Free Adobe InDesign Alternatives

The best free alternative to Adobe InDesign is Scribus, which is also Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Adobe InDesign and many of them is free so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free alternatives to Adobe InDesign are Affinity, Canva, Desygner and Polotno.

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Adobe InDesign alternatives are mainly Graphic Design Tools, but if you're looking for Image Editors or Color Picker Tools you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Open Source, Free, Linux, Mac, Android, iPad and Chrome OS. 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 InDesign.
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  1. VistaCreate icon
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    An intuitive online design tool offering advanced features like animation, video editing, and over 150,000 templates. Access a library of 70 million+ assets including vectors, photos, and sounds. Ideal for social media, marketing, and design projects of all kinds.

    80 VistaCreate alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
     
  2. MiriCanvas icon
     2 likes

    A free design platform offering extensive templates for presentations, YouTube thumbnails, and social media. AI-powered tools enable easy creation directly in the browser, supporting animations, videos, and interactive quizzes. Over 500,000 templates included.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  3. Laidout icon
     5 likes

    Laidout is desktop publishing software, particularly for multipage, cut and folded booklets, with page sizes that don't even have to be rectangular. The whole page view can be rotated to any angle. Warping is implemented.

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    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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    Laidout vs Adobe InDesign Comments
    maurosoft391
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    it's poorly designed and looks like a program from the 1990s

    • Laidout is Free and Open SourceAdobe InDesign is Paid and Proprietary
    • Laidout is LightweightAdobe InDesign is not according to our users
  4. Clipsia icon
     1 like

    The World is now more visual than ever before. It is difficult to promote written content on social media.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  5. Layup icon
     1 like

    Layup is your technical partner, and preferred tool, while creating unique experiences on the web. Web design is now in the hands of the designer. Creatives are free to be independant from developers, with a new design tool, new advanced features and a sophisticated HTML5 output...

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  6. EDIT.ORG icon
     8 likes

    EDIT is a easy graphic design tool who let you create stunning designs. With more than 10.000 templates of different categories, like shops, restaurants, e-commmerce, marketing, education, ngo's etc.. who let you create your ads, promotions.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  7. A DTP app that stands out with: 1 - One click export of fixed-layout eBooks in two popular formats: EPUB3 and Amazon KF8 (Mobi) formats. 2 - Styling modeled after CSS3. 3 - Superior multiple-page viewing capability. 4. Intuitive and easy to use UI.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  8. Purple Photo icon
     3 likes

    Purple photo can help you grow more audience with Rich, Beautiful & Elegant posts.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  9. LingoScreen icon
     1 like

    LingoScreen is an AI-powered image localization tool that automatically translates text within images while perfectly preserving the original design and background.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  10. Passepartout icon
     4 likes

    Passepartout is a desktop publishing system that is based on the idea of automatic typesetting of streams of XML based text documents.The project was started back in 2002 to facilitate a particular task — creating a newspaper. These days the project is somewhat dormant.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  11. Protoply icon
     1 like

    Protoply uses templates and reuse assets, colors, and variables to simplify creating visual assets. Upload an asset once and use it across multiple templates, generating numerous images efficiently.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  12. Mujo AI icon
     2 likes

    Mujo AI design agent. Turn One photo into complete set of ecom product images+copy.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
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