Adobe Fonts
Adobe Fonts is a subscription font service with thousands of professional typefaces. Seamlessly integrates with Adobe Creative Cloud…
Included with Creative Cloud
Freelancer
56 tools
Adobe Illustrator
The industry standard for vector work. If you're creating logos, icons, or illustrations professionally, Illustrator's power and stability…
$22.49/mo
Adobe Photoshop
Photoshop's dominance in photo editing and raster art is unmatched — the industry standard for retouching and compositing.
$22.49/mo
Affinity Designer
The best Adobe alternative for designers wanting to escape subscriptions — one-time purchase, full-featured, and constantly updated.
$79.99 one-time
Affinity Photo
Affinity Photo is a professional raster editor with non-destructive live filters, advanced retouching, HDR merging, focus stacking, and…
$79.99 one-time
Affinity Publisher
Affinity Publisher is a desktop publishing application for multi-page layouts, long documents, and print production. Its StudioLink feature…
$79.99 one-time
Behance
Behance is Adobe's portfolio platform for creatives. Showcase your work, discover projects from designers worldwide, and get featured…
Free
Bolt
In-browser AI development environment that scaffolds, runs, and deploys full applications from a prompt.
Free – $20/mo
Bubble
No-code platform for building genuinely complex web applications with databases and workflows.
Free – $349/mo
Calendly
Calendly is a scheduling tool that eliminates back-and-forth emails. Share your availability, let clients/teams book time, and meetings…
Free – $16/user/mo
Canva
Canva democratizes design. For quick social graphics and presentations without a learning curve, it's unbeatable — the free…
Free – $13/mo
Carrd
Dead-simple builder for one-page sites, landing pages, and personal profiles.
Free – $49/yr
Cinema 4D
Cinema 4D is 3D modeling and animation software widely used for motion graphics, character animation, and visual effects.…
$62 – $115/mo
Claude
An AI assistant strong at long-form reasoning, writing, code, and working through design problems conversationally.
Free – $20/mo
CorelDRAW
CorelDRAW is a vector graphics suite used for illustration, logo design, and print production. Offers extensive drawing tools,…
$269/yr or $549 one-time
Coursera
Course platform hosting professional certificates from Google, Adobe, Meta, and major universities.
Free audit – $59/mo
Cursor
An AI-first code editor built on VS Code that can read your whole codebase and write multi-file changes…
Free – $20/user/mo
Domestika
Creative course marketplace with a strong catalogue of illustration, branding, and craft courses.
$10 – $60 per course
Dribbble
Dribbble is a platform for designers to showcase portfolios and inspire each other. Browse design work, follow designers,…
Free – $8/mo
Dropbox
Dropbox is a cloud file storage and sync service with version history, file requests, and granular sharing controls.…
Free – $16.58/mo
Figma
Figma dominates digital product design. Its collaborative, browser-based nature and powerful prototyping make it the default choice for…
Free – $75/editor/mo
Figma FigJam
FigJam is Figma's collaborative whiteboarding space for brainstorming, ideation, and teamwork. Includes sticky notes, voting, templates, and real-time…
Free – $5/editor/mo
Framer
If your team values code-first design and interactive prototypes, Framer is unmatched — it bridges design and real…
$15 – $80/mo
Ghost
Open-source publishing platform with native newsletters, memberships, and paid subscriptions.
Free self-hosted – $25/mo
GIMP
GIMP is a free, open-source image editor offering photo retouching, illustration, and image manipulation. Powerful alternative to Photoshop…
Free
GitHub Copilot
AI pair programmer that autocompletes code inline across virtually every editor and language.
Free – $19/user/mo
Google Drive
Google Drive offers cloud storage, real-time collaboration on documents and spreadsheets, and easy sharing. Free 15GB storage with…
Free 15GB – $10/mo
Interaction Design Foundation
The largest online UX design school, offering industry-recognised course certificates for a flat membership.
$16 – $22/mo
KeyShot
The go-to for photorealistic product renders. Real-time interaction and beautiful results make it invaluable for presentations and marketing.
$595 – $1,495
Krea
Real-time AI image and video generation with live canvas editing and upscaling.
Free – $60/mo
Loom
Asynchronous video feedback is faster and clearer than text or synchronous calls — every design team should use…
Free – $12.50/mo
Lovable
Chat-based app builder that turns a plain-language description into a working full-stack web app with a database.
Free – $25/mo
Magic Patterns
AI product design tool that generates interactive React prototypes teams can test and iterate on.
Free – $30/mo
Midjourney
Midjourney is an AI image generation tool using text prompts to create original artwork. Used for concept exploration,…
$10 – $120/mo
Notion
Notion's versatility makes it invaluable for managing projects, inspiration, and team knowledge. The free tier is generous for…
Free – $10/mo
Penpot
The best open-source Figma alternative — fully featured, self-hostable, and completely free. Ideal for privacy-conscious teams and students.
Free
Radix UI
Unstyled, fully accessible React primitives for building your own component library.
Free
Recraft
AI generator built for designers, producing true vector output, icon sets, and brand-consistent styles.
Free – $48/mo
Relume
Library of over 1,000 Webflow and Figma sections, plus an AI site-structure generator.
Free – $48/mo
SaaSFrame
Library of real SaaS UI screens, landing pages, and email flows for reference and reuse.
Free – $99/yr
shadcn/ui
Copy-paste React components built on Radix and Tailwind that you own outright once added.
Free
Skillshare
Skillshare is an online learning platform with thousands of design, illustration, and creative classes. Learn from working professionals,…
$14 – $32/mo
Slack
The default team communication platform for modern creative teams — organizes conversation and integrates directly with design tools.
Free – $12.50/mo
Softr
Builds client portals, internal tools, and directories on top of Airtable or Google Sheets.
Free – $269/mo
Squarespace
All-in-one website builder with polished templates, hosting, commerce, and domains included.
$16 – $52/mo
Tailwind UI
Official component library from the Tailwind CSS team, with React, Vue, and HTML versions.
$299 one-time
Toggl
Toggl is a time tracking tool helping teams understand where time is spent. Track project time, analyze team…
Free – $9/user/mo
Udemy
Udemy offers thousands of design courses from instructors worldwide. Lifetime access to courses you purchase. Frequent sales make…
$12 – $200 per course
Uizard
AI design tool that turns text prompts, screenshots, or hand sketches into editable UI mockups.
Free – $49/user/mo
Untitled UI
The largest Figma UI kit and design system, with thousands of components and a React version.
Free – $349 one-time
Uxcel
Interactive, gamified UX courses and skill assessments that benchmark you against other designers.
Free – $17/mo
v0
Vercel's prompt-to-UI tool that generates React and Tailwind components you can paste straight into a project.
Free – $20/mo
Webflow
Webflow lets designers own the entire web creation process — design, build, and host without developer handoff.
$12 – $165/mo
WebStudio
Open-source visual builder that produces clean, standards-based sites with no vendor lock-in.
Free – $20/mo
Wix Studio
Wix's agency-focused builder with responsive CSS grid, a client dashboard, and reusable design systems.
Free – $59/mo
Xometry
Eliminates the manufacturing nightmare for product designers. Instant quotes and quality control make it invaluable for prototyping to…
Free platform (pay per part)