Design and product tools of Apple Software Collection
Design Tools
- Acorn -An image editor with a comprehensive feature set like PS.
- Affinity Designer -a vector image design tool, can be an alternative to Adobe Illustrator.
- Affinity Photo -Raster image design tool, can replace Adobe PS image processing software.
- Alchemy -open source drawing tool software, used for sketching, conversation and a new way of drawing.
- Art Text 3 -Generate various special effect fonts.
- Blender -A full-featured and scalable cross-platform 3D content suite.
- Figma -a web-based real-time collaborative cloud design software.
- FontForge -Font editing tool.
- GIMP -image editing software, known as PhotoShop under Linux, also has a Mac version.
- Gravit Designer -a hybrid vector/bitmap layout application, a bit worse than Sketch.
- inklet -Turn the touchpad on the Mac into a drawing board.
- Inkscape -an open source vector graphics editing software, similar to other software such as Illustrator, Freehand, CorelDraw, Xara X.
- Krita -an open source bit graphics editing software, including a drawing program and photo editor.
- Monodraw -a powerful ASCII design flow editor on the macOS platform.
- MagicaVoxel -Lightweight 8-bit pixel editing and interactive path tracing renderer.
- MakeHuman -a powerful and free 3D human body modeler.
- Nik Collection -Professional photo post-production tool, free after Google's acquisition
- Pixelmator -a powerful image editor, the choice of PS image processing software.
- Paintbrush -Bitmap image editor.
- Pencil2D -A simple and intuitive tool for making 2D hand-drawn animations.
- Principle -It is easy to design animations and interactive user interfaces using it.
- Pixel Perfect -It is very easy to compare UI models and development results.
- Sculptris -3D modeling of what you see.
- Sketch -Hybrid vector/bitmap layout application, especially suitable for user interface, web and mobile design.
- Sketch Toolbox -a super simple Sketch plugin manager.
- Measure -Design draft annotation and measurement tool.
- User Flows -Generate flowcharts directly from the drawing board.
- Sketch Cache Cleaner -Clean up Sketch history files and free up disk space.
- SketchBook -outstanding drawing software.
- ScreenToLayers -easily export the desktop layered file PSD file.
- Sparkle -a visual web design tool.
- Tayasui Sketches -professional drawing software.
- Vectr -Free graphics editor. This is a simple and powerful web and desktop cross-platform tool that turns your design into reality.
Prototype process
- Axure RP 8 -prototyping tool, team collaboration, convenient and easy to use.
- ProtoPie -High-fidelity interactive prototype design.
- Adobe XD (Experience Design)-For the design and prototyping of websites and mobile applications.
- Balsamiq Mockups -a fast web design prototyping tool to help you work faster and smarter.
- Origami Studio -a new tool for designing modern interfaces, built and used by Facebook designers.
- Flinto -Quickly produce high-fidelity interactive prototype tool, support Sketch import.
- Kite -a powerful animation tool for making Mac and iOS prototype applications.
- Justinmind -features richer and more convenient team collaboration.
- MockFlow -Online prototyping kit for web design and usability testing.
- pencil -Open source and free software prototype tool
- Mockplus -Faster and simpler prototyping tool.
- OmniGraffle -can be used to draw diagrams, flowcharts, organization charts, mind maps, and illustrations or prototypes.
- XMind -a practical mind mapping software.
- Lighten -a practical mind mapping software produced by XMind.
- Loremify -Quickly and accurately design, prototype or generate titles, paragraphs, lists and articles.
- Scapple -a practical mind mapping software.
- Framer -a tool for interactive prototyping.
- Marvel -Simple design, prototyping and collaboration.
- MindNode -Concise style and user-friendly operation, drawing mind and brain maps.
- WriteMapper -a brain mapping tool specially designed for writers.
- SimpleMind -an ultra-small mind mapping tool.
- macSVG -Design HTML5 SVG and animation.
Drawing tools
- Draw.io -Hundreds of graphics, supporting export in multiple formats.
- OmniGraffle -Member of Omni, native application.
- ProcessOn -flow charts, mind maps, prototypes... Chinese friendly, save 5 files for free.
screenshot tool
- GifCapture -Open source macOS screenshot generation tool for Gif.
- Gifox -professional high-value GIF recording application.
- GIF Brewery -gives everyone the power to create stunning GIFs from video files.
- GIPHY Capture -Free software to capture and share pictures on the desktop.
- Kap -Lightweight GIF screen recording widget.
- KeyCastr -a good helper for screen recording, a small tool for real-time display of key operations.
- Licecap -is a screen recording tool that outputs GIF, and the recording range can be changed at will during the recording process.
- Monosnap -Make screenshots, record videos and share files.
- Skitch -Screenshot comes with powerful annotation function.
- Shifty -a menu bar application that gives you more control over the night shift.
- ScreenShot PSD -Save the screen capture as a layered PSD for easy editing.
- Snipaste -a simple but powerful screenshot tool.
- Snip -an efficient screenshot tool, supports scrolling screenshots, Tencent works.
- Teampaper Snap -A screenshot and annotation tool tailored for designers.
- Screenshot (Jietu) -The screenshot comes with a powerful annotation function, Tencent works.
- Xnip -a free and easy-to-use scrolling screenshot tool.
- iShot -A completely free and comprehensive screenshot tool that supports stickers, scrolling screenshots, time-lapse screenshots, etc.
Other tools
- APNGb -software for editing png image format.
- Assetizr -image editing application, easily change the size of the image, compress the image, and rename the image.
- AppIconBuilder (Icon Building)-App icon multi-platform one-click export.
- Couleurs -a simple screen color picking application.
- Frank DeLoupe -Screen color picker that supports Retina.
- Image2icon -Convert your pictures into icons.
- ImageAlpha -Compress PNG images and remove invalid transparency.
- ImageOptim -Compress the picture, delete EXIF information.
- iPic -Upload pictures to Qiniu, Alibaba Cloud, etc., support Markdown link.
- IconKit -App icon auto generator.
- Iconjar -icon management software with organization and search functions.
- JPEGmini -Reduce image size by up to 80% without compromising quality.
- Preset Brewery -A tool to convert Lightroom presets to Adobe Camera Raw.
- PicGo -A picture bed tool that supports commonly used CDNs .
- Resize Master -Faster and easier to batch adjust images and add watermarks.
- RightFont -Font management tool.
- svgus -SVG image manager.
- Solarized -Clean and refreshing color themes, support iTerm, Intellij IDEA, Vim, etc.
- Sip -Collect, organize and share your color picker.
- Spectrum -An application that can easily and intuitively create beautiful color schemes.
- TinyPNG4Mac -a dedicated open source tool for image compression.
- Tropy -Photo file management tool.
- uPic -macOS native application, powerful and concise picture bed client.
- Mark Eel -an efficient design draft annotation and measurement tool.
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