Exciting New Tools for Designers, October 2024

We’ve got goodies for designers, developers, SEO-ers, content managers, and those of you who wear multiple hats. And, of course, it wouldn’t be October without a Halloween themed font. Enjoy!

Feeedy

Feeedy is a notes app that offers the convenience of messaging apps with enhanced note-taking features.

RealMail

Email sign ups can go wrong for a number of reasons, like fake addresses and typos. RealMail provides email validation that is easily configurable and fast to implement.

Syncly

The Syncly platform could help you pinpoint and eliminate causes of customer dissatisfaction by using AI to analyze and categorize user feedback automatically.

Personno

If you need to do a lot of user testing but don’t have the budget, Personno will let you create AI respondents for fast results. It’s due to launch in Beta in the next couple of weeks.

FluidSEO

FluidSEO is an SEO plugin for Webflow. As well as the usual SEO help such as page audits, Fluid SEO can implement changes and suggestions for you, and run tasks in bulk.

bcons

bcons is a php console that is added to your browser devtools. Inspect variable values, errors, and warnings without wading through error logs and var dumps. It currently works with Chromium and mozilla browsers.

Airbounce

Airbounce aims to simplify using Zoom by turning your Mac’s caps lock key into a control switch. Press it to join or leave calls, and while on a call, use it to toggle mute. And as a bonus, the light will indicate whether you’re muted.

Done

There are a ton of task managers and to-do lists out there, but Done is one of the simplest. It has a very minimal UI which at the same time is intuitive and easy to use. It allows you to create task groups, set reminders, and push unfinished tasks to the next day.

Monster Madness

This fun, lettering font is clearly inspired by old monster movie posters. It comes in three variants, and includes Opentype ligatures.

PowerCharts

PowerCharts records your Mac’s battery health and performance and visualizes it in easy-to-read charts. Taking control of battery levels, consumption rates, maximum capacity, and level distribution over time may help you improve the battery life.

Clearspace

We all do it: turn to our phones for a quick break, then get hooked on social feeds or games. Clearspace prompts you to pause before opening your worst habit apps and take a few deep breaths. On the iPhone version, you can even set it to make you do some physical exercise first.

Cursor

Cursor is an AI code editor. Its autocomplete offers suggestions based on your most recent edits, and it will write code from natural language prompts. It can speed up development by taking over the grunt work, but you do still need to know code.

Magic Inspector

Magic Inspector’s AI lets you create, run, and schedule automated browser tests using natural language, without needing to be a developer.

Strapi 5.0

Strapi headless CMS has been around for a while now, and last week saw the launch of version 5.0, with a whole host of major improvements for developers and for content managers.

Tab Organizer

This Chrome extension groups tabs by domain, subdomain, or custom rules, to to help minimize browser clutter. You can set custom colors for each tab group, and sort by title or domain.

Paddi MacDonnell

Paddi MacDonnell is a designer and entrepreneur from Northern Ireland, follow her on Twitter.