Illustration & vector

Logos, icons and vector drawings.

2open alternatives 1does the whole job

Replaces

Adobe Illustrator Affinity Designer CorelDRAW

Open alternatives2

Open-source apps that replace Adobe Illustrator, Affinity Designer and more

Inkscape

4kActiveWindows · Mac · LinuxVerifiedGPL-2.0-or-laterApp

Inkscape is a free drawing program for making vector graphics like logos, icons, cartoons and diagrams. It is for anyone who needs images that stay sharp at any size.

App · GitLab

Graphite

28kActiveIn your browserApache-2.0Replaces partlyApp

Graphite is a free vector and raster graphics editor that is still in alpha, meaning early testing. It is for artists and designers who want to make vector drawings and designs, using layers or a node-based editing system.

App · GitHub · Early alpha; expect missing tools

What's missing

What people still miss here, and wish existed. Upvote what matters to you.

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Planning something for illustration & vector? See what exists first, so you can reuse parts or explain what's different. Paste this into any AI assistant:

Read the list of open-source alternatives at https://opensourceeverything.org/data/groups/illustration.json. Compare it with my project or idea below. Tell me which projects overlap, what I could reuse instead of rewriting, and what mine does that none of them do. My project or idea:

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Replaces fully means it does the main job of these apps; Replaces partly means it covers some of it.

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GitHub stars are shown for reference. They measure popularity, not whether it replaces anything.

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