Open Source Adobe Illustrator Alternatives
Adobe Illustrator is described as 'commercial vector graphics editor'. There are more than 50 alternatives to Adobe Illustrator for various platforms. The best alternative is Inkscape, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Adobe Illustrator are MyPaint (Free, Open Source), Karbon (Free, Open Source), LazPaint (Free, Open Source) and Apache OpenOffice Draw (Free, Open Source).
- Inkscape is a professional vector graphics editor for Linux, Windows and macOS. It's free and open source. View 129 alternatives to Inkscape
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Inkscape vs Adobe Illustrator
phillipsalf Does some secret things that Illustrator doesn't or can't. Certainly has a more useable colour picker - shame on Adobe for that horrible colour picker!Inscape has a lot of tools and options. It's very stable. Updates are frequent. I never needed another software to get my job done.orangespock Inkscape feels way too oldworking with gradients is much much easier than illustrator. keyboard control is much easy and fast than of illustratorTotally free, and surprisingly powerful. You can run into the occasional bug, but I am more than pleased with the work the Inkscape team has provided usIf your end product is svg files, Inkscape is just better, it's built around the SVG standard and supports nearly all of it.The only well maintained software that really can be an alternative to Illustrator. It's still 1.0 I suppose but it's already huge. - MyPaint is a fast, distraction-free, and easy painting tool for digital artists. It supports graphics tablets made by Wacom, and many similar devices. View 121 alternatives to MyPaint
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- Karbon, component of Calligra Suite , is the scalable vector drawing application in KDE. View 38 alternatives to Karbon
- Raster & vector graphic editor with many tools and filters, written in Lazarus (Free Pascal). Portable, 32bit (under 3mb) & 64bit (3.55mb) versions, ORA format & 16384x16384 image support. In app 3D import & rendering. View 38 alternatives to LazPaint
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- PortableApps.com
- Draw, part of the Apache OpenOffice suite, is a graphics editor that gives you the tools to communicate with visuals and diagrams. View 90 alternatives to Apache OpenOffice Draw
- Free • Open Source
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Apache OpenOffice Draw vs Adobe Illustrator
More of a flowchart designer than a vector illustrator - sK1 is a powerful illustration program for the Linux platform that can substitute professional proprietary software like CorelDRAW or Adobe Illustrator. View 34 alternatives to sK1
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- Linux
- SVG-edit is a fast, web-based, JavaScript-driven SVG drawing editor that works in any modern browser. View 28 alternatives to svg-edit
- KolourPaint is a simple painting program to quickly create raster images. It is useful as a touch-up tool and for simple image editing tasks. View 32 alternatives to KolourPaint
- Ballpoint is an experimental new vector graphics editor. It's available as a free to use web application. View 15 alternatives to Ballpoint
Discontinued
The GitHub repository is unmaintained, and the last update was in 2015.
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- Online
- Xfig is an interactive drawing tool which runs under X Window System Version 11 Release 4 (X11R4) or later, on most UNIX-compatible platforms, and e.g. under Darwin on the MacIntosh and any X server under Microsoft Windows. View 24 alternatives to Xfig
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