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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.
React DevTools	Extension to add react developer tools to Google chrome.
REdux DevTools	Extension to add redux developer tools to Google chrome.
Vue.js DevTools	Extension to add VueJs developer tools to Google chrome.
Color Hunt	Color Hunt is a free and open platform for color inspiration with thousands of trendy hand-picked color palettes.
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.
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.
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.
Postwoman	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
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.
Fake Filler Chrome Extension	A Google Chrome extension that fills all input fields on a page with randomly generated fake data.
Web Developer Chrome Extension	A Google Chrome extension that adds a toolbar button to the browser with various web developer tools.
Google Tables	Tables helps teams easily track & automate tasks, enabling them to save time and work smarter.
Octotree Chrome Extension	Octotree is loaded with features that make GitHub code review and exploration awesome. Make your GitHub Dark-Mode.

Desktop Tools 🖥

Desktop Tool	Description
GNU Emacs	An extensible, customizable, free/libre text editor — and more.
VSCode	A rich text-editor by Microsoft to improve your workflow. (I love it <3)
VSCodium	Open Source Binaries of VSCode.
Sublime Text	A sophisticated text editor for code, markup and prose.
ATOM	A hackable text editor for the 21st Century.
Insomnia	Debug APIs like a human, not a robot.
Postman	Postman Simplifies API Development.
Zeit, Now	The Global Serverless Platform. (CLI)
Agent Ransack	Agent Ransack is a file search tool for finding files on your PC or network drives.
Fiddler	The web debugging proxy for any browser, system or platform.
Homebrew	The missing package manager for macOS (or Linux).
pgAdmin	A full-featured PostgreSQL install for MacOS.
iTerm2	A terminal emulator for macOS to replace Terminal.
Robo 3T	A GUI for editing and viewing MongoDB Data.
GitHub Desktop	A GUI for GitHub.
CodeLobster	It is a free as well as a convenient PHP IDE that is used to develop fully featured web applications.
Datagrip	Database IDE with mostly databases compatibility.
vim	Highly configurable text editor
ohmyzsh	A delightful, open source, community-driven framework for managing Zsh configuration
Tmux	A terminal multiplexer which allows multiple terminal sessions to be accessed simultaneously
Chocolatey	Software management automation for Windows that wraps installers, executables, zips, and scripts into compiled packages
Sourcetree	A Simple GIT UI for windows and mac
Notepad++	Text viewer in most languages, easier when you need to open faster code to check something.
Compare It!	Compare texts, indicating the differences. Practical, light and fast.
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...
Git Kraken	Legendary Git Client for windows, mac and linux. Really practical and robust.
Brackets	An open Source and Modern text editor for web design.
Termius	A modern cross-plataform SSH/SFTP Client.
Docker	Easily run local linux-based containers.
Docker Compose	Tool for defining and running multi-container Docker applications.
Indri	Tool for creating index and querying the index for any size dataset.
OWASP ZAP	Useful open-source proxy tool for developing with security in mind.
Toggl	A smart and usefull time tracker for teams containing helpful integrations like with Github for all plans.
Protege	Open source ontology editor and knowledge management system.
PyCharm	Integrated development environment (IDE) specifically for the Python language developed by JetBrains.
VirtualBox	An open source virtualization product developed by Oracle.
RealVNC	Tool to securely access remote desktop.
HTTPie	A command line HTTP client, similar to cURL, but with a nicer output and syntax.
Arduino	Text-editor tools for make any robot or IoT.
TablePlus	Database management made easy. Modern, native, and friendly GUI tool for relational databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite & more
Wakatime	Quantify your coding. Open source plugins for automatic programming metrics.
uPyCraft	IDE for programming Micropython in microntoller boards.
Mailspring	Powerful n' fancy cross-plataform mail client.
Carbonize	Generate gorgeous, highly customizable images from your code snippets. Ready to save or share. (macOS client for Carbon)
Appium	Appium is an open source test automation framework for use with native, hybrid and mobile web apps.
Cypress.io	Fast, easy and reliable testing for anything that runs in a browser.
ASCIinema	Record and share your terminal sessions, the right way.
Dash	API Documentation, Cheat sheets, Snippet manager with instant search everything for macOS
Burp Suite	Burp Suite is a leading range of cybersecurity tools, brought to you by PortSwigger.
Apache JMeter	The Apache JMeter™ application is open source software, a 100% pure Java application designed to load test functional behavior and measure performance.
Wireshark	Wireshark is an open source, network protocol analyzer.
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.
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.
ClickUp	All your work in one place: Tasks, docs, chat, goals, & more
IntelliJ IDEA	Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for JVM.
Android Studio	Android Studio is the official Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for Android app development, based on IntelliJ IDEA.
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.
WinsCP	WinSCP is a free and open-source SFTP, FTP, WebDAV, Amazon S3 and SCP client for Microsoft Windows.
Postbird	App to graphically manage your PostgreSQL BDs
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.
Typora	Typora is a great program for reading and writing MarkDown files.
Lens	Lens is the only IDE you’ll ever need to take control of your Kubernetes clusters. It's open source and free.
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.
Pexels	Pexels. Free stock images, photos and videos.
WSL2	Windows Subsystem for Linux allows you to run a Linux shell and run Linux commands on Windows 10.
Adobe XD	UI/UX design tool that is good for making wireframe model for mobile and web app
Expo	Mobile application development which can run JavaScript. Useful for React Native
GitHub CLI	GitHub CLI brings GitHub to your terminal. Free and open source.
Icon8	Icons8 allows designers to express their ideas giving the right design elements at the right time.
Principle	Principle makes it easy to design animated and interactive user interfaces.
Alfred	Alfred is a productivity application for macOS, which boosts your efficiency with hotkeys, keywords and text expansion.
Eclipse	The Eclipse IDE is famous for Java Integrated Development Environment (IDE)
yEd	yEd is a powerful desktop application that can be used to quickly and effectively generate high-quality diagrams.
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.