Designing is the most demanding profession, graphic designers and Illustrators generally prefer to use desktop applications for more flexibility and capacity. With more creatives on the go, mobile apps have become a necessity.

If you are a creative master, graphic storyteller, or Illustrator, you need to be updated with newer tools to constantly be in search of inspiration. In this fast-paced world, mobile apps come in handy in every circumstance.

Here is a list of useful apps for designers that can manage their daily tasks swiftly on the go. The list includes creating, editing, inspiration, and color scheme apps.

For Creating and Editing:

1. Canva: A graphic design platform, Canva is used to create social media content, posters, documents, and other visuals. The app consists of ready templates, graphical elements, and a wide range of fonts. The app doesn't allow high-level photo editing, but it helps in creating content in less time. You can use the app on mobile and desktop both.

2. Desygner: The app provides 100k+ layouts and templates along with fonts and graphics to draw your imagination.

3. Procreate: A raster graphics editor app designed for the iOS interface, Procreate is an illustration-based design app. The app offers customizable brush presets, blending modes, and other digital art tools. The app pairs nicely with the Apple pencil, for realistic brush strokes.

4. Infinite Design: This all-around app gives you an experience similar to Photoshop and Illustrator. The professional, vector graphics app lets you create complex, beautiful designs effortlessly on your mobile device with features such as vectorization, customizable text tool, and more!

5. Adobe illustrator draw: The app helps you create free-form vector designs or edit any drawings or designs. It supports 5 preset pens with multiple drawing layers. The mobile app can be synced with the desktop software and drawings can be done between devices.

6. Autodesk Sketchbook: It is a raster graphics app intended for expressive drawing and concept sketching. It supports a radial user interface with painting and drawing tools. It consists of pressure-sensitive features to create realistic effects.

7. Adobe Photoshop mix: The app is a photo manipulation tool that allows you to cut and combine elements from different images, blend layers and give the images a natural look.

8. Adobe Capture CC: The app enables you to identify fonts and colors by taking a photo, and creating vector images from them.

9. Wix Owner: The app builds and customizes a website and mobile experience for your business and community. It helps in growing your brand and creating a  professional online presence.

10. Coolors: This iOS color palette app generates color schemes, organizes them in projects, and exports them as images or PDFs.

11. Color Harmony: This color matcher tool lets you create, discover, and save color palettes. You can use the camera to see matching colors.

For Inspiration:

1. Behance: This social media platform owned by Adobe showcases and discovers creative work. The wide range of creative work from around the world provides inspiration to all designers, architects, and interior designers.

2. Pinterest: One of the most widely used applications, Pinterest certainly does not require any introduction. It is designed to save and discover information on the internet in the form of images, GIFs, and videos.

3. Design Hunt: It is a daily collection of the best products, news, and inspiration for all creatives. Every day thousands of creatives around the globe are using Design Hunt as part of their workflow.

This is the list of essential must-have mobile apps for graphic designers and illustrators.  Hopefully, you download and play with them to decide which app suits you best. 

Do let us know in the comments section what worked best for you! 

Article by Ar. Shriya