Best Open Source Tools For Developers 🛠
Tags: productivity, tools, webdev, opensource
Published: 2018-08-22 13:45:21

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title: Best Open Source Tools For Developers 🛠
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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 🙀 

![](https://github.com/maxogden/screencat/raw/master/img/remote-control.gif)

🖥 ***Platform availability***: All Platforms
🔗 ***Github Link***: [Screencat](https://github.com/maxogden/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 💸 

![](https://i.imgur.com/wwGYH3k.png)

🖥 ***Platform availability***: All Platforms
🔗 ***Github Link***: [Manta](https://github.com/hql287/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 

![](https://i.imgur.com/FfUrlmI.jpg)

🖥 ***Platform availability***: All Platforms
🔗 ***Github Link***: [Brave](https://github.com/brave/browser-laptop)

Privacy and security should be everyone's top priority, and that's what I always talk about on [my blog](https://medium.com/@Sarthaksharma0) 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](https://medium.com/naturehub/the-only-apps-you-need-to-ensure-online-privacy-344d36afc45f)

### 4. Mark text 📝

![](https://github.com/marktext/marktext/raw/master/doc/dark.jpg)

🖥 ***Platform availability***: All Platforms
🔗 ***Github Link***: [Marktext](https://github.com/marktext/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 👾

![](https://github.com/onmyway133/IconGenerator/raw/master/Screenshots/gif.gif)

🖥 ***Platform availability***: Only MacOS
🔗 ***Github Link***: [IconGenerator](https://github.com/onmyway133/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 🌁

![](https://i.imgur.com/43FdX7A.png)

🖥 ***Platform availability***: All Platforms
🔗 ***Github Link***: [vmd](https://github.com/yoshuawuyts/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 😴

![](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/getinsomnia/insomnia/master/screenshots/main.png)

🖥 ***Platform availability***: All Platforms
🔗 ***Github Link***: [Insomnia](https://github.com/getinsomnia/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](https://twitter.com/sarthology).