Are you as excited as I am? In my quest to find some of the best apps for you, I myself discovered some absolutely brilliant tools. The best thing is all the apps below are free and Open Source. Let's get started 🏃🏻♂️
1. Screencat 🙀
🖥 Platform availability: All Platforms
🔗 Github Link: Screencat
This next app makes screen sharing super easy. You can share your desktop with someone else while letting them share your mouse and keyboard remotely. It's built in electron.js.
2. Manta 💸
🖥 Platform availability: All Platforms
🔗 Github Link: Manta
The most frustrating part of any freelance gig is sending an invoice to the client. Searching a template online and then editing it in a word processor takes a lot of time and the result still looks ugly. Try Manta, a desktop application for creating invoices with beautiful and customizable templates. It will make the work hassle-free for you.
3. Brave Browser
🖥 Platform availability: All Platforms
🔗 Github Link: Brave
Privacy and security should be everyone's top priority, and that's what I always talk about on my blog also. A browser is the first thing on the list when it comes to changing apps for the sake of privacy. Google tracks a lot of your data from Google Chrome, even if you are using a VPN. Use Brave, it's free and Open Source. Check some other cool apps for online privacy here
4. Mark text 📝
🖥 Platform availability: All Platforms
🔗 Github Link: Marktext
Markdown is awesome and so are the markdown editors. There are many open source Markdown editors but Mark Text is the coolest I know. It has live preview which is one of my favorite features. Give it a try.
5. IconGenerator 👾
🖥 Platform availability: Only MacOS
🔗 Github Link: IconGenerator
If you have worked on Electron or made an iOS app, you know the pain of generating icons of various sizes. This nifty little app helps you do that very gracefully.
6. VMD 🌁
🖥 Platform availability: All Platforms
🔗 Github Link: vmd
A simple yet very handy tool. It gives you GitHub themed preview of any README.md file. Can easily be installed using npm. It has some other cool options also, check them out on their Github page.
7. Insomnia 😴
🖥 Platform availability: All Platforms
🔗 Github Link: Insomnia
Insomnia is a cross-platform REST client, built on top of Electron. It has various plugins that you can easily install with npm and increase its functionality.
Conclusion
This is all for now guys. Hope you enjoyed this article. I will post another article soon with more apps, so don't forget to follow.
Please share with your fellow developers if you like it👨🏻💻.
One more thing 😜. I'm planning to work on some cool Javascript Projects and if you are too, then let's collaborate guys. Tweet to me at @sarthology.
Latest comments (93)
Great list! I would add Cerbos, an open-source tool for handling authorization and permission management. It's a language-agnostic, scalable authorization solution that makes user permissions and authorization simple to implement and manage by writing context-aware access control policies.
It's useful for all the developers who build products and need to think about access controls (who can do what) inside their products.
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I don't know if you already updated this article (it's been a while) but also wanted to add MergeFreeze to your list!
mergefreeze.com
It's free for open source projects. Basically a Github app to block and schedule merging. If you've worked with dev teams, you know code merges can be a bit of a pain on weekends.
And I am in love with brave browser !!
Great list. 🤩 We have also prepared the list of Best Open Source Web Development Tools.
Thanks for sharing. It's really interesting
Here is another beautiful productivity tool, contains starters that help developers start new projects quickly and easily without having to worry about the setup.
quicksi-bot.now.sh/
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BTW... Screencat is available only for MACOS
Hey @Sarthak, nice list. Maybe you should consider adding Codever to your list - it's a bookmarks and snippets manager for developers. It's open-source and free. Maybe you can have a look. I'd love to hear your thoughts...