# AI tools for designers

Generation, layout and motion — the AI surfaces that slot into a design workflow instead of replacing it.

## Stats

- 80 tools listed
- 73 free or freemium
- 28 with no paid plan at all
- 3 sub-categories covered

## FAQ

### What are the best free AI tools for designers?

Flocci AI Tools lists 80 of them, ordered free tiers first: Bing Image Creator, Genmo (Mochi 1), Google Pomelli, MAGI-1 (Sand AI) and Meta Vibes. 73 of the 80 are free or have a free tier. Each entry states what it uniquely does rather than a score.

### Which of these are completely free?

28 on this page are marked fully free with no paid plan at all: Bing Image Creator, Genmo (Mochi 1), Google Pomelli, MAGI-1 (Sand AI) and Meta Vibes. The remaining 52 are freemium, trial or paid, and each is labelled with its exact tier so nothing surprises you at sign-up.

### How were these AI tools for designers chosen?

They are every catalog entry in 3 sub-categories that map to what designers actually do: explore visual directions, produce assets, lay out a deck, add motion. There is no sponsorship and no paid placement anywhere in the ordering.

## Quick picks

### Which Best AI Tools for Designers work in a browser with no install?

Bing Image Creator, Genmo (Mochi 1), Google Pomelli, MAGI-1 (Sand AI) and Meta Vibes all work in a browser tab with no install needed — just open the site and go. 51 of the 73 free Best AI Tools for Designers listed here are browser-based.

### Which Best AI Tools for Designers let you sign in with Google?

Google Pomelli, Qwen-Image, Canva Magic Studio, Eraser AI and Figma (Starter AI) support Google sign-in, so you can start without creating a new account. That's 17 of the 73 free Best AI Tools for Designers on this page.

### Which Best AI Tools for Designers have a mobile app?

Meta Vibes, PicLumen, Adobe Express, Adobe Firefly and Canva Magic Studio have an iOS or Android app. 14 of the 73 free Best AI Tools for Designers here can run on your phone.

### Which Best AI Tools for Designers can you self-host or run offline?

CogVideoX (Zhipu), ComfyUI, FLUX.2 [klein], Fooocus and HiDream-I1 can be self-hosted or run locally without a browser — useful for privacy, air-gapped networks, or avoiding API rate limits. 16 of the 73 free Best AI Tools for Designers here run offline.

## Tools

- [Bing Image Creator](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/bing-image-creator) — Free — Free text-to-image with Microsoft MAI-Image-2.5-Flash and MAI-Image-2e
- [Genmo (Mochi 1)](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/genmo-mochi-1) — Free — Fully open-source text-to-video model (Mochi 1) with downloadable weights
- [Google Pomelli](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/google-pomelli) — Free — Scans your website to build a Business DNA brand profile (tone, fonts, palette, imagery)
- [MAGI-1 (Sand AI)](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/magi-1-sand-ai) — Free — Apache-2.0 autoregressive video model generating chunk by chunk for text, image and video-to-video
- [Meta Vibes](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/meta-vibes) — Free — Text-to-video and image-to-video generation with a remix feed
- [Penpot](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/penpot) — Free — Open-source (MPL-2.0) browser design and prototyping tool with real-time collaboration
- [PicLumen](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/piclumen) — Free — Genuinely free image generation
- [Presenton](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/presenton) — Free — Open-source (Apache-2.0) AI presentation generator with desktop app and Docker deployment
- [Qwen-Image](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/qwen-image) — Free — Image model family with strong in-image text rendering; Qwen-Image-2512 and Qwen-Image-2.1 (Sep 2026, 7B, transparent RGBA output)
- [CogVideoX (Zhipu)](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/cogvideox-zhipu) — Free — Open text-to-video and image-to-video models (2B under Apache-2.0, 5B under CogVideoX license)
- [ComfyUI](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/comfyui) — Free — Node-graph interface for building image, video, audio and 3D generation workflows without code
- [FLUX.2 [klein]](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/flux-2-klein) — Free — 4B-parameter Apache-2.0 FLUX.2 variant for text-to-image and editing, released Jan 2026
- [Fooocus](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/fooocus) — Free — Midjourney-like prompt-only UI on top of SDXL with built-in prompt expansion
- [HiDream-I1](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/hidream-i1) — Free — 17B-parameter MIT-licensed image model with Full, Dev and Fast variants
- [HiDream-O1-Image](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/hidream-o1-image) — Free — MIT-licensed unified model for text-to-image, image editing and subject personalization up to 2048x2048
- [Hunyuan Image (Tencent)](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/hunyuan-image-tencent) — Free — Open-sourced 80B-parameter MoE text-to-image model (weights on Hugging Face)
- [HunyuanImage 3.0 (Tencent)](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/hunyuanimage-3-0-tencent) — Free — Open-weights native multimodal image generation model
- [HunyuanVideo (Tencent)](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/hunyuanvideo-tencent) — Free — Open-weights text-to-video and image-to-video models from Tencent
- [HunyuanVideo 1.5](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/hunyuanvideo-1-5) — Free — 8.3B-parameter open text-to-video and image-to-video model
- [InvokeAI](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/invokeai) — Free — Open-source web UI with unified canvas for generation, inpainting and outpainting
- [Kandinsky 5.0](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/kandinsky-5-0) — Free — MIT-licensed family: Video Pro (19B), Video Lite (2B) and Image Lite (6B)
- [LongCat-Image (Meituan)](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/longcat-image-meituan) — Free — 6B Apache-2.0 bilingual (Chinese-English) text-to-image and image editing model
- [LTX-2 (Lightricks)](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/ltx-2-lightricks) — Free — Open DiT audio-video model generating synchronized sound and video in one pass
- [Ming-Image (Ant Group)](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/ming-image-ant-group) — Free — MIT-licensed 6B model that generates UI screens, infographics and posters with readable text
- [SANA (NVIDIA)](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/sana-nvidia) — Free — Apache-2.0 linear-diffusion family for text-to-image up to 4K, with SANA-Sprint one-step generation
- [SkyReels V2](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/skyreels-v2) — Free — Open-source autoregressive diffusion-forcing model for long video (up to 60s)
- [Stable Diffusion (Stability AI)](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/stable-diffusion-stability-ai) — Free — Open-source, run locally for unlimited free use
- [Z-Image](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/z-image) — Free — 6B-parameter Apache-2.0 model family: Z-Image, Z-Image-Turbo, editing variant
- [Adobe Express](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/adobe-express) — Freemium — Free web and mobile design app with Firefly-powered generate image, text effects and presentations
- [Adobe Firefly](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/adobe-firefly) — Freemium — Commercially safe, trained on licensed data
- [Canva Magic Studio](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/canva-magic-studio) — Freemium — AI design across the whole Canva suite
- [Civitai](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/civitai) — Freemium — Largest open Stable Diffusion/FLUX model, LoRA and checkpoint sharing hub
- [Colossyan](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/colossyan) — Freemium — Stock AI avatars with many voices and languages for training and explainer videos
- [Creatify](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/creatify) — Freemium — Auto-generates performance ad videos from a product URL
- [D-ID](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/d-id) — Freemium — Separate Studio (no-code) and API tracks for developers embedding avatars
- [Eraser AI](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/eraser-ai) — Freemium — Generates architecture/system diagrams directly from a text prompt
- [Excalidraw+](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/excalidraw) — Freemium — Core editor is fully free, open-source and runs locally in-browser with no signup
- [Figma (Starter AI)](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/figma-starter-ai) — Freemium — Free Starter plan includes AI credits (150 per day, up to 500 per month per pricing page)
- [FLUX (Black Forest Labs)](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/flux-black-forest-labs) — Freemium — Open-weight models you can run locally for free
- [Framer AI](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/framer-ai) — Freemium — Free plan includes 500 AI 'Agent' credits (site localization, content tasks) to try before paying
- [Freepik AI (Magnific)](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/freepik-ai-magnific) — Freemium — 30+ AI image/video/audio models unified behind one credit system
- [Gamma](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/gamma) — Freemium — Polished decks from a prompt in under a minute
- [Google Veo (Flow)](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/google-veo-flow) — Freemium — Veo 3.1 video generation with native synchronized audio
- [Google Vids](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/google-vids) — Freemium — Any Google account can generate AI video scenes with Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash at no cost
- [Hailuo AI (MiniMax)](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/hailuo-ai-minimax) — Freemium — MiniMax H3 is the current flagship model, with Hailuo 2.3 still available
- [Hedra](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/hedra) — Freemium — Character-3 model animates a single image into an expressive talking/singing video from audio
- [Higgsfield](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/higgsfield) — Freemium — Cinematic camera-motion presets
- [Ideogram](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/ideogram) — Freemium — Best-in-class legible text in images
- [Kling AI](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/kling-ai) — Freemium — Kling 3.0 and newer 4.0 models for high-motion, physical scenes
- [Krea](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/krea) — Freemium — Real-time generation as you draw
- ... and 30 more — see the full list on the page.
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Source: Flocci AI Tools — https://aitools.flocci.in/best/ai-tools-for-designers

Facts last verified: October 2026