Design & Collaboration tools
The design and collaboration tools developer teams work in, from Figma and Storybook to Slack, Linear, Jira, Notion, Miro and Excalidraw.
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Most used tools
- Rank 1
Figma10 users - Rank 2
Slack5 users - Rank 3
Jira4 users - Rank 4
Storybook4 users - Rank 5
Zoom3 users - Rank 6
Linear2 users - Rank 7
Notion2 users - Rank 8
Miro2 users - Rank 9
Todoist2 users - Rank 10
Google Meet2 users - Rank 11
v01 user - Rank 12
Excalidraw1 user - Rank 13
Adobe XD1 user - Rank 14
Whimsical1 user - Rank 15
Framer1 user - Rank 16
Obsidian1 user - Rank 17
Trello1 user - Rank 18
Airtable1 user - Rank 19
Stack Overflow for Teams1 user - Rank 20
Impeccable1 user 
Discord0 users
Confluence0 users
Loom0 users
Sketch0 users
Zeplin0 users
Raycast0 users
Asana0 users
Height0 users
Campsite0 users
Microsoft Teams0 users
ClickUp0 users
monday.com0 users
Inkscape0 users
GIMP0 users
Blender0 users
Draw.io0 users
shadcn/ui0 users- ddialkit0 users
BoardUI0 users
drafft-ink0 users
erd-editor0 users
Argilla0 users
Konnect0 users
Tinykit0 users
Docmost0 users
CharDesk0 users
Primer0 users
PhotoCraft0 users- TTaste Skill0 users
- llogo-design-skill0 users
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Tools that sit beside this category's top tools, ordered by how many of them list each one, and the pairs worth comparing side by side.
The biggest movement over the last year was in issue tracking. Jira is still the most used tracker, but its share of Stack Overflow survey respondents fell from 53% to 47% between 2024 and 2025, while Linear grew from 2.9% to 3.7%, a small number that has risen every year. Chat is shifting the same way more slowly: Slack went from 48% to 44% between the 2023 and 2024 surveys. Figma remains the design tool almost every product team shares with its developers, and lightweight whiteboards such as Excalidraw keep showing up in engineering stacks.
The list is ranked by how many Stackness members keep each tool in their stack, so it shows what developers themselves live in rather than what a company buys. The top ten carry a twelve-week trend line, the risers and fallers count additions and removals over the last 30 days, and the history charts add survey shares and Hacker News mentions with their sources linked. If your team is deciding between trackers, the Jira vs Linear comparison puts both on one page with their usage and trends.
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Each tool is scaled to its own peak, so the lines compare shape, not size: a higher line is not a bigger number. Sources cover different tools over different periods, so a gap is a stretch nobody measured and a tool this source never covered has no line at all. Data sources
- Figma - Hacker News mentions: 1 mention (2015) to 106 mentions (2026)
- Slack - Hacker News mentions: 1 mention (2007) to 372 mentions (2026)
- Jira - Hacker News mentions: 1 mention (2007) to 164 mentions (2026)