Best Free Creative Tools for Designers and Artists
Free browser-based creative tools for designers, artists, and makers.
Adobe Color
Free color palette generator and harmony tool with extract-from-image functionality and an extensive community palette library.
Adobe Firefly
Adobe's AI image and design generator, trained on licensed content and integrated directly into Photoshop, Illustrator, and Express.
ambientCG
A large library of free CC0 PBR textures, HDRI lighting maps and 3D models for use in games, animation and visualisation.
Animista
An interactive CSS animation playground with a library of pre-built animations — entrance, exit, attention, text, and background effects — where you adjust parameters and copy the generated CSS.
Arcads
Generates UGC-style video ads using AI actors from a script — choose a persona, write the lines, and publish to TikTok or Meta.
Artbreeder
A collaborative AI tool for creating and evolving images by blending and modifying existing artworks through intuitive sliders and genetic-style mixing.
Bfxr
A browser-based generator for retro game sound effects: pick a preset like pickup, laser or explosion, tweak the sliders and export a sound file.
Blender
A completely free, open-source 3D creation suite — modeling, sculpting, animation, VFX, and rendering — used in professional film and game production.
Blobmaker
A free tool for generating organic, random SVG blob shapes, with controls for complexity and contrast, that you can copy or download.
Block Poster
Turn any photo into a large poster printed on A4 or Letter pages. Free, no signup, no watermark — posters are made right in your browser. Ready in seconds.
Canva
Browser-based graphic design platform with thousands of templates for social media, presentations, and print.
Cleanup.pictures
Browser-based AI image editor for removing objects, people, text, and small defects from photos using inpainting and retouching tools.
Color Hunt
A curated palette discovery platform with thousands of four-color palettes — browsable by trending, popular, recent, and seasonal themes — with one-click hex copy and palette download.
ComfyUI
A node-based visual interface for building custom Stable Diffusion image generation pipelines, with full control over every step of the process.
Coolors
Fast color scheme generator with export to every design format.
Cooltext
Free online text effect and logo generator with hundreds of styles and instant PNG download.
CSS Gradient
A visual CSS gradient editor with an intuitive color stop interface for linear, radial, and conic gradients — with the full CSS output and a library of community-submitted gradients to browse and remix.
Cubic Bezier
An interactive cubic bezier curve editor for crafting custom CSS animation timing functions — drag the control points, compare against built-in easings, and copy the resulting CSS cubic-bezier() value.
Cute Font Generator
Generate bubble text and circled letters with our free bubble text generator. Copy and paste bubble font styles for bios, posts and nicknames.
DaFont
A long-running archive of fonts submitted by designers, browsable by style such as script, gothic, fancy or bitmap.
Dungeon Scrawl
Browser-based tabletop RPG map maker for drawing dungeons, towns, and battlemaps quickly, with exports for print and virtual tabletops.
EraseNoise
Remove background noise from audio and video online. Upload an MP4 or MOV directly, hear a free 30-second preview, and get the same video back with the picture untouched.
fffuel
A collection of free browser-based SVG and CSS generators for patterns, gradients, blobs, noise textures, confetti, and mesh gradients — each a standalone tool with copy-ready output.
Figma Community
Free design resources, templates, and UI kits contributed by the Figma design community.
Flowbite
Open-source UI component library built on Tailwind CSS with over 600 components and templates.
Foldbook Art
A book-folding art service: it turns words, names or dates into step-by-step folding patterns for sculptures made from a real book. You can try it free, and the full assembly instructions are a paid product.
Fontjoy
AI-powered font pairing tool that generates harmonious font combinations with adjustable contrast.
Font Pair
A curated collection of Google Font pairings showing heading and body font combinations in realistic layouts — with filtering by style, mood, and font type, and direct links to use each pairing.
Fontshare
A free font delivery service from Indian Type Foundry offering high-quality, professionally designed fonts for commercial use — covering display, sans-serif, serif, and monospace styles.
Fontsource
Self-hosted npm packages for every Google Font, enabling privacy-respecting font delivery without external CDN requests.
Font Squirrel
A curated collection of free, commercially licensed fonts with a web font generator for converting fonts to all required web formats.
Framer
A browser-based web design tool that publishes directly to the web, with a design interface similar to Figma and no-code CMS capabilities.
Freepik
A massive library of free and premium vectors, stock photos, icons, and templates, now with AI image generation built in.
FreeSewing
Open-source platform that generates made-to-measure sewing patterns from custom measurements, design choices, and pattern adjustments for multiple garment types.
GIMP
Free, open-source raster image editor with layers, filters, and scripting support — the long-standing free alternative to Photoshop.
Google Fonts
A free library of over 1,500 open-source font families from Google, browsable and downloadable for use in any project with no licensing fees.
Haikei
A web app for generating layered SVG backgrounds, waves, blobs, gradients, and geometric patterns — with randomize and fine-tune controls and export to SVG or PNG.
Heroicons
Hand-crafted MIT-licensed SVG icons by the Tailwind CSS team, available in outline and solid variants — optimized for web interfaces.
Icons8
Library of 1.5 million icons in consistent design styles, plus photos, illustrations, and AI image generation tools — all in one place.
Ideogram
An AI image generation tool that excels at accurately rendering legible text within images — a capability most other image generators struggle with significantly.
jsfxr
An 8-bit sound effect generator that runs in the browser, with presets for coins, lasers, jumps and explosions, and WAV export.
Kapwing
A browser-based video editor for creating, editing, trimming, and adding subtitles to videos without installing software.
Kdenlive
Free, open-source, non-linear video editor with multi-track editing, effects, and color grading — a full alternative to Premiere Pro.
Kenney
A large collection of game assets in 2D sprites, 3D models, UI packs and audio, released under CC0 so they can be used for any project.
Krea.ai
Real-time AI image and video generation canvas with style training and enhancement tools.
Krita
Free, open-source digital painting software built specifically for illustrators and concept artists, with extensive brush customization.
Little Big Details
Curated collection of thoughtful micro-design decisions from real products.
Lottiefiles
Library of lightweight JSON-based animations that embed in web and mobile apps without video files.
Midjourney
One of the most widely used AI image generators, known for a distinctive, painterly aesthetic and strong prompt-to-image coherence.
Mixkit
A free library of high-quality stock video clips, music tracks, sound effects, and video templates, all available for commercial use without attribution.
MotionBgs
A library of free, high-quality live wallpapers and animated backgrounds for desktop and mobile devices, categorized by resolution and theme.
OpenGameArt
A community library of free 2D art, 3D models, music and sound effects for games, with every item listed under an open licence.
Openverse
Search over 800 million openly-licensed images and audio files free to use.
OpusClip
Takes a long video — podcast, webinar, stream VOD — and automatically cuts it into short clips formatted for TikTok, Reels, and Shorts.
Paper Animation
Turn an image or short phrase into a paper animation. Customize the style, preview your work, and export it as a video or GIF.
Penpot
Open-source design and prototyping platform for UI/UX teams — built on open web standards, no proprietary file formats or vendor lock-in.
Pexels
A free stock photo and video library with over 3 million high-quality assets, all licensed for commercial use with no attribution required.
Phosphor Icons
Flexible open-source icon family with 1,200+ icons in six weights — thin, light, regular, bold, fill, and duotone — for React, Vue, and SVG.
Photopea
Free browser-based image editor that opens PSD, Sketch, and XD files.
Photo to Sticker
Turn a photo into a free instant sticker, then create a 16-expression sticker pack for WhatsApp, Telegram, and Discord.
Piskel
A browser-based pixel art editor with frame-by-frame animation, layer support, and sprite sheet export — no install required.
Pitch
Collaborative presentation tool with designer-quality templates and real-time team editing.
Pixabay
A community-driven library of over 4 million free images, videos, audio tracks, and vector illustrations licensed for use without attribution.
PolyHaven
A public library of high-quality, 100% free 3D assets — HDRIs, textures, and models.
Puzzlify
Prepare a free puzzle-gift preview from your photo, then publish with one credit to share a private link.
Recraft
AI image generator that can output real, editable SVG vectors — not just raster images — exportable directly to Illustrator or Figma.
Rive
Interactive animation platform for creating state-machine-based animations for apps and games.
Scribble Maps
Draw and annotate custom maps with layers, routes, and location data.
Seamlessify
Seamlessify makes seamless, tileable patterns and textures for design and AI workflows.
Shape Divider
A tool for generating custom SVG section divider shapes — waves, tilts, arrows, curves, triangles, and more — with controls for height, direction, flip, and color, outputting ready-to-paste CSS and HTML.
Shots.so
Create beautiful mockups and social media screenshots instantly.
Sketchfab
A platform for publishing, sharing, and discovering 3D models — viewable in-browser without plugins and downloadable under various licenses.
Smartmockups
Drop a screenshot into realistic device and print mockups for free — no Photoshop needed to make a design look presentation-ready.
Spline
Browser-based 3D design tool for creating interactive 3D scenes embeddable in websites.
SpriteFrame
Turn a character image into an animated sprite sheet with AI. Or make one free from PNG frames or MP4 video. Preview, edit, and export PNG + JSON.
SVGOMG
A visual frontend for SVGO that optimizes SVG files in the browser — stripping metadata bloat and reducing file size with live preview.
Synthesia
Generates AI avatar videos from a text script — no camera, actor, or studio required — in over 140 languages.
The Noun Project
Library of over 5 million royalty-free icons and stock photos contributed by designers worldwide, covering even obscure concepts commercial sets miss.
Timeline Visualizer
Free, private Google Maps Timeline visualizer. Open location history JSON, replay your route, and export a travel video in the browser, no upload, no account.
tldraw
Collaborative infinite whiteboard with a clean interface and open developer SDK.
uiGradients
A hand-picked collection of colour gradients for web and app design, with one-click CSS to copy.
uiverse.io
A community library of open-source UI components — buttons, cards, loaders, toggles, checkboxes — all in pure CSS or Tailwind, with copy-paste code for each element and no JavaScript required.
unDraw
A growing set of open-source SVG illustrations that you can recolour to match your brand, free to use with no attribution.
Unsplash
High-resolution photography library with over 3 million photos free to use for commercial and personal projects.
Vectorizer.ai
AI-powered tool that converts raster images to clean SVG vector files in seconds.
Video Audio Remover by Video Text Remover AI
Remove audio from video online. Share recordings without private speech or prepare clips for new music. Free local download, no login or upload.
Webstudio
Open-source visual website builder that exports clean code — a self-hostable alternative to Webflow with no vendor lock-in.