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Top 20 Mac App Store Apps for Graphic Designers

The Mac OS App Store has more and more to offer graphic designers looking for productivity software for their Mac. However, that means there is more and more to wade through to find the good stuff, just like when looking for iPhone apps. But hold on! We did the hard work and research and found a combination of the highest-rated but also most useful apps for graphic designers! You won’t find any crayon coloring programs, goofy logo-makers, tacky stationary templates and what-not. We picked all of the best-rated apps, starting with 5 stars, and worked our way down. There is a lot to pick from, but we hope you can make use of a few of the gems we found below. Happy apping!

How to browse the Top 20 Mac App Store Apps list

Please click to enlarge each image, and if it looks interesting, click the “visit” link just before it to see the Mac App Store preview page (Mac and PC accessible) where you can find full reviews and more screenshots.  

Top 20 Mac App Store Apps for Graphic Designers

1. Acorn – The Image Editor for Humans

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2. Classic Color Meter

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3. ColorSchemer Studio

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4. Panafont

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5. Art Directors Toolkit

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6. Cheetah 3D

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7. Pixelmator

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8. Sketchbook Pro

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9. Diagrammix

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10. Persistent Color Picker

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11. Prototypes

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12. Patterno

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13. Adobe Photoshop Elements 9

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14. Artboard

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15. iStudio Publisher

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16. Hype

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17. Font Catalog Creator

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18. Strata Design 3D SE

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19. The Print Shop 2

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20. Fontcase

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About Douglas Bonneville

Douglas has been a graphic designer since 1992, in addition to software developer and author. He is a member of Smashing Magazine's "Panel of Experts" and has contributed to over 100 articles. He is the author of "The Big Book of Font Combinations", loves cats, and plays guitar.

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  1. Gen Kiyooka says

    Personally, I enjoy DotMatrix/pOpOp in addition to Pixelmator and a couple of the other tools listed here. You can’t really call it a “graphic design tool”, but if you can accept a shameless plug, try my FaceBoof! app

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