Best Design Apps & Tools

See Saw is a gallery guide app for planning visits to contemporary art galleries in New York, Los Angeles, Berlin, London, and Paris. It provides current exhibition information, custom maps of galleri

Procreate Pocket is a full-featured digital art app for iPhone with hundreds of handmade brushes, an advanced layer system, and the Valkyrie graphics engine. Create expressive sketches, paintings, ill

Snapseed is a professional photo editor from Google offering 30+ pro-level tools and filters with no subscriptions, ads, or watermarks. It includes smart masking to isolate subjects with a single tap,

Canva is an all-in-one creative platform for graphic design, photo editing, and video creation. Design presentations, resumes, social media content, and more using thousands of professional templates.

Bolt.New is an AI-powered app builder that lets you create, run, edit, and publish applications and websites through conversational prompts. Chat with AI to describe what you want to build, and the pl

CleanShot X is a screenshot and screen recording tool for Mac that lets you capture your screen with professional-grade features. Take screenshots, record video, annotate captures, and organize your m

Affinity Publisher is professional page layout and design software for creating books, magazines, marketing materials, social media templates, and website mock-ups. The app combines images, graphics,

Affinity Photo is a professional photo editing software available on macOS, Windows, and iPad. It offers comprehensive image editing and retouching capabilities, multi-layered compositions, and raster

Affinity Designer is a vector graphics software for professional illustrators, web designers, game developers, and creatives. The app enables high-quality concept art, print projects, logos, icons, UI

Pinterest is a visual discovery and bookmarking app for finding and saving inspiration across fashion, recipes, DIY projects, and home design. Create boards to organize Pins, build collages, and explo

IKEA is a shopping app for discovering furniture and home products, visualizing them in your space, and managing purchases. Browse new product launches and personalized recommendations, save items to

Universe Website Builder is a no-code website creation platform that lets you design and publish a custom website in minutes from iPhone, iPad, or Mac. The drag-and-drop Grid Editor offers unlimited c

Pixelmator Pro is a professional image editing application designed for anyone to use. It provides a full suite of image editing tools for photo retouching, graphic design, and digital artwork creatio

Denim is a playlist cover maker that lets you create custom artwork for your playlists on Apple Music, Spotify, and YouTube Music. Pick a playlist, choose or upload artwork, edit and style it, then up

RealityScan Mobile is a free 3D scanning app that captures realistic 3D models using just your iPhone or iPad—no special hardware required. Point your device at any object or scene to generate a 3D sc

Photomator is a photo editing app for iPhone and iPad that combines AI-powered selection and enhancement tools with professional-grade color adjustments. It supports over 750 RAW image formats includi

Pixelmator Classic is a full-featured, layer-based image editor for iPhone and iPad that combines photo editing, digital painting, and graphic design. Create compositions with vector shapes, text, and

Pop Calendar is a calendar app that syncs with your iOS default calendar while adding customizable holiday highlighting and visual styling. The app lets you apply distinct colors to holiday calendars,

Figma is a mobile app for viewing, prototyping, and collaborating on design files from anywhere. Access Figma Design, Make, Slides, and FigJam files; comment and mention teammates; play full-screen pr

Play: Legacy App is an older iOS application for graphics and design work that is no longer supported as of 2024. The developer has released a replacement product suite called Play: Design Better Apps