Paid Illustrator Alternatives for Windows

There are many alternatives to Adobe Illustrator for Windows if you are looking for a replacement. The best paid Windows alternative is CorelDRAW Graphics Suite. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Adobe Illustrator and 15 are paid and available for Windows so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting paid Windows alternatives to Adobe Illustrator are Xara Designer Pro, VectorStyler, Adobe FreeHand and Xara Photo & Graphic Designer.

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Adobe Illustrator alternatives are mainly Vector Graphic Apps, but if you're looking for Image Editors or Color Picker Tools you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Open Source, Free, Mac, Linux, iPad, Windows + Free and Android. You can also filter by region, for example EU-based alternatives if you prefer software developed in the European Union. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to Adobe Illustrator.
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  1. CorelDRAW Graphics Suite icon

    CorelDRAW Graphics Suite

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    It is one of the oldest and most reliable vector tools in the industry, not only offering excellent performance, but also providing an intuitive interface that's ideal for any beginner designers. Different from Illustrator, you can choose to pay a monthly subscription or obtain a license through a one-time purchase (although a bit expensive), which will include other compatible Corel design software such as Photo-Paint (Corel's alternative to Photoshop), as well as a font manager and content organization applications. CorelDRAW lets you edit multi-page documents, non-destructively convert bitmaps to vectors, and create QR codes.

    87 CorelDRAW Graphics Suite alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Online
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    CorelDRAW Graphics Suite vs Adobe Illustrator Comments
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    The first vector illustrator I ever used. Sadly not available on the Mac

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    It's much easier to use and understand. It gives the average user a quicker grasp of editing and creating graphics. It is also less greedy with RAM.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    Compatibility with .ai files, is a vector manipulator. Includes a "Hairline" stroke weight, which is very useful for certain applications. One-time license purchase

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    • CorelDRAW Graphics Suite is Paid and ProprietaryAdobe Illustrator is also Paid and Proprietary
    • CorelDRAW Graphics Suite is CustomizableAdobe Illustrator is not according to our users
  2. Xara Designer Pro icon

    Xara Designer Pro

     32 likes

    Xara Designer Pro offers tools for illustration, photo editing, and desktop publishing, with exceptional vector design capabilities. Suitable for billboards, business cards, and more, it supports diverse file formats, provides abundant templates, and powers web design and prototyping without coding.

    58 Xara Designer Pro alternatives

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
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    Xara is avey intuïtive and fast drawing application that can do print, websites, animation, DTP, bitmaps and everything you would could ask from a graphic program.

    The possibilities are endless considiering it flawless combines vector editing with bitmaps.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    Extremely fast and better with bitmaps than Illustrator

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    • Xara Designer Pro is Paid and ProprietaryAdobe Illustrator is also Paid and Proprietary
    • Xara Designer Pro is LightweightAdobe Illustrator is not according to our users
  4. VectorStyler icon

    VectorStyler

     3 likes

    VectorStyler (for Mac) is an advanced vector graphics and illustration software, with a competitive feature set, and several new features and workflow enhancements. VectorStyler is developed with the goal of providing all the capabilities, designers and illustrators are familiar...

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
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    CorelDRAW Graphics Suite icon
    CorelDRAW Graphics Suite

    It is one of the oldest and most reliable vector tools in the industry, not only offering excellent performance, but also providing an intuitive interface that's ideal for any beginner designers. Different from Illustrator, you c...

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  6. Adobe FreeHand icon

    Adobe FreeHand

     20 likes

    Adobe FreeHand is a computer application for creating two-dimensional vector graphics (use of geometrical primitives such as points, lines, curves, and polygons to represent images, also known as geometric modeling), oriented to the professional desktop publishing market.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Discontinued

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    • Mac
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    Freehand was and is great would still be using it if it would work with updated os but again Adobe buys out another great company

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    • Adobe FreeHand is Paid and ProprietaryAdobe Illustrator is also Paid and Proprietary
  7. Xara Photo & Graphic Designer icon

    Xara Photo & Graphic Designer

     28 likes

    Xara Photo & Graphic Designer, formerly Xara Xtreme, is a fast graphics software with versatile illustration tools and advanced photo management. It streamlines creative tasks, allowing users to retouch images, create social media posts, and design website graphics in one...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
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  8. Super Vectorizer Pro icon

    Super Vectorizer Pro

     14 likes

    Super Vectorizer Pro is a professional image vector tracing converter on Mac & Win that automatically traces image lines and converts bitmap images like JPEG, GIF and PNG to clean, scalable vector graphic of Ai, SVG, DXF and PDF.

    75 Super Vectorizer Pro alternatives

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  10. Mayura Draw icon

    Mayura Draw

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    Mayura Draw is a vector-based drawing program. Unlike bitmap-based "paint" programs, vector-based drawing programs define each object that constitutes the drawing by its co-ordinates and not by pixels. This enables drawings to be modified easily.

    Cost / License

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    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
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  11. Canvas GFX icon

    Canvas GFX

     13 likes

    Canvas 11 is the single most cost-effective, integrated solution for the creation, enhancement, presentation and sharing of technical illustrations and graphics.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  12. Realdraw icon

    Realdraw

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    *Vector-like Editing

    Flexibility first! Any object you create is editable all the time. You can change shapes, group objects, move them in layers, resize, edit envelopes etc. Any object has its own changeable properties like color, texture, outline, lights, material, transparenc.

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    • Paid
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    • Windows
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  13. Sketsa SVG Editor icon

    Sketsa SVG Editor

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    Sketsa is a cross platform vector drawing application based on Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG). The visual design tools allows designer to select, draw, and edit objects easily, while the integrated SVG XML source editor allows them to hand edit SVG source code for greater...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  14. SVG Splash icon

    SVG Splash

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    SVG Splash is a beautifully simple SVG painting application for coloring SVGs. No account required or settings to configure. Open and get started immediately.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
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  15. VectorNow icon

    VectorNow

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    VectorNow is a raster to vector converter, that convert BMP, TIFF, GIF, JPG file into editable DWG/DXF file.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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