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AnnotateWeb is a free web annotation tool that lets users mark up any public webpage with highlighters, shapes and text, then share the session through a link or export it as a PNG image. It requires no sign-up or install, and sessions are private, accessible only through their unique link.
Clipnote Studio is a basic animation tool for Windows, described as a spiritual successor to Nintendo's defunct Flipnote Studio. It offers square and circle brushes, line and shape tools, a text tool, six colors, three drawing layers, automatic note importing and user profiles. Mac and Linux ports are in the works; Wine is suggested for now. A $5 license provides custom themes and a supporter badge.
DrawIsland is a free online drawing tool for sketching, painting and digital art in the browser without a download. It includes multiple brushes, an eraser, flood fill, editable text, shapes, object selection with layer ordering, opacity, stroke and shadow controls, image adjustments and a layers panel on an 800 × 520 px canvas.
fffuel is a collection of free color tools and SVG generators for creating gradients, patterns, textures, shapes, blobs and backgrounds. Generated graphics can be customized and used on the web or in design applications, and an SVG to PNG conversion tool is included. The site also hosts a chart of browser support for CSS and web platform features.
FreeCAD is an open-source parametric 3D modeler for designing real-life objects of any size. It allows sketches of constrained 2D shapes as a base for building other objects. It is multiplatform and reads and writes many file formats. It is used for product design, mechanical engineering and architecture.
Geometrize is a desktop application and open source toolkit that recreates images as abstract arrangements of rectangles, triangles and ellipses. It generates thousands of random shapes and repeatedly mutates them using hillclimbing optimization, keeping only the best-fitting ones. It is available for Windows, Mac and Linux.
iconmonstr is a source of simple icons run by one creator. The site states it offers 4784 free icons in 316 collections, available as SVG and PNG. Icons come in fill and outline versions, designed on a 24-pixel grid, with an icon generator for size, color and background shape.
Online Photo Editor is a browser-based photo editing tool on PhotoEditor.com. It supports cropping, resizing, rotating, flipping, blurring, sharpening, filters, effects, frames, text and shapes, and processes edits in the browser without uploading the image. The site states no registration is required and the editor is free.
Pico is a professional icon editor for making app icons with layer-based editing, real-time preview and one-click export for iOS and Android. It is labeled an early beta, and the site says no signup is required. Assets such as SVGs, images or built-in shapes can be uploaded and composed in layers.
SpookyGhost is an open source tool by Encelo for creating procedural animations for sprites. It animates properties such as size, rotation, position and color, and allows users to deform sprite shapes. Lua scripts can be written for custom animations, and results can be exported as single frames or a spritesheet. Native versions are available for Windows, macOS, Linux and Android.
A free online tool for creating blocky, 8-bit-style avatars and square face icons. Users customize face shape, eyes, mouth, colors, hairstyles and accessories in the browser, then export high-resolution PNG files. The tool runs locally on the device, and a login is not required.
Tilda Vector is a free online vector graphic editor for creating and editing SVG files and vector images in the browser. It requires no account or subscription and offers drawing, freehand, select, bend, and basic shape tools, along with layers and viewbox settings. A vector editor is also available in Zero Block.
Vital is a spectral warping wavetable synthesizer. Its spectral oscillator warping acts on a waveform's harmonics to create different shapes and timbres. Users can convert their own samples into wavetables with the pitch-splice or vocode converter, or use the built-in wavetable editor. The interface includes animated controls, filter responses, waveforms and spectrograms.
Zdog is a JavaScript engine for canvas and SVG that renders simple 3D models as flat 2D shapes. The library is 2,100 lines of code and 28KB minified, with modeling done through a declarative API. It is described as a beta release.
