5 utility Figma plugins to speed up your workflow | Figma Blog (opens in new tab)

Figma highlights five utility plugins designed to eliminate repetitive design tasks and make workflows more efficient. They support responsive frame testing, component duplication, text manipulation, bulk replacement, and selection of similar layers. A keyboard shortcut tip further speeds up plugin access.

Viewports

• Resizes frames to common device dimensions.
• Requires constraints to be configured on elements beforehand.
• Displays estimated global market share for each device viewport.
• Future versions were expected to include desktop sizes.

Component Cloner

• Duplicates master components, selected instances, or both.
• Useful for testing variations such as icon colors and building icon sprites.
• Removes the manual work of recreating components and their instances.

Nisa Text Splitter

• Converts lines in a text box into separate text objects.
• Supports reordering, including alphabetical or reverse order.
• Can also merge multiple text boxes into one.

Find and Replace

• Finds and replaces text throughout a Figma document.
• Can also search and rename layers by name.
• Supports case sensitivity and matching anywhere, at the beginning, at the end, or across the entire string.
• Particularly useful for large copy or content revisions.

Similayer

• Selects layers based on chosen matching properties.
• Can match attributes such as fill, stroke, border radius, and drop shadow.
• Extends Figma’s native “Select all with same…” functionality while reducing repetitive clicks.

Faster Plugin Access

• Press ⌘ + / on Mac or Ctrl + / on Windows to search the menu and launch a plugin by name.
• Press ⌘ + ⌥ + P on Mac or Ctrl + Alt + P on Windows to run the previous plugin.

These plugins are practical additions for reducing repetitive work in Figma. Designers can adopt them immediately, while developers interested in creating similar tools can consult Figma’s Plugin API documentation.