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Best apps for graphic designers

List of the best apps

1.Adobe Illustrator Draw

with in-app purchases

Adobe Illustrator Draw allows users to draw elaborated illustrations and organize all your works with this official Adobe app. You will be able to add tons of layers, use a stylus, pencils, pens, and brushes and edit your creations and export them in many different file formats. 

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  • Ma Han

    by Ma Han

    I like this app for illustrating my designs. The many different mediums you can use to create you designs work really well and I love the way I can edit my mistakes or color changes right away. Exporting works well as long as you keep your files smal More

2.Paper

with in-app purchases

Paper is a free application for iOS devices that enables users to create checklists, spot details in pictures, and sketch diagrams. It also has an auto-correction feature for drawings and also has a 3D journal.

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  • by Magdalena Carranza

    Paper is pretty good. It indeed acts like paper; create whatever you want, including drawings. Handy.

3.DesignLab Studio

Free download
DesignLab allows you to produce the most attractive designs! This complete app provides you several graphics, images and fonts for making beautiful creations.

  • by Vibhore Singhal

    DesignLab Studio is a great design tool which allows you to create professional projects easily. Use the various tools, graphics and fonts to create s More

  • Juan Nguyen

    by Juan Nguyen

    DesignLab Studio is a quick and easy way to create proofs, but I wouldn't recommend it for serious work. It's certainly more powerful than most apps,  More

4.Animation Desk

with in-app purchases
Animation Desk is an animation app designed by Kdan Mobile Software Company. It's a great drawing application that helps us flesh out every creative idea into animated figures, animated movies and e-cards.
  • Afra Chen

    by Afra Chen

    Animation Desk is a good tools for sketching, story-boarding. It supports 46+ brushes and layers. As for the export formats, it supports video, JPG,and PSD. Animation Desk is a great tool for designers to present their ideas in different formats.< More

5.Fuzel Collage

with in-app purchases
Fuzel Collage lets you create easily amazing collages! With this free app, you can decorate your pictures, edit your photos by applying effects, and much more!


  • Website:http://www.fuzel.com

  • Age rating:4+

  • Category:Photo & Video,Entertainment

  • Publisher:Not A Basement Studio JSC

  • Size:92.40 MB

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  • by Bobby Sullivan

    This is a great designer app. It helps graphic designers explore their creativity and makes it easy to do so. I really love this app

6.PANTONE Studio

with in-app purchases

PANTONE Studio is a powerful app for designers. You can create your own palette, test colors, view harmonies and much more. The app, also, allows you pick a color from a photo. 

  • Jerry Shaw

    by Jerry Shaw

    If i was a designer, I would probably appreciate this App a lot more. Likewise if I had an iPhone and not an Android. It does look fun to play with though, and seems jam packed with features. For people that just want to play every now and then thoug More

7.Layers

Paid: $4.99

Layers is a drawing app helps you to create and paint awesome illustrations through your mobile device. The app allows you to insert up to five different layers in each file. 

  • Website:https://www.layerswp.com/
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  • Rodrigo Espinosa

    by Rodrigo Espinosa

    not sure about this one. it just says that you can build a website. don't use iphone so can't look more into it.

8.Adobe Comp CC

Free download

Adobe Comp CC is a useful app to lay out your ideas. You can use shapes, text, photos, and fonts. Every composition can be sent to other Adobe app in order to develop it. 

  • Website:http://www.adobe.com/go/comp

  • Age rating:4+

  • Category:Productivity,Photo & Video

  • Publisher:Adobe Systems, Inc.

  • Size:146.74 MB

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  • Gregory Wells

    by Gregory Wells

    I have really enjoyed my time with this app. As a graphic designer I have found it useful in helping me bring my ideas to life. The app has never cras More

  • Barbara Lewis

    by Barbara Lewis

    I think this is a really useful app for graphic designers. It is simple, powerful and easy to use.

9.Exify

Paid: $1.99

Exify is an advanced photo editor for iOS devices. You can take a color sampling from your photos, view RGB histogram, add a watermark and much more. 

  • Website:http://exify-app.com

  • Age rating:4+

  • Category:Photo & Video

  • Publisher:The Iconfactory

  • Size:8.34 MB

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  • by Paul Schneider

    This app helps you modify the underneath metadata of the photos that you take. You can add image descriptions to the EXIF, which helps with image clas More

  • by Virginia Adams

    I wanted to alter some photos, and find a tool to help with some novice graphic design. I decided to try Exify. I wasn't impressed. It loaded all the  More

10.Font Candy

with in-app purchases

Font Candy is a design app developed by Easy Tiger for iOS devices. With this app, you can edit your photos in order to add text and personalized titles. There are more than 80 different fonts. 

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  • Age rating:4+

  • Category:Photo & Video,Lifestyle

  • Publisher:Easy Tiger Apps, LLC.

  • Size:105.58 MB

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  • Dennis Stephens

    by Dennis Stephens

    Font Candy can help you make rather professional-looking projects and is a fairly popular choice for designers, from what I've seen. This version of the the app is a really great value, for what it offers. That said, customer service/support for the  More

11.Assembly

with in-app purchases

Assembly is a useful app to create stunning designs. With this app, you can produce professional graphics using basic shapes. There are more than 150 different shapes and more than 200 stickers. 

  • Website:http://assemblyapp.co

  • Age rating:4+

  • Category:Productivity,Entertainment

  • Publisher:Pixite LLC

  • Size:103.26 MB

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  • by Joseph Barnett

    When searching for the best apps for graphic designers, I was hoping for an app that was actually geared towards designers. Assembly is very elementar More

  • by Randy Webb

    If you need to create stickers, icons, scenes, and other graphics this app will work great for you. I have had a lot of fun using its building block s More

12.iDesign

Paid: $7.99

iDesign is a powerful app for iOS devices. You can make professional drawings, illustrations, and graphics quickly through your mobile device. The app allows you import SVG files and export to several formats (JPEG, PNG, PDF, and SVG). 

  • Ernesto Salinas

    by Ernesto Salinas

    iDesign is a powerful but easy to learn app that will let you create professional level designs and graphics. I have tinkered around with it to make s More

  • by Terry Coleman

    The link is to the mobile application iDesign by TouchAware Limited. iDesign is a full featured CAD program for the iOS platforms that allows users to More

13.FontBook

Paid: $0.99

This useful app provides you with over 600,000 different typeface samples! With this amazing tool, you can also share FontBook samples by using Twitter or Facebook.


  • Website:http://www.monotype.com

  • Age rating:4+

  • Category:Reference,Productivity

  • Publisher:Monotype GmbH

  • Size:55.98 MB

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  • Sun Su

    by Sun Su

    The FontBook Typeface Compendium (what a mouthful) is something I'm kind of torn on. It's a very, very good app for what it is. It's all about typefac More

  • Tang Hao

    by Tang Hao

    I've been a graphic designer for a long time and I've never seen such a comprehensive compendium. Also.. I just really love fonts. I also really liked More

14.DesignMantic

with in-app purchases
This app offers lots of logos for your business: just select the one you want from the market, customize it as you wish and download it to start using it.



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  • Age rating:4+

  • Category:Business,Utilities

  • Publisher:HUMMINGBIRD INTERNATIONAL LLC

  • Size:15.74 MB

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  • William Estrada

    by William Estrada

    Graphics design needs a fast and powerful computer to be done properly. This app is okay for coming up with a concept, but to actually create the design i would recommend using a PC

15.Milanote

Free download

Milanote is a software and app that lets you stay creative in organizing your ideas and projects. It is designed with visual boards where you can have all your projects in one place. It can also be shared with your team for collaboration.

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