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Best Design AI tools

17 design tools, ranked by our score. Our top pick is Canva, followed by Krea and Recraft.

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17 design tools, ranked by our score. Our top pick is Canva, followed by Krea and Recraft. If you want to start without paying, look at Canva, Krea, Recraft. Every score is our own judgement of how well a tool does the job, and you can read how we score on the blog.

  1. Canva: The everyone-can-design suite, now supercharged with Magic Studio AI tools. Freemium. Solthar Score 88/100.
  2. Krea: Real-time AI canvas for designers. Enhance, upscale, and generate as you draw. Freemium. Solthar Score 88/100.
  3. Recraft: Design-focused image AI for consistent brand sets, icons, and vector art. Freemium. Solthar Score 87/100.
  4. Figma: The industry-standard interface design tool, adding AI for drafts, edits, and search. Freemium. Solthar Score 86/100.
  5. Topaz Labs: Professional upscaling and denoise for photo and video. Paid. Solthar Score 86/100.
  6. Magnific: Upscaler that invents plausible detail rather than just smoothing. Paid. Solthar Score 85/100.
  7. Photoroom: Product photography: cut out, relight and place on new backgrounds. Freemium. Solthar Score 84/100.
  8. Adobe Express: Quick brand-safe social and print assets with Firefly built in. Freemium. Solthar Score 83/100.
  9. Clipdrop: A toolbox of one-click image operations. Relight, upscale, clean up. Freemium. Solthar Score 82/100.
  10. Relume: Generates a full sitemap and wireframe set for a marketing site from a prompt. Freemium. Solthar Score 82/100.
  11. Remove.bg: The background remover most other tools ended up licensing. Freemium. Solthar Score 81/100.
  12. Google Stitch: Google's tool that turns a text description into app and web screen designs. It grew out of Galileo AI. Free. Solthar Score 79/100.
  13. Microsoft Designer: Prompt-driven graphic design tied to the Microsoft ecosystem. Freemium. Solthar Score 79/100.
  14. Visily: Turn a screenshot or sketch into an editable UI wireframe. Freemium. Solthar Score 79/100.
  15. Vectorizer.AI: Converts raster logos to clean, editable vector paths. Paid. Solthar Score 78/100.
  16. Uizard: Sketch to editable UI mockup, aimed at non-designers. Freemium. Solthar Score 76/100.
  17. Looka: Logo and brand kit generator aimed at new small businesses. Freemium. Solthar Score 74/100.

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