15 open-source tools to elevate your software design workflow

• bruno

  55 18,935 9.9 JavaScript

  Opensource IDE For Exploring and Testing Api's (lightweight alternative to postman/insomnia)

  

In contrast to Postman, Bruno aims to be an offline-first API client which stores requests in a local folder. You can still collaborate using Git, but everything else happens on your machine. Bruno turns out to be a great solution when you just want to run HTTP requests. It supports a lot of features you might know from Postman or Insomnia (set environment variables, several authentication methods, and scripted tests, to name a few). Looking at the roadmap, the amount of these is only going to increase.

• dbgate

  27 4,290 8.0 Svelte

  Database manager for MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, MongoDB, SQLite and others. Runs under Windows, Linux, Mac or as web application

  

Link | Github | License

• SurveyJS

  surveyjs.io sponsored

  Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

  

• bencher

  11 379 9.9 MDX

  🐰 Bencher - Continuous Benchmarking

  

Link | Github | License

• clearflask

  4 254 9.3 TypeScript

  Listen to your users during product development with ClearFlask

  

Link | Demo | Github | License

• Claper

  9 369 8.1 Elixir

  The ultimate tool to interact with your audience

  

Link | Demo (free trial) | Github | License

• all-in-one

  192 4,088 9.9 PHP

  📦 The official Nextcloud installation method. Provides easy deployment and maintenance with most features included in this one Nextcloud instance.

  

Link | Demo | Github | License

• Newman

  241 6,718 7.5 JavaScript

  Newman is a command-line collection runner for Postman

  

In contrast to Postman, Bruno aims to be an offline-first API client which stores requests in a local folder. You can still collaborate using Git, but everything else happens on your machine. Bruno turns out to be a great solution when you just want to run HTTP requests. It supports a lot of features you might know from Postman or Insomnia (set environment variables, several authentication methods, and scripted tests, to name a few). Looking at the roadmap, the amount of these is only going to increase.

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com sponsored

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• ui

  10 569 7.2 TypeScript

  Open source wireframing tool written in typescript, react and redux. (by mydraft-cc)

  

Demo | Github | License

• BookStack

  312 13,833 9.6 PHP

  A platform to create documentation/wiki content built with PHP & Laravel

  

Link | Demo | Github | License

• server2

  1 0 6.8 TypeScript
  

It also supports collaboration over a server component, which I have not tested while writing this article.

• krita

  11 6,588 9.9 C++

  Krita is a free and open source cross-platform application that offers an end-to-end solution for creating digital art files from scratch built on the KDE and Qt frameworks.

  

Link | Download | Github | License

• vscodium

  535 23,621 9.5 Shell

  binary releases of VS Code without MS branding/telemetry/licensing

  

No matter what project you're developing on, at some point you'll give VSCode (or its open source version) a try. You can use it to develop in a dedicated dev-environment or debug integration scenarios.

• penpot

  223 27,234 10.0 Clojure

  Penpot: The open-source design tool for design and code collaboration

  

Link | Free Trial | Github | License

• Code-Server

  395 65,274 9.2 TypeScript

  VS Code in the browser

  

Install | Github | License

• Umami

  112 19,579 9.8 TypeScript

  Umami is a simple, fast, privacy-focused alternative to Google Analytics.

  

Link | Demo | Github | License

• coder

  37 6,854 10.0 Go

  Coder provisions software development environments via Terraform on Linux, macOS, Windows, X86, ARM, and of course, Kubernetes.

  

If you're looking for a collaboration tool, try Coder.

• Nextcloud

  607 25,563 10.0 PHP

  ☁️ Nextcloud server, a safe home for all your data

  

Link | Demo | Github | License

• forms

  7 302 9.7 JavaScript

  📝 Simple form & survey app for Nextcloud

  

Forms - Share and create online formulas and questionnaires

• dub

  34 16,148 10.0 TypeScript

  Open-source link management infrastructure.

  

Thank you so much for reading to the end. Of all the tools on this site, Penpot is my absolute favorite. Its modern UI and all the amazing tools at the cost of running a single docker command is a real catch! As a thank you, there's another tool I'd like to present. It's called Dub. It's a link-shortener tool with lots of advanced features for marketing teams and a perfect addition for Umami.

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

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