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 December 2021, 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 January 2022 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.
Joy.js
Consider the paintbrush: simple enough for a child, complex enough for an Old Master. That’s what any artistic tool should strive for, and the art of programming deserves a tool that’s more creative, more alive. Joy.js is a tool for making tools like that.
SpacingJS
A JavaScript utility for measuring the spacing between elements on webpage.
Swiffy Slider
Swiffy Slider is a super fast and lightweight slider and carousel This is a whole new approach to sliders and carousels utilising 2021 browser features.
BubblesJS
BubblesJS is a visualisation framework that enables creation of cross connected charts, KPIs, tables and other UI widgets.
Add-to-Calendar Button
A convenient JavaScript snippet, which lets you create beautiful buttons, where people can add events to their calendars.
Pichon – Mac App
Tons of free high-quality icons, photos, and illustrations in a single desktop app. Get ever-growing curated collections at a click distance and forget about wasting hours searching for graphics. Keep your flow and save your time for creative tasks!
Price: Free
Hue – Mac App
Hue is a magical Mac app that displays the HEX, RGB, CMYK, HSB, and XYZ values underneath the cursor.
Price: 99c
Shortery – Mac App
Shortery adds the missing automation tools to macOS Monterey.With Shortery you can run Shortcuts automatically, that you’ve created in the Shortcuts app using different triggers: App Launch / Quit, Time, Wake Up & Sleep, Login, Keyboard, Appearance, Power
Price: Free
SwifDoo PDF – Windows App
SwifDoo PDF enables you to create, convert, merge, compress, and sign PDF documents in a blink of an eye.
Price: Free
WidgetGrid – iOS App
WidgetGrid is a new way to turn Google Spreadsheets into data-driven widgets on the home screen. You can start from templates to create widgets. You can edit your data in spreadsheets and customize the design of all kinds of widgets in WidgetGrid.
Price: Free
Todoodle – iOS App
Todoodle takes a different approach to productivity: less is more. No more calendars, color coding, or long lists. Just pick one thing to do each day, cheer on your friends, and celebrate the small wins. That’s it.
Price: Free
BookMe – iOS App
BookMe is the #1 App for Mobile Website Building. Use it to create your personal site, bio link, online media kit, booking page for clients & more.
Convert traffic from your social platforms into paying clients and sponsors and build the site from your phone!
Price: Free
Constructor – Web App
Constructor is the lightweight tracking tool for software teams who don’t want a ton of process. With a clean UI, a deep GitHub integration, and assignable comment threads, Constructor helps developers and managers stay focused and collaborate smoothly.
Price: From Free to $5.00 Per User/Month
Viralpep – Web App
Viralpep is a social media scheduling tool startup that was created by digital marketing expert Jay Mehta with the sole objective of providing advanced and cost-effective social marketing tool to help businesses expand their reach and communicate effectively with the customers on social media platforms.
Price: From Free to $100.00 per month
Brunch – Web App
Brunch is a platform for digital collaboration. It helps digital marketing experts manage feedback on live website. You can add your feedback with no website access, no code and a lot less time spent. The tool is built for digital agencies as well as in house teams and can reduce the feedback process to a few click. It cuts our any long email threads or print screens commented in email. It makes live easier for all parties involved.
Price: From Free to $79.00 per month
Swetrix – Web App
Swetrix is a privacy-oriented and simple web analytics platform. This analytics methods absolutely do not rely on cookies, but at the same time we can provide you a number of metrics, such as unique visitors. The point of this project is to make web-analytics as simple as possible. Now when looking at your website data, you can easily understand your customers.
In addition to page view tracking, it supports the tracking custom events (e.g. when a user registers or clicks a button, the scope is unlimited). We also support many other features, like dashboard metrics export, GDPR exports, email notifications and more.
Price: From Free to $110.00 per month
Strapi
Strapi is the leading open-source headless CMS. It’s 100% JavaScript, fully customizable and developer-first.
Repobeats
Repobeats is a way to embed contributor analytics into your GitHub project’s README.md. With Repobeats, contributors and users of your projects get a clear, beautiful, view of how your project is evolving over time.
Supabase
The Open Source Firebase Alternative Create a backend in less than 2 minutes. Start your project with a Postgres Database, Authentication, instant APIs, realtime subscriptions and Storage.
A11y Myths (Accessibility Myths)
A small project debunking common accessibility myths.
Trunk Check
Trunk is an all-in-one tool for scalably checking, formatting, and monitoring code. This will allow your engineers to stay focused on your core business and ship code faster. Trunk installs in minutes and runs in your IDE, CLI, or on your CI platform.
Linkz.ai
Within 2 minutes and you can instantly enrich your website with immersive hyperlink previews. Linkz.ai previews help your visitors to get context from linked content without bouncing between browser tabs, and most importantly, without leaving your site.
VMail
Email clients use different rendering standards. VMail – check the markup (HTML, CSS) of HTML email template compatibility with email clients. For each it finds, it displays the list of email clients that lack support for it or support it only partially.
Animockup 2.0
Animockup is a web-based tool that helps you create animated mockups for your product teasers. Add gradient backgrounds, browse through 20+ mockups, customize the export settings, and much more.
Tekton
Tekton is a powerful and flexible open-source framework for creating CI/CD systems, allowing developers to build, test, and deploy across cloud providers and on-premise systems.
Access Guide
Access Guide is a friendly introduction to digital accessibility based on WCAG 2.1 (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines).
Tool Library by Uiscore
Curated tools library by design. Speed up your workflow with the library. More than 100 templates, free, trial and paid.
Layout patterns
A collection of layout patterns built using modern CSS APIs that will help you build common interfaces such as cards, dynamic grid areas, and full-page layouts.
RegEx Learn
Learning RegEx is easier than you think. You can use this tool to easily learn, practice, test and share RegEx.
Brewpy
Brewpy is just another WordPress generator, this time completely free for everyone. Great UX/UI is what makes it n1 in WordPress development.
WP Adminify – Plugin
WordPress Dashboard customization is easier than before with WP Adminify. It can be your best choice as a WordPress Dashboard plugin because of its clean UI and lightweight size. The interface with 18 super modules will make your WordPress dashboard more enjoyable.
Price: Free
Database Cleaner – Plugin
Clean your WordPress database. This plugin is simple, handles risk levels, and aims to work even on oversized databases on which other plugins fail to operate. This plugin is under heavy development, it’s very new, and this is a first release in order to get feedback.
Price: Free
Content Scheduler – Plugin
The Content Scheduler dashboard displays all your content in one easy to use drag and drop calendar. Using the dashboard you can easily drag content to different dates, add/edit content in a popup without leaving the dashboard, filter content by post types, post statuses, taxonomies and users.
It also allows you to define your own post status colors for easy content management. The calendar has 4 useful views: month, week, day and list. The dashboard can be filtered/saved without reloading the page for fast, easy content management.
Price: Free
ChaSupport – Plugin
ChaSupport is a unique mix of live chat app and ticket system platform that includes all the necessary features like ticket department, statue, auto agent assignment, mail notifications, public and private tickets, search tickets.
This plugin can be used as micro-service support system thanks to our design architecture tickets are stored in custom database table. ChaSupport is completely restful you can access your tickets, create and answer them throw AJAX requests from any other domain or server.
Price: $36.00
Lifeline Donation – Plugin
Your non-profit needs a simple donation plugin for WordPress based websites to do fundraising for your organization. Among other non-profit plugins for WordPress, Lifeline Donation Pro is the most suitable for your charity or non-profit website because it is the cheapest in the market.
It gets tens of features for free which are premium in other plugins like Recurring Donations etc. Lifeline Donation Pro is giving it to the clients free of cost.
Price: $24.00
WooCommerce Business Tools Bundle – Plugin
WooCommerce Business Tools Bundle combine powerful plugins for WooCommerce e-store which allows you manage your shop data, and to yours customers allows filter products of your shop looking prices with different currencies in table format.
Price: $77.00
Workart – Theme
Workart is a perfect theme for artists. It is a bright and beautiful multipurpose WordPress art portfolio theme that flawlessly showcases your creativity and artistic side.
Price: Free
ExS Dark – Theme
Fast and extremely customizable multipurpose child theme for ExS WordPress theme. If you need a dark design that this theme will be the best choice for you.
Price: Free
Multifox – Theme
Multifox is a lightweight, superfast, and attractive business theme suitable for creating every type of professional website.
Price: Free
Agriox – Theme
Agriox Agriculture Farming is a WordPress theme that is a very easy to customise with a strong admin panel. The theme is specially designed for agriculture field, farm, farmers, Eco solutions and organic food products. Agriox theme perfectly fit for all the green initiatives of the farming communities websites and businesses.
Price: $29.00
Biden – Theme
Biden is a job board WordPress theme that is an advanced job board which brings you the most simple solution to display jobs on any type of websites job board WordPress theme.
You may already know, some really big job board WordPress theme provides the option to use their database and extend your website with job offers. A complete job board WordPress theme loaded with separate panels for employer and candidates. The job board theme can make everything automatically, some job providers also pay commission when any of your visitors click on the job links.
Price: $29.00
Bestbus – Theme
Bestbus is a modern WordPress theme to help you launch a premium-looking Moving truck rental service online. It features a clean and intuitive design and guarantees you high-functional rent-a-vehicle search for relocation or large stuff transportation.
Using one click demo install you can easily and quickly install on your website finished pages for your Auto Business and suit them for your needs or objectives. And use the blog as it is a powerful tool for SEO of your site. Plus there’s a booking plugin on board for quickly setting up.
Price: $15.00