Best Free & Open Source Design Tools
Category | License | Alternatives To | Links | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Design+1 | MIT | Mural, Miro | 130,345 | ||
Design+2 | GPL-3.0 | Fooocus, Stable Diffusion Webui, Invokeai | 129,558 | ||
Design+1 | Apache-2.0 | Lucidchart, Visio | 62,767 | ||
Design | MPL-2.0 | Figma | 59,087 | ||
Design+1 | Apache-2.0 | Kraken.io, JPEGmini, TinyPNG | 20,000 | ||
Design+1 | MIT | MJML, BEE Free, Chamaileon | 13,000 | ||
Design+1 | GPL-3.0 | Apple Aperture, Capture One, Adobe Lightroom | 9,500 | ||
Design+1 | GPL-3.0 | Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve | 8,500 | ||
Design+1 | GPL-2.0 | GarageBand, Ableton Live, FL Studio | 8,200 | ||
Design+1 | GPL-3.0 | Corel Painter, Adobe Photoshop, Clip Studio Paint | 6,800 | ||
Design+1 | GPL-3.0 | Concepts, GoodNotes, OneNote | 6,800 | ||
Design+1 | GPL-3.0 | Adobe Photoshop, Affinity Photo, Pixelmator | 6,500 |
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