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DevKit guides

Every developer tool that matters, explained honestly: what it is, what it is good at, what it is bad at, and who it is best for. These guides cover tools in the wider world — for DevKit's own calculators, converters and dev tools, see the DevTools guide. Checked Oct 2026; links verified before publishing.

Guides

10 categories, 89 tools. Pick a category to see every tool in it.

What is in each guide

Every tool gets the same treatment: a verdict, what it is, what it is good at, what it is bad at, who it is best for, its pricing, and links to the official site and docs.

LLM harnesses (16 tools) — LangChain, LangGraph, LlamaIndex, Haystack, DSPy, Semantic Kernel…

Code editors (11 tools) — VS Code, Cursor, Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf), Zed, Sublime Text, JetBrains IDEs…

Terminals (8 tools) — Ghostty, iTerm2, Windows Terminal, Alacritty, Kitty, Warp…

API clients (8 tools) — Postman, Insomnia, Bruno, HTTPie, Hoppscotch, Thunder Client…

Git clients (7 tools) — GitHub Desktop, GitKraken, Sourcetree, Fork, Tower, Sublime Merge…

Database tools (7 tools) — DBeaver, TablePlus, DataGrip, Beekeeper Studio, pgAdmin, DB Browser for SQLite…

Note-taking (8 tools) — Obsidian, Notion, Logseq, Joplin, Standard Notes, Anytype…

CI/CD (8 tools) — GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, CircleCI, Buildkite, Drone…

Container tools (8 tools) — Docker, Podman, Kubernetes, kind, minikube, Rancher Desktop…

Monitoring (8 tools) — Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog, Sentry, New Relic, Honeycomb…