Free Alternatives to Adobe Illustrator for Mac

Are you struggling to pay for Adobe Creative Cloud or not? In this article, you will find different free Mac design software and editing tools in Adobe Illustrator. Yes! FREE!

Adobe Illustrator offers a free 7-day trial, but after that, sadly, you better fix your wallet. But don’t worry, after hours of research and testing, I found 5 editing tools (Mac users) that you can use without paying a tone.

Want to save money? Keep reading to find out more! 

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• Free Illustrator Alternatives for Mac 
  • 1. Inkscape
  • 2. Gravit Designer
  • 3. Vecteezy 
  • 4. Vectr
  • 5. Canva

Free Illustrator Alternatives for Mac 

Design, it's all about your great ideas! If you are looking to make a simple design, the following easy-to-use editing tools for Mac are easy to use and work for basic creative work. In fact, you can build your art very quickly using some of these techniques.

1. Inkscape

Inkscape, which many designers believe, is the best Adobe Illustrator, is a free open source designing software. Provides many basic drawing tools AI has. Like shape, gradients, methods, groups, text, and more.

Like Illustrator, Inkscape is good at creating vectors and compliant with SVG. Therefore, you can change the vector size without blurring it. You can save your design in various formats such as SVG, EPS, PostScript, JPG, PNG, BMP, or others.

Yes, it sounds like it is almost perfect for professional designers. But some users complain that it works slower and often crashes when working on large files.    

2. Gravit Designer

Gravit Designer is a complete vector design program suitable for different types of design tasks. You can use it in a web browser, or download a copy to your computer. The browser version is already really good. Save space on your disk!

 Gravit provides many useful tools for image creation. One of the features that I would say is better than Adobe Illustrator is that it has a lot of basic size information already set up. Therefore, save time to do research on size.

These alternatives can make your dream come true without spending a single cent. I mean it has a Pro version that you have to pay for, but the free version should be more than enough for basic design tasks. 

3. Vecteezy 

Maybe you've heard of Vecteezy? Most people find stock vectors in it. But you know what? You can also create your own design or re-work with existing vectors.

It can be difficult for a graphic designer to create something from scratch. No worries. Vecteezy has a lot of ready-to-use vectors and faces of different types that can give you great ideas to get you started.

With basic photo editing tools like pen tools, shapes, lines, and color pickers, you will find the vector you want in a matter of practice and patience. Nothing complicated. Design is about colors and shapes.

Although it is a free photo editing program, you need an account to save your work. Another thing about these types of web tools is that they can be painful when working on large files. It may slow down or stop the browser. 

4. Vectr

Vectr is another free tool for designing vector browsers in Adobe Illustrator. It has all the basic tools you need to create a vector, including pen tools, lines, shapes, colors, text, and you can import images and work on them on your Vectr artboard.

 If you have serious ideas about design or do not know where to start, do not worry. You can quickly learn the basics of free tutorials on its website. It's easy!

 Just a reminder, Vectr is a very simple design tool, so it doesn't have many of the advanced features offered by Adobe Illustrator. Recommended for newcomers or anyone looking to create a simple vector design. Another thing is that you will need to create an account to save your work.

5. Canva

Canva is a great online editing tool for creating posters, logos, info-graphics, and many other designs. It is very simple and easy to use. Because it provides many ready-to-use templates, vectors, and fonts. You can create a work of art in less than 30 minutes easily.

Another feature that I find very impressive is the automatic color selection tool. When you upload an image or select a template, it displays the color tones and colors suggested in the color window. This tool really saves your time and work if you do not know which colors to use.

One of the disadvantages of this free version is that you cannot save the image with high quality. If you are using digital content, go ahead. However, printing in large sizes is quite complicated.