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17 Killer Web Apps You Should Use to Increase Productivity πŸš€πŸ’―

Today speed is one of the main criteria to beat the competition. I handpicked some useful productivity apps, that might come in handy in your developer workflow.

These include anything you might need from working with images, animations, and fonts, to creating content for social media. Each tool will include a direct link, a description as well as an image preview.


1. Lorem Picsum

Lorem Picsum is a placeholder generator for pictures, with lots of customization options. Provide parameters for your images directly in the URLs.

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2. Remove.bg

Remove the background of any photo automatically. Just select your image and instantly download the resulting image with the background removed.

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3. PFPmaker

PFPMaker generates professional profile pics from any photo. It uses background removal AI, beautifies your photo, and generates dozens of profile pic variations automatically.

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4. Compressor.io

One of the most efficient image compressors out there with a modern-looking UI.

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5. CSSGradient

CSS Gradient makes it dead simple to create fresh web gradients. Includes a collection of tools to help you level up your gradient game.

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6. Neumorphism.io

Neumorphic shapes look incredible but are difficult to create. This generator makes it easy to create the shapes you’ve envisioned.

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7. Animista

Animista is a great tool for creating custom CSS animations with various effects. Once you created your animation, generate the code and integrate it into your project.

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8. FontJoy

Fontjoy finds interesting font pairings using the embedding layer of a neural net. Click a button and a unique pairing is served upon our minimal interface.

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9. Logo Ipsum

When in a rush to get a placeholder logo, feel free to use Logo Ipsum with tons of available choices and different logo designs fitting every need.

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10. Carbon

Create and share beautiful images of your source code. Another great alternative is ray.so.

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11. Poet.so

Capture and share Twitter posts as beautiful images. It makes sharing Twitter posts on other platforms more visual and attention-grabbing.

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12. BrowserFrame

Easily wrap screenshots in browser frames. Drag-drop support. Generate screenshot from URL. Customize padding, scaling, background color. Another great alternative is Screely.

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13. Box-shadow

Create modern-looking shadows. Edit their horizontal and vertical offsets, blur, and spread radiuses. Once you are done, generate the code and use it in your project.

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14. Readme.so

The editor allows you to quickly add and customize all the sections you need for your project's README.

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15. Metatags.io

A tool to debug and generate meta tag code for any website. Preview how your webpage will look on Google, Facebook, Twitter, and more.

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16. Favicon.io

Create a favicon in a few clicks from text, image, or emoji.

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17. Unminify

Free tool to unminify (unpack, deobfuscate) JavaScript, CSS, HTML, XML and JSON code, making it readable and pretty.

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Sh Raj β€’
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Madza β€’

Thanks a lot for the recommendation! πŸ™β€

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Elvis Sautet β€’

You dont know how i needed some of the mentioned tools here, thank you for this blog postπŸŽŠπŸŽŠπŸ‡°πŸ‡ͺ

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Madza β€’

Awesome to help πŸ’―πŸš€πŸ˜‰

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Andrew Baisden β€’

Super list!

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Madza β€’

Thanks a lot πŸ™β€

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juliarekamie β€’

Tnx!

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Madza β€’

My pleasure! πŸ™β€

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George Tudor β€’

I have a weakness for tools I think they're cool but I never end up using. I always bookmark them :D

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Madza β€’

Hopefully you found these useful πŸ™β€

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MBilal-khan β€’

This is such a cool list Madza! 😍 Thanks for sharing

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Madza β€’

My pleasure πŸ‘βœ¨

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Necmettin Begiter β€’

The title is very misleading. These are not productivity tools. They are one-shot tools that one will use for specific needs.

If somebody is using 17 productivity tools, they are not productive.

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Madza β€’ β€’ Edited

Thanks for the feedback πŸ™β€

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Dan Dascalescu β€’

Thanks for changing the title!

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Akhilesh Kumar Mishra β€’

This list is just fantabulous specially Animesta & Neumorphic Generator these was the tools i was searching for.
I would like to add one more useful webapp name ilovepdf.com that enables you to do lot of pdf realted stuffs easier at your fingertips just try it.

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Madza β€’

ilovepdf was in mind while I created this list... πŸ˜‰
i love the ui of it and use it often myself πŸ˜‰ πŸ‘

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Levende β€’

Woow !!

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Madza β€’

Hope you found them useful πŸ™β€

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Shifa Ur Rehman β€’

The new tool that Josh posted for shadows is SUPER FLY!
joshwcomeau.com/shadow-palette/

On the same note, his gradient tool is unrivaled as well.
joshwcomeau.com/gradient-generator/

I have nothing but respect for this dude :p

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Madza β€’

Josh is on top of the CSS game πŸŽ¨πŸ’―
I'm reading his blog and following his creation of courses πŸ˜‰πŸ‘