Design Tools

A curated overview of design tools used across digital design disciplines. Explore key software categories covering visual design, branding, design systems, motion, production, and delivery.

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Design & Prototyping

Design System & Styleguides

Brand Management

Version Control

Image Optimization

Visual Design & Prototyping Tools

Figma

Powerful cloud based design tool to design, prototype and collaborate.

Sketch

All the tools you need for a truly collaborative design process.

Penpot

Open Source design and prototyping tool for Product teams.

Play

Native iOS design tool built for creating mobile products.

Uizard

An easy-to-use design and ideation tool - powered by AI.

Framer Design

A free design tool that brings your ideas to the web.

Visily

AI-powered design software for non-designers.

Moio

Create fully interactive prototypes without coding.

Mockplus

An online collaborative design tool ideal for quickly creating realistic, high-fidelity prototypes and animations.

Lunacy

Free design software that keeps your flow with AI tools and built-in graphics.

Modulz

Design in the target medium. Prototype with real components. Handoff production code.

Pixso

One-stop tool to prototype, design, program and deliver.

Design System & Styleguide Tools

Storybook

Open source tool for developing UI components in isolation.

Zeroheight

Document, deliver, measure, and manage your design system all in one place.

Stylebit

A central hub for design collaboration and styleguides.

Design Systems for Figma

Collection of open source design systems.

Design System Concierge

Ask anything about design systems and get pointed the right way.

Supernova

Design system platform straight from the future.

FigMayo

Create a fully featured documentation site from any Figma design system instantly.

Componly

Track our design system adopion.

Design Systems Surf

Best-in-class Design Systems with components and foundations references.

Tokens Studio

A completely new way to manage your design system.

Huevy

Instant colors, typescale, and spacing.

Superposition

Extract design tokens from websites and use them in code and in your design tool.

Scales

A design tokens starter set.

story.to.design

Generate and sync a full Figma library from Storybook.

Brand Management Platforms

Frontify

Simplify brand management with a platform that connects everything important to the growth of your brand.

Niice

Bring your guidelines, libraries, projects and people together in one brand hub.

Looka

Use Looka's AI-powered platform to design a logo and build a brand you love.

Corebook

An online brand guidelines platform for branding teams.

Lingo

Digital asset management built for brand growth.

Brandpad

Brand platform to standardize brand deliveries.

Brandfetch

The brand search engine.

Standards

An advanced tool to design and publish brand guidelines.

Ethos

Build, share, and grow your iconic brand with an AI-powered creative brand showroom.

brand.ai

A brand OS powered by AI for brand builders, agencies, and the Fortune 500.

Brandy

AI digital brand guidelines platform.

Sesame

A creative tool purpose-built for brand expression.

Vector Tools

Adobe Illustrator

The state of the art of illustration.

Affinity Vector

Advanced graphic design software that's free to use.

Corel Designer

Web-based vector app for design hobbyists and aspiring pros.

Linearity

Design and animation apps for illustrators, designers and creative professionals.

Vectormaker

Convert images into colored SVG vector files.

Amadine

Vector graphics software for Mac, iPad and iPhone.

Vectr

AI vector graphics editor.

Photo & Image Editing Tools

Photoshop

The ultimate image editing and design app.

Gimp

A free image editor for photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.

Photomator

A powerful yet easy-to-use photo editor for Mac, iPhone, and iPad.

Corel PHOTO-PAINT

Professional photo editing at your fingertips.

Aiarty

Image enhancement software powered by AI.

Affinity Photo Editing

Advanced photo editing tools.

Erase.bg

Remove background from images and download high-resolution images for free.

Magic Eraser

Remove unwanted things from images in seconds.

Depix

An AI-powered online image editing platform.

Watermark Remover

Remove watermarks from your images for free.

GoProd

Remove backgrounds and upscale images with a no-brainer desktop app.

MiNi PhotoEditor

Online webgl photo editor with effects, filters and cropping.

Desktop Publishing (DTP) & Layout Tools

InDesign

The next page in layout design.

QuarkXPress

Desktop publishing and page layout software.

Affinity Page Layout

Create complex docs, all in one seamless space.

Scribus

An open source DTP (Desktop Publishing) application for Linux.

Swift Publisher

Page layout and desktop publishing app for Mac.

Joomag

Digital publishing and content experience platform.

Motion & Animation Tools

Procreate Dreams

An all-new animation app packed with powerful tools that anyone can use.

After Effects

The industry-standard motion graphics and visual effects software.

Cavalry

Powerful 2D animation software for Mac and Windows.

Rive

Create and ship beautiful animations to any platform collaboratively.

LottieFiles

Create, manage and implement lightweight animations across websites, apps, presentations, social and more.

Flow

Design in Sketch, animate & hand-off code with Flow.

Jitter

A design tool for motion.

Haiku Animator

Create engaging animations for any app or website.

SVGator

SVG Animation Creator.

Figma To Video

Animate Figma designs and convert it to MP4 video.

Easings

Quick overview of all kinds of different easing functions easily visualized.

Spirit

Create high quality web animations directly in the browser. For designers and developers.

Float

Animate layers and present your art in a whole new dimension.

Moko

All your SVG's and Lottie animations easy to find and edit.

LottieLab

The motion design tool for product teams.

Artboard Studio

Design and animate like never before.

Motionity

Web-based motion graphics editor for everyone.

Linearity

Vector and motion design suite to animate your ideas.

Easing Wizard

CSS easing functions made easy.

Polygonjs

Node-based design and animation tool for the web.

Animejs

A fast and versatile JavaScript library to animate HTML.

FrameZero

Create motion in minutes. All in your browser, no sign-up.

Hana

A new canvas for interactive design.

Blockies Animate

Drop-in animations for modern devs.

FliiipBook

A simple gif animation app for the web.

3D Design Tools

Blender

Free and open 3D creation software.

Spline

A place to design and collaborate in 3D.

SketchUp

Turn creative ideas into buildable 3D models with intuitive, professional-grade design software.

Womp

Easiest, goopiest 3D software of your dreams.

AutoCAD

Design and drafting software trusted by millions.

Vectary

No-code, high-quality, real-time 3D experiences for the web.

Virtuall

Your 3D team’s AI-powered creative OS.

Endless Tools

An easy to use online tool for creating visual photo effects and 3D Designs.

Arcol

A design and documentation tool that helps AEC teams create better buildings, faster.

3ds Max

3D modeling and animation software to create immersive worlds and high-quality designs.

Animate Anything

Let AI rig & animate your 3D models in moments.

Cinema 4D

A professional 3D animation, modeling, simulation and rendering software solution.

Bezi

Design 3D apps and games faster than ever together.

Beautiful Things

Large collection of 3D objects for Apple Vision Pro.

Formia

Convert 2D vector graphics to 3D in seconds.

Vecto3d

Transform your vectors in a new dimension.

Chili3D

Web-based 3D CAD application.

Rendera AI

Redesign interiors with AI, in seconds.

Live Home 3D

Home and interior design software for all your devices.

Video Editing Tools & Software

Adobe Premiere Pro

Leading video editing software for creating incredible videos fast.

DaVinci Resolve

Professional video editing, color, effects and audio post production.

Final Cut Pro

Professional post-production and video editing.

CapCut Desktop

Experience the future of video editing with massive AI features.

VEGAS Pro

Video editing software for social content, ads or feature films.

Lightworks

From first edit to hollywood pro.

iMovie

Turn videos into movie magic.

InShot

Powerful all-in-one video editor with professional features.

Kdenlive

Free and open source video editor.

OpenShot

Free and open-source video editor.

Vyond

Create engaging videos without the long lead times, expense or even “producing”.

Peech

Automatically transcribe, edit, repurpose, and brand your video content.

Motionbox

Simple collaborative video editing for creatives.

Presentation Tools

Gamma

Effortless AI design for presentations, websites, and more.

Pitch

Uncompromisingly good presentation software. Purpose-built for teams.

Figma Slides

Presentation tool built for designers and their teams.

Ludos

Collaborative presentations for creative teams.

Journey

A presentation tool that people love to receive.

Overflow Stories

A presentation tool to create interactive, self-guided tours of your designs.

iA Presenter

Text-based interface that puts the story at the center of your presentation.

GlimmerAI

AI-powered presentation magic.

PageOn

An AI native visual communication tool.

Chronicle

A modern format of storytelling.

deckd

Create professional presentations that are always on brand.

Presenton

Open-source AI presentation generator.

Bento|Craft

Make Apple style bento graphics, exclusively for iPad and Apple Vision Pro.

Pi - Presentation Intelligence

AI-powered presentation generator.

FlashDocs

Generate and manage dynamic PowerPoints and Google Slides with an API.

Arcade

Build AI-powered interactive demos in minutes.

Ghost

An AI-native slide editor that helps you go from idea to deck in minutes.

Visual

Design agents for marketing teams.

VoxDeck

Next-gen AI presentation maker, that lets you ditch generic slides.

DeckSpeed

Create professional, personalized slides based on your conversations, without templates.

WorkPPT

Generate AI presentations in seconds.

Animant

A platform that uses AI to deliver immersive 3D presentations.

Design Handoff & Measurement Tools

Zeplin

Share, organize and collaborate on designs – built with developers in mind.

DesignQA

Fix UI bugs with AI in seconds. No dev handoff required.

Handoff Helpers

Free Figma component library to help communicate more effectively.

PixelSnap 2

The fastest tool for measuring anything on your screen.

Version Control & File Management

Bindr

Github for designers.

Kactus

Git based design version control without changing your tools.

Specify

Sync your Figma files with GitHub repositories in minutes.

Image Optimization Tools

Image Optim

A free app that makes images load faster and take less disk space, without sacrificing quality.

Tiny PNG

Compress WebP, PNG and JPEG images intelligently.

Optimole

Optimal image: storage, compression, delivery.

OptimizeImages

Convert & compress images up to 90%, webp & AVIF supported.

Upscale.media

Free AI tool to increase image resolution up to 4x.

Smart Upscaler

Enhance image resolution automatically with AI.

Palette

A vibrant AI colorizer app. Think instagram filters, but more intelligent.

JPEG Compress

Resize and optimize the images including GIFs, JPEG, PNG, JPG, SVG, and WEBP.

SlimImg

Compress JPG, PNG and WebP images locally in your browser.

SupaRes

A blazingly fast engine for automatic AI image enhancement.

Useful Design Helper Tools

Shortcuts.design

Every shortcut for designers, centralized and searchable.

SVG Gobbler

A browser extension that finds vector content to download.

Paper Sizes

A comprehensive resource listing all paper sizes, dimensions and formats.

Noise & Texture

Figma plugin to dynamically generate seamless tiled noise & textures.

SketchKeys

Accelerate your workflow with beautiful keyboard stickers.

Omatsuri

Open source browser tools for everyday use.

Screen Sizes

A complete guide for Apple displays.

Design Sidekick

Discover, save, and copy colors, fonts, and styles used on any web page.

UI Skeleton Gallery

A free customizable collection of SVG skeleton loader UI elements.

GuideGuide

Powerful grids and guides in your favorite design tools.

Jony Eye

A Figma plugin helping to make your designs flawless and eye-catching.

Bueno

No-Code Tools for NFT Creators.

tldraw

A tiny little drawing app.

Shaper

A generative UI design tool to explore numerous design variations.

Proportio

Create proportional scales for fonts, icons, spacing, and components.

Logoipsum

100+ logo placeholders in various styles & compositions.

Design Buddy

Ensure your designs are polished and stakeholder-ready every time.

SVGViewer

An online tool to view, edit and optimize SVGs.

Cursor

Copy macOS cursors with ease.

Token Master

Design token manager to edit styles and quickly create new color modes.

True Size

Discover the true size of digital and printable mediums.

World in Dots

Create vector dotted maps with custom options and download them as SVG or PNG files.

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