Balsa UI
library · Vue + React + Tailwind
Vue and React components delivered as editable source, with swappable themes and palettes, built for AI agents to extend.
- Open source
- MIT
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The Toolshed
Kits, libraries and apps that make building feel lighter: interface components, motion and shaders, AI harnesses and MCP servers, video editors, messengers, small self-hosted services and the code behind math animation. Each one is an EXEPERT pick.
- Tools
- 43
- Categories
- 12
- Open source
- 39
43 tools
Interface Kits
Component systems and copy-in blocks that give a product a polished interface without starting from a blank file.
EXEPERT pick
Watermelon UI
collection · React + Tailwind + shadcn/ui
Free animated React components, blocks and dashboards for Tailwind and shadcn/ui, ready to copy or pull in with the shadcn CLI.
- Open source
- MIT
shadcn/ui
collection · React + Tailwind + Radix
Accessible components copied into a codebase as owned source, the open-code pattern a whole ecosystem of registries now builds on.
- Open source
- MIT
Magic UI
collection · React + Tailwind + Motion
Animated React and Tailwind components and effects aimed at design engineers, ideal for landing pages that need extra polish.
- Open source
- MIT
Icons & Motion
Icon sets, morphing glyphs, handwriting effects and animation libraries that add movement and character to an interface.
Tegaki
library · TypeScript (React, Vue, Svelte, Solid, Web Components)
Animates any font as if written by hand, stroke by stroke in natural order, with bindings for React, Vue, Svelte, Solid and Remotion.
- Open source
- MIT
Morphicons
library · TypeScript (React, Vue, Svelte, React Native, vanilla JS)
Tiny zero-dependency library that morphs any stroke icon into another with spring physics; works with Lucide, Tabler and Heroicons.
- Open source
- MIT
Transitions.dev
collection · CSS + React + agent skill
A curated library of 40+ polished UI transitions to paste into a web app or apply through a coding-agent skill.
- Closed source
- Custom
Motion
library · TypeScript (React, JavaScript)
Production-grade animation library for React and vanilla JS, covering gestures, layout transitions, springs and scroll effects.
- Open source
- MIT
Lucide
collection · SVG + TypeScript
Clean, consistent community icon set with a large library of stroke icons and packages for React, Vue, Svelte and more.
- Open source
- ISC
Tabler Icons
collection · SVG + webfont (React, Vue, Svelte)
Over 6,000 MIT-licensed stroke icons on a 24px grid, shipped as SVG, a webfont and components for the major frameworks.
- Open source
- MIT
Shaders & Creative Coding
GPU effects, 3D engines and sketching libraries for generative visuals and playful experiments in the browser.
Paper Shaders
library · WebGL2 (GLSL) + React
Zero-dependency canvas shaders such as mesh gradients, liquid metal and halftone, usable as React components or raw GLSL.
- Open source
- Apache-2.0
three.js
library · JavaScript + WebGL/WebGPU
The go-to JavaScript 3D library for WebGL and WebGPU, powering everything from product viewers and data art to browser games.
- Open source
- MIT
p5.js
library · JavaScript + Canvas/WebGL
Friendly creative-coding library from the Processing community for sketching interactive graphics, sound and generative art online.
- Open source
- LGPL-2.1
GPUI & Native Apps
Zed's GPU-driven Rust UI framework, the component kit built on it, and the Longbridge apps that ship with it.
GPUI
framework · Rust
Zed's GPU-accelerated Rust UI framework, mixing immediate and retained modes for desktop apps that need to feel instant.
- Open source
- Apache-2.0
- GPUI family
GPUI Kit
framework · Rust + GPUI
75+ styled Rust components on top of GPUI, with docking, data tables, charts, a code editor, WebAssembly builds and UI testing.
- Open source
- Apache-2.0
- GPUI family
Longbridge Terminal
app · Rust + ratatui
Rust CLI and full-screen TUI for Longbridge's trading API: live quotes, portfolio and orders, scriptable and ready for agent tool calls.
- Open source
- Apache-2.0
Longbridge Desktop
app · Rust + GPUI
Longbridge's commercial trading desktop app, built on GPUI Kit and a real-world proof that GPUI scales to production software.
- Closed source
- Proprietary
- GPUI family
AI Harness
Runtimes and desktop apps for running, fine-tuning and orchestrating language models and coding agents on local hardware.
AionUi
app · TypeScript + Electron + React
Free desktop cowork app that puts Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode and 20+ other CLI agents behind one GUI, with teams and automation.
- Open source
- Apache-2.0
Unsloth
app · Python + PyTorch (Triton kernels)
Fine-tune and run open models locally, which Unsloth says is about twice as fast on far less VRAM, now with a desktop app.
- Open source
- Apache-2.0 / AGPL-3.0
Ollama
app · Go + llama.cpp
Pull and run open-weight models locally with one command, then query each model through a simple REST API from apps and agents.
- Open source
- MIT
llama.cpp
library · C/C++
Lean C/C++ inference engine behind much of local AI: GGUF models, aggressive quantization and fast CPU and GPU backends.
- Open source
- MIT
Jan
app · Tauri (Rust + TypeScript)
Offline-first desktop chat app for local and cloud models, an open alternative to LM Studio with an OpenAI-compatible local server.
- Open source
- Apache-2.0
Hermes Agent
app · Python
Nous Research's self-improving agent that turns experience into reusable skills, remembers you across sessions and runs on any model.
- Open source
- MIT
ARTEMIS
app · Python + Android
Google's agent that turns natural-language instructions into Android automation and works with Claude Code, Codex and Antigravity.
- Open source
- Apache-2.0
URL Shorteners
Self-hostable link shorteners with analytics, custom domains and APIs that stay under the owner's control.
Sink
app · Nuxt + Cloudflare Workers
Serverless link shortener with click analytics that runs entirely on Cloudflare Workers, D1 and KV, keeping hosting costs near zero.
- Open source
- AGPL-3.0
Kutt
app · Node.js + Express
Self-hostable URL shortener with custom domains, password and expiry options, private stats and a REST API on SQLite, Postgres or MySQL.
- Open source
- MIT
Shlink
app · PHP + Docker
Self-hosted PHP URL shortener for custom domains, driven by a REST API and CLI, with visit stats and an optional web client.
- Open source
- MIT
Math & Video
Code-driven animation engines and scene libraries for explanatory math and technical videos.
Manim Community
library · Python + Cairo/OpenGL
Community-maintained Python engine for precise, programmatic math animations, with stable releases and thorough docs.
- Open source
- MIT
ManimGL
library · Python + OpenGL
3Blue1Brown's own branch of Manim, with an OpenGL renderer and interactive scene previews, used to make the channel's videos.
- Open source
- MIT
3Blue1Brown Videos
collection · Python + ManimGL
The ManimGL scene code behind 3Blue1Brown videos, a rich study guide for anyone animating math explanations.
- Closed source
- CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Motion Canvas
library · TypeScript + Canvas
TypeScript library plus live editor for building animated explainer videos in code, with generator functions driving the timeline.
- Open source
- MIT
Design, Diagrams & Docs
Open tools for sketching, diagramming, designing and typesetting, from whiteboard doodles to print-ready papers.
Penpot
app · Clojure/ClojureScript
Open-source, self-hostable design and prototyping platform built on open standards like SVG and CSS, shared by designers and devs.
- Open source
- MPL-2.0
Excalidraw
app · React + TypeScript
Hand-drawn style virtual whiteboard for quick diagrams and sketches, with live collaboration and an embeddable React component.
- Open source
- MIT
Mermaid
library · TypeScript
Turns Markdown-like text into flowcharts, sequence diagrams, Gantt charts and more, rendered right inside docs and READMEs.
- Open source
- MIT
Typst
app · Rust
Modern markup-based typesetting system written in Rust: LaTeX-grade documents with readable syntax and near-instant recompiles.
- Open source
- Apache-2.0
MCP Servers
Model Context Protocol servers that let AI agents drive creative apps such as ComfyUI and Blender from plain-language instructions.
ComfyUI MCP
service · Python + MCP
Comfy Org's MCP server that lets AI agents build and run ComfyUI image and video workflows on a local install, or on Comfy Cloud.
- Open source
- AGPL-3.0-or-later
Blender Lab MCP Server
service · Python + Blender 5.1+
Blender's official MCP server: a natural-language interface to Blender's Python API. It runs model-written code, so use a sandboxed machine.
- Open source
- GPL-3.0
BlenderMCP
service · Python + Blender add-on
Community plugin that connects Blender to Claude and other LLMs over MCP to model, light and texture scenes from prompts.
- Open source
- MIT
Video
Video editors and renderers, from a classic desktop timeline to HTML compositions that coding agents write and render.
OpenShot
app · Python + Qt + C++ (libopenshot)
Free, open-source desktop video editor for Linux, macOS and Windows, with unlimited tracks, keyframe animation and title templates.
- Open source
- GPL-3.0
HyperFrames
framework · TypeScript + Chrome + FFmpeg
HeyGen's framework for writing video as HTML and rendering it deterministically, with skills that let coding agents edit video.
- Open source
- Apache-2.0
Messenger
Open-source chat apps, from a full desktop messaging client to offline Bluetooth mesh chat with no accounts.
Telegram Desktop
app · C++ + Qt
The official open-source Telegram client for Windows, macOS and Linux, with chats, channels and calls synced from the cloud.
- Open source
- GPL-3.0
bitchat
app · Swift + Kotlin
Peer-to-peer chat over a Bluetooth mesh that works offline, with Nostr for global reach. No accounts, phone numbers or servers.
- Open source
- Unlicense
Neuro AI
Models that predict how the human brain responds to what we see, hear and read, for in-silico neuroscience.
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