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 [email protected].
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 |