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Free alternatives to DesignFive

50 free Design apps to use instead, best rated first.

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  1. Canva

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    Create stunning designs, presentations, social posts, and videos — no design background needed.

    Free

  2. Excalidraw

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    Virtual whiteboard for sketching diagrams that feel hand-drawn. Open-source, end-to-end encrypted rooms.

    Free

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    Motrix

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    Motrix is a full-featured download manager that support downloading HTTP, FTP, BitTorrent, Magnet, etc. Motrix has a clean and easy to use interface. I hope you will like it . ## Features - Simple and clear user interface - Support BitTorre

    FreeOpen source

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    Transmission

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    Transmission - A Fast, Easy and Free Bittorrent Client For macOS, Windows and Linux Transmission is designed for easy, powerful use. We've set the defaults to just work and it only takes a few clicks to configure advanced features like watc

    FreeOpen sourceSelf-hosted

  5. Figma

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    Figma is the collaborative interface design tool that brings your whole team into the design process. Browser-native, real-time, multiplayer.

    Free

  6. tldraw

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    An infinite collaborative canvas with delightful tools and an open SDK.

    Free

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Graphite

Free online vector editor & procedural design tool

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qBittorrent

A project aims to provide an open-source software alternative to µTorrent

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Helix

A post-modern modal text editor

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DB Browser for SQLite

Official home of the DB Browser for SQLite

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Tauri

Create small, fast, secure

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Storybook

An open-source tool for developing UI components in isolation for React, Vue

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Mealie

Material design inspired recipe manager

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D3

Bring data to life with SVG, Canvas and HTML

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JetBrains Toolbox App

Manage installed JetBrains tools, download new ones and open recent projects

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Anime

JavaScript animation engine

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React Three Fiber

Declarative React renderer for Three.js scenes

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Drawio Desktop

Official electron build of draw.io

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qutebrowser

A keyboard-driven, vim-like browser based on Python and Qt

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Homebridge Config UI X

The Homebridge UI. Monitor, configure and backup Homebridge from a browser

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Uno

Open-source platform for building cross-platform native Mobile, Web, Desktop

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Diagrams

Diagram as Code for prototyping cloud system architectures

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TeXstudio

Integrated writing environment for creating LaTeX documents

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Inkscape

A free and open-source vector graphics editor

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Quant Ux

Prototype, Test and Learn

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CotEditor

Lightweight plain-text editor for macOS

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Ionicons

Beautifully crafted open source icons for use in web, iOS, Android

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LibreCAD

LibreCAD is a cross-platform 2D CAD program

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Blockbench

A low poly 3D model editor

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Method Draw

Clean and feature-rich SVG editor. Exports to PNG

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Pixlr Editor

Image editor by Pixlr. Lots of features

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Slint

Slint is an open-source declarative GUI toolkit

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P5.js

p5.js is a client-side JS platform that empowers artists, designers…

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FreeCAD

Free and open-source 3D parametric modeler

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eza

A modern alternative to ls

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Pixelorama

Create sprites, tiles, and animations effortlessly

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Vim

An old terminal-based editor

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Rawgraphs App

A web interface to create custom vector-based visualizations on top of…

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Visx

Visualization components

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Lively

Free and open-source software that allows users to set animated desktop…

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google-webfonts-helper

Hassle-Free Way to Self-Host Google Fonts

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MangoDisk

Free, open-source disk cleaner and space analyzer

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Firefox

A free and open-source web browser developed by Mozilla

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Tad

Application for viewing and analyzing tabular data such as CSV files

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Apexcharts.js

Interactive JavaScript Charts built on SVG

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Linear Mouse

Full control of mouse

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Formatjs

The monorepo home to all of the FormatJS related libraries

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VoiceInk

Real-time speech-to-text app

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Modulz

Design and prototype digital products using real components

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WBO

Web Whiteboard to collaborate in real-time on schemas, drawings, and notes

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I’ve been a designer all my life. From choosing the bedspreads and paint colors for my bedroom at age 13 to selecting wallpaper at my grandmother’s farmhouse while in high school. All of this leading to a career in the design and home décor......

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