Tools.

Hand-picked gallery of website design with no scoring or ranking.

Formerly Godly; the old domain still redirects.

Connect images, links and text into channels that other people can build on.

Free tier caps private channels; the culture is research-oriented rather than portfolio-oriented.

Searchable screenshots of real mobile and web apps, organised by flow and by UI element.

The free tier is heavily limited; the value is in searching by flow, which is paid.

Archive of interface screenshots from video games, indexed by screen type.

The best reference anywhere for interfaces that are not web apps.

Juried gallery of website design, judged and scored publicly.

Skews toward heavy motion and award-bait; useful for technique, less for restraint.

Visual bookmarking where you save images into clusters instead of folders.

Gallery of sites sorted by style, industry and type.

Was the standalone curated.design; now a section inside the Craftwork marketplace.

Social feed where designers post work in progress rather than finished case studies.

Gallery limited to sites built on restraint.

Game UI reference organised by game and by element.

Archive of speculative and fictional interfaces from film and games.

Visual search that returns images matching the feel of what you gave it.

Long-running side project; availability has been intermittent.

Image boards with a recommendation engine that is unusually good at visual adjacency.

Primary sourcing surface for the Old World Sun pin pipeline.

Screen recordings of interface animations from shipped products.

Collection of small delightful interaction details, described in words as well as video.

Before-and-after archive of brand identity redesigns.

Chat model with long context, file analysis and a code-focused agent mode.

The largest single line on the software ledger. Runs the agent fleet, not just chat.

General-purpose chat model with browsing, code execution and image generation.

$20/mo on the ledger. Second opinion rather than primary.

Grounds a model in documents you upload so answers cite your sources instead of the open web.

Answers stay inside your uploaded corpus, which is the point — it will not reach for outside knowledge.

Search that answers in prose with inline citations to the pages it read.

Google chat model with very long context and tight Workspace integration.

Documents and relational databases in one workspace.

System of record for every brand, roadmap and agent database.

Local markdown notes with backlinks and a plugin ecosystem.

Files stay local by default; sync is the paid add-on.

Issue tracking built around keyboard speed and short cycles.

Local asset manager for images, video and fonts with tagging and colour search.

One-time licence, no subscription. Library lives on your disk.

Open-source workspace that puts documents and an infinite canvas in the same file.

Kanban boards with cards, checklists and simple automation.

Whiteboard that renders everything in a hand-drawn style.

The sketchy rendering is functional — it signals "not final" and stops people bikeshedding pixels.

Whiteboard and an embeddable canvas SDK for building your own.

Figma's whiteboard, sharing files and permissions with the design tool.

Large collaborative canvas aimed at workshops and long-lived team boards.

Browser that replaces tab strips with a sidebar and workspace switching.

The Browser Company stopped feature development on Arc in favour of Dia. Still maintained for security, but no longer the active product.

Chromium browser with ad and tracker blocking switched on by default.

Drives the apply-assist bot.

Browser from the Arc team with a chat model wired into the page context.

Firefox-based browser built around split views and a hidden chrome.

Independent browser engine, which matters for testing anything that is not Chromium.

Browser-based interface design with multiplayer editing, components and dev handoff.

$5/mo on the ledger.

Design tool that publishes the design as the live site.

You are designing inside their hosting. Export is limited — treat it as a CMS, not a design file.

Open-source interface design tool that works on open web standards and can be self-hosted.

Builds interactive animations with a state machine, and ships a runtime to play them in-app.

The state machine is the differentiator — the animation responds to app state rather than just playing.

Template-driven design for people who are not going to open Figma.

$12.99/mo on the ledger.

Design tool built around real motion and interaction rather than static frames.

Generates UI designs from a text prompt and exports them to Figma or code.

Copies component source into your repo instead of installing a dependency you cannot edit.

Component base across the Axon platform.

Registry of React and Tailwind components you can install through the shadcn CLI.

Animated React components delivered as copyable source.

Animated components built on Motion, delivered as copyable source.

Copy-paste React and Tailwind components aimed at the high-production-value end.

Heavy on motion. The components look expensive, but several ship large animation payloads - check the bundle cost before using more than a few.

Large library of shadcn/ui blocks, templates and themes built on Radix and Base UI.

Blocks follow the shadcn conventions, so they compose with an existing shadcn app rather than fighting it.

Morphs any SVG icon into any other with spring physics, in React, Vue, Svelte or vanilla JS.

Zero dependencies, around 6 KB gzipped, and it works on the Lucide, Tabler and Heroicons sets you already have.

Cross-references how the same component is named and built across many design systems.

Reference rather than a library — useful when naming things.

Unusual React components aimed at the expressive end rather than the utility end.

Animates numbers changing without the digits jumping.

Narrow by design. It does one thing that is annoying to write yourself.

Premium React and Tailwind blocks sold as whole page layouts rather than single components.

The value is full sections. If you only need one component, the free registries already cover it.

Design ecosystem bundling a UI kit, native components and templates for product teams.

CSS-only library for hand-drawn arrows, labels and highlights over any inline element.

No JavaScript at all - it is a stylesheet. Good for annotated docs and product walkthroughs.

Generates sitemaps and wireframes, then supplies matching Webflow and Figma component libraries.

On the ledger, now inactive. Went with the Webflow stack.

Open-source typefaces served from a CDN or downloadable for self-hosting.

Self-host rather than hotlink — the CDN is a third-party request and in some jurisdictions a compliance problem.

Free-for-commercial-use typefaces from the Indian Type Foundry.

Genuinely free for commercial work, which is rare at this quality.

Archive of typography in the wild, indexed by typeface, industry and period.

Library of open-source typefaces with a contemporary bias.

Curated gallery of free typefaces, checked for licence.

Node-based environment for real-time generative visuals and installation work.

The free licence caps output resolution. Steep learning curve; the community tutorials carry it.

Write and share fragment shaders that run live in the browser.

Also the best available archive of shader technique, because everything is source-visible.

Node-based visual programming that publishes interactive WebGL scenes to the browser.

Node-based canvas for generative graphics and interactive design.

Builds animated WebGL effects visually and embeds them into a site.

Generates hero background images by stacking print, dither and glitch effects over any image.

Runs in the browser with no signup and exports up to 4K. Also available inside Figma and Framer.

Generates unique micro-graphic plates from locked and rerolled traits, exporting SVG or PNG.

Same author as HeroKit. Parameters encode into the share link, so any result is reproducible.

Node-based canvas for chaining generative models into a visual pipeline.

Applies blob-tracking visual effects to footage in the browser.

Single-effect tool from the Artkit set. Runs client-side, so nothing uploads.

Visual site builder that writes real HTML and CSS, with a CMS behind it.

Ran a dozen client sites on it. Migrated off to Next.js on Vercel — per-site CMS hosting stopped making sense at that count.

Hosted commerce platform with a theme layer and an app ecosystem.

$9/mo on the ledger for rs.xpe.

Generates a full-stack web app from a prompt and keeps editing it in chat.

On the ledger at $0, now inactive.

Animation library for React and vanilla JS, formerly Framer Motion.

Animation layer across the RS and AG sites.

Ships After Effects animations as JSON that renders as vectors at any size.

Renders video from React components, so a video is a program you can diff.

Free for individuals and small teams; a company licence is required above that.

Runs the H264 Creator Studio and every scripted motion piece.

Timeline-based animation library with scroll and morph plugins.

The formerly-paid plugins, including ScrollTrigger and SplitText, became free under Webflow ownership.

Animates JavaScript values on a visual timeline, including Three.js scenes.

Browser motion design tool aimed at social and product animation.

2D motion design driven by procedural rules rather than hand-keyed frames.

Visual reference of every standard easing curve with its formula.

Motion templates, animated device mockups and a stock library in one editor.

Design once and export to several aspect ratios, which is the part that saves the time.

Draws a cubic-bezier curve and hands back the CSS.

Editing, colour grading, audio and effects in one application.

The free version is a real NLE, not a trial. The paid Studio licence is one-time, not a subscription.

Destination for the alpha MOV exports out of Creator Studio.

Screen recording and live streaming with scene composition.

Downloads video and audio from most video sites.

Needs updating often — sites change their extraction paths constantly. Age-gated content requires cookies.

Backs the whole Loot n Stash clip pipeline.

Converts, cuts and re-encodes essentially any audio or video format.

Underneath most of the tools on this page.

Screen recorder that automatically adds zooms and smooths the cursor path.

macOS only. The automatic zoom is the entire product and it is very hard to match by hand.

Trims and cuts video without re-encoding it.

Cuts land on keyframes, so frame-exact trims are not possible without re-encoding.

Screen capture and recording with scriptable post-capture actions.

Video editor built for short-form social, with auto-captions.

On the ledger, now inactive.

Text-to-speech and voice cloning with an API.

$11/mo on the ledger.

Multi-track audio recording and editing.

Adaptive audio engine where sound responds to game or app state.

Free below a revenue threshold; licensing is per-title.

Subscription sample library with rights cleared for release.

Subscription library of music, sound effects, stock footage and plugins under one licence.

The licence covers everything downloaded while subscribed, and it stays valid after you cancel — which is the part that separates it from most stock catalogues.

Free stock photo and video library with no attribution required.

Unlimited-download subscription covering templates, stock, fonts and audio.

Enormous but uneven; the top of the catalogue is good and the middle is filler.

$39/mo on the ledger, currently paused.

Free stock photography with a recognisable house style.

Widely used enough that the popular images read as generic. Dig past page one.

Modelling, sculpting, animation, simulation and rendering, free and open source.

The WebGL library most 3D on the web is built on.

Browser-based 3D design that exports an interactive scene you can embed.

Embeds are heavy. Check the payload before shipping one above the fold.

Procedural 3D where the model is the node graph that built it.

Houdini Apprentice is free but watermarks output and cannot be used commercially.

Renders Three.js scenes as React components.

Collaborative 3D and spatial design in the browser.

Browser 3D modelling built around soft blended shapes, aimed at beginners.

Scans real objects and spaces into 3D from a phone camera or LiDAR.

Photogrammetry and gaussian splat capture from a phone.

Captures scenes as neural radiance fields and generates video from prompts.

Epic's photogrammetry app, turning photo sets into meshes.

Edits and compresses gaussian splat scenes in the browser.

Records volumetric video of people using depth sensors.

Needs specific depth-camera hardware; not a software-only purchase.

Inspects a glTF file and reports what is making it large.

The first thing to open when a 3D asset is too heavy to ship.

Converts a glTF file into a React Three Fiber component.

Compresses glTF geometry and textures for the web.

Exports Unity scenes to the web as glTF with runtime behaviour intact.

Simulates garments on a body from real pattern pieces.

Cloth simulation aimed at 3D artists rather than pattern cutters.

Same engine lineage as CLO, positioned for VFX and games instead of production patterns.

Garment simulation and digital sampling for apparel production.

Image generation with a strong built-in aesthetic and world-building bias.

Opinionated by default. Use --style raw when you want it to obey rather than interpret.

On the ledger, now inactive.

Runs many image and video models behind one canvas, with real-time generation.

$10/mo on the ledger.

Google's image model, notable for editing an existing image without redrawing everything else.

The reference-guided edit path is the reliable fix for a generator hallucinating logos or signage.

Does the feature-image and style-preview work.

Open-weight image models with strong prompt adherence and a targeted edit mode.

Node graph for building image generation pipelines you can save and re-run.

Runs models on your own hardware. The learning curve is real and the node ecosystem is unversioned.

Upscales images by inventing plausible detail rather than interpolating.

It hallucinates detail. That is the feature and also the risk — check faces and text after every pass.

Image generation that outputs true vectors as well as raster.

One of very few generators that produces editable SVG rather than a traced approximation.

Video generation plus editing tools like background removal and motion tracking.

Video generation with comparatively long shot durations.

Video generation with named camera-motion presets.

Generates presenter video from a script using an avatar.

Upscales and denoises photo and video, including frame interpolation.

One-time licence per app with paid upgrade cycles. Video work is GPU-heavy and slow.

Open-source image and video upscaling you can run locally.

Browser image upscaling and enhancement.

On the ledger, now inactive.

Agentic coding in the terminal that reads, edits and runs the codebase directly.

Runs the entire agent fleet, the night shift, and most of what ships.

VS Code fork with a model wired into the editor and the repo index.

Generates React and Tailwind UI from a prompt and deploys it.

Editor with an agent that plans and executes multi-file changes, formerly Windsurf.

Renamed from Windsurf after the Cognition acquisition; existing installs updated over the air. Windsurf for JetBrains continues as a separate product.

Open-source coding agent that runs inside VS Code with your own API key.

Fast native editor with collaborative editing and built-in model support.

Browser development environment with hosting and an agent that builds from a prompt.

Generates and runs a full-stack app in the browser.

One API and one bill across models from most major providers.

Useful for comparing models without holding accounts everywhere; adds a small margin per call.

Builds agents that act on email, calendar and CRM on a trigger.

Autonomous agent that runs long multi-step tasks in its own sandbox.

Strips the junk out of an SVG with a live preview of what each setting removes.

Checks domain availability as you type, across many TLDs at once.

Picks colour in OKLCH, where equal numeric steps look like equal visual steps.

The right picker for building a ramp that stays even across lightness.

Compresses images in the browser with a side-by-side quality comparison.

Records what you click and writes it up as a step-by-step guide with screenshots.

Checks colour pairs for contrast and shows how to fix a failing one.

Builds and explains regular expressions against test text.

Turns a code snippet into a shareable image.

Generates CSS gradients that fade without the grey band in the middle.

Launcher that runs scripts, extensions and window management from one keystroke.

Terminal with editable command blocks and a model that writes commands.

Dictation that formats as you speak and works in any text field.

Sends files between devices on the same network with no account or cloud.

Takes meeting notes by combining what you typed with what was said.

Low-latency remote desktop good enough to actually work on.

Shares one keyboard and mouse across several computers.

Deploys frontend apps from a git push, with preview URLs per branch.

$20/mo on the ledger. Every RS and AG site deploys here.

DNS, CDN and edge compute, with a generous free tier.

Git hosting with pull requests, issues and CI.

$4/mo on the ledger.

Plain virtual machines and object storage without a large abstraction on top.

Two droplets on the ledger at $15/mo each. Runs the agents and the Spaces CDN.

Static and serverless hosting deployed from git.

Hosted Postgres with auth, storage and an auto-generated REST API.

Free-tier projects pause after a week of inactivity, which will look like an outage if you forget.

The database under the Axon platform, including this directory.

Serverless Postgres where you can branch the database like code.

Typed database client and migration tool generated from a schema file.

TypeScript query builder that stays close to SQL instead of hiding it.

Hosted vector database for retrieval over your own documents.

Connects apps with trigger-and-action rules and the widest integration catalogue.

$19.99/mo on the ledger, now inactive.

Visual automation with branching and loops that Zapier handles awkwardly.

Writes long-running background jobs as code, with retries and observability.

Node-based workflow automation that can be self-hosted.

$24/mo on the ledger, now inactive. Replaced by scheduled agents.

CRM built on a flexible data model rather than a fixed contact-and-deal schema.

$34/mo on the ledger. Runs the AG outreach pipeline.

Shares booking links against your real calendar availability.

$12/mo on the ledger.

Open-source scheduling that can be self-hosted and embedded.

Builds proposals and contracts with e-signature and tracking.

Email and SMS marketing with segmentation driven by behavioural events.

Separate accounts for RS and AG.

Transactional email API with React-based templates.

Sends everything transactional across RS and AG.

Email marketing with a visual automation builder and a light CRM.

$91/mo on the ledger at its peak, now inactive.

Schedules social posts with a visual planning calendar.

$30/mo on the ledger, now inactive.

Payments, invoicing and subscriptions with the best-documented API in the category.

Separate accounts for AG and Bshko.

Bookkeeping, expenses and tax reporting for small businesses.

$25/mo on the ledger.

Generates decks, docs and simple sites from a prompt or an outline.

Typesetting language for documents, with LaTeX-grade output and readable syntax.

Builds infographics, decks and reports from templates.

$29/mo on the ledger, now inactive.

Sells digital downloads and memberships with almost no setup.

Flat cut of every sale, no monthly fee — cheap at low volume, expensive once you scale.

Recurring membership platform for an audience that pays monthly.

Publishes a newsletter with a subscription list and paid tiers.

Cross-posts the RS blog. The site stays canonical.

Runs a paid community with courses and a gamified feed in one place.

$99/mo on the ledger for bshko, now inactive.

Sells access to communities, courses and software with payments built in.

Known now as much for clipping and affiliate campaigns as for course and community sales. Takes a cut of revenue rather than charging a subscription.

The largest general freelance marketplace, spanning every discipline and rate.

Volume is the whole proposition and the whole problem — the floor is very low, so positioning and a narrow niche matter more than a good profile.

Commission-free freelance platform aimed at independent design and marketing work.

Takes no cut of your rate, which is rare. Smaller demand pool than Upwork.

Screened talent network placing vetted freelancers into higher-rate engagements.

The screening is real and slow. Worth it for the rates if you clear it.

Startup job and contract board, formerly AngelList Talent.

Talent network that does not take a cut from the freelancer.

The client pays the fee, not you. Skews enterprise and engineering.

Design portfolio community with a hiring board attached.

The shot format rewards the pretty over the shipped, so treat it as a lead source rather than a standard.