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12 iPhone Apps to Make a Designer’s Life Easy around Christmas!

Bid farewell to the year that was full of opportunities for the design communities. In a similar way, the coming year will present even better prospects. However, there are certain apps that every designer must take with them into the New Year. We have previously listed a few android apps but this annual roundup of iphone apps will be a practical and handy resource for designers on the go.

It’s enlightening to know that the way technology is progressing, we get access to latest mobile applications and web technologies every few weeks but this article will be a resource displaying the cream collection of iphone apps that will make a designers life easy. Whether it’s a daily design task or you plan to sketch an idea on the move, the Apple’s pocket sized marvels will assist you do it all. So here’s a roundup for design frenzies.

1. Fuzel


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This free photo editor app is compatible with iOS 7, iphone, iPad and iPod Touch. This app allows you to do tasks that were previously unthinkable. Backed with incredible filters and a range of photo editing tools, make your pictures share worthy in a matter of minutes.

2. Adobe Photoshop Sketch


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A Adobe Photoshop Sketch with Photoshop compatibility is perhaps every designers dream. The application features a wide range of colors, erase and smudge tools and the unique feature to use five layers to add more details to any piece of drawing.

3. Path on


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Even some of the most creative designers are not pros when it comes to the complicated science of typography. Perhaps the need was realized and this unique app was created. All you have to do is draw random lines on your selection of photos to give a path for the text to appear. This can be an interesting way to create images with crazy font in whatever style you fancy.

4. Doodle buddy


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I can bet you have never really enjoyed doodles the way you would with this app. It’s free to download and has 44,000 colors to pick from. Plus the playful backgrounds and amazing stamps adds to the fun activity. Since designers need their kind of fun, this free-hand as well as stencil-based drawing tool would be a perfect pastime for them.

5. Sketchworthy


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Note taking has various levels and this app caters to all. Sketchworthy allows you to jot down all your thoughts and take notes that are normally scribbled down on loose pages. You can then manage the work by creating separate notebooks. The choice of organization is yours but the tool allows maximum freedom for the designers to note, sketch, doodle and save their thoughts in iphones just the way they were.

6. Photochop


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For minor image tweaking, this app is a handy tool for designers as well as other iphone users. All you have to do is pick an image from the photo library, chop it using the photochop tool and your pictures are ready to be shared.

7. Repix


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Repix allows you to add filters like never before. This is yet another tool for image editing that allows you to paint filter effects. Be creative and add flares or perhaps a dotted effect. You can even cartoonify an image. Find out all this and more features by downloading this app on your Iphone.

8. M.dot

M.dot is an amazing app that allows you to create online presence using ready-to-go templates. You can easily put up a business card style website and add gallery pages, about me and your blog and furnish it with social media buttons and your logo on every page. Created by M.Bot Inc, this amazing app has a free initial purchase but the user will have to make certain in-app purchases in order to avail more features.

9. Frametastic

Frametastic is yet another creative tool that helps organizing photographic elements of your life. When you capture a moment and use this tool to add various color filters, you will actually be turning those moments into memories. With filters most people might recall Instagram, but let me assure you this tool is framey and yields amazing photo results.

10. Snapseed


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This one is again an image editing app but this one is a special feature. It won the TIPA’s Best Mobile App for 2012 and it still remains on the list of top photo editing apps. Apart from the usability I personally found the tagline really catchy. And after using the app, I can say just “snap it, tweak it, love it, Share it”.

11. Cinemagram

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This nifty app will make you get over all photography apps. Cinemagram allows you to combine photography and motion. That’s right; you can animate images, apply vintage filters and modify images according to your taste before sharing them across social media.

12. Typedrawing


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The last but not the least on the list is Typedrawing. I find it rather a funny app but can be used for professional projects of typographic artwork. All you have to do is write a sentence to begin with and then create various pieces of artwork with your finger.

A lot of these iphone apps are hand-picked for designers but anyone with a passion for design and graphics would certainly enjoy using these applications. If we have missed any of your favorite apps, do let us know by leaving a comment.

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Raquel Addams

Raquel Addams is a professional blogger and graphic design enthusiast who employs a unique combination of journalism, communication design and marketing strategy to help her clients to position and launch their enterprise or start-ups.

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