Best Design Tools · FREE
Best free Design Tools (2026)
11 design tools that offer a genuine free plan, ranked by entry price. Every figure links to the public page it was captured from — the vendor's own wherever the vendor publishes the number, otherwise the named public source — with the date we captured it.
Key takeaways
- Cheapest: Affinity at $0/mo.
- Qualifying: Affinity, Figma, Framer, Moqups, Penpot, Proto.io, ProtoPie, Rive, Spline, UXPin, Zeplin.
- Data current through: 2026-11-01. STALE marks a row whose price we have not re-checked at its source in over 30 days; a vendor with no published price is marked when any of its plans is. 4 of 11 rows below are marked.
Comparison
| # | Design Tool | Entry price | Free | HIPAA | SOC 2 | Best for | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Affinity STALE · 2026-09-10 | $0/mo | Yes | — | — | Designers wanting a free desktop alternative to subscription vector tools | affinity.studio |
| 2 | Figma | $0/mo | Yes | No | Yes | Product design teams needing end-to-end UI/UX workflow | figma.com |
| 3 | Framer | $0/mo | Yes | No | Yes | Designers building and publishing landing pages without developers | framer.com |
| 4 | Moqups | $0/mo | Yes | — | — | Small teams wanting one tool for wireframes and diagrams | moqups.com |
| 5 | Penpot | $0/mo | Yes | No | — | Teams requiring self-hosted or air-gapped design tooling | penpot.app |
| 6 | Proto.io STALE · 2026-09-10 | $0/mo | Yes | — | — | Freelancers and small fixed-size product teams | proto.io |
| 7 | ProtoPie STALE · 2026-09-10 | $0/user/mo | Yes | — | — | Automotive and IoT teams prototyping across multiple screens and devices | protopie.io |
| 8 | Rive | $0/user/mo | Yes | — | Yes | Product teams shipping interactive motion into apps and games | rive.app |
| 9 | Spline | $0/user/mo | Yes | — | — | Designers adding 3D hero scenes to marketing sites | spline.design |
| 10 | UXPin STALE · 2026-09-10 | $0/user/mo | Yes | — | — | Teams wanting prototypes built from their real component library | uxpin.com |
| 11 | Zeplin | $0/mo | Yes | — | — | Teams handing off Figma or Sketch designs to developers | zeplin.io |