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Design tools.

Installs
14.2M

Across 3 of 12 apps we could match.

Concepts has 53% of them.

  • 12 apps
  • 3,613 reviews held
  • 1,822 negative
  • Median $2.9911 of 12 charge.

4 gaps.

Shares of this market’s 1,822 negative reviews.

Limits & capsextreme

6.5% vs 1.8% typical store-wide.

Reviews · 3 of 118
  • Canva AI Photo & Video Editor1star· Sep 6, 2026

    One of the worst experiences — I know I’m learning, but when the ai help feature can only tell me what the solution to what I’m trying to to accomplish IS GIVING SOLUTIONS FOR MICROSOFT EXCEL AND GOOGLE SHEETS, you can understand my frustration. It’s limitations are incredible, and I barely played with it for an hour. Table features were useless. Having to go elsewhere to build a calendar, and nev

  • Linearity Curve Graphic Design1star· Sep 3, 2026

    enough!!! — it’s so disappointing to see what was once a great app turn into nothing more than a cash grab. i understand the need to have “premium features” that enable the company to keep the lights on but to keep the “export” and “print” options behind a paywall??? absolutely ridiculous and greedy. the fact that there’s a limit to how many active projects you can have at a time is something i ne

  • Canva AI Photo & Video Editor1star· Aug 10, 2026

    Used to be so good! — EVERYTHING behind a paywall. You can’t filter free things anymore, even the most basic designs require you to pay. SO over it

Named problems · 1
  • Core feature locked behind the paywall12 of 118

UXelevated

7.1% vs 4.9% typical store-wide.

Reviews · 3 of 130
  • Concepts1star· Sep 16, 2026

    File Management Buggy — Without trying hard, I lost work. The file browser is confusing. There is no escape hat hatch after you open it to get back to your drawing. I

  • Cricut Design Space2star· Sep 10, 2026

    Stop trying to sell me stuff! — Stop trying to sell me subscriptions and content and work on making your app work properly! It loses saved designs, the editing of designs is unintuitive, sloppy and filled with bugs and the app takes forever to connect to unit. Cut the GoPro model and fix your bugs before touting new “designs”

  • Canva AI Photo & Video Editor1star· Sep 6, 2026

    Glitchy, unstable, and messy Ui — A large project I have been working on will not save. The entire interface is basically a total mess at this point, and it feels like, as a paid user, Canva is still committing most of the usable space to promote design templates at me, rather than letting me see a clean organized work space. I was just now fighting with a glitchy laggy reactions with the ipad a

Billingelevated

38.4% vs 30.6% typical store-wide.

Reviews · 3 of 700
  • Cricut Design Space1star· Sep 12, 2026

    New updates are garbage — Several months later and this review is still accurate. Cannot use the app with my iPad AT ALL! Very frustrating for something I have a subscription to. Will design space give a refund to all the customers who have been unable to use the software? The new updates make the software no longer work. Used to work fine but now will not work when I click on make and the w

  • Cricut Design Space2star· Sep 10, 2026

    Stop trying to sell me stuff! — Stop trying to sell me subscriptions and content and work on making your app work properly! It loses saved designs, the editing of designs is unintuitive, sloppy and filled with bugs and the app takes forever to connect to unit. Cut the GoPro model and fix your bugs before touting new “designs”

  • Canva AI Photo & Video Editor2star· Sep 8, 2026

    Money Grab — Canva claims to be free and for creators. In reality the free version exists only to push paid elements. Functionally it fails - a forced AI assistant breaks flow and turns minutes into hours. Morally it fails - it monetizes the attempt to create instead of fostering it. If you want to support creativity, avoid Canva completely. They took a good thing and sold out.

Named problems · 4
  • Trial converted without clear consent54 of 700
  • Price judged too high for the value50 of 700
  • Cancellation blocked or broken9 of 700
  • Charge the user never authorised8 of 700

Performanceelevated

21.1% vs 16.2% typical store-wide.

Reviews · 3 of 385
  • Concepts1star· Sep 16, 2026

    File Management Buggy — Without trying hard, I lost work. The file browser is confusing. There is no escape hat hatch after you open it to get back to your drawing. I

  • Cricut Design Space2star· Sep 13, 2026

    App Doesn’t Work — The Design Space app does not work on my IPad nor my IPhone- both are fully updated. Would love to see this issue resolved- crashes as soon as I open up the Canvas on either device.

  • Cricut Design Space1star· Sep 12, 2026

    New updates are garbage — Several months later and this review is still accurate. Cannot use the app with my iPad AT ALL! Very frustrating for something I have a subscription to. Will design space give a refund to all the customers who have been unable to use the software? The new updates make the software no longer work. Used to work fine but now will not work when I click on make and the w

Also counted

ThemeOf 1,822 negatives
  • Login & auth74 · 4.1% · 7 apps
  • Support73 · 4.0% · 11 apps
  • Ads17 · 0.9% · 7 apps
  • Sync & data13 · 0.7% · 5 apps
  • Accuracy5 · 0.3% · 4 apps

The tick marks the store-typical rate. A review can mention more than one theme, so these sum past 100%.

What Apple surfaces for “design tools”

Position in Apple’s suggestions
1510
color palette
gorilla
valley
house electrical
010203041
Countries

Is anyone looking for this?

What Apple and Google complete after design tools, in their order.

Who they're for
ui uxgraphic designinterior designclaudeweb development3d printinghtmlsoftware development
Google
design toolsdesign tools freedesign tools softwaredesign tools duct sizerdesign tools prodesign tools examplesdesign tools aidesign tools online
App Store
ai home design freeai video generatorapps with free interior design toolsdesign my modelfree graphic design appai video editorgraphic designgraphic design free

Marked App Store phrases are searched, but no app in this market says them in its name. Audiences are what Apple and Google complete after “design tools for”, with the query stripped.

Potential customers

People the apps here do not serve, and what they asked for.

  • Wants lesstoo many features 13 · just a basic one 4 · it used to be simpler 217
  • Shut out by device or contextiPad 28

Counted in 1 to 4 star reviews. The small numbers are how many reviews named each thing. What they wrote is in the free trial.

Who’s in it

All 12 apps counted in this market · 2026-09-14.

Apps count as part of a market for 90 days after they last appear in it. Installs are Google Play's own count, last captured 2026-09-14. 3 of 12 apps have an Android listing we could match. A dash means we could not pair the two stores, not that the app is absent from Play.

What they charge, and what it costs them

Prices from Apple’s public pages; the share counts payment-mechanics language only.

AppMoney complaints
Logo Maker, Design Creator.$4.99–$49.99 · 7 tiers21.6% of 37
AI Logo Maker: Graphic Design$1.99–$39.99 · 10 tiers20.4% of 152
Logo Maker: Art Design Creator$1.99–$39.99 · 8 tiers15.8% of 38
Graphic Design & Logo Creator.$3.99–$99.99 · 10 tiers11.3% of 159
Linearity Curve Graphic Design$7.99–$119.99 · 9 tiers5.4% of 241
Cricut Design Space$0.99–$129.99 · 9 tiers3.6% of 468
Concepts$1.99–$39.99 · 10 tiers3.2% of 93
Canva AI Photo & Video Editor$1.99–$143.99 · 9 tiers1.6% of 187
3D modeling: Design my model$5.99–$39.99 · 4 tiers0% of 78
FLYP - Fashion Design Studio$0–$99.99 · 9 tiers0% of 88
Deko: AI Home Design & Remodel$4.99–$99.99 · 6 tiers0% of 32

Browse the apps behind these counts

Every app we count, with the complaint it runs furthest above the store’s typical rate.

Open the app library

Is there a market for a new design tool?

12 apps compete on this shelf, holding 3,613 App Store reviews. And the widest unfixed complaint, limits & caps, runs in 12 of 12 of them at 6.5% of negative reviews against 1.8% typical. Those are counts, not a verdict. The page shows what is unfixed, not whether to build.

What do users complain about most in design tools?

1. Limits & caps: in 12 of 12 apps, 6.5% of negative reviews; 2. UX: in 11 of 12 apps, 7.1% of negative reviews; 3. Billing: in 12 of 12 apps, 38.4% of negative reviews; 4. Performance: in 12 of 12 apps, 21.1% of negative reviews.

How many design tool reviews did App Imp count?

3,613 US App Store reviews across 12 apps, 1,822 of them negative. Counted on the 2026-09-14 snapshot, never estimated.

How this is counted

Every number is arithmetic over the reviews we hold, re-counted weekly: nothing modelled, nothing scored. Themes come from a frozen pattern classifier rather than a model reading reviews, so the same review always lands in the same bucket. A market rate is pooled across every app here; the store rate is the same count across 13,217 apps. A complaint is only called a gap when at least half the market carries it, at least 20 reviews are behind it, and the market’s rate is elevated above the store’s, the same cutoff used everywhere on this site, because a problem concentrated in one app is that app’s bug, and a problem every app on the store shares is nobody’s gap. This market has no full report yet, so the per-app notes are absent rather than estimated. The anger axis is counted either way: mean star of the reviews carrying each theme, from the same classifier as the counts above.