Here are some of the apps we talked about in class. They are in no particular order, and a few of them may be deprecated (no longer supported). I’ll be adding to and revising these lists after class.
The ones I use the most are the Microsoft Office products (Excel, Word) and Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, Fresco).
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Project Management and Time Tracking
ToDoist
Trello
Asana
Monday
Workflowy
Slack
Toggl – time tracking
Calendly – scheduling
Google Calendar
Spreadsheets
MS Excel
Google Sheets – free
Apple Numbers – for Mac users
Open Office Calc – open source
Image Editing
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Lightroom
Affinity Photo
Gimp – open source
PicMonkey
Canva
Snapseed
Vector Graphics
Adobe Illustrator
Affinity Designer
Inkscape – open source
Sketching and Illustration
Adobe Fresco
ProCreate – iPad only
Layout
Canva
PicMonkey
Adobe InDesign
Affinity Publisher
Adobe Express
Social Media Graphics
Canva
PicMonkey
Adobe Creative Cloud Express
Communications with Editors/Testers
Slack
YarnPond
Trello
Google Docs (in-app comments)
Word (in-app comments)
