15 Amazing Mobile Apps for Aspiring Designers

A dedicated iPad app for designers who love working on the layout. One of the core tasks of Comp CC is to let the designers create print, Web, and mobile layouts.

Again, the one-tap sharing on Adobe cloud is supported by Comp CC. The add-on advantage of Adobe Comp CC is its intuitive drawing gestures. Even roughly drawn shapes are turned to crisp graphics.

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Comp CC supports vector shapes, colors, and text styles from Creative Cloud Libraries and Adobe Toolkit

Infinite Design provides an exceptional place for creating vector graphic designs. What's more, it gives designers an opportunity to design on an unrestrictive canvas with multiple layers to work on.

Looking for more liberty? Well, this app truly stands by its name—it comes with infinite canvas sizes.

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Infinite Design's multiple layer designing magnifies a designer's imagination

The paper is not a dedicated design app, but still much more than what a designer can ever think of. It gives you a paper tableau on your smart devices. Simple. Make notes, draw sketches, create lists. Do anything and everything.

With its extensive functionality, it also matches up with the speed of your fingers; therefore, you can put anything down that inspires you on this paper.

To effectively utilize this app for optimal output, you can use any of the available tools like FiftyThree Pencil, Pogo Connect Smart Pen, and Just Mobile AluPen.

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Paper by FiftyThree offers dynamic color ranges supporting various digital pens for sketching to perfection.

SketchBook provides an intuitive space for aspiring designers to draw, sketch, and paint their imagination on a digital canvas. The sheer brilliance is its ability to match the real world physical experience will dazzle you. It is possible to mimic the physical experience by using pencils, pens, markers, and brushes on paper.

As far as its offerings are concerned, it comes preloaded with 10 preset brushes, a synthetic pressure-sensitivity, and multiple layers of editing options. The layer editor has 3 to 16 blending modes. It also includes a tool for symmetry and transformation.

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Autodesk Sketchbook helps organize your artwork in its Gallery with multiple view options.

Sketchworthy gives liberty to designers by providing a virtual notebook in their iOS devices. What makes Sketchworthy an important designing tool is its ability to capture anything from maps to Web pages, and photos, of course. Once captured, the designers have the liberty to choose from the variety of papers from the paper store.

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Bundled with this app are packs for creating blueprints, graphs, to-do lists, planners, and much more.

Adobe Photoshop Sketch is a flawless, vector-based digital sketchpad with multiple uses. The Strokes' scalability comes with free-hand drawing supported by 64x zoom. It allows a designer to work on finer details.

Photoshop Sketch work on details, giving a platform to create complexity in an image. This picture complexity can get elevated by incorporating 10 drawing layers.

Designers get the freedom to add depth and dimension. Moreover, it comes loaded with a stock of high-resolution, royalty-free images.

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The sure shot delight for designers is its capability to integrate with the Adobe creative suite.

iDesign is one of the most active and precision-driven 2D vector design apps. Designers can make the best use of this app for making professional vector-based designs, including illustrations and technical drawings. iDesign comes equipped with sensor-active touch points. It gives the designer complete control over the design.

At its artistic utility level, iDesign works purely with lines. It gives you plenty of options to choose from, including adding end points, ellipses, fills, colors, and transparency.

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For designers, iDesign is like a muse as its advanced tools provides symmetry in editing options for specifics.

SwatchMatic comes with an amazing utility that every designer aspires to have. Let's put it straight—Swatchmatic is for capturing, combining, and sharing the colors you adore the most. It pumps life into static designs by allowing you to select colors from various places. You simply have to put the real-world object in front of your phone camera and voilà!! It lets you select and capture real-world color to the digital world.

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Expressive freedom for the designer—it allows editing individual colors in the palette with easy sliders.

Writing on photographs was never this easy. Gone are the days of adjusting the text to fit the shape and size. The uniqueness of Pathon lies in letting you put text scrawls onto an arbitrary path.

Also, it gives plenty of options to select the text style, colors, and size.

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The workability is simple. Just choose the picture, write text, and guide the path.

A fully-functional vector based sketchpad for all the iPhones and iPads. It is the app to use if you are almost a pro designer. It comes integrated with 11 preloaded drawing tools. Intaglio explores the best of the editing scope, apart from just designing.

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The vector editing options comprise of group editing, layer editing, customizable pre-loaded graphics, and image morphing.

Nothing can be more amazing for aspiring artists than to bring his/her imagination onto canvas this easily. One just needs to drift their fingers briskly, and that is it. Although it seems like a fun-time app, it is possible to get the next big design idea while doodling your way through Doodle Buddy.

The UI is also one of the amazing factors while using Doddle Buddy. It is possible to undo your last stroke if you require changes in the design. To start over, you just need to shake the device.

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It is possible to connect to a network and draw along with your friends online.

A boon for mobile app designers is this Marvel App. It lets you turn your design ideas into reality within just a few minutes. Marvel turns your sketches into an app demo. It is a simple, 3-step process where you just need to draw the screen on your paper, take a picture with the help of Marvel, and then just sync them.

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This app is a perfect gateway for aspiring designers to create their initial mobile app prototype.

A very simple app with great utility, iRuler app simply displays a virtual ruler on your device. It is an essential app for aspiring designers who want to take precise measurements on the go for real-world objects.

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Designers can efficiently use their fingers to scroll this infinite ruler.

LooseLeaf sets you loose with your ideas. Aspiring designers run through many ideas on a day-to-day basis. With LooseLeaf, it becomes easy to craft a scratch anytime, anywhere, with ease.

It is with LooseLeaf a designer can draw diagrams dramatically faster. Moreover, it is easy to cut and crop the designs with scissors tool.

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LooseLeaf is a no-frill design app for aspiring designers to set their hands free on this dry-erase board.

What is the design if it only sits on your mobile phone? Aspiring designers need to put their design to prospective clients so that designs get wings. Behance is an intuitive app platform that allows designers to put their portfolio over the Internet and share it with people.

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So, here it is, the space to put your design to best use. Make a living out of your design—get noticed.

Well, these are just a few of the applications out of the infinite gamut. However, it then totally depends on the designer and the utility that he/she is looking for in a mobile app. The time has come to break the norm like the way design changed its platform over a period—from paper to computers; now is the time to sail through the mobile way.

Mobile technology has swept away a significant amount of the desktop and laptop market. Moreover, going with the same flow, it does not come up as a surprise if aspiring designers start using mobile applications as dedicated software in the near future. This way, one can seriously save on various resources like space and money.