Tools that are free for your site
At Vivlab, we often reach for these little tools ourselves. So we put them all in one place, free for everyone. No sign-up, 100% in your browser.
Beautify a screenshot
Dress up your screenshots with a stylish background, padding, rounded corners and a drop shadow, then export as PNG.
Palette generator
Pull a balanced color palette from any image and copy the HEX codes in one click.
Image compressor
Shrink your images by converting them to WebP, right in your browser.
QR code generator
Create a custom QR code from a link or text, download it as PNG or SVG, no watermark.
VAT calculator
Convert an amount from excl. VAT to incl. VAT (and back), work out the VAT, and find every current rate.
Margin calculator
Set your selling price from your purchase cost and get your margin, markup rate and coefficient.
Legal notice generator
Generate the legal notice your site needs from a simple form, ready to copy and paste.
Map generator
Create the embed code for a Google Maps or OpenStreetMap map for your site, no API key required.
Color converter
Convert a color between HEX, RGB, HSL and HSV formats, with transparency support.
Invoice & quote
Generate a professional invoice or quote with VAT calculated, ready to export as PDF.
Video to GIF
Turn a video clip into an animated GIF, right in your browser.
Icon search
Search thousands of open source icons and download the SVG or copy the name.
Crop an image
Crop, rotate and resize your images with preset formats, then export them.
UTM generator
Build trackable campaign links (utm_source, medium, campaign) for your analytics.
Image converter
Convert your images between PNG, JPEG and WebP, or grab them as base64, all in the browser.
Favicon generator
Create your site's favicon from an image, an emoji or a letter, in several sizes.
Contrast checker
Check the contrast between two colors and how it stacks up against WCAG accessibility standards.
Word counter
Count words, characters, sentences and reading time for your text in real time.
Password
Generate a strong, random password with your choice of length and character types.
Lorem Ipsum
Generate placeholder text for your mockups: pick the number of paragraphs, ready to copy.
Terms of Sale generator
Generate Terms of Sale from a simple form, ready to tweak.
E-commerce metrics
Work out the conversion rate, average order value, ROAS and cost per order for your store.
Business card QR
Turn your contact details into a vCard QR code people can scan to add you in an instant.
Elsewhere on the web
Our toolbox
Over the years, we've gathered a list of free services we recommend all the time. They're not ours, but they're genuinely handy when you're building a site.
Royalty-free photos
Great free images to drop onto your pages, with no legal worries.
Unsplash ↗
A huge bank of high-resolution photos, free even for commercial use.
Pexels ↗
Royalty-free photos and videos, with a handy search-by-color feature.
Pixabay ↗
Free photos, illustrations and vectors, no attribution required.
Magdeleine ↗
A sharp pick of royalty-free photos, refreshed every day.
Artvee ↗
Thousands of public-domain artworks and vintage posters, free to download.
Gratisography ↗
Free photos with a quirky edge, for when the safe stock won't do.
Kaboompics ↗
Free lifestyle photos that come with each shot's color palette.
Nappy.co ↗
Free photos that put diversity front and center, still rare elsewhere.
Shopify Burst ↗
Shopify's free photo library, leaning toward products and online shops.
Editing & visuals
For prepping an image, cutting out a product or putting together a poster.
Photopea ↗
A full image editor right in your browser that even opens Photoshop files.
remove.bg ↗
Removes a photo's background in one click, perfect for product shots.
CapCut ↗
Edit your product or social videos with captions and transitions, for free and with no experience needed.
Canva ↗
Put together visuals, posts and slides from templates, with no design background.
Affinity ↗
A pro design suite, now free, that goes toe to toe with Adobe's apps.
Squoosh ↗
Compress and convert your images with no visible loss before you upload them.
Shots ↗
Wrap your screenshots in a polished frame in a few seconds.
HubSpot Signature Generator ↗
Create a clean email signature with logo and links, no code required.
Colors & typography
Find the palette and fonts that will set the tone for your site.
Coolors ↗
Generate harmonious palettes on the fly and lock in the shades you like.
Google Fonts ↗
Hundreds of free, fast-loading fonts, with a preview using your own text.
Realtime Colors ↗
Try a palette on a real site mockup before you commit.
Adobe Color ↗
Adobe's tool for building a palette from the color wheel or a photo.
ColorSpace ↗
Give it one color and get matching gradients and sets back.
Pigment ↗
Generate color scales by dialing light and saturation up or down.
Fontpair ↗
Proven Google font pairings for headings and body text.
Fonts Ninja ↗
A browser add-on that reveals the fonts spotted on any page.
Typewolf ↗
Strong typography in the wild to steer your own font choices.
Typespiration ↗
Font combinations shown inside real, finished layouts.
Icons & illustrations
Crisp icons and illustrations to warm up a page that feels a bit empty.
Iconify ↗
Over a hundred open-source icon collections gathered into a single search engine.
unDraw ↗
Free vector illustrations where you pick the main color.
Lucide ↗
A consistent, free family of line icons, great for buttons and menus.
Flaticon ↗
A vast icon bank in every style, downloadable as vectors.
LottieFiles ↗
Lightweight, ready-to-embed animations that bring a page to life.
Hero Patterns ↗
SVG background patterns whose color and opacity you set.
Mockups & whiteboards
Sketch an idea and prototype the flow before you touch the real screen.
SEO & performance
Measure what happens once your site is live, then adjust course.
Google Search Console ↗
Track your presence on Google: keywords, indexed pages and errors to fix.
PageSpeed Insights ↗
Analyzes how fast your pages load and gives you concrete ways to improve.
Google Trends ↗
Spot the topics and searches that are trending to guide your content.
Alyze ↗
A French on-page SEO audit that points out what's holding your ranking back.
Ubersuggest ↗
Find keywords and track your positions, with a few free searches a day.
Technical SEO ↗
Keep up with Google algorithm updates and their likely fallout.
Google Search Status ↗
Check in real time whether Google indexing and search are running normally.
Mozilla Observatory ↗
A security configuration test for your site, built for developers.
Analytics & social
Pull apart a site, a page or a social account and see things clearly.
BuiltWith ↗
Reveals the technologies, plugins and services running any website.
Social Blade ↗
Tracks public stats for YouTube channels and TikTok or Instagram accounts.
Engagement Instagram ↗
Estimates the engagement rate of an Instagram account and each of its posts.
Scribbr ↗
An AI-text detector, handy for a last read-through before you publish.
NotebookLM ↗
Google's tool that summarizes your documents and digs the buried answer back out.
Emailing & newsletters
Write to your customers and keep the thread alive after their visit.
Forms & bookings
Collect answers, or let your customers book a slot on their own.
Invoicing & payments
Invoice cleanly and get paid without losing the day to it.
Data & records
Keep your data in order, or track down an official record.
Day to day
A few free services that save you time away from the site.
DeepL ↗
Translations of rare quality, handy for proofreading a text before you publish.
Calendly ↗
Let your customers book a slot without the endless back-and-forth over email.
Notion ↗
Notes, page ideas and project tracking together in one free, flexible space.
Swello ↗
Schedule and track your social posts from one French-built dashboard.
Tawk.to ↗
Add live chat to your site and answer your visitors for free.
Want to go further?
These tools are brought to you by Vivlab, the French builder for websites and online stores. Create yours, no coding needed.