Design Tools Tools

Hand-drawn diagrams and cheat sheets you can type or describe. Write Client -> API -> DB, or ask the AI, and it's drawn and laid out. Six looks, from paper to blueprint to neon. Present as slides, embed in docs, export PNG, SVG or PDF. Free, no sign-up.

Explaining to cursor/claude code/codex UI changes: spacing is off, this card is too tall, that CTA is too loud, mobile looks weird.....is annoying. With EditUI you open your actual app/website in Chrome, click anything, leave a quick instruction, keep reviewing, then send the whole batch to Claude Code at once. No repo setup. Just a Chrome extension. Free and open source. No signup, no backend.

A free, open-source diagram canvas: MIT, local-first, no account, in your browser. One canvas, five ways in. Draw it. Write it as code, or paste Mermaid, D2 or Structurizr. Ask any of 10 AI providers, or a local model. Hand it to your coding agent: Claude Code edits the canvas you have open, live, over MCP. Or pull it from a GitHub repo, every arrow citing its file and line. The CLI checks drift in CI, so diagrams keep up with your code.

HarnessHive is the AI-native design ecosystem for wiring harness engineers. Schematic, layout, BOM and a to/scale formboard, all in one live document. With an AI assistant that helps you at every step.

Plan a remodel, an ADU or a whole house for free in your browser. Describe it and FloorGen AI builds it, every change an undo step. Then check it against the IRC, walk through it in 3D and print the plan set. Claude and ChatGPT can edit it too.

Maildun for Mac is an agentic email builder for macOS. Design by hand in the drag-and-drop editor, or connect Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini or Grok with your own API key: the assistant edits your design live, as a proposal you accept or reject. Turn on the built-in MCP server and Claude Code, Codex or Cursor can create and edit emails too. Plus workspaces per client, brand kits with shadcn-style component styles, saved sections, media on your own R2 or S3 bucket, and publishing to maildun.com.

Open-source, agent-first AI video editor for macOS and Windows. Describe the film — agents cut the timeline, add motion and sound, and review the render.

Most AI meeting tools capture what happened and send you notes. HeyPi follows the conversation in real time, remembers what was said across current and past meetings, privately surfaces key information when useful, and starts handling follow-up work across your tools before the meeting ends. Pi can also bring your boldest product and marketing ideas to life — landing pages, apps, social media content, ad campaigns and more live in the meeting. Less AI notes. More AI execution.

TractionWave evaluates ads and marketing visuals with AI attention prediction — a heatmap and ranked hotspots in seconds. Know it gets seen before the budget goes live.

A free, full-featured image editor that runs entirely in your browser. Layers, masks, blend modes, adjustment layers, smart objects, text and filters — with PSD import and export, and on-device AI selection. Nothing is uploaded; your files never leave your device.

A new way to work and create on Mac and Windows. Speak or type, and Aura turns your requests into interactive interfaces on your screen. Bring your files, explore ideas, compare options, and create finished work. Keep talking, and shape what you see.

Figma's agent lives right on the Design canvas and works with your real components, variables and team files, not flat images. Generate layout directions, bulk-edit across screens, turn comments into changes and build prototypes from a prompt. Pull context from Notion, Slack, GitHub and Linear via MCP, build your own plugins and shaders, and save repeatable workflows as skills your team runs with "/". Stay in flow from idea to review.

Nano Banana 2.1 is Google's latest image generation and editing model. Google says it outperforms earlier Nano Banana models across the board, with better visual design, mask based editing, stronger subject consistency and more natural looking images. It also improves text rendering and consistency across turns, with Search grounding at 1K, 2K and 4K. Try it in Google AI Studio or the Gemini app, or build with it in the Gemini API and Google Cloud.

Scumble is a free, open-source desktop editor for AI inpainting. Select part of a picture, say what belongs there, and the result lands as its own colour-matched layer. Runs on your own ComfyUI or your own API keys: FLUX 3, GPT Image, Nano Banana and more.

Appto is an iOS app factory for your Mac. It finds a niche where apps already make money, comes up with the app, designs and codes it, builds the App Store page with screenshots and ASO copy in every language, fills in App Store Connect and sends it to Apple when you say go. After launch it shows every sale live, answers reviews, tracks keywords and suggests fixes. It runs on your Claude Code or Codex plan, so there are no token bills. I'm not a developer and shipped 10 apps with it.

Turn complex systems into clear visual stories. Floani combines an AI diagram editor with motion graphics: animate connections, guide viewers through scenes, and present your ideas in one canvas. Create with the built-in AI or connect Claude, Codex, and Cursor via MCP. Import Mermaid, share interactive diagrams, embed them anywhere, or export MP4 and GIF. Start free; advanced sharing, exports, and MCP are available on paid plans.

EasyCut turns Claude-made motion videos into a fully editable timeline. Every title, scene, image, sound and element is kept on its own track, so you can select anything and ask Claude to change just that part without rebuilding the whole video. Adjust timing, add your brand, fit music to the edit, create smooth slow-mo, resize for different platforms and export when you're done. Free in your browser. Your files stay on your device.

Circle Panel is An End To End AI-native UX Research platform for Plan, Recruit, Analyze User research Studies

This new version of Reactive Resume brings resumes, matching cover letters, and job tracking into one redesigned workflow, while staying free, open source, and self-hostable. There's AI, there's detailed customisability, there's sharing and collaboration features, and so much more. Most of all, it has built trust in the past 6 years as _the_ resume builder to go to for many users.

Siteprint is a Safari extension for Mac that measures the design of any page: colours with their roles, type scale, spacing, corners and layout. Extract it as one exact prompt for Claude Code, Cursor or Codex. Runs on your Mac. $9.99 once.

A particle library for React. Explore 171 morphing shapes across AI, productivity, media, commerce, and navigation. Use ready-made components, customize their appearance and behavior, or create your own shapes in Studio. Built for interactive interfaces, animated states, loaders, controls, visual effects, and UI that can transform from one form into another.