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:star: A list with useful tools that help many Developers. Hacktoberfest :star:

Useful Developer Tools

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Some of the tools below helped me a lot when I needed it. Feel free to add more tools, if you know more tools and if you want to help the developer's community. Please, submit a Pull Request or Open an issue for a useful tool that you know.

Web Tools 🌐

Web Tool Description
Coolors The super fast color schemes generator.
Boxicons High Quality Web Icons Set.
JSHint A tool that helps to detect errors and potential problems in your JavaScript code.
Pesticide for Chrome Inserts the Pesticide CSS into the current page, outlining each element to better see placement on the page.
Color Hunt Color Hunt is a free and open platform for color inspiration with thousands of trendy hand-picked color palettes.
The Noun Project Icons and Photos For Everything.
Taskade All-in-One Collaboration. Chat, Organize, Get Things Done.
Codeclimate Online code quality metrics analyzer
KeyCode Info Easy visualizer for JavaScript KeyCodes.
Carbon Create and share beautiful images of your source code.
CodeAbbey Website that contains collection of programming problems to practice solving, learn to program and code, and win certificates.
Shield.io Create beautiful badges for your markdown document.
DevHints Rico's cheat sheets.
Favicon Generator Favicon generator.
Netlify Build, deploy, and manage modern web projects.
GitHub GitHub is a development platform inspired by the way you work.
GitHub Pages Websites for you and your projects (Static projects.)
Gist Instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
Gitter Gitter is a chat and networking platform that helps to manage, grow and connect communities through messaging, content and discovery.
DevHub TweetDeck for GitHub. See repo activities and manage your notifications by creating columns with filters, saving items for later and more.
Trello Trello’s boards, lists, and cards enable you to organize and prioritize your projects in a fun, flexible, and rewarding way.
Taiga Taiga is a project management platform for agile developers & designers and project managers who want a beautiful tool that makes work truly enjoyable.
Notion The all-in-one workspace for your notes, tasks, wikis, and databases.
Choose an License An open source license protects contributors and users. Businesses and savvy developers won’t touch a project without this protection.
JS Paint it's a web-based remake of MS Paint.
svgomg Web GUI for SVGO.
HTML Minifier Minify HTML and any CSS or JS included in your markup.
CSS Compressor Use CSS Compressor to compress CSS (CSS 1, CSS 2, CSS 2.1 & CSS 3) to reduce CSS code size and make your website load faster.
JS Compressor It's an online JavaScript compressor that allows you to compress and minify all of your JS files by up to 80% of their original size.
Web Resizer Make photos faster. (Step 1)
JPEG and PNG Compactor Make photos faster. (Step 2)
TinyPNG Smart PNG and JPEG compression.
MarkDown Editor Live (GitHub-flavored) Markdown Editor.
DevDocs API documentation and works offline.
MDN Docs Resources for developers, by developers.
DigitalOcean It make it simple to launch in the cloud and scale up as you grow—whether you’re running one virtual machine or ten thousand.
Regex101 Validator for regex.
Regexr Regex parser
Freeformatter Regex validator for Java
Gitignore.io Web service designed to help you create .gitignore files for your Git repositories.
Git Explorer Find the right git commands without digging through the web.
JSONLint Validator and reformatter for JSON.
Conventional Commits A lightweight convention on top of commit messages.
DB Fiddle An online SQL database playground for testing, debugging and sharing SQL snippets. Supports MySQL, PostgreSQL and SQLite.
Can I use "Can I use" provides an up-to-date browser support tables for support of front-end web technologies on desktop and mobile web browsers.
Convertio "Convertio" is an easy free file format converter that can help you create PNG, JPEG and PDF files.
Deployer A deployment tool for PHP.
Paper Js An open source vector graphics scripting framework that runs on top of the HTML5 Canvas.
PhpStorm The Best IDE for PHP. PhpStorm = WebStorm + PHP + DB/SQL. Paid, check here if you apply for a free license.
CodeKit Using this tool, web app development work can be done faster as it minifies, combines and syntax-checks JavaScript.
CyberChef The Cyber Swiss Army Knife - a web app for encryption, encoding, compression and data analysis.
Wappalyzer Identify technology used on websites.
ColorZilla Advanced Eyedropper, Color Picker, Gradient Generator.
Get Waves Create SVG waves for your next design.
DBDiagram A free, simple tool to draw ER diagrams by just writing code.
Gleek.io Free description-to-diagrams tool for developers. Create informal, UML class, object, or entity-relationship diagrams using your keyboard.
DeployBot Instantly build and ship code anywhere in one consistent process for your entire team.
Gerador de CPF e CNPJ Perfect for testing.
cssreference cssreference.io is a free visual guide to CSS. It features the most popular properties, and explains them with illustrated and animated examples.
W3Schools The world's largest website for web tutorials.
HTML Cleaner Free HTML, CSS, and JavaScript beautifier.
Requestbin Inspect HTTP events, webhooks, etc.
Hoppscotch API request builder.
P5.js A JS client-side library for creating graphic and interactive experiences, based on the core principles of Processing.
Heroku Build, run and deploy applications entirely in the cloud.
Firebase A Google SaaS backend solutions for cross-plataform applications
Figma Figma is a cloud-based design tool that is similar to Sketch in functionality and features, but with big differences that make Figma better for team collaboration.
AWS Amazon Web Services, an on-demand cloud computing platform.
Repl.it Powerful and simple online compiler, IDE, interpreter, and REPL
Git Branching This app was developed to help beginners learning powerful concepts behind git branching. We hope you like this app and maybe even learn something! - Learn git by doing!
Stack Overflow Stack Overflow is an open community for anyone that codes. It help you get answers to your toughest coding questions, share knowledge with your coworkers in private, and find your next dream job.
Animista CSS ANIMATIONS ON DEMAND
Hacktoberfest Checker A website to know the PR count of hacktoberfest participants.
Photopea A online image editor. Very Similar to photoshop.
Powtoon A video maker for presentations.
Swagger an online swagger editor for creating interactive Rest API documentations.
AWS Cloud9 AWS Cloud9 is a cloud-based integrated development environment (IDE) that lets you write, run, and debug your code with just a browser.
Big Text Convert text to big text as easy as you think.
Frisby.js The Easiest REST API Testing Framework Out There.
JSON Editor Online JSON Editor Online is a web-based tool to view, edit, and format JSON. It shows your data side by side in a clear, editable treeview and in a code editor.
CodePen Online community for testing and sharing HTML, CSS and JavaScript code snippets.
ExtendsClass Online developer tools: Playgrounds (Regex, XPath, SQLite), API clients (REST, SOAP), diff (XML, CSV, JSON) and data generators (JSON, CSV).
FontSee Online webfont viewer: Preview how font files look like in the browser.
ASCII Art Generator This free online Ascii Art creator allows you to convert images to color or monochrome Ascii Art.
Screenshot.rocks Create beautiful browser mockups in seconds
[Screely.com] Instantly turn a screenshot into a browser mockup.
Hackmd Real time, multi-platform, collaborative markdown knowledge base. You can write markdown file together with other people :)
Azure DevOps Services A full solution for managing projects, including git and pipelines.
JSON Utils Convert JSON to C#, VB.NET, JavaScript, Java, PHP and TypeScript classes
Tabs to Spaces Convert tabs to spaces. As simple as it sounds
Epoch Converter Convert epoch to human-readable dates and viceversa
XML Viewer Beautify XML files
NimbleText NimbleText is a text manipulation and code generation tool. It generates text from a pattern and some input values
BASE64 Decode and Encode Encode/Decode BASE64 strings or files
Glitch Build fast, full-stack web apps in your browser with instant hosting, automated deployment, and live help from community members.
Android Asset Studio A collection of tools to easily generate assets such as launcher icons for your Android app.
CSS Separator Generator A generator for section separators.
Color Shades Generator Color Shades Generator for Tailwind CSS.
Coolors The super fast color schemes generator! Create the perfect palette or get inspired by thousands of beautiful color schemes.
Canva Canva is a graphic design platform that allows users to create social media graphics, presentations, posters, logos, documents and other visual content.
cron-job.org Free Cron job scheduler.
Crontab guru A cron expression generator.
DiffNow Very useful for comparing codes, files, folders or urls.
Vercel Build and deploy apps with 30+ JAMSTACK frameworks.
4Devs Personal data generator and validator. Very useful mainly for Brazilians due to CPF, CEP, CNPJ and others.
Google Tables Tables helps teams easily track & automate tasks, enabling them to save time and work smarter.
D3.js JavaScript library for manipulating documents based on data.
GeeksforGeeks A Computer Science portal for geeks. It contains well written computer science and programming articles, tutorials and implementations for most of the concepts of Software Engineering field.
DB-engines Ranks database management systems by popularity. Ranking criteria include number of search engine results, Stack Overflow discussions etc.
Codeforces Codeforces is a website that hosts competitive programming contests and helps you so much in Problem Solving.
LeetCode It's an amazing platform to help you enhance your skills and prepare for technical interviews.
Mockaroo Mockaroo lets you generate up realistic test data in CSV, JSON, SQL, and Excel formats.
Marcdown A lightweight markdown viewer and editor.
HackerRank An awesome platform to help you enhance your skills by providing problems to solve in a wide range of Computer Science domains.

Desktop Tools 🖥

Desktop Tool Description
ASCIinema Record and share your terminal sessions, the right way.
ATOM A hackable text editor for the 21st Century.
Adobe XD UI/UX design tool that is good for making wireframe model for mobile and web app
Agent Ransack Agent Ransack is a file search tool for finding files on your PC or network drives.
Alfred Alfred is a productivity application for macOS, which boosts your efficiency with hotkeys, keywords and text expansion.
Android Studio Android Studio is the official Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for Android app development, based on IntelliJ IDEA.
Apache JMeter The Apache JMeter™ application is open source software, a 100% pure Java application designed to load test functional behavior and measure performance.
AppCode Smart IDE for iOS/macOS development. Paid, check here if you apply for a free license.
Appium Appium is an open source test automation framework for use with native, hybrid and mobile web apps.
Arduino Text-editor tools for make any robot or IoT.
Barrier An open source and cross-platform KVM Emulator that allows developers to share mice/keyboards between multiple computers. (Awesome if you are developing on multiple devices over LAN i.e. Sockets, Webservers etc)
Brackets An open Source and Modern text editor for web design.
Burp Suite Burp Suite is a leading range of cybersecurity tools, brought to you by PortSwigger.
Carbonize Generate gorgeous, highly customizable images from your code snippets. Ready to save or share. (macOS client for Carbon)
Chocolatey Software management automation for Windows that wraps installers, executables, zips, and scripts into compiled packages
CLIon A cross-platform IDE for C and C++. Paid, check here if you apply for a free license.
ClickUp All your work in one place: Tasks, docs, chat, goals, & more
CodeLobster It is a free as well as a convenient PHP IDE that is used to develop fully featured web applications.
Compare It! Compare texts, indicating the differences. Practical, light and fast.
Cypress.io Fast, easy and reliable testing for anything that runs in a browser.
DBeaver Free multi-platform database tool for developers, SQL programmers, database administrators and analysts. Supports all popular databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Oracle, DB2, SQL Server...
Dash API Documentation, Cheat sheets, Snippet manager with instant search everything for macOS
Datagrip Database IDE with mostly databases compatibility. Paid, check here if you apply for a free license.
DirEnv DirEnv is a shell extension that augments existing shells with a new feature that can load and unload environment variables depending on the current directory.
Docker Easily run local linux-based containers.
Docker Compose Tool for defining and running multi-container Docker applications.
Eclipse The Eclipse IDE is famous for Java Integrated Development Environment (IDE)
Expo Mobile application development which can run JavaScript. Useful for React Native
Fiddler The web debugging proxy for any browser, system or platform.
Flutter Flutter is Google’s UI toolkit for building beautiful, natively compiled applications for mobile, web, and desktop from a single codebase. It is free and open source.
GNU Emacs An extensible, customizable, free/libre text editor — and more.
Genymotion Android Emulator Cross-platform Android emulator for developers & QA engineers. Develop & automate your tests to deliver best quality apps. On desktop, AWS, GCP & SaaS.
Git Kraken Legendary Git Client for windows, mac and linux. Really practical and robust.
GitHub CLI GitHub CLI brings GitHub to your terminal. Free and open source.
GitHub Desktop A GUI for GitHub.
GoLand A cross-platform IDE built specially for Go developers. Paid, check here if you apply for a free license.
Helm A package manager for kubernetes that allows simple but powerful software installs on a Kubernetes cluster.
HTTPie A command line HTTP client, similar to cURL, but with a nicer output and syntax.
Homebrew The missing package manager for macOS (or Linux).
Icon8 Icons8 allows designers to express their ideas giving the right design elements at the right time.
Indri Tool for creating index and querying the index for any size dataset.
Insomnia Debug APIs like a human, not a robot.
IntelliJ IDEA Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for JVM. Paid, check here if you apply for a free license.
iTerm2 A terminal emulator for macOS to replace Terminal.
Lens Lens is the only IDE you’ll ever need to take control of your Kubernetes clusters. It's open source and free.
Mailspring Powerful n' fancy cross-plataform mail client.
Meld An open source and cross-platform visual diff and merge tool to compare files and directories. (Version control comparison)
MobaXterm Free X server for Windows with tabbed SSH terminal, telnet, RDP, VNC, Xdmcp, Mosh and X11-forwarding.
ngrok ngrok secure introspectable tunnels to localhost webhook development tool and debugging tool.
Notepad++ Text viewer in most languages, easier when you need to open faster code to check something.
ohmyzsh A delightful, open source, community-driven framework for managing Zsh configuration
OWASP ZAP Useful open-source proxy tool for developing with security in mind.
Peek App for recording screen areas, e.g. for easily showing UI features of your own apps or for showing a bug in bug reports.
Pexels Pexels. Free stock images, photos and videos.
pgAdmin A full-featured PostgreSQL install for MacOS.
Postbird App to graphically manage your PostgreSQL BDs
Postman Postman Simplifies API Development.
Principle Principle makes it easy to design animated and interactive user interfaces.
Protege Open source ontology editor and knowledge management system.
PuTTY PuTTY is a free and open-source terminal emulator, serial console and network file transfer application. It supports several network protocols, including SCP, SSH, Telnet, rlogin, and raw socket connection.
PyCharm The Python IDE for Professional Developers. Available in two versions Community (free), Professional (paid). Check here if you apply for a free license.
RealVNC Tool to securely access remote desktop.
Robo 3T A GUI for editing and viewing MongoDB Data.
Scoop Scoop is a command-line installer for Windows.
Sourcetree A Simple GIT UI for windows and mac
Sublime Text A sophisticated text editor for code, markup and prose.
TablePlus Database management made easy. Modern, native, and friendly GUI tool for relational databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite & more
Terminator A Terminal replacement for Linux (GNOME) that supports tabs and grids.
Termius A modern cross-plataform SSH/SFTP Client.
Terraform Terraform is a tool for building, changing, and versioning infrastructure (IaC). Supports tons of providers not only the major clouds. Essencialy great way to codify your infrastrcuture.
Tmux A terminal multiplexer which allows multiple terminal sessions to be accessed simultaneously
Toggl A smart and usefull time tracker for teams containing helpful integrations like with Github for all plans.
Typora Typora is a great program for reading and writing MarkDown files.
uPyCraft IDE for programming Micropython in microntoller boards.
VSCode A rich text-editor by Microsoft to improve your workflow. (I love it <3)
VSCodium Open Source Binaries of VSCode.
Vercel The Global Serverless Platform. (CLI)
vim Highly configurable text editor
VirtualBox An open source virtualization product developed by Oracle.
WSL2 Windows Subsystem for Linux allows you to run a Linux shell and run Linux commands on Windows 10.
Wakatime Quantify your coding. Open source plugins for automatic programming metrics.
WinsCP WinSCP is a free and open-source SFTP, FTP, WebDAV, Amazon S3 and SCP client for Microsoft Windows.
Wireshark Wireshark is an open source, network protocol analyzer.
yEd yEd is a powerful desktop application that can be used to quickly and effectively generate high-quality diagrams.