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 libraries, productivity tools that help you focus, project management tools, development resources and tools. To things like CSS frameworks, new learning platforms for front end developers, lastly the usual WordPress themes and plugins, fonts, UI kits and icons. 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 November 2024 edition, please either tweet/X it to me @SomeWhatCrtv or even use the Submit Resource form and your resource could be seen on next month list.

The Boring JavaScript Stack

The Boring Javascript Stack

Ship your products using proven, battle-tested technologies. Avoid the distraction of chasing fleeting JavaScript trends, and focus on what truly matters—delivering to real users. No API is required for your single-page application (SPA).

HumanifyJS

Humanify

This tool leverages large language models (like ChatGPT and Llama) alongside other tools to deobfuscate, unminify, transpile, decompile, and unpack JavaScript code. While LLMs provide helpful hints for renaming variables and functions, they don’t make structural changes. The heavy lifting is handled by Babel at the AST level, ensuring the code remains 1:1 equivalent.

OctoPalm.js

OctoPalm

OctoPalm.js is a lightweight JavaScript library built to add real-time, customizable search functionality to your web applications. It delivers a seamless search experience with animated results and custom-styled scrollbars, offering a powerful solution to elevate the search features on your site.

TinyJS

Tinyjs

TinyJS is a lightweight JavaScript library that simplifies dynamic creation of HTML elements with deep property assignment. It streamlines DOM manipulation by enabling you to programmatically generate any standard HTML tag, assign properties, append content, and easily select DOM elements.

FoxyFocus – iOS App

Foxyfocus

FoxyFocus is a clever Pomodoro timer that helps you outfox distractions. Boost your productivity with customizable focus sessions, ambient sounds, an achievement system, and a playful fox theme. Make time management both fun and effective!

Price: Free (Offers In-App Purchases)

Lite – iOS App

Lite App Launcher

A minimal app launcher for your iPhone.

Price: Free (Offers In-App Purchases)

PrioriTask – iOS App

Prioritask

PrioriTask is an easy-to-use personal Kanban board designed to help you track your commitments without the complexity of team-oriented tools. If you’ve ever felt the need for a Scrum or Kanban board for personal tasks but found existing options too time-consuming, PrioriTask is the app for you.

Price: $1.99

Redline – Mac App

Redline

Redline is a Mac app that keeps a to-do list in your menu bar, focusing on action over planning. Always visible and respectful of your attention, it helps you stay on task without distractions.

Price: Free (Offers In-App Purchases)

Pulse – Mac App

Pulse Typing Analytics

Pulse is the ultimate typing analytics tool, offering real-time tracking of WPM, CPM, and accuracy across all your apps. With Pulse, you can visualize your progress, enhance your productivity, and unlock the potential of your keystrokes.

Designed for macOS, Pulse provides essential insights into your typing performance, whether you’re a professional writer, coding enthusiast, or frequent keyboard user. Boost your efficiency and monitor your improvement with ease.

Price: Free (Offers In-App Purchases)

Syphon – Mac App

Syphon

Syphon is an app and window switcher that offers significant advantages over the built-in Mac switcher. It features fuzzy searching, window switching with previews, launching of non-running apps, separation of hidden apps, and more!

Price: $9.99

Planodes – Web App

Planodes

Planodes is a user-friendly project management tool that helps teams stay organized, efficient, and focused. By streamlining workflows, Planodes integrates project management, task management, and issue tracking into a single, seamless platform. Whether you’re managing multiple projects or keeping track of daily tasks, Planodes makes it simple to assign responsibilities, set deadlines, and track progress.

Price: Free, $5 per user/month, For large teams contact them.

YoReview – Web App

Yoreview

YoReview streamlines the collection and display of product reviews. Ideal for both startups and established brands, it offers seamless API integration and customizable components for React and Next.js applications.

Price: Free

Scopey – Web App

Scopey

Scopey is an AI-powered tool revolutionizing scope management, helping businesses save up to 15% of their annual revenue. With Scopey, you can create custom project scopes in minutes, seamlessly capture and manage client change requests from emails, and uncover hidden opportunities for profitable upsells. Effortlessly streamline your project workflows and maximize revenue potential.

Price: Free to €59.00 month

Version Cat

Version Cat

VersionCat scours the internet to find the latest versions of popular apps. You can easily search for updates or receive email alerts for new versions of your favorite apps by visiting VersionCat.com. Save time and stay updated and it’s 100% free!

Docs Assembler

Docs_Assembler

Build documentation like Lego, using interchangeable blocks and text fragments. This approach simplifies complex systems, much like programming with classes and variables, enabling modular and flexible documentation creation.

Orbit

Orbit

Orbit is the first general-purpose CSS framework tailored specifically for radial user interfaces. Leveraging the latest CSS features, Orbit simplifies the process of creating radial layouts. It offers intuitive CSS classes and Custom Elements for building radial menus, dashboards, creative portfolios, and cutting-edge applications.

Kalmia

Kalmia

Kalmia is a free, open-source documentation tool designed for speed and simplicity. With a sleek user interface and AGPLv3 licensing, it’s an ideal solution for both technical and non-technical users alike.

blocks.md

Blocks Md

blocks.md is a tool that transforms your Markdown files into beautiful, customizable, accessible, and fully localizable forms and web pages. It simplifies the process of turning content into functional, user-friendly interfaces.

Pont

Pont

Pont is a simple project template generator and loader. You can generate templates and load them from Git repositories or local directories.

Player.style

Player.style

These video and audio player themes work seamlessly with any web player, including Video.js, YouTube embeds, and more, as well as with every web app framework like HTML and React. Open-source and built with Media Chrome, they are fully customizable using just HTML and CSS, providing flexibility and ease of integration.

No_Class.css

No Class.css

No_Class is a modern stylesheet designed to work exclusively with native markup. By leveraging semantic HTML, it provides a wide range of usable targets to kickstart and maintain your projects. This blank slate approach fosters greater creativity and opens up new opportunities for expression.

Wonderium.dev

Wonderium.dev

Wonderium.dev is a learning platform built by front–end developers, for front–end developers. It features an interactive card game that teaches the fundamentals of web development, allowing you to immediately put your new skills into practice.

WunderUI 2.0

Wunder Ui

WunderUI Design System is a collaborative tool tailored for creatives, designed to streamline the digital product design process in Figma. It boosts performance by offering a solid foundation, enabling effortless creation and enhancing workflow efficiency in Figma.

Notion CRM For Designers

Notion_Client_Relationship_Management_For_Designers

Organize your clients more efficiently with this template. As a designer, it can become challenging to keep everything in one place and maintain a clear overview of your clients. This product addresses that problem, offering a streamlined solution to manage your client information with ease.

Start

Start

Introducing the Start VSCode extension! This extension streamlines your development workflow by automatically running commands from a `.start` file located in your project’s root folder whenever you open VSCode.

Shader

Shader

Generate Tailwind CSS-friendly color palettes directly in Figma. Easily customize and create palettes to streamline and enhance your design workflow.

Tailwind Sync

Tailwind Sync

Tailwind Sync is a Figma plugin that syncs design variables with Tailwind code, streamlining the design-to-development handoff for increased speed, consistency, and scalability.

Patched

Patched Codes

With Patched, development teams can build custom AI workflows to automate tasks like code reviews, documentation, and patching. These workflows can be self-hosted using our open-source framework and integrated with your preferred LLM, providing complete privacy and control.

Yumma CSS

Yumma Css

A utility-first library that uses abbreviated naming conventions, following standard CSS practices, to help you debug, scale, and maintain your markup more effectively, enabling you to launch your application faster.

Color Token Builder

Color Token Builder

ColorToken enables you to generate, customize, and export color tokens from palettes in both SVG and JSON formats. You can effortlessly copy these tokens for seamless integration into your design projects.

BuouUI

Buouui

This is a stunning Tailwind CSS UI library featuring animations, sections, landing pages, fonts, and more. It’s fully ready to copy and paste into your project, making it easy to enhance your designs.

peepDB

Peep DB

peepDB is an open-source command-line tool and Python library designed for developers and database administrators who need a quick and efficient way to inspect database tables without writing SQL queries. Supporting MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MariaDB, peepDB is lightweight, secure, and exceptionally easy to use.

Fumadocs

Fumadocs

Fumadocs is a documentation framework with an outstanding UI and user experience, powered by the Next.js App Router. It’s designed for flexibility and speed, making it an ideal choice for efficient documentation.

AutoFrame

Autoframe Beta

With AutoFrame, simply connect your Airtable account and automatically generate all the frames needed for your project. If your data includes height and width field values, the generated frames will align perfectly with your specified dimensions.

Gutenverse Companion – Plugin

Gutenverse Companion

This companion plugin is designed to enhance and extend the functionality of Gutenverse base themes. Seamlessly integrated with the base themes, it offers additional features, customization options, and advanced tools to optimize the user experience and streamline the development process.

Price: Free

DefendWP Firewall – Plugin

Defendwp

DefendWP.org is a WordPress plugin that instantly deploys firewall rules and patches as soon as vulnerabilities are disclosed, protecting your site from hackers before official updates are available. This automatic protection ensures your website stays secure, even if you don’t apply patches immediately.

Price: Free

White Label WP Login – Plugin

White Label Wp Login

This minimalist WordPress plugin was designed to easily style the default login page while staying as lightweight as possible. It offers all the basic styling tools needed to give your site’s login page a custom look and feel.

Free and open-source, this plugin is perfect for users who want to add a layer of customization without the hassle of bulky plugins that clutter the admin panel with popups.

Price: Free

Envision Blocks – Plugin

Envision Blocks

Envision Blocks is a powerful WordPress plugin designed to simplify the process of building premium-looking websites using Elementor. With over 50 customizable Elementor widgets, this plugin includes essential features like a WooCommerce builder, header & footer builder, mega menu, and a collection of starter sites.

One of the standout features of Envision Blocks is its flexibility; you can easily disable any widgets you don’t need, enhancing your site’s performance and loading speed. All demos are ready for instant import with a single click using the setup wizard, making it easy for users of all skill levels to create stunning websites effortlessly.

Price: $29.00

Floating Side Tab Pro – Plugin

Floating Side Tab Pro

Floating Side Tab Pro is a premium WordPress plugin that enhances user experience by adding floating quick links on either the left or right side of your website. With over 20 pre-designed templates, this plugin makes it easy to implement sticky side tab menus, allowing for seamless navigation and improved engagement.

The intuitive setup process ensures that even users without coding skills can customize the appearance and functionality of their floating tabs. Whether you’re looking to guide users to important content, enhance site navigation, or boost engagement, Floating Side Tab Pro is the perfect solution for modern websites.

Price: $16.00

Fictionary – Theme

Fictionary

Fictionary is a typography-focused, opinionated blogging theme designed to enhance readability and provide a clean, minimalistic experience for content creators. Its bold design choices emphasize text and typography, making it ideal for writers who want their words to take center stage.

Price: Free

Colorloops – Theme

Colorloops

Colorloops is a minimalistic theme that brings vibrant color to your blog, featuring a neutral frame to let your content shine. Its design adds a touch of color without overpowering the content, offering a clean and engaging reading experience.

Price: Free

Huss – Theme

Huss

Huss is a lightweight and minimal WordPress block theme (FSE theme) designed specifically for blog websites. This carefully crafted theme is fully responsive and offers four distinct styles, ensuring a visually appealing layout. With easily readable fonts, an ideal color combination, and a dark mode option, Huss provides a user-friendly experience that enhances your content.

Price: Free

Credio – Theme

Credio

Credio is a modern and trendy WordPress theme tailored for credit repair and finance businesses. It features 14 high-quality pre-built home pages (seven multi-page and seven one-page) and over 45 built-in inner pages, including service, project, and team pages, as well as various blog layouts.

Designed for a range of financial services—such as credit repair, finance, credit card services, banking, insurance, loans, tax assistance, and investment firms—Credio provides a professional and customizable platform to effectively showcase your services, connect with clients, and establish a robust online presence.

Price: $19.00

AutoArt – Theme

Autoart

AutoArt is a premium WordPress theme specifically designed for various automotive websites. Whether you operate a car dealership, car wash, repair service, rental business, auto parts store, or a car detailing and trading site, AutoArt is the perfect choice. It comes equipped with specialized features to enhance product presentation, ensuring your offerings stand out.

The theme offers a flexible layout with customizable sidebars and unlimited color options, allowing for easy personalization. Its minimalist design can be displayed in both boxed and full-width modes, ensuring compatibility across all browsers and devices. Built with a strong focus on eCommerce and customer service, AutoArt is ideal for businesses centered around sales and services in the automotive industry.

Price: $59.00

Amoor – Theme

Amoor

Amor is a Creative Portfolio Agency WordPress Theme tailored for digital agencies, creative agencies, web design firms, showcases, and portfolios. With its simple, clean, and easy-to-edit one-page template, Amoor is designed for desktop, tablet, and mobile devices. The theme features a minimalistic design combined with unique creative animations, making it both stylish and attractive.

No coding or advanced programming knowledge is required to get started. Amoor allows you to launch your site in minutes with its One Click Demo Importer. Easily create pages using the Drag & Drop Page Builder (Elementor Free), ensuring your site is fully responsive, retina-ready, and customizable to suit your needs.

Price: $19.00

Departure Mono – Font

Departure Mono

Neue Campton – Font

Neue Campton

Klona – Font

Klona

Girone – Font

Girone

Fluent – Font

Fluent

Photography 3D Icon Set

Photography 3d Icon Set

Space Vector Icons Set

Space Vector Icons Set

3D Traveling Illustration Set

3d Traveling Illustration Set

PopCrush Illustrations pack

Popcrush Illustrations Pack

Crumbs UI Kit

Crumbs Ui

Taskie Project Management UI Kit

Taskie Project Management Ui Kit

Multipurpose Dashboard UI Kit

Multipurpose Dashboard Ui Kit For Saas Startups

Lynk – Online Video Call Dashboard UI KIT

Lynk Online Video Call Dashboard Ui Kit

Prodify UI Kit

Prodify

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What’s New for Designers & Developers – October 2024