Best Design & Media Tools Apps in 2026

I made a screenshot beautifier

Design & Media Tools

I’ve always seen talented designers and developers post their work, only for it to get lost in the noise. I realized a major reason is that they often just post a simple, unstyled screenshot. As a result, nobody pays attention. My solution is a tool where you can drop in a screenshot, pick from a co

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Kapwing

Design & Media Tools

Online video editor and content creation platform

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Descript

Design & Media Tools

All-in-one video and podcast editing powered by AI

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Rive

Design & Media Tools

Behind Spotify Wrapped, Duolingo, and products reaching 2 billion users. Design, animate, and code in one place. Ship everywhere.

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Invideo

Design & Media Tools

Create & edit AI videos, AI Avatars, UGC product ads and much more!

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Submagic

Design & Media Tools

AI-powered short-form video captions and editing tool

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Web Audio Studio

Design & Media Tools

Hi HN, I’ve been working on a browser-based tool for exploring and debugging Web Audio API graphs. Web Audio Studio lets you write real Web Audio API code, run it, and see the runtime graph it produces as an interactive visual representation. Instead of mentally tracking connect() calls, you can ins

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Leonardo AI

Design & Media Tools

AI image and asset generation for creators

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Excalidraw

Design & Media Tools

Virtual whiteboard for sketching diagrams

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Fontofweb

Design & Media Tools

Hey HN, I've been working on fontofweb.com on and off for the past 4 years, and I'm keen to share it with you. It lets you type in the URL of any website and see exactly how the fonts are used: all the weights, line heights, and sizes. A big plus is that it doesn't require a Chrome ex

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I made PaneFlow

Design & Media Tools

PaneFlow is a modern tool designed to help developers and non-developers alike create stunning slideshows visually. With its intuitive interface, you can design and customize slideshows without writing a single line of code. The tool offers instant previews, seamless publishing to CDN, and the uniqu

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isometric.nyc

Design & Media Tools

Hey HN! I wanted to share something I built over the last few weeks: isometric.nyc is a massive isometric pixel art map of NYC, built with nano banana and coding agents. I didn't write a single line of code. Of course no-code doesn't mean no-engineering. This project took a lot more manual

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Captions

Design & Media Tools

AI-powered video editing with auto captions

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Motionity

Design & Media Tools

Create animated videos for free with Motionity, an open source motion graphics editor with keyframing, masking, filters, text animations, and more.

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Framer

Design & Media Tools

Ship sites with design precision and speed

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VEED

Design & Media Tools

Online video editing platform for creators and teams

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draw.io

Design & Media Tools

Diagram software for making flowcharts, process diagrams, org charts, UML, ER and network diagrams. )

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Collaborative design tool

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Printable Classics

Design & Media Tools

I created a site ( https://printableclassics.com ) that allows you to download classic books and customize things like the font size, page size, and the cover. As part of this, I wrote a software pipeline that takes epubs, html files, or pdfs and converts them into formatted books with cus

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Lottie

Design & Media Tools

Lightweight animations for web and mobile

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Penpot

Design & Media Tools

Open-source design and prototyping platform

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Immich

Design & Media Tools

Photo and video backup solution directly from your mobile phone.

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tldraw

Design & Media Tools

Infinite canvas for drawing and diagrams

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Ente

Design & Media Tools

An end-to-end encrypted photo-sharing platform (alternative to Google Photos, Apple Photos). )

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Clipchamp

Design & Media Tools

Create videos with royalty-free music and stock footage, use a pre-made video template, and export in up to 4K video resolution. Get started in-browser, download the Windows app, or create on the go with iOS app.

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Flyimg

Design & Media Tools

Resize and crop images on the fly. Get optimised images with MozJPEG, WebP or PNG using ImageMagick, with an efficient caching system.

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Lil digi

Design & Media Tools

I've been monitoring some of the image generation progress for game sprites for a while and was really impressed by Gemini Flash. This demo lets you upload a picture and turns it into an animated pixel character (a lil digi gif that you can download). I chain together the pixel art frames and i

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Slink

Design & Media Tools

Image sharing platform designed to give users complete control over their media sharing experience. )

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Spline

Design & Media Tools

Spline is a free 3D design software with real-time collaboration to create web interactive experiences in the browser. Easy 3d modeling, animation, textures, and more.

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