Canva
canva.com
Template-first design for people who do not want to learn a design tool
Free tier
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figma.com
Vector design and prototyping in a browser, with everyone in the same file.
The default interface design tool: real vector editing, components, auto layout, prototyping and multiplayer editing, all in a tab with nothing installed. It is also a perfectly capable general vector editor for logos, diagrams and simple print artwork. The free tier is generous on people and stingy on files.
Questions
A genuinely usable free tier with paid plans for volume or team features. The free plan caps you at three collaborative design files and 30 days of version history.
Yes. Figma sends your input to its own servers to process it. That is fine for public material; for anything containing personal data, use one of the on-device tools instead.
The free plan caps you at three collaborative design files and 30 days of version history.
Alternatives
Same category or same task, ordered by how closely they overlap.
canva.com
Template-first design for people who do not want to learn a design tool
coolors.co
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shadows.brumm.af
Stacks several box-shadows into one that looks like real light
fontawesome.com
A large icon set with a free tier you can ship without attribution
fontjoy.com
Suggests heading and body font pairings, and locks the one you like
cssgradient.io
Builds a linear or radial gradient and hands you the CSS to paste