Your logo is like your business’s ID photo. It’s the first thing people see. It’s the thing that makes your business stand out from the rest. It’s the identifier that puts a face on your business. That’s why it’s so important to have a good logo.
But creating a logo can cost a lot of money. Until now that is. These days there’s an app for everything, including designing logos. Did you know Google didn’t spend a cent to make their first logo, and neither do you!
Here are the top 10 best logo maker apps that will help you create a simple, elegant logo that embodies your brand. It’s as easy as downloading an app and creating your own logo. And the best part is that some of these apps are completely free. In other words you really won’t have to spend a cent to get a logo that will make a lasting impression.
This logo maker app by oladipupo has a team of professional designers that makes their templates that allows you to make a state of the art design for your business logo. It might not sound like a very good way to create your business logo because there are only a set number of templates, but it’s very time and cost effective if you want a good logo fast.
The great thing is that there are over 8000 templates to choose from and you can add your own custom text, colors and other elements. That makes each logo pretty unique. All you need to do is choose your business name and industry and Placeit sorts out most of the rest for you.
Gamers can even choose an animated design. All logos are ready for application on all promotional materials. If you want to print your design on a billboard you can do it, without losing quality. This app is quite expensive at $14 per month though. Even though this price does include all the features such as mockups, designs, logo, video, and gaming.
Cost: $14 per month
Canva by Canva is a multi creative platform that can create a wide range of designs from YouTube video art to infographics. It’s a digital asset tool that a lot of people use. And you can even use it to create logos.
It has a wide variety of templates that you can customize to suit your own special style. You can search for these free templates by industry if you want. And the handy thing is that if you really like a template and click on it Canva gives you a bunch of similar templates in a pop-up.
There are also a lot of editables once you’ve chosen the design you like. You can play around with color, font, size of text, and the position of the elements in your design. While PNG and Jpeg files are free for download, SVG files are only available if you go pro at a hefty $12.99 per month. But then again that’s not much for a business logo.
Cost: Free offers in-app purchases
Designhill Logo Maker is very simple to use. There are five steps to follow after entering your business name. And each step is easy to follow. In the step where you need to choose a color scheme for your logo the app even gives you the connotations of different colors so you can choose a color scheme that matches your business best.
Unfortunately the app is quite expensive. A simple low resolution logo costs a whopping $20. A high resolution logo that you actually need to brand your business on social media costs $65. Luckily these are only once off fees. But the catch is that you have to enter your email address to view any of the templates and designs.
What makes this app great is that it’s easy to use. You can design a logo in a matter of minutes. But what makes it not so great is that the logos are quite generic even though there are over a hundred templates to choose from.
Cost: Free offers in-app purchases
Yup you guessed it, this is a free logo design app that is just what you need if you’re on a tight budget. There are thousands of templates to choose from too. Making this a very diverse app. You can choose to edit font, font size, shape and color on your chosen template too, making a variety of different logo options available.
This advanced HTML5 logo creator, like most logo apps, asks you to enter your business name and niche to help generate a few template options for you. But if you don’t like what it’s churning out you can always change the niche to get a different set of templates. After all there are thousands to choose from.
Once you have your design done and you’re happy with it the logo you get is completely free. That’s the best part about this app. It’s highly recommended for that simple reason. There’s no email required to start either.
Cost: Free
Ucraft is generally known as a design platform for landing pages but you can create logos on it too. And it’s pretty simple. All you need to do is choose a royalty free icon, add your company name and customize it by changing the text style, size and color. It’s all drag and drop so you don’t need to be a design wizz to get a good logo.
The most difficult part of the process is picking an icon. There are millions of icons available. Luckily there is a search bar to help you navigate through the pages and pages of icons available.
The only downside is that you need to create an account to download your icon. And it costs $7 to download a SVG file. But $7 isn’t that much for a logo that you can scale infinitely. If you want to blow up your logo for a huge billboard this is the route to go.
Cost: Free
Tailor Brands is very simple to use. You add your brand name and you’re on your way to creating a logo just like other logo maker apps. What sets this app apart is that it offers you the option to enter your own business category. It even asks you to write one or two sentences about what you do to make sure that the logo fits your business perfectly.
Once you’ve entered your business category and described it, it prompts you to choose whether you want an icon, initial, or name based logo. Not many logo maker apps give you this option. And finally it gives you three styles to choose from.
Tailor Brands requires you to sign up with a free account to see the selection of logos they create for you. This is a bit of a schlep, but they do offer you a wide selection of logos that match your needs perfectly.
Cost: Free
If you’re into design this is the app for you. The first thing you see when you open the app is a blank canvas. This might be intimidating if you’re looking for the step by step approach other logo maker apps use, but it does offer you a lot of freedom too.
You can decide whether you want to use one of the preset icons or templates in your design. Or whether you want to start from scratch and use the shapes, colors and text options. This offers you complete freedom to create a unique logo that matches your personal style.
LogoMakr is a free platform to use. It doesn’t necessarily make the logo making process easy for beginners, but it does offer more advanced designers with a logo already in mind the freedom to create what they imagine.
Cost: Free
This is arguably the easiest app to use to create a logo. All you need to do is enter your business or brand name and it gives you a set of logos to choose from. It’s that simple. Alternatively you can choose to add your own color preferences to create a logo that matches your ideas more, but even that isn’t necessary.
Once you have your logo the big thing that this app offers is a fully stocked design download. It includes five color options, a web and print logo version, six logo layout options, website favicon, business cards, letterhead, social media bundle and email signature design.
Unfortunately all this extra design work does come at a price. You can expect to pay between $28-$65 for the whole package. If you suck at design and creating your own branded paraphernalia this might be the best option for you though.
Cost: Free
Hachful is a free logo designer from Shopify. This logo maker app is aimed at busy business people who have zero design experience, making it an easy to use app that uses a step by step method to create a logo that matches your needs.
Hatchful boasts hundreds of logo designs that allow you the freedom to change the style here and there to create the logo of your dreams. It also doesn’t ask you for your brand name to match you with a logo. Instead it asks for your industry and values, making sure that you get a logo that matches your personal brand more effectively.
Once you’ve edited the color and text in your logo template you get high quality image files that are pre prepped for business cards, merchandise and social media. And best of all is that this is all for free.
Cost: Free
GraphicSprings is another logo maker app that was designed for people who have no idea what they’re doing when it comes to designing a logo. If this is you, you can look forward to a fully automated step by step logo making experience using this app.
The app itself gives you the option of choosing a logo design from thousands of templates that are vectorized. That means they can be blown up to huge sizes without losing quality. As with most apps you’re prompted to enter your business name and pick a category. Luckily there are a lot of categories to choose from.
The weird thing about this app is that it’s free, but when you’re done designing your logo it asks a fee before you can download it.
Cost: Free