Best Free UI/UX Design Tools For Professionals

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This list ranks free UI/UX design tools based on their features, ease of use, community support, and suitability for professional projects.

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Best 1 Adobe Illustrator
Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Illustrator remains the undisputed industry standard for vector graphic creation, a position solidified over decades of development. It is the professional's definitive tool for logo design, com...

9.5 Brilliant
2 Canva
Canva

Canva is a design behemoth that has aggressively integrated AI across its platform, including its presentation tool. Its strength lies in its vast ecosystem: a colossal library of templates, stock med...

9.4 Excellent
3 Adobe XD
Adobe XD

Adobe XD is a powerful, vector-based design tool deeply integrated into the Adobe Creative Cloud ecosystem, making it a natural choice for designers already using Photoshop, Illustrator, or After Effe...

8.5 Very Good
4 Inkscape
Inkscape

Inkscape is the leading free and open-source vector graphics editor, serving as a powerful alternative to Adobe Illustrator and CorelDRAW. It uses the SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) format as its nati...

8.5 Very Good
5 Loomly
Loomly

Loomly is a streamlined social media management tool that focuses on the content creation-to-publishing workflow, with a strong emphasis on collaboration and post optimization. Its interface is built...

8.1 Very Good
6 Sketch
Sketch

Sketch pioneered the modern, focused UI/UX design tool when it launched in 2010, moving away from the bloat of general-purpose suites. It is a Mac-native application beloved for its simplicity, speed,...

8.0 Very Good
7 Later
Later

Later (formerly Latergramme) has carved its niche as the premier visual content marketing platform, with exceptional strengths in managing Instagram, Pinterest, TikTok, and Facebook. Its core is a dra...

8.0 Very Good
8 Figma
Figma

Figma has fundamentally reshaped the landscape of digital design by placing real-time collaboration at its core. As a browser-based, platform-agnostic tool, it is the dominant force in UI/UX design, p...

7.8 Good
9 Agorapulse
Agorapulse

Agorapulse is a robust, user-friendly all-in-one platform that strikes an excellent balance between powerful features and approachable pricing, making it a favorite among agencies and growing business...

7.8 Good
10 Balsamiq
Balsamiq

Balsamiq is a purpose-built, focused tool dedicated exclusively to low-fidelity wireframing. Its defining characteristic is its deliberate use of a hand-drawn, sketch-like visual style for all UI elem...

7.5 Good
11 Sprout Social
Sprout Social

Sprout Social stands as the premium, all-in-one platform for medium to large businesses and agencies, renowned for its depth, polish, and powerful unified inbox. It excels by merging robust publishing...

7.5 Good
12 Brandwatch (Consumer Intelligence)
Brandwatch (Consumer Intelligence)

Brandwatch (now part of Cision's Consumer Intelligence suite) is a premier enterprise-grade social listening and analytics platform, not a traditional publishing scheduler. It specializes in analyzing...

7.4 Good
13 SocialPilot
SocialPilot

SocialPilot is a cost-effective, powerful tool that punches above its weight, offering features typically found in more expensive platforms. It excels at bulk scheduling (via CSV), content curation, a...

7.2 Good
14 Axure RP
Axure RP

Axure RP is the powerhouse of wireframing and prototyping tools, designed for creating highly functional, complex prototypes with conditional logic, dynamic content, and rich interactions. It goes far...

7.0 Good
15 Crowdfire
Crowdfire

Crowdfire helps users discover and curate relevant content to share alongside their own. It offers scheduling, basic analytics, and content suggestions based on chosen topics or RSS feeds. It targets...

6.8 Fair
16 Lucidchart
Lucidchart

Lucidchart is a powerful, web-based diagramming application known for flowcharts, org charts, and network diagrams. Its wireframing capabilities are an extension of its core diagramming strengths, pro...

6.8 Fair
17 Zoho Social
Zoho Social

Zoho Social is a capable and affordable social media management tool that gains significant power through its deep integration with the broader Zoho ecosystem, particularly Zoho CRM. It offers standar...

6.8 Fair
18 Adobe XD Community
Adobe XD Community

The Adobe XD Community is a free platform for sharing and collaborating on designs. It offers basic prototyping features but lacks the full suite of tools found in the paid version. Ideal for small te...

6.5 Fair
19 Proto.io
Proto.io

Proto.io is a prototyping tool that allows designers to create interactive prototypes for web and mobile applications. It supports responsive design, making it easy to test different screen sizes. Pro...

6.0 Fair
20 Zeplin
Zeplin

Zeplin is a design collaboration tool that facilitates the handoff process from designers to developers. It supports wireframing, prototyping, and documentation. Zeplin integrates with popular design...

5.5 Average

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