Graphics/Design

Krita

Krita is an image editing application, but before you dismiss this as just another GIMP knockoff, it isn’t. While it has all the basic tools you’d expect, it also comes with several features that make image manipulation and photo editing easier such as multiple masks per layer, color history, clone layers and more.

Google Slides

Google Slides is a free productivity app from Google that allows you to edit and create Google Presentations and share them with your co-workers. It’s also compatible with Power Point so you can open and edit and save PPT files, and apart from offering several editing tools, you can even use this offline.

Autodesk SketchBook Free Edition

Autodesk Sketchbook Free Edition was developed expressly for mobile, and while the company is best known for their 3D software this 2D drawing app is well designed. There’s a single in-app purchase option to access some features, but the free edition should be sufficient for casual doodling and sketching.

Canva

Canva is a graphics and photo editing app that removes the complexity that comes with designing posters, cards, page presentations and webpage graphics. While essentially a graphics layout app, there’s more than enough built-in photo editing tools here, so no need to download another app to edit images.

Perfect Effects 9

Perfect Effects 9 from On One Software is an image editor that you can also use to work with Photoshop, Lightroom or Aperture. The program is free to download, but you’ll need online access to activate the first time you use it. Once you’ve filled up the simple form, you can download the program, and there’s a lot of good stuff here.

You Doodle

You Doodle is an image editor that allows you to draw in real time, and it has several tools for drawing on photos, editing text and adding special effects. The app, developed by Digital Ruby, also has a blender tool so you can blend the foreground and background and produce interesting results, and that’s just for starters.

Pomelo

Pomelo is a photo app from Xiamen Meitu Technology Co., Ltd that provides you with several tools and filters to create and touch up photos quickly and easily. There are plenty of photo apps on mobile, but the filters here are surprisingly fresh and original when compared to the rest in the market.

Camera360 Ultimate

Camera360 Ultimate from PinGuo is a free photo app that’s been ranked number one in several countries, and for good reasons. Although Camera360 Ultimate is free, it’s got a lot of features that rival those of paid photo editing apps for the iOS and Android. Once you download Camera360 Ultimate you’ll have access to hundreds of filters you can use to touch and edit photos including overlay, texture, tilt shift and many more.