Our top choice of the perfect free graphic design software

Despite the fact that graphic design software is costly and some students or those who wanted to have theirs could not afford it. But that doesn’t mean that those who can’t afford to splash out on one-off payments or commit to subscriptions have to go without – there is some excellent free graphic design software out there with features to rival the big name packages.
And depending on what you’re trying to achieve, even if you’ve already shelled out for paid-for creative apps like Adobe’s Creative Cloud suite – which we highly recommend you get if you can – you may still find these free tools useful.
Here are our best free graphic design tools – divided into sections for creating vector art, editing images, creating data visualisations and other useful tools you might like – use the menu above to navigate to the section you want.

01. Gravit Designer

Gravit Designer is a full-featured vector design app suitable for all manner of jobs, from screen and icon designs through to presentations, illustration and animation.

With a clean and intuitive interface that adjusts itself as you need it, this free graphic design software packs a wealth of tools for creating detailed and beautiful vector imagery, including non-destructive booleans, a knife tool and path graphs, plus multiple fills and blending modes, and a powerful text engine.

It’ll export as PDF, SVG or bitmap, and if you need to access a project on the go, there’s the Gravit Cloud service that enables you to get to your work wherever you are.

02. Vectr

Available both as a browser-based web app and as a stand-alone desktop app, Vectr is a free editor for creating 2D vector graphics. With all the vector features you’d hope for, plus plenty of options for using filters, shadows and fonts, it’s versatile enough for day-to-day design tasks. Particularly useful are its live collaboration and synchronisation options, which enable you to hook up with anyone, anywhere, to create in tandem. This is a genuine alternative to Adobe Illustrator CC.

03. SVG-Edit

If you’re looking to quickly output SVG or edit an existing SVG file, there are a few online editors that will do the job just as well as Adobe Illustrator. SVP (scalable vector graphics) is an open format that allows you to reproduce your Vector drawings programmatically, and one of the nicest projects is SVG-Edit.

This is built entirely on HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript without requiring any server-side processing. So not only can you use it to create and edit documents, but as it’s open source you can also download and modify the code – making your own version if you want.

The standard – albeit basic – toolset of every vector-image editor is here, and although it’s limited to the SVG format, it’s surprisingly capable.

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