Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to Adobe Illustrator

The top open-source alternatives to Adobe Illustrator are Inkscape, GIMP, and Gravit. One of the criteria for ordering this list is the number of mentions that products have on reliable external sources. You can suggest additional sources through the form here.

Inkscape Landing Page
1

Inkscape

Inkscape is a free, open source professional vector graphics editor for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Graphic Design Software #Digital Drawing And Painting #Art Tools 483 social mentions
GIMP Landing Page
2

GIMP

GIMP is a multiplatform photo manipulation tool.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Photo Editing #Graphic Design Software #Digital Drawing And Painting 59 social mentions
Gravit Landing Page
3

Gravit

Gravit is a browser-based pixel design and collaboration platform.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Graphic Design Software #Image Editing #Digital Drawing And Painting 2 social mentions
Tux Paint Landing Page
4

Tux Paint

Tux Paint is a free, award-winning drawing program for children ages 3 to 12 (for example, preschool and K-6).
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Digital Drawing And Painting #Graphic Design Software #Image Editing 12 social mentions
Photopea Landing Page
5

Photopea

Online photo editor, which can work with PSD, XCF and Sketch files (Photoshop, Gimp and Sketch App).
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Online Image Editor #Image Editing #Graphic Design Software 305 social mentions
DrawPile Landing Page
6

DrawPile

Drawpile is a drawing program that lets you share the canvas with other users in real time.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Digital Drawing And Painting #Graphic Design Software #Image Editing 12 social mentions
Scribus Landing Page
7

Scribus

Scribus is a desktop publishing (DTP) application.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Design Tools #PDF Editor #Graphic Design Software
Acorn Landing Page
8

Acorn

Acorn is a photo editor built for the rest of us.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Graphic Design Software #Image Editing #Digital Drawing And Painting 18 social mentions
FontForge Landing Page
9

FontForge

Free (libre) font editor for Windows, Mac OS X and GNU+Linux
Pricing:
- Open Source
- Free
#Design Tools #Image Marketplace #Graphic Design Software
Glyphs Landing Page
10

Glyphs

Make everything from dingbat webfonts to full-fledged text typefaces in the most Mac-like font...
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Design Tools #Image Marketplace #Graphic Design Software 18 social mentions
Darktable Landing Page
11

Darktable

darktable is an open source photography workflow application and raw developer.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Graphic Design Software #Digital Drawing And Painting #Image Editing 8 social mentions
sK1 Landing Page
12

sK1

Home of the sK1 2.0 (ex.PrintDesign) vector graphics editor and UniConvertor
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Graphic Design Software #Vector Graphic Editor #Photos & Graphics 1 social mentions