Figma and generate the corresponding CSS for your projects.

BugProof

BugProof is an open source tool that captures software failures as portable, reproducible bug artifacts. Instead of relying on screenshots, logs or lengthy bug reports.

It packages the exact failure this including the source code state, environment details, execution context and failure fingerprints into a single file that others can replay. Cross-platform and AI-agent ready. BugProof makes it easier to reproduce, diagnose, and resolve issues without requiring Docker.

Iconsclub

Iconsclub is a searchable library of over 500,000 App Store icons from live applications, Which makes it a valuable resource for design inspiration and competitive research. Beyond browsing, it includes a built-in editor that lets you customise icons directly in your browser by changing colours, backgrounds, shapes, and individual elements.

UISqueezy

UISqueezy Studio is a design token management platform. Which helps teams to organise and maintain their design systems all in one place. It allows you to manage colours, typography, spacing, border radius, and other design tokens. Then export them to CSS, SCSS, LESS or synchronise them directly with Figma.

Kage

Kage clones a website into a folder you can browse offline but with every script stripped out. It opens each page in real headless Chrome, waits for the page to settle, snapshots the DOM a human would have seen. Then deletes all the JavaScript and pulls the CSS, images, and fonts down to local paths.

LoveUI

LoveUI is an open source UI library for React and Tailwind CSS that helps developers build polished, production-ready interfaces more quickly. It includes a collection of reusable UI primitives, pre-built application blocks, chart components, icons and comprehensive documentation.

UIable

UIAble is a free and open source React component library built with Tailwind CSS, Base UI and a shadcn style architecture with a vivid design system. It helps developers to build modern, production ready applications faster with components that are easy to copy, customise and maintain.

CRMlytics – Plugin

CRMlytics is an analytics focused CRM built specifically for WooCommerce stores. By leveraging machine learning, it helps store owners gain deeper insights into customer behaviour, predict future purchasing trends and make data-driven decisions that improve customer retention, increase lifetime value and maximize marketing ROI.

Price: Free

DraftSync Lite – Plugin

DraftSync Lite gives WordPress authors a local writing workspace for posts, pages and selected public post types. The plugin runs inside your WordPress installation and stores draft content, comments, version history and active editor presence as WordPress post metadata.

Price: Free

Sieve – Plugin

Sieve is a high performance product filtering solution that helps shoppers quickly find what they are looking for through an intuitive, real-time interface. Users can filter products by attributes, adjust price ranges, select ratings and see results update instantly without page reloads.

Built for large product catalogs, it features accessible filter controls, a mobile-friendly filter drawer, live option counts, and a rendering approach optimized for Core Web Vitals to prevent layout shifts.

Price: Free

Paddle Payment for WooCommerce

Paddle Payment for WooCommerce plugin is the most seamless and feature filled way for you to integrate Paddle Billing right into your WooCommerce store. Just enter your API credentials, configure webhooks and you are live. As the plugin handles everything else automatically.

Price: $49.00

Templateon

Templateon is a WordPress plugin that offers a growing library of professionally designed Elementor website templates. Which make it easy to build websites without starting from scratch. It includes high quality starter templates. And with built-in search, category filters, live previews, and one click importing Templateon helps you quickly find and customize the design for your project.

Price: $29.00

Warsa – Theme

Warsa is a WordPress block theme designed for blogs and news websites. Built with Full Site Editing (FSE) support. It offers customizable templates, flexible layout options and an intuitive drag and drop editing experience.

Price: Free

Bokul – Theme

Bokul is a clean and minimal block theme for writers, bloggers and photographers. Been built for the Site Editor. It pairs refined serif headings with a comfortable sans serif body, generous white space and a warm accent. It let your words and images take center stage. Fully responsive, translation-ready, RTL-ready and powered entirely by core blocks.

Price: Free

Orvian – Theme

Orvian is a modern WordPress theme designed for creative professionals. Who are looking to build a stylish portfolio or personal website. With Elementor integration, it includes over 20 custom widgets, smooth scroll animations, a drag and drop header and footer builder and a dedicated portfolio system. Its fully responsive, retina-ready, and SEO optimised, Orvian also comes with professionally designed light and dark starter sites, regular updates, and dedicated email support.

Price: $19.00

Zenix – Theme

Zenix is a WordPress theme that been designed for AI agencies, technology and software companies. It features a clean, conversion focused design that helps showcase AI services, products, case studies and innovative solutions. With flexible layouts, extensive customisation options and a collection of ready made pages, reusable UI sections and modern design elements.

Price: $19.00

Gotfather – Font

Sparling – Font

Nexaro – Font

Megion – Font

Berro – Font

Retro Tech Cartoon Characters Pack

75 Chess Flat Illustrations

Digital Business Icons Bundle

3D Gadget Icon Pack

Animated Marketing & Growth Icons

Hirely – Job Platform Website Kit

Plant Shop eCommerce App UI Kit

Surru — Next-Generation Social Media Platform UI Kit

Habitify – Habit Tracker Mobile App UI Kit