This is a collection of so called NoAI Tools. NoAI means, that the software, application or service does not use artificial intelligence to produce the end result. You can use them in your daily creative work. I try to continuously verify and update this list.
I would like to list here the most useful and budget-friendly (possibly free) tools for graphic design.
3D Software
Blender – an open source creative software for modeling, sculpting, lighting, rendering of 3D images. Completely free. It has a long learning curve, but lot of free learning materials are available on the web.
It contains also a professional video editing tool.
Digital painting
Krita – Free and open source painting software. User friendly UI, huge set of brushes, ability to create tilable textures and patterns and a lot more.
Procreate – this software made for Mac users. Not free, but on low budget if you have an Apple product. The Procreate team clearly defines that they don’t plan to implement any generative AI functions to their apps, which can really support the real artists and creative, human made artwork. Read about this on their the official site.
Sketchbook – I really like this drawing software because of the good drawing tools like pencil, pens, brushes and much more. If you have a stylus then using this tool can be a very good drawing experience. Sketchbook is available for desktop and mobile devices (Mac and Android and even Windows). Free for iPhone, iPad and Android devices. It has a Pro Mac version which is not free.
Photo editing
Canva is an online, web-based graphic design and photo editing tool. Canva has a free version, but it has also premium plans. This software contains an inbuilt AI image generator (with limited usage in the free plan), so not clearly a “noAI” tool, but it has many traditional design features.
GIMP – free image editing and painting software. Similar to Adobe Photoshop and Affinity Photo. Adobe and Affinity products are more user-friendly, but GIMP is free and it doesn’t have AI features, just the classic selecting and painting tools and image filters.
Web design
Placeholder image generator – use this excellent free tool if you would like to create photos in different categories, in custom sizes for your website design or prototype. More image formats are available like jpeg, png and even webp.
Vector graphics design
Affinity Designer – not free, but relatively cheap and not subscription-based.
Inkscape – this is probably the most popular and free vector graphics editor for Windows, macOS and Linux
Do you have a great tool which is not on this list? Write a short sentence about it and send the link in the comment section below or send it to our mail address: hello at aiartblog.com.
