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September 1, 2026

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🟣 TOOOLS #23: Zoah, Book of Shapes, Beautiful UI, All In Frame, vgpu

Zoah makes the canvas the single source of truth for design and code. Plus Book of Shapes, Beautiful UI, All In Frame, and vgpu.

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Zoah, a platform where the canvas is the single source of truth for design and code

Berd, an open-source desktop app where every AI agent shows up as its own little character with its own task

🟣 TOOOLS #22: Berd, Morphicons, Watermelon UI, Tegaki, Balsa UI

August 25, 2026

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🟣 TOOOLS #21: Airship, Openmotion, Kitbitz, Muse, Gooey

August 18, 2026

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Capacity Desktop, a Mac app that builds web, mobile, and desktop apps from plain descriptions

🟣 TOOOLS #20: Capacity Desktop, Design / AI Workflows, ShaderPad, Dither it, Remix

August 11, 2026

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🟣 TOOOLS #19: Replit Design, Toolcraft, Modulify 2.0, Backyard Designers, ShieldFont

August 4, 2026

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🟣 TOOOLS #18: Ladybug, Canvas UI, Origin Kit, UI SFX, Datatype

July 28, 2026

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🟣 TOOOLS #17: Animos, Human Web Museum, Gradient Lab, Transitions.dev, Decoy Font

July 21, 2026

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🟣 TOOOLS #16: Melius, Fudge, Prototo, CSS Text Effects, Miora

July 14, 2026

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🟣 TOOOLS #15: Glaze, Taste Skill, Details, Tinkerfont, Astryx

July 7, 2026

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🟣 TOOOLS #14: Figma Motion, Product Design Psychology, prepros, GetCompress, Last Museum

June 30, 2026

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🟣 TOOOLS #13: Framer 3.0, Hiding Elephant, Ditther, Words of Type, Storied Colors

June 23, 2026

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🟣 TOOOLS #4: Claude Design, Typescale AI, Flint, LiveKit Agents UI, Fontastic Space

April 21, 2026

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🟣 TOOOLS #3: Luma Agents, Lunagraph, AI Interaction Atlas, Wiretext, Motn AI

April 14, 2026

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🟣 TOOOLS #2: Tinker, Variant, AI Designer, Viktor, FontCraft

April 7, 2026

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🟣 TOOOLS #1: Paper, Efecto, Tessera, Onlook, OpenPencil

March 31, 2026

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🟣 TOOOLS is back. Here's what's coming.

March 24, 2026

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🟣 TOOOLS #23: Zoah, Book of Shapes, Beautiful UI, All In Frame, vgpu

Read Now

🟣 TOOOLS #22: Berd, Morphicons, Watermelon UI, Tegaki, Balsa UI

🟣 TOOOLS #21: Airship, Openmotion, Kitbitz, Muse, Gooey

🟣 TOOOLS #20: Capacity Desktop, Design / AI Workflows, ShaderPad, Dither it, Remix

🟣 TOOOLS #19: Replit Design, Toolcraft, Modulify 2.0, Backyard Designers, ShieldFont

🟣 TOOOLS #18: Ladybug, Canvas UI, Origin Kit, UI SFX, Datatype

🟣 TOOOLS #17: Animos, Human Web Museum, Gradient Lab, Transitions.dev, Decoy Font

🟣 TOOOLS #16: Melius, Fudge, Prototo, CSS Text Effects, Miora

🟣 TOOOLS #15: Glaze, Taste Skill, Details, Tinkerfont, Astryx

🟣 TOOOLS #14: Figma Motion, Product Design Psychology, prepros, GetCompress, Last Museum

🟣 TOOOLS #13: Framer 3.0, Hiding Elephant, Ditther, Words of Type, Storied Colors

🟣 TOOOLS #12: Taste Lab, UI Skills, SHRTCTS, fonts.xyz, Airbrush Studio

🟣 TOOOLS #11: Brik, Uiverse Design, RadianceKit, Daily Designer, Lumen Tool

🟣 TOOOLS #10: Impeccable, SOOT Spiral, Shaders, Branda, blokdots

🟣 TOOOLS #9: Figma Agent, AI in Design, Motion, Meditations, Just a Design List

🟣 TOOOLS #8: MagicPath 2.0, Kirki, Nudges.fyi, theSVG, Tendem

🟣 TOOOLS #7: MiroMiro, Colir, Griddy Icons, Pomelli, Cognitive Bias Index

🟣 TOOOLS #6: Wonder, Figma Draw, TUIStudio, Bitgrain, Feather

🟣 TOOOLS #5: DESIGN.md, Pica, Smallbits, Reference Board, Graphite

🟣 TOOOLS #4: Claude Design, Typescale AI, Flint, LiveKit Agents UI, Fontastic Space

🟣 TOOOLS #3: Luma Agents, Lunagraph, AI Interaction Atlas, Wiretext, Motn AI

🟣 TOOOLS #2: Tinker, Variant, AI Designer, Viktor, FontCraft

🟣 TOOOLS #1: Paper, Efecto, Tessera, Onlook, OpenPencil

🟣 TOOOLS is back. Here's what's coming.

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