12 Free Productivity Tools Every Developer and Designer Should Know

1. Lorem Picsum

Lorem Picsum provides a free image placeholder service with a simple HTTP API for fetching random or sized images, useful for web and app development. The images are sourced from Unsplash and are free for personal and commercial use.

Website:

picsum.photos/

2. Remove.bg

Remove.bg is an online tool that automatically removes image backgrounds using AI and machine‑learning algorithms, returning a transparent PNG. It also offers an API for integration into applications.

Website:

www.remove.bg/

3. PPFmaker

PPFmaker lets users create personalized avatar images with a variety of templates, upload options, and editing tools such as cropping, rotation, brightness, and contrast adjustments. Results can be saved as PNG or JPG for use in social media or chat apps.

Website:

pfpmaker.com/

4. Compressor.io

Compressor.io is a free online image compression tool supporting JPEG, PNG, GIF, and SVG formats. It reduces file size while preserving visual quality, offering options for compression level, image dimensions, and color depth.

Website:

compressor.io/

5. CSSGradient

CSSGradient provides an interactive interface for creating custom CSS gradient backgrounds, supporting linear, radial, and repeating gradients with live preview. Users can adjust colors, angles, opacity, and generate ready‑to‑copy CSS code.

Website:

cssgradient.io/gradient-ba…

6. Logo Ipsum

Logo Ipsum is an online logo generator that lets users combine icons, fonts, colors, and custom text to design brand marks. Advanced options include icon sizing, positioning, font styling, and adding shadows or borders.

Website:

logoipsum.com/

7. Carbon

Carbon creates beautiful, customizable code screenshots. Users paste code, choose themes, fonts, colors, line numbers, background, and shadow settings, then download the image for blogs, social media, or presentations. It supports many programming languages.

Website:

carbon.now.sh/

8. Poet.so

Poet.so offers free code snippet screenshots similar to Carbon, with additional support for exporting the highlighted code as Markdown. It provides theme selection, font choices, and layout adjustments.

Website:

poet.so/

9. BrowserFrame

BrowserFrame lets users embed a webpage screenshot inside realistic browser frames for desktop, mobile, or tablet devices. Users input a URL, select frame style, and can adjust size, color, and styling of the frame.

Website:

browserframe.com/

10. Metatags.io

Metatags.io generates custom HTML meta tags for titles, descriptions, keywords, and images, with presets for major social platforms (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn). It includes a preview feature and tools for validation and QR‑code generation.

Website:

metatags.io/

11. Favicon.io

Favicon.io creates website favicons from text, images, or emojis, offering shape and size options. It also provides conversion to Apple Touch Icons and Android Chrome Icons.

Website:

favicon.io/

12. Unminify

Unminify restores compressed JavaScript, CSS, or HTML to a readable format. Users paste minified code, click “Unminify,” and can adjust indentation, remove comments, or format the output.

Website:

unminify.com/