Best Resources for Mobile and Web App Assets - February 2020
As an application developer, graphical assets are a necessity but finding an indie developer who codes and creates beautiful assets is like stumbling on a unicorn. If you are a small operation like we are, it is good to have some handy resources available to help handle this task.
On this page we have gathered our favorite free resources to help with graphical assets, icons, store images, screenshots and video. We will update this article periodically with new discoveries. We have personal experience in using all of the following resources and would highly recommend them to you!
Photography and Illustrations
Site |
Description |
Unsplash |
Free high-res images for your projects |
Pikwizard |
High Quality, Free Stock Photos Royalty free and safe for commercial use, with no attribution required |
Freepik |
Photos, PDS files, vectors and other resources |
UnDraw |
Editable illustrations |
ManyPixels |
Illustration gallery; you can modify the image colors to match your own application theme |
Pixabay |
Royalty free stock images |
Icons
Site |
Description |
Material Design Icons |
Large collection of simple vector icons |
FlatIcon |
Large collection of vector icons in different styles (e.g. flat and outline) |
FontAwesome |
You can download the free icons as SVGs or use the fonts |
Image Editing & Composition
Site |
Description |
PIXLR X |
Quick image editing tools with a web app |
IcoMoon |
Make SVG sprites |
Canva |
Create cover images, banners, infographics and many more. Tons of templates you can use to get started. Great place to make feature images. |
EZ Gif |
Make GIF images. You can upload individual images or convert video to a gif. Has options to optimize, resize, speedup/slowdown etc. |
Photo Collage |
Online editor for making photo collages. Lots of different templates for quick layouts. |
App Mockup |
Screenshots for you mobile app. It is beta but so cool! |
remove.bg |
Easily remove background from images using AI - the quality of this is impressive! Great & free for small images. |
Desktop Video Editing
Fonts
Site |
Description |
Google Fonts |
~ 1000 free fonts you can serve using Google CDNs or download for your app. |
Free Desktop Software
Site |
Description |
Inkscape |
Free desktop app for drawing vector images |
GIMP |
Bitmap image editing |
Imagemagick |
Command line/terminal tool for image manipulation. We use it to create favicons. |
FFmpeg |
Command line/terminal tool for quick video editing. We use it for example to convert mov to mp4 file format. Has a learning curve but worth it. |
Specialty / Random
Site |
Description |
Sweaterify |
Design knit patterns and sweaters |
This is our current favorites list right now. Check back for more. We will add new links as we discover them!
Happy Coding!
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