General tool list
Last modified on Wed 07 May 2025

The bitterness of poor quality remains long after the sweetness of meeting the schedule has been forgotten.

This article will enumerate some tools that might help you test in a particular way or become more productive in your everyday work. Don't think that you have to use all of them all the time. Tools should always help and never get in the way.

Testing stack

These are some of our dearest tools.

Some will be briefly mentioned below and others will be covered through other articles of this Handbook.

Use them according to the demands of your particular project.

Services

Appbot

The tool we use for collecting and monitoring user app reviews.

Check it out here.

Browserstack Live / App Live

We have a Browserstack license which enables you to test our mobile ("App Live") and web apps ("Live") remotely on real devices. Pretty cool, right?

Check it out here.

Browserstack Speedlab

For a quick frontend performance check, you can use the Browserstack Speedlab.

Crashlytics

Crashlytics is a part of Fabric and used for getting crash/error logs from mobile apps.

Google Analytics

One of the more important analytics tools we use on some projects.

Google Firebase

Another analytics tool that is so much more. Google started integrating Fabric tools into Firebase after buying the company so you will see Crashlytics there as well.

Google Dev Console & iTunes Connect

Both are dev dashboards for their respective platforms.

See what they are all about in this blog post by Vanja.

If you need access, talk to your team lead.

Invision

A web interface for browsing design files and prototypes.

Zeplin

A web interface for browsing designs made in Sketch.

Chrome tools and extensions

Bug Magnet

Bug Magnet is a Google Chrome extension.

Just right-click on any editable item on the page and insert lorems, names, numbers, currencies, payment cards, etc. Check boundaries and edge cases for exploratory testing.

Chrome Dev Tools

The best thing since sliced bread. Read a short tutorial in our own Handbook.

You can use it to catch errors, measure response times, inspect elements, simulate a mobile device, and much more.

ChroPath

A Google Chrome extension that will help you locate web elements when doing UI automation.

Clear Sessions

A Google Chrome extension that will clear all session/cookie data for a particular web page.

JSONView

A Google Chrome extension that will prettify your JSONs when viewing them in Chrome.

Markdown Viewer

Helps you view Markdown files in Chrome.

Screencastify

An extension for easily creating tab screencasts in Google Chrome.

Android and iOS tools

Android File Transfer

Used for transferring files between an Android phone and a macOS system. Get it here.

Android Debug Bridge (adb)

Used for communicating with your Android device via the terminal.

Chuck and Loggie

Both are useful for inspecting network traffic. If the apps you are testing do not include them, talk to your developers.

FakeGPS and Lockito (Android)

Tools for mocking your GPS location.

Google Authenticator

For keeping your 2FA credentials.

Instruments (iOS)

Tools for inspecting the performance of your app (and much more). Requires XCode.

Inware and Introspect (Android)

Find all information about your Android device.

logcat and pidcat (Android)

Both are used for examining Android's device log. Pidcat is just a fancier logcat developed by Saint Jake Wharton.

In order to use it, you will have to install the Android SDK.

You can get pidcat here. Find more info on using pidcat in our own Handbook.

Use pidcat on debug builds in order to get fetch stack traces and network traffic, among other things.

Nexus Root Toolkit

Used for changing ROMs on Nexus devices.

Scrcpy

Use scrcpy for easy Android screencasting.

Shortcuts app (iOS)

For creating and executing scripts on your iOS device.

Stetho

Stetho is used for examining network traffic, layout, etc. in Android apps via Chrome.

To use it:

You have to ask developers to add it to the app.

Tunnelbear or UrbanVPN

For connecting to VPNs in various countries. Our account password for Tunnelbear is in 1password. UrbanVPN is free so feel free to sign up (follow this link for more info about this awesome VPN).

Other tools

1Password

A password manager where we keep credentials for all shared accounts.

Adobe color wheel

Complementary color palettes.

AirDroid

Manage your Android phone/tablet from a web browser without using a cable here.

Alfred

An advanced "Spotlight" for quickly executing certain actions.

Bash

Command language and shell. See this dev.to tutorial.

Bensound

Free stock music here.

Blind text generator

Dummy text generator here.

Dr. Link Check is a tool that finds links in HTML documents and CSS files. For finding broken and malicious links.

Canva

Designing photo/video/presentation editor.

Charles

A proxy app used for examining network traffic between your device and a server by staging a man-in-the-middle attack.

Color picker

Just write "color picker" in Google, and the modal will pop up in the search results. It is used for picking colors and getting color codes.

Coolors

Create the perfect palette or get inspired by thousands of beautiful color schemes.

Copyclip

For accessing your clipboard history.

DaVinci Resolve

Free video editor

DeviceAtlas

Web usage of a device model by country here.

Diffchecker

Compare text to find the difference between two text files here.

Editing text on the web

By using the following steps, the text on the web page becomes editable and you can see how it would look if something else was written in the fields:

- Right-click and select "Inspect"
- Go to "Console"
- Write: document.designMode='on'

File examples

Different file samples (music, videos, pdfs, images,...) here.

Google fonts

Free font download.

Google Keep / Simplenote

For taking notes.

IDEs and Text editors

IconSVG

Quick customizable icons for your projects.

I love img

Every tool you could want to edit images in bulk.

Image colour picker

Similar to colour picker, but you can upload your image and find out the cooler used in it here.

JSONLint

Validator and reformatter for JSON here.

Jumpcut

Stores all that you have copied or cut in the past, allowing you to quickly find that snippet of text you've been looking for here.

MacDown

For quickly viewing and editing Markdown files.

OIB generator

OIB (Croatian personal identification number) generator.

Phrase express

Text expander software, that manages frequently used text templates for insertion into any program.

Pexel

Free stock photos and videos here.

PhraseExpress

For pasting templates by entering a simple piece of text. E.g. enter "bugtemplate" and get an entire bug report template that will replace that entered string so you never have to type out the entire thing again.

Pixlr

Online photoshop.

Proxyman

It's like Charles, but a bit more fancy.

RemoveBG

Remove image background here.

ResponsivelyApp

For parallel testing on several physical devices.

Screen to gif

Screen, webcam, and sketchboard recorder with an integrated editor.

Send Anywhere

For sending files between mobile and desktop devices.

Skitch / Monosnap

For taking screenshots.

Spectacle

For managing your windows.

Temp mail

Temporary email generator.

Todoist

For managing your own tasks.

Unsplash

Free stock photos here.

Youtube videos

Download different YT videos or playlists by using YT-DLP tool.

This can come in handy when you need to quickly get videos with e.g. specific size, lenght or a format.

Testing quadrant

For more on tools and testing and to not make this whole article just another dead list, read up on agile testing quadrants.

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