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Gone are the days when template design was not so popular. Thousands of website owners are using these beautiful designs to display their creative websites. More and more businesses are hiring designers to showcase their products online. There is nothing wrong with doing this, but you can also use the readymade designs to create your own website without hiring a professional designer. All you need to do is find out creative website templates available for free download.

Creative template design is a great way to go, as it has all the benefits of a custom design without the high cost. In fact, you can buy a lot of stock graphic images from all over the Internet for free or even use your own photos if you have some talented friends. This makes it possible to create a unique template design that works for your business and has a look that fits your industry.

Desygner

At the opposite end of the spectrum, Desygner has some of the most advanced features of any of the apps we tested—while still being simple to use. If you don’t want to go the template route (although it does have thousands of great templates to work from), additional features like a free-drawing pen tool and the ability to import from PDF, PSD, and SVG files give you a lot more creative freedom.

Take that pen tool: with a project open, click Drawing and then Pen. Now, click and drag to draw a free-form line into any shape you want. Handy, right? Well, click on the shape you just drew, and you get some additional, super-powerful options in the top menu bar. You can click Convert to Image Box to create a frame that you can add an image to, or Opacity, Fill Color, Stroke Color, or Stroke to control how it looks. And you have all the same options with the other, shaped drawing tools and the Path tool, which is basically just the pen tool but you click to draw straight lines.

If you go to a lot of effort to make an Instagram post, you want to be able to use the same elements on Facebook. Click the resize button at the bottom of the screen, and select a new size. Desygner will convert your canvas to the new size—but as a new Page in the same document. This means you can work on one design and quickly replicate it for other platforms.

While working on your own designs like this is absolutely more time-consuming than working from templates (which, again, Desygner has thousands of), it does mean your social media graphics are going to be unique. There’s a certain sameness to a lot of the default templates in every app, and you’ll begin to spot them in your social media feeds. Desygner helps you stand out.

Desygner Price: Free; from $9.95 for more templates and assets, as well as features like saving your own designs as templates.

Looka Logo Maker

Looka Logo Maker combines your logo design preferences with Artificial Intelligence to help you create a custom logo you’ll love. All it takes is a few clicks and five minutes.

Start by entering your company name and industry, then select the perfect logo styles, colors, and symbols that you like the best. Make your own tweaks and changes, then quickly export your brand new vector logo files and color variations. Easy!

Hatchful

While the logo itself doesn’t have to be complex, it’s worth putting a bit of thought and effort into it. Thanks to Shopify’s free online logo maker Hatchful, that doesn’t mean spending days scratching your head or trying to learn graphic design in a week. Maximizing your efficiency with this tool will let you focus on the bigger of running your business.

Hatchful is pretty simple to use, and lets you customize your logo based on your preferences. Just choose your business space, then pick a visual style to inform the logo maker about your preferences.

Hatchful will now create a range of logos for you to choose from. Select the logo that fits your needs best, and edit it as much as your heart desires. You can play around with the font, color, icon, and layout until you’re happy with the result.

Price: Free.

Snappa

Of all the apps on this list, Snappa is the only one whose free plan has access to the exact same templates, graphics, images, and other design resources as the paid plan. The catch is that, instead of having to carefully check what template you’re using, you can only download three designs a month.

If you only occasionally need to create images for your social media channels—or just want to create a one-off banner for your Twitter account or Facebook page—it’s really nice to not constantly be running into upgrade notifications. As good as Canva and Spark are, the free plans do make you very aware that there’s a paid plan they’d love you to be on. Snappa is a lot less pushy—but no less useful.

The other mild difference with Snappa is that its templates—while excellent—aren’t as thoroughly themed as some of the other options. (Right now, just before Christmas, there are only three generic holiday-season Instagram post templates.) You need to look at the defaults as a base you can customize and build from, rather than something ready-built that you’re just adding a photo and changing the words with.

If you want to make a birthday post, for example, you should look at the templates and pick one that has a layout you like. Then, open it and add your own picture with the Bkgrnd tool in the sidebar—either by uploading one or finding one of the included royalty-free stock images that works for you. You can customize it further by clicking on Effects and adding a color overlay, blur, or other adjustment—most of which serve to make any text on top of the image more legible.

Of course, you then need to add balloons. Because every birthday post has balloons. To do that, click the Graphics tool and then Icons. Use the search to find a balloon you like, and click to add it. To make sure everything lines up nicely, you can click the Toggle Grid option in the top toolbar and use it to position things perfectly.

When you’re happy with how things look, click Download to save your image or Share to push it directly to your social media accounts—so long as you haven’t maxed out your free posts. If you have, you’ll need to upgrade or click Save to keep the file until the monthly limit resets.

Snappa Price: Free for 3 downloads or shares per month; from $15/month for unlimited downloads, shares, and integration with Buffer and your social media accounts.

Designhill

How it works

You start by picking 5 sample logos that you like, selecting colors, and choosing your industry. You then select up to five icons to accompany the logo. Before you’re able to see the results, you are prompted to create an account. Once you do, choose your favorite logo and purchase.

Quality

The typefaces and color schemes made the most out of the icons provided

Initially, the sampling of graphics provided by the platform had me worried—they were basic icons. But Designhill does a pretty good job pairing them with creative typography and appealing color schemes. In the end, I was surprised by how many of the logos were able to make the simple icons work for them, especially given they were the exact same icons used by other logo makers.

The final logo I chose with Designhill

Cost

$20 for low res PNG file
$65 for a full suite of professional logo files, including vector EPS and SVG, b/w versions, and color and font information.
$150 buys you a designer for further customizability

Ratings

Ease of use: Easy
Customizability: None without purchase
Price: $$
End result:★★★

Zyro

Zyro’s logo maker helps you turn your creative ideas into reality. You’ll be able to customize every element of your logo, from icon to size and text.

You can design your logo for free in four easy steps. All you need to do to use this logo creator is enter your brand name, choose a template, and then customize your logo until you’re satisfied with the results. Then download it and get rolling.