Inkscape Alternatives

Inkscape is described as 'Open source vector graphics editor supporting SVG with features like custom brushes, pressure sensitivity, and layer management across multiple platforms' and is a leading Vector Graphic app in the photos & graphics category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Inkscape for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Web-based, Mac, Linux and iPad apps. The best Inkscape alternative is Linearity Curve, which is free. Other great apps like Inkscape are Adobe Illustrator, Affinity, LibreOffice - Draw and Graphite.

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Inkscape 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 iPad, Android, Free, Online, Open Source, Mac and Linux. 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 Inkscape.
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  1. Autotracer is a free online image vectorizer. It can convert raster images like JPEGs, GIFs and PNGs to scalable vector graphics (EPS, SVG, AI and PDF). No registration or email required.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
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  2. SciDraw icon
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    Create publication-ready figures & data charts with AI. Illustration + Visualization in one platform. Trusted by 10,000+ researchers worldwide.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
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  3. Cenon icon
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    Graphical tool of a special kind. Build upon a modular graphics core, Cenon offers a wide variety of applications. The feature-rich Cenon core is open source software and at home on many computer platforms.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Linux
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  4. YouiDraw icon
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    Create stunning vector graphic design with YouiDraw drawing, logo maker and painter. It’s like Adobe Illustrator but it works on HTML5 canvas.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
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    Ipe is a drawing editor for creating figures in PDF or (encapsulated) Postscript format. It supports making small figures for inclusion into LaTeX-documents as well as making multi-page PDF presentations that can be shown on-line with Acrobat Reader.

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    • Mac
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  6. Hyvector icon
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    Your friendly vector editor.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
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  7. IDesign icon
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    Precision 2D vector drawing & design for the iPad and iPhone / iPod Touch.

    Make professional quality designs, illustrations and technical drawings on the move using your fingers at last! iDesign has unique features and offset controls which allows you to draw accurately with.

    11 IDesign alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • iPhone
    • iPad
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  8. 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.

    20 Xfig alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
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  9. AutoDraw icon
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    AutoDraw is an intuitive drawing tool for everyone. It's a Google Experiment project that provides relevant suggestions as you draw, based on what it guesses you're drawing.

    23 AutoDraw alternatives

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
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  10. Vectorize! is the perfect tool for quickly and easily converting any pixel graphic into a resolution-independent, scalable vector format.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
    • iPad
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  11. LaTeXDraw icon
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    LaTeXDraw is a graphical drawing editor for LaTeX. LaTeXDraw can be used to 1) generate PSTricks code; 2) directly create PDF or PS pictures. LaTeXDraw is developed in Java and thus runs on top of Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X.

    16 LaTeXDraw alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  12. diagrams icon
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    Diagrams is a powerful, flexible, declarative domain-specific language for creating vector graphics, using the Haskell programming language.

    21 diagrams alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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