Free 2D Design Tools
EDITOR'S CHOICE: PhotoshopOnlineFree.com - A free online tool that doesn't require any software download.
Gimp.org (Pixel editor)- GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It works on many operating systems, in many languages.
Inkscape.org (SVG editor)- Inkscape is a professional vector graphics editor for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. It's free and open source.
Paint.net (Pixel editor) - Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software for PCs that run Windows. It features an intuitive and innovative user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. An active and growing online community provides friendly help, tutorials, and plugins.
Pixelformer (Pixel editor) - Pixelformer is a bitmap editor, specifically optimized for creating, modifying, and converting small and medium-sized images, such as icons, buttons, web graphics, sprites, etc.
Pixelformer is faster, smaller, easier, more precise, and often more efficient than large bitmap editing tools; at the same time it is more powerful and less limited than classic simple icon editors.
Tiled - Your free, easy to use and flexible tile map editor.
Booty5 - Powerful Flash style HTML5 game editor
Paid 2D Design Tools
- Adobe Photoshop
- Sketchbook Pro
- GraphicsGale - (shareware version available)
- Pixelmator - (OS X only)
Free 3D Design Tools
Blender 3D - Blender is a free and open source 3D animation suite. It supports the entirety of the 3D pipeline—modeling, rigging, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing and motion tracking, even video editing and game creation. Advanced users employ Blender’s API for Python scripting to customize the application and write specialized tools; often these are included in Blender’s future releases. Blender is well suited to individuals and small studios who benefit from its unified pipeline and responsive development process. Examples from many Blender-based projects are available in the showcase.
Paid 3D Design Tools
Knowledge Resources
- User Experience courses on Udemy
- 3D & Animation courses on Udemy
- Design Tools courses on Udemy
- Game Design courses on Udemy
- Graphic Design courses on Udemy

What are your favorite FREE App Design Tool?