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Logo Design

A logo is the starting point of your brand identity. It reflects the product mission, functionality and brand message. Ideally, the logo creates a strong connection between your product and the users. Logo design is an art, as well as many other design disciplines. With the right logo design tools, this art can be done right a bit faster.

• Design Evo — a large collection of vector icons and shapes help you design custom logos easily. 
• Free Logo Design — create stunning professional logos in seconds. 
• Graphic Springs — choose from a gallery of vector format logo templates, categorized by industry. Edit the graphics and texts of your template, then download it.
• Logo Design Team — offers affordable professional custom logo design and brand design services.
• Logojoy — uses artificial intelligence to instantly generate unique logo ideas for your business.
• Logo Lab — put your logo to the test with automated visual experiments. 
• Logo Maker — allows you to make a free logo within seconds. Start with a blank canvas, add text and an icon, and then customize. 
• Logo Maker by Designhill — generate 1000s of unique logos in only few minutes, without design expertise.
• Logo Makr — design a logo for free, choose from hundreds of fonts and icons, then save a logo on the computer. 
• Logo My Way — choose from 600 custom logo designs from creative designers worldwide.
• Logo Package Express — export and package dozens of logo variations and file types for your clients automatically in under 5 minutes.
• Logo Rank — upload your logo to see how it rates on a number of objective measures. 
• Wizlogo — create a logo with a simple and affordable tool backed by professional designers.

 

Screenshot Software

Taking screenshots is a typical task in the design & development workflow. So these free and full-featured screenshot apps can help you capture a screen with ease. Some screen captures are macOS only, while others support both OS:

• Camtasia — a screen recorder that comes with a full-blown built-in editor.
• CleanShot — capture your screen in a superior way with a built-in annotation tool and Quick Access Overlay. 
• CloudApp — record videos, webcam, annotate screenshots, create GIFs.
• Collabshot — take and collaborate on screenshots in real-time with your coworkers. 
• Gifox — delightful GIF recording and sharing app. 
• Giphy Capture — capture parts of your screen and export as gif or mp4.  
• Greenshot — take a screenshot of a selected region, window or fullscreen. 
• Kap — open source screen recorder with options to export to GIF, MP4, WebM and APNG.  
• Lighshot — taking quick captures of your screen. 
• Monosnap — create screenshots, annotate and upload them to the cloud. 
• OBS — open source software for video recording and live streaming.  
• Quicktime — a video player that you can use to record your screen.  
• ScreenFlow — video editing and screen recording software for Mac. 
• Screenie — filter and search through images, change screenshot filetypes. 
• ScreenshotAPI.net — create pixel-perfect full page website screenshots. 
• ScreenToGif — record a gif of part of the screen. Only available for Windows.  
• ShareX — screen capture, file sharing, and productivity tool.  
• Shotty — a menu bar app that helps you quickly find the screenshot you're looking for so you can drag and drop it into any application. 
• Snagit — capture images and video, create GIFs, annotate, edit, and share.
• Snipping Tool — Windows free screenshot tool. 
• Snappy — takes quick shots and organizes them for you into collections.  
• Teampaper Snap — allows you to take screenshots of a selected area.  
• EasyScreenOCR  — capture text and extract text from images.

Pixel Art Tools

Pixel art is a digital art form where color is applied to individual pixels to create an image. The pixel art can be used to create everything from intricate scenes and game backgrounds to character designs or emoji. If you feel curious to try, check this pixel art software for both macOS and Windows:

• Aseprite — animated sprite editor & pixel art tool. 
• Data Pixels — create pixel art programmatically. Includes DataPixels.js and Data Pixels Playground desktop app.  
• Draw! — open-source and free web-based pixel art and GIF editor.  
• Grafx2 — a bitmap paint program inspired by the Amiga programs ​Deluxe Paint and Brilliance. Specialized in 256-color drawing. 
• GraphicsGale — has many pixel-art specific features, including palette control, selectively erasing colors, and tools for quickly replacing and trying new colors. 
• Goya — a pixel-art editor built on ClojureScript and Om.  
• Make 8 bit art — an open source and in-browser pixel art drawing tool.  
• Piskel — online editor for animated sprites & pixel art.  
• Pixel art to CSS — pixel art animation and drawing web app powered by React.  
• Poxi — a flat pixel art editor.  
• Pyxel Edit — a pixel art editor designed to make it fun and easy to make tilesets, levels and animations.  
• AI Image Enlarger — upscale images without losing quality.

No Code Tools

With a rise of “no code tools”, everyone with a laptop can build and launch a project. These tools help designers and makers create websites, apps, and even games. No code tools allow to automate routine tasks and can be used without a development background. Take a look at the tools here and if you need more — check Design to Code section.

• Bubble — build and host web applications without having to write code or hire a team of engineers.
• Carrd — simple, free, fully responsive one-page sites for pretty much anything. 
• Coda — a new type of document that blends the flexibility of documents, the power of spreadsheets, and the utility of apps into a single new canvas. 
• Kodika.io — build iOS apps with Kodika no code app builder for Mac & iPad, capable of creating powerful apps with Drag & Drop. 
• PageXL — a simple one-page website builder for quickly creating landing pages and online stores. 
• Remove.bg — a free service to remove the background of any photo. 
• Retool — gives you building blocks and you can build tools much faster.
• Sheet2Site — create a website from Google Sheets without writing code.
• Shopify — one platform with all the e-commerce and point of sale features you need to start, run, and grow your business.
• Thunkable — a drag-and-drop tool for anyone to build native mobile apps.
• UserGuiding — create walkthroughs, checklists, hotspots, and modals to improve user onboarding.
• Bg Eraser — remove background online for free
• Image Colorizer  — colorize black and white photos, restore old images automatically free.