Free resources
Things that cost nothing and save hours: photos, icons, fonts, design tools and the extensions I keep installed.
Free stock photos and video
Photos and stock footage you can use commercially without paying or crediting anyone — as long as you read the licence.
Icons
Open-source icon sets with a consistent style, ready as SVG for a website or an app.
Illustrations
Illustration sets you can recolor to your brand, for empty states, landing pages and presentations.
Fonts
Open font families licensed for commercial use, including the ones that actually support Cyrillic.
Design tools
Design, edit and sketch in the browser — from full interface work to opening a PSD someone sent you.
- FigmaDesign websites and apps in the browser, free for personal projects.
- CoolorsGenerate color palettes with the space bar and lock the colors you like.
- PhotopeaA Photoshop-like editor in the browser that opens PSD files for free.
- ExcalidrawQuick hand-drawn style diagrams and wireframes, no account needed.
Browser extensions
A handful of extensions that pay for themselves on the first day: blocking, passwords, colors and a look under the hood of any site.
- uBlock Origin LiteLightweight ad and tracker blocker that makes pages load faster.
- BitwardenOpen-source password manager with a free plan that syncs across devices.
- WappalyzerShows which CMS, frameworks and analytics any website is built with.
- ColorZillaPick any color on a web page and copy its code.
- Detailed SEO ExtensionOne click shows a page’s title, headings, canonical, schema and links.
For website owners
The free services every site needs: search data from Google and Bing, a CDN, SSL and uptime monitoring.
- Google Search ConsoleSee the searches your site appears for, indexing problems and Core Web Vitals.
- Bing Webmaster ToolsSearch Console for Bing, which also feeds results to ChatGPT search and DuckDuckGo.
- CloudflareFree CDN, SSL, DNS and DDoS protection in front of any website.
- Let's EncryptFree, automatically renewed SSL certificates.
- Uptime KumaSelf-hosted monitor that alerts you when a website goes down.
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