This is the list of premium tools and packages that help to work with Laravel (but not necessarily created for Laravel).
If you feel some tool is missing, email me povilas@laraveldaily.com.
Disclaimer: there are no affiliate links. I don't get paid for any recommendations/links, except for our own products when it is mentioned in the description.
Official Laravel Tools
By purchasing them, you support Laravel team directly.
| Tool | Description | Price (Nov 2022) |
|---|---|---|
| Laravel Forge | Server management: provision and deploy PHP applications on DigitalOcean, Linode, Vultr, Amazon, Hetzner and more. | from $12/month |
| Envoyer | Zero Downtime PHP Deployment. | from $10/month |
| Laravel Nova | Beautifully-designed administration panel for Laravel. | from $99/project |
| Laravel Spark | Complete recurring billing solution for Laravel. A starter-kit for your SaaS application. | from $99/project |
| Laravel Vapor | Laravel Vapor is a serverless deployment platform for Laravel, powered by AWS. | from $39/month |
Tools I've Used Myself
The ones that I can personally recommend, as their customer.
Notice: I'm also a happy customer of Forge, Envoyer and Spark from the list above :)
| Tool | Creator(s) | Description | Price (Nov 2022) |
|---|---|---|---|
| PhpStorm | JetBrains | The PHP IDE. Obvious one, I know, I wasn't sure whether to put it on the list. But so many people mentioned it on Twitter as happy customers, and I'm one of them. | from €9.90/month |
| Ray | Spatie | Ray is a desktop app that vastly improves your debugging experience. It is a dedicated window to send debugging information to. | €49 |
| Laravel Comments | Spatie | A beautiful Livewire component to associate comments with models in your Laravel application | from €49 |
| Tinkerwell | BeyondCode | The code runner for PHP | from €58 |
| Bugsnag | SmartBear | Monitor your application stability: manage bugs and exceptions from Laravel app. | free or from $59/month |
Other Tools People Recommend
The ones that I've heard good things about from multiple people, in no particular order.
| Tool | Creator(s) | Description | Price (Nov 2022) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Laravel Idea | Adel F | Plugin for PhpStorm. Code Generation, Eloquent Completion, Routing Completion, Request Fields Completion, Validation Rules Completion and other useful helpers. | from $3.9/month |
| Intelephense | Ben Mewburn | Plugin for IDE (people use it with VS Code) with a set of code intelligence features for a productive and rich PHP development experience. | €15 |
| HELO | BeyondCode | Painless local email testing for web developers. | €49 |
| Mailtrap | Railsware | Email Sandbox Service: Capture SMTP traffic from staging and dev environments | free or from $9.99/month |
| Sentry | Sentry | App monitoring platform for tracking bugs and exceptions. Alternative to Bugsnag. | free or from $26/month |
| Laravel Shift | Jason McCreary | Automated Laravel version upgrades and other auto-improvements for Laravel app code | from $5 (some free) |
| Expose | BeyondCode | Create public URLs for local sites through any firewall and VPN. Receive webhooks on your machine, test local sites on mobile devices or share them with others. | free or from $47/user/year |
| Media Library Pro | Spatie | UI elements for spatie/laravel-medialibrary, including React, Vue and Blade components | from €79 |
| Flare | Spatie | Flare is specifically built for Laravel error tracking. Alternative for Bugsnag or Sentry. | from €29/month |
| OhDear | Freek and Mattias | The all-in-one monitoring tool for your entire website. Downtime happens, certificates expire and links break. | from €15/month |
| Ploi | Dennis Smink | Deploy your next server in a few clicks. | free or from €8/month |
| HoneyBadger | HoneyBadger | Fix Laravel errors: uptime, cron, and heartbeat monitoring, status pages and incident management. | free or from $39/month |
| Enlightn | Paras and Miguel | Enlightn scans your Laravel app code to provide you actionable recommendations on improving its performance, security & more. | free or from $99/project |
| Inspector | Valerio Barbera | Simple code execution monitoring: identify bugs and bottlenecks in your server side code. | free or from $39/month |
Boilerplates / Starter Kits / Adminpanels / CMS
Separated them as their own sub-group, for clarity.
| Tool | Creator(s) | Description | Price (Nov 2022) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Backpack for Laravel | Cristian Tăbăcitu | Build and customize admin panels using Laravel. | free or from €69/project |
| QuickAdminPanel | LaravelDaily | Yes, this is our own product. Visually generate your next Laravel Admin panel. | from $14.99/month |
| Statamic | Jack and Mubashar | The developer & designer-first Laravel CMS. | free or from $259/project |
| Wave | DevDojo | Wave is the SaaS Starter Kit packed with authentication, subscriptions, invoices, announcements, user profiles, and more. | free or from $15/month |
| Invoker | BeyondCode | Desktop application to manage your Laravel projects: instant admin panel, email preview and PHP code runner. | free or from $15/month |
| SaaS Boilerplate | Archtech | Multi-tenant SaaS boilerplate from TenancyForLaravel. | from $199 |
UI Kits and Visual Components
Not specifically for Laravel, but often mentioned by the framework users.
| Tool | Creator(s) | Description | Price (Nov 2022) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tailwind UI | Adam Wathan | Beautifully designed, expertly crafted components and templates, built by the makers of Tailwind CSS. | from €249 |
| Livewire Kit | LaravelDaily | Yes, this is our own product. Laravel Livewire Components. Tailwind or Bootstrap. | $39 |
| Razor UI | Lars Klopstra | Modern looking UI kit for Tailwind CSS. | from $89 |
| Wire Elements Pro | Philo Hermans | Beautiful components crafted with Livewire: Modal, Insert, Slide-Over, Spotlight. | from €39 |
| Alpine UI Components | Caleb Porzio | Well-built, robust, Alpine components: Dropdown, Modal, Accordion, Carousel, Tabs, Notifications, Radio Group, Toggle, Tooltip. | $129 |