Best design tools of 2026
73 products. Editors, plugins, handoff and everything around the canvas, hunted by designers who use them in a working week.
This shelf is for the designer who opens the same three apps every morning and wonders what else is out there. Every entry was hunted by a member who uses it, with a line on why.
Palette generator by hue, saturation and lightness, free and ad-free
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A native Mac app that turns research, moodboards and flows into a brief for AI agents
Design tools · hunted by Denis
Open source Photoshop rebuild in Rust that opens and saves layered PSD files
Design tools · hunted by Denis
Stack print, dither and glitch effects on an image and export it at 4K
Design tools · hunted by Denis
Shake a button, get an SVG shape you did not have to draw
Design tools · hunted by Denis
Type in space: 3D typography experiments in the browser
Design tools · hunted by Denis
Free WebGL fluid gradient editor with copyable shader code
Design tools · hunted by Denis
30+ tools for backgrounds, patterns, gradients and blobs
Design tools · hunted by Denis
User flow diagrams and design presentations for teams
Design tools · hunted by Denis
A drawing surface for quick sketches, free and in the browser
Design tools · hunted by Denis
Pinned comments, video and next steps inside any prototype, ready for your agent
Design tools · hunted by Denis
Find any Unicode character by name, codepoint or meaning and copy its HTML, CSS or JS
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High fidelity prototypes with real logic, sensors and hardware
Design tools · hunted by Denis
Small web tools for pattern, texture and dithering work
Design tools · hunted by Denis
Mesh gradient editor with control points and real-time preview
Design tools · hunted by Denis
Dithering, halftone, duotone and pixel effects in the browser
Design tools · hunted by Denis
A shader playground: dozens of named WebGL effects, every parameter on a slider
Design tools · hunted by Denis
An open-source design workspace driven by the coding agent you already run
Design tools · hunted by Denis
Moving gradients for Framer, Figma and React
Design tools · hunted by Denis
A playground for box shadows on web and React Native
Design tools · hunted by Denis