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834 tools found

Penpot

Design & creative

Penpot is a browser-based interface design platform that brings vector drawing, reusable components, responsive layouts and interactive prototypes into a shared workspace for designers and developers building digital products.

Free & open source
Free self-hosted software; hosting, infrastructure and enterprise services are separate.

Pencil Project

Design & creative

Pencil Project is a desktop mockup tool for arranging interface screens and diagrams with reusable shapes. It helps teams explain navigation and layout decisions before committing to detailed visual design.

Free & open source
Local application; hardware, storage and any external content are supplied separately.

MyPaint

Design & creative

MyPaint is a focused digital painting application with an expansive canvas and a configurable brush system. It suits sketching and expressive illustration where tablet response and uncluttered drawing matter most.

Free & open source
Local application; hardware, storage and any external content are supplied separately.

Pinta

Design & creative

Pinta combines familiar painting tools with selections, adjustments and image effects in a compact desktop editor. It is useful for everyday image cleanup, annotated graphics and simple illustrations across major desktop systems.

Free & open source
Local application; hardware, storage and any external content are supplied separately.

Photopea

Design & creative

Photopea is a browser image editor for layered raster and vector work. Its familiar editing model helps users open complex design files, retouch photographs and prepare graphics without installing desktop software.

Free, ad-supported editor
Ad-supported browser editor; optional paid services and premium benefits are separate.

darktable

Design & creative

darktable is a raw photography editor and library manager with a non-destructive processing pipeline. It gives photographers detailed control over tone, color and image organization while retaining their original camera files.

Free & open source
Local application; hardware, storage and any external content are supplied separately.

RawTherapee

Design & creative

RawTherapee develops camera raw files with extensive controls for color, detail and image reconstruction. Its desktop workflow suits photographers who want fine adjustment and repeatable processing without altering original image data.

Free & open source
Local application; hardware, storage and any external content are supplied separately.

digiKam

Design & creative

digiKam organizes photo and video collections with albums, searchable metadata, face tagging and editing tools. It is suited to people who need to find and maintain a growing local media archive.

Free & open source
Local application; hardware, storage and any external content are supplied separately.

Hugin

Design & creative

Hugin combines overlapping photographs into panoramic images and other stitched compositions. It exposes alignment and projection controls for photographers who need more intervention than a camera or automatic phone panorama provides.

Free & open source
Local application; hardware, storage and any external content are supplied separately.

Scribus

Design & creative

Scribus is desktop publishing software for arranging text and images into brochures, magazines and other page-based documents. It gives print-oriented projects control over layout, color and PDF output.

Free & open source
Local application; hardware, storage and any external content are supplied separately.

FontForge

Design & creative

FontForge is a desktop font editor for drawing glyphs, adjusting spacing and generating font files. It gives type designers access to a detailed toolset for creating or repairing typefaces.

Free & open source
Local application; hardware, storage and any external content are supplied separately.

Birdfont

Design & creative

Birdfont provides a visual workspace for building glyphs and exporting fonts. Its editions distinguish open-source code from packaged binaries, with different permissions for free-font creation and commercially licensed font work.

Free source / limited binary
GPL source is free. The free binary is for SIL Open Font licensed fonts; commercial and Plus binaries are paid.

Glyphr Studio

Design & creative

Glyphr Studio is a browser-based font editor aimed at hobbyists and beginning type designers. It combines accessible vector drawing with reusable glyph components and export tools for turning lettering ideas into usable fonts.

Free & open source
Free browser application; users manage their own project files and rights to imported fonts.

Font Manager

Design & creative

Font Manager helps Linux desktop users inspect and organize typefaces without editing font configuration by hand. It provides a graphical approach to comparing fonts and controlling the collection available to other applications.

Free & open source
Free GPL application for Linux/GTK desktops; font files retain their own licenses.

Synfig Studio

Design & creative

Synfig Studio creates two-dimensional animation from vector and bitmap artwork. Its interpolation tools help animators build movement between key states, making it useful for motion graphics and cutout-style scenes.

Free & open source
Local application; hardware, storage and any external content are supplied separately.

OpenToonz

Design & creative

OpenToonz is a two-dimensional animation production application with drawing, timing and compositing tools. It supports workflows built around scanned artwork or digital drawing, including longer scenes that need structured production control.

Free & open source
Local application; hardware, storage and any external content are supplied separately.

Pencil2D

Design & creative

Pencil2D is a lightweight application for drawing two-dimensional animation with raster and vector tools. It suits animation practice and short sequences where a clear frame-based workflow is more important than extensive production machinery.

Free & open source
Local application; hardware, storage and any external content are supplied separately.

TupiTube

Design & creative

TupiTube Desk is a two-dimensional animation application designed to make drawing and motion accessible to children and teenagers. Its desktop workspace supports creating short animated projects and sharing the resulting work.

Free & open source
Local application; hardware, storage and any external content are supplied separately.
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