Birdfont is an open source font editor that exports TTF and single colour SVG. The website splits distribution into four editions, two of them free, with colour fonts and variable fonts reserved for Plus. Paid editions start at 9.99 dollars.

An online platform that carries a page from the design canvas through to publication, with hosting handled by the service. The 3.0 generation brings an agent into the canvas to help design, write and analyse, and adds branches so a redesign can happen without touching the live site.

An open source online design platform built on open standards. The interface opens in a browser and layout uses the native grid and flex model of the web, with components, design variables and shared libraries, or a deployment on a server you control. The free tier is complete.

An automation program for studios that shoot ID photos: it finds the face, corrects the angle, replaces the background with red, blue or white, crops to standard sizes and lays the shots out on photo paper, all offline on the local machine.

An image editor rewritten from scratch in pure Rust: layers, masks and adjustment layers are all there, layered PSD files open directly, and a command line plus an MCP server hand the work to scripts.

Library on the left, darkroom on the right, and every adjustment stored as history rather than baked in. Raw support for new cameras arrives quickly, and the licence is whatever you can afford.

Rive puts the playback logic inside the file: a state machine decides what happens on hover, click or drag, and the same lightweight asset runs on web and mobile with no frame by frame handoff.

Concepts treats each line as a separate object, so a stroke can be re-weighted or recoloured long after it was drawn. Perspective grids, object libraries and a canvas with no edges make it a serious ideation tool.

A wireframe rarely persuades anyone. Something you can tap, swipe and feel does. ProtoPie sits between a static mockup and a line of code: triggers and responses build the logic, variables and conditions handle the branches, and gyroscope, microphone or fingerprint can be simulated so the prototype feels close to the finished thing.

Affinity Photo is a professional grade photo editor: layers, masks and RAW handling are all present, PSD files are supported natively, and after joining a unified creative suite the basic features are free to use, which makes it the value pick for anyone who retouches images.

Boardmix puts AI generation inside the canvas: one sentence becomes a mind map, a flow chart or a SWOT grid, then the team edits on an infinite board with live cursors, voting and a template library.

MediBang Paint is a free drawing program built for comics, with 180 brushes, 1000 screen tones and panel tools, plus cloud sync across desktop and mobile.

Color Hunt shows community palettes four colours at a time, sorted by popularity or freshness and filtered by style, mood and colour family. Every palette carries its hex values, one click copies them, and browsing needs no account.

OpenToonz is a 2D animation package derived from Toonz, a professional tool customised at Studio Ghibli for years. It covers scan-and-paint, palettes, xsheet and timeline editing, node-based compositing and an effects SDK, and its New BSD source makes it free for commercial work too.

A deliberately plain 2D animation tool: raster and vector layers share one timeline, onion skin shows the neighbouring frames, and the package is a few tens of megabytes, so an old machine copes. Open source, free for personal use, and 0.7.2 arrived in 2026-03.