Illustrator Alternatives

Adobe Illustrator is described as 'Vector graphics editor with advanced color controls and creative effects for comprehensive design tools across print, web, and mobile content' and is a leading Vector Graphic app in the photos & graphics category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Adobe Illustrator for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Web-based, iPad and Linux apps. The best Adobe Illustrator alternative is Inkscape, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Adobe Illustrator are Affinity Designer, Linearity Curve, Figma and CorelDRAW Graphics Suite.

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Adobe Illustrator alternatives are mainly Vector Graphic Apps, but if you're looking for Graphic Design Tools or Image Editors you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Open Source, Mac, Android, Linux, Free, iPad and Online + Free. You can also filter by region, for example EU-based alternatives if you prefer software developed in the European Union. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to Adobe Illustrator.
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  1. Draw icon
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    Draw is a graphics painting app to draw, color, or edit pictures. You can use Draw like a digital sketchpad to make simple pictures, creative projects, or to add text and designs to other pictures, such as those taken with your digital camera.

    106 Draw alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  2. DragPotrace icon
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    A GUI for potrace using Objective-C for OS X 10.11.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • potrace
     
  3. Drama icon
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    A design tool to draw user interfaces, create interactive prototypes and make animations.

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
  4. monUnique icon
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    monUnique™ offers an iPhone App that allows users to easily create multiple designs from a photo. A user can click or select a photo and apply one or more design filters to the photo to create multiple Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) based designs.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • iPhone
     
  5. Creative Docs .NET is a vector-based graphic design tool with support for rich text, ideal to quickly write short documents, manuals, posters, illustrations, schemas, plans, flow charts, and much more.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  6. Inspire Pro icon
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    Inspire Pro delivers an incredibly fast and realistic painting, drawing and sketching experience that you can take with you wherever you go and use whenever inspiration strikes.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • iPhone
     
  7. Xfig icon
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    Xfig is an interactive drawing tool which runs under X Window System Version 11 Release 4 (X11R4) or later, on most UNIX-compatible platforms, and e.g. under Darwin on the MacIntosh and any X server under Microsoft Windows.

    21 Xfig alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  8. Swipe Draw icon
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    The program allows you to draw graphic shapes directly on a sheet of paper. The new way to create vector graphics, graphic shapes are drawn with his finger on a piece of paper they do not have to pre-select from a limited list.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
  9. The Easy Way To Animate.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  10. Blazing fast Free online image editor tool to adjust brightness, contrast, hue, saturation, gamma etc. Drop your image in tool and start editing using image filter controls. No signup and no restriction to use this tool.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  11. Biff icon
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    Biff is a Vector Graphics application. It's easy to create graphics for your Website, Poster, or anything else. Create Amazing Logos and App Icons with simplicity, without sacrificing powerful features like full path editing and boolean operations.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  12. MYPACKBRAIN icon
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    All-in-one solutions for Packaging Artworks Automation. Cloud-based integrated tools for: graphic design, translations and process management.

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
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